Why Did McCain Sell Out to Big Oil? Ask Charles Keating.
John McCain's new coziness with Big Oil is in many respects just a replay of his old coziness with Charles Keating. In both cases, money and access bought influence.
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Spill, Baby, Spill!
The scary thing is that the Republicans want more. Even after it's obvious the realities of "drill, baby, drill" are "spill, baby, spill", they still want more.
Does Sarah Palin Believe in Oil?
Palin doesn't believe in those funny-lookin' fossils that eventually evolved into you and me. This is extremely funny as she certainly seems to believe in their byproduct oil.
Drilling Would Help No One But Mismanaged Oil Industry
Oil companies pump millions of barrels of oil from US Federal lands... While American Taxpayers receive pennies in return. Why? Listening to oil indu...
US Oil Exports Hit Record Pace. That's Right, Exports
With access to global oil fields more restricted than ever, the oil companies are not going to be satisfied with the meager pickings from offshore wells.
Alaska 101 For Presidential Candidates
My wise grandfather, who helped raise me as a child in northern Alaska, was born in 1904 into an 'uncivilized' status. He was not a United States citizen, he could not vote, and had to endure business signs that read "no dogs, no natives."
Another Big Win for Big Oil (Let's Make it the Last).
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...
Finding the Toilet in Stockholm
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
John McCain: Campaign Lobbyist in Chief
John McCain's attempted co-opt of the Obama campaign's change message avoids the fact that McCain has surrounded himself with a campaign staff of top ...
Palin-McCain: Can't Get Energy Facts Right
Getting facts wrong when it comes to energy issues is becoming standard for the Palin-McCain ticket.
American Patriotism Crushed By Republican SUVs
Devising new and hilariously clever agitprop words like "Defeatocrats" is clearly more patriotic than actually addressing the principle source of global and domestic instability.
Obama Delivers a Real Energy Plan for America: Efficiency Now, 10% Renewables by 2012, One Million Plug-ins by 2015
This is easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee of either party. By comparison, the plan of John "Nothing but Nukes" McCain plan is a joke.
McCain Small Business Plan Ignores Major Small Business Issues
On Monday, Senator John McCain's (R - AZ) presidential campaign issued a press release entitled, "John McCain's Plan To Help Small Business." The pla...
The Scandal that Tells Us All We Need to Know About McCain and Palin
In 1920, Big Oil picked an obscure, bumbling senator named Warren G. Harding who had barely been out of Ohio and had only fuzzy ideas about politics -- the 1920s equivalent of a hockey mom.
John McCain Doesn't Know the Price of Gas/Can't Remember the Last Time He Bought Any
John McCain may not know what gas costs or when he last pumped any, or performed any other act not connected to politics or outpatient care, but he's had hundreds of town hall meetings.
The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
Had the hundreds of billions of dollars poured into the invasion and occupation of Iraq been put into alternative energy the world might have had a fighting chance.
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