The bottom line is that people don't desperately want drilling for drilling's sake. We desperately want affordable energy costs, and an energy policy that works.
Javier Sierra | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
The environmental movement calls on McCain to support the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008, which would repeal subsidies from Big Oil and increase funding for renewables, efficiency and conservation.
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Can anyone stop the madness? As depicted on the award-winning AMC show, people in the advertising industry in the 1960s are utterly despicable. So is McCain's ad team.
Bill Scher | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green
While coastal drilling amounts to nothing in regards to lower energy costs for you and me, it does amount to a fat giveaway for Big Oil.
Josh Dorner | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green
Since McCain has already taken his misbegotten road show to the sites of some our nation's greatest energy misses, we wonder if maybe next he'll stop by Three Mile Island?
ZP Heller | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Reid emphasized the need to cut off government subsidies for oil companies in this week's Meet the Bloggers.
David Roberts | Posted 08.02.2008 | Green
The drilling "movement" is a classically right-wing operation -- top-heavy, fueled by corporate money, reliant on aggressive PR, and meant to intimidate D.C. decisionmakers. It is astroturf, not grassroots.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Sometimes flip-flops happen so fast that the candidate can't even keep with his or her changing positions. Senator Elizabeth Dole, who is facing reel...
Carl Pope | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
Teamster President James P. Hoffa put his union solidly back on the side of the premise that the future of both America's economy and its environment lies in a new, clean economy.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
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.
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered b...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Everyone seems to assume that if we drill for oil in the US, we will get the oil and won't be dependent on foreign oil anymore. But we won't get anything, Exxon-Mobil will.
Al Meyerhoff | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green
The Bush assault on environmental protection is unprecedented -- it reaches deep into a host of government procedures and regulations, including rampant cronyism in key agencies and open hostility on Capitol Hill.
The Uptake | Posted 07.27.2008 | Home
"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."
Michael Schwartz | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
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.
Kate Sheppard | Posted 07.26.2008 | Green
Last week, some Democrats signaled that they would be willing to endorse offshore drilling. And on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he might allow voting on offshore drilling.
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
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!'"
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
There is an insidious nature to the rightwingers' propaganda about offshore oil drilling because they frame the issue in terms that seem commonsensical: "Drill more oil here at home and gas prices will go down."
David Chong | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home
In the first debate in Colorado's hotly contested race for an open Senate seat, the candidates sparred over gas prices and energy policy. Common ground existed on some fronts, but the candidates were divided on how to deal with the potential environmental fallout of more aggressive energy exploration in the Rocky Mountain State.
Bill Scher | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
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.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
80% of the oil and gas resources off our coasts are already available for leasing and drilling. Listening to Bush, McCain and others, you'd think we've been locking up all our resources -- the opposite is true.
The Huffington Post | Dan Duray | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
The Bush administration's latest plan to drive down skyrocketing oil prices by lifting the executive ban on domestic offshore drilling has revived an ...
Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business
Neither our citizenry nor those in government has petitioned or acted to seriously cut back this nation's voracious oil consumption, the largest by far on the planet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
So, John McCain had a rough week. Maybe his worst week. Maybe the sort of week that would normally end ones presidential hopes, even! The worst bla...
Bill Scher | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green