Understanding Oil
With the cost of gas still near record highs and crude oil prices rising and falling like a ride at Six Flags, drilling for oil has been capturing imaginations and grabbing headlines.
With the cost of gas still near record highs and crude oil prices rising and falling like a ride at Six Flags, drilling for oil has been capturing imaginations and grabbing headlines.
Bill Chameides | Posted 10.19.2008 | Green
All politics aside, I would like to share with you the information I have been able to gather with regard to the amount of oil we might be able to get from offshore drilling.
ProPublica | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica A series of inspector general reports alleging cocaine use and government regulators literally jumping into bed with Big Oil ...
Erik Ose | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
These contests will help determine whether the party can hold off Republicans' attempts to seize back control of Congress, or add seats to the Democratic majority they gained in 2006.
Russ Wellen | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
Aside from emphasizing his age, it's yet another area in which McCain resembles George Bush, who's notorious for his early bed-time and seizing any opportunity he can to retreat to his ranch.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.26.2008 | Green
We're so screwed that there's no way we can drill ourselves out of this mess. What will it take for people to accept the fact that the era of livin' large is over?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
"He's declaring war on Congress." That's how Andrea Mitchell summed up President Bush's just concluded announcement on his lifting the executive ban ...
New York Times | Jad Mouawad and Martin Fackler | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
As President Bush calls for repealing a ban on drilling off most of the coast of the United States, a shortage of ships used for deep-water offshore d...
Carl Pope | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Yesterday Bush made it abundantly clear that McCain has joined his camp by ratifying what both Cheney and McCain said in the past two days -- it's time to give the oil industry what it wants.
Bill Chameides | Posted 11.02.2008 | Green