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Drilling Would Help No One But Mismanaged Oil Industry

Steve Colby | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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Steve Colby

Oil companies pump millions of barrels of oil from US Federal lands... While American Taxpayers receive pennies in return. Why? Listening to oil indu...

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When Not Drooling Wins and the Environment Loses

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

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Jeff Schweitzer

String Theory holds that the universe actually is comprised of multiple dimensions, as many as 26. Palin and her supporters occupy something beyond our familiar three, plus time.

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Another Big Win for Big Oil (Let's Make it the Last).

Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Elections, Oil, Separation of Oil and State, Oil Shale, Offshore Drilling, Big Oil, Home News
Antonia Juhasz

They are today the most profitable corporations in world history. The political power garnered by all of this wealth was firmly on display last week w...

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Happy Energy Freedom Day! ... Uh, Where's The Party?

Bill Scher | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

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Bill Scher

Today, the ban on most coastal drilling has officially expired. Conservatives planned to claim this day as "Energy Freedom Day." But the celebration seems awfully quiet.

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Friday Talking Points [49] -- Before And After The First Debate

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

[UPDATED -- See part 2 in the Talking Points section.] This week's column will be presented in a sort of semi-liveblogging fashion. What you're getti...

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Dems Cave On Offshore Drilling

Washington Independent | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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After months spent vowing to protect the nation's coastlines from new offshore oil drilling, House Democrats yesterday caved to the White House over t...

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Coastal Drilling Ban Is Dead: A Post-Mortem

Bill Scher | Posted 10.25.2008 | Green

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Bill Scher

Well conservatives, your bluff has been called. I await a fresh round of excuses and made-up truthiness if gas prices do not significantly drop.

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Democrats To Relent On Offshore Drilling Ban: AP

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

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WASHINGTON — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, ...

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Drill ... Lower Gas Prices ... Build SUVs: Lies to an Ugly Future

A. Siegel | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

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A. Siegel

The Palin-McCain campaign's latest ad is, not surprisingly, dishonest on multiple levels and offers ugly prospects for the future.

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Spotlight on the House: Beyond Empty Promises and False Outrage on Energy

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Carol Shea-Porter

Our country's dependence on oil is a threat to our national security, a hazard to our precious environment, and a burden to millions of hardworking Americans that are struggling to fill the tank.

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Hill Dems Blow It for Obama: McCain Allies Kill Gang-of-20 Compromise Energy Bill

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Joseph Romm

A bipartisan "gang" of 20 Senators will not introduce a compromise energy bill before the election, a huge triumph for McCain and major political blunder by Congressional Democrats.

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McCain's Green Economy: Drill, Baby, Drill

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Robert Greenwald

When it comes to the environment, McCain only has the interests of Big Oil at heart. And thanks to the League of Conservation Voters, we've got the proof.

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Not Taking 'Yes' for an Answer

Rep. Steve Israel | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Steve Israel

My Republican colleagues who have spent the past two months stomping and stampeding for a bill to allow drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, and then reject it when it is presented to them.

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Conservatives Stay Under The Covers With Big Oil

Bill Scher | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green

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Bill Scher

Conservatives are rejecting a bill that allows for more coastal drilling and more clean energy -- the exact "All of the Above" approach they claimed they wanted -- because it would take away special favors for Big Oil.

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House Votes To Overturn Offshore Drilling Ban, Increase Renewables Support

Grist | Kate Sheppard | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green

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After a day-long debate over energy legislation, the House passed the Democrats' "Comprehensive American Energy Security & Consumer Protection Act," a...

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The "Drill Here, Innovate Less" Crowd Gets in the Way of Cleaner Legislation

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green

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Frances Beinecke

It is my hope that both the House and Senate enact legislation that will move us forward with clean energy, not backward with dirty energy.

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Congress Weans Us Off the Teat of Foreign Oil with Concessions to Offshore Drilling

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

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Simran Sethi

Weaning America off the teat of foreign oil is something that every citizen can agree is a good thing. It will start to put funding into renewable energy infrastructure that we so desperately need.

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New McCain Ad on Economic Crisis Repeats Discredited Claim on Drilling and Gas Prices

Josh Dorner | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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Josh Dorner

This comes after McCain claimed last week that Sarah Palin "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America."

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Finally Newt Has His Own Country Song: "Drill Here, Drill Now"

David Roberts | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

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David Roberts

The only thing Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future astroturf group has lacked up to now, in terms of becoming a full-fledged parody of modern-day economic royalism masquerading as populism, is a piss-poor country song.

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You Get What You Pay For: The Decline of US Energy Innovation

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

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Frances Beinecke

This country has let its guard down. We have been resting on our laurels of past excellence in engineering advances in the energy sector.

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Obama and McCain: Silent on Climate Change

Betsy Taylor | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

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Betsy Taylor

If McCain and Obama don't address the scale and urgency of global warming, on what basis will we insist that they live up to their campaign commitments and to take bold action next year?

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Conservatives Reject House "All Of The Above" Energy Bill

Bill Scher | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green

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Bill Scher

Like it or don't like it, the new House bill certainly fits the "All of the Above" approach conservatives claimed their support for more drilling was rooted in.

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Fiddling While America Burns

Carl Pope | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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Carl Pope

Over the past two nights, the Sierra Club reached 27,000 Americans and asked them to join me and T. Boone Pickens on a nationwide teleconference -- an...

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Dems: You Can Box McCain In on Oil Drilling -- In a 'Postpartisan' Way

RJ Eskow | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, John McCain, Oil Speculation, Presidential Debates, Drill Baby Drill, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Oil, Offshore Drilling, Politics News
RJ Eskow

I don't want to see more offshore drilling, but if we can put an end to oil profiteering -- and to the exhaustion of our natural resources to enrich a few -- it would be a trade-off worth considering.

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