Oil Vey! Exxon's Capitol Hill Shaming
The people of Alaska are still feeling the financial impact of the spill nearly 20 years later, long after the three-year period covered by compensatory damages in the case.
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The Truth About Offshore Drilling
Though McCain's plan for offshore drilling will not ease the energy crisis, it is dandy patronage for the oil industry, who will be able to make nice profits from extracting and selling the 200,000 barrels per day.
Ex-CIA Ray McGovern on Obama's 'New World'
Ray McGovern, former CIA officer, addresses the questions: who is going to own Iraq's oil, and how will a strategic change affect the real players in the area?
McCain Tries To Counter-Program A Wave
With the eyes of the world, and the U.S. media, trained intently on Obama during his week-long tour of the Middle East and Europe, for McCain, there is the question of what to do while all this is going on.
Who Does Big Oil Consider Its Most Devoted Sycophant In The Senate?
This year, they are rewarding John McCain more heavily than any other politician in America. So far they've given him more than any two senators combined, a whopping $1,010,868.
Oil of Delay: McCain Cancels Louisiana Trip After Barge Spill
McCain had been planning to visit an offshore rig on this New Orleans junket, but it's not the image a presidential candidate wants in the middle of an environmental nightmare.
What Bush Didn't Promise: Lower Gas Prices
If you read closely, you'll notice Bush did not explicitly claim that coastal drilling would significantly lower the price of the gas -- because it won't.
Facts and Lies about Lowering Oil Prices
Big Oil makes more money when prices go up and that money is nicely spread among its allies in Congress. Trusting these guys is like trusting your neighborhood pusher.
Solving Energy Crisis with Renewables Could Lead to Ecological Collapse
Lost amongst all the "solutions" to the energy crisis lies the fact that the energy crisis is simply one component of a much broader ecological crisis.
McCain's New Attack Ad Won't Stop Pain at the Pump
Rather than scour the world for oil that is increasingly expensive and difficult to get, we can jumpstart automakers to build a fleet of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles that get in excess of 100 mpg.
Al Gore On Crackpot Hair-Of-The-Dog Solutions
"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."
Gore's Goal: What You and I Can Do
The days of merely changing light bulbs, inflating your car tires, and turning down the A/C are over. Gore has challenged us to take the next steps.
It's Time For America To Get Smart About Energy
More people are now moving past the denial stage and are beginning to consider intelligent responses to the env=ergy problems we will face in the coming decades.
Bush On The Environment: Top 5 Stupidest Things Said Yesterday
Although it's great to see Bush take on our nations concerns, I must call out five dumb things he said Tuesday. Most notably, "The president doesn't have a magic wand. You can't just say: 'Low gas!'"
Oil Prices Were Manipulated, U.S. Government Commission Charges
The agency charged with "ensuring the integrity of the futures & options market," has accused Optiver Holding of manipulating the prices of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline futures on the NY Mercantile Exchange.
Building, Not Drilling, To Reduce Pain At The Pump
Public transit ridership is at its highest level in 50 years. Forget Drilling. We're walking and riding. We drove 1.4 billion fewer highway miles in April 2008 than we did in April 2007, the first drop in 30 years.
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THAT IS WHAT IS IN STORE TO THE USA!!!!!!!
THIS OIL ADDICTIONS MAKES THE AMERICANS "THIER WHITE SLAVES".
THAT IS WHAT THE SAUDI'S CALL AMERICANS!!!!!!
The very rich and privileged must protect their right to beat servants who perform poorly.
If this act of egalitarian justice is allowed, who knows what will follow from the masses.
Aren't we lucky that WE never had a president whose son acted with impunity and thumbed his nose at rules ?
Libya's reaction to the arrest of Qaddafi's son, should be taken as a wake-up call. Switch to alternate sources of energy or you'll be s-o-r-r-y....
Libya needs to be bombed again. Dictators should never be allowed to be part of the civilized world.
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