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Category Archives: oil politics
Rand Paul Wants to Comfort the Comfortable
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Share the post “Rand Paul Wants to Comfort the Comfortable”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The video above comes from ThinkProgress, which runs down Senator Paul’s inflated oil and gas industry employment numbers. But what made me snort was his assertion that American society should … Continue reading
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Morning Awful: Keystone Jobs
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Share the post “Morning Awful: Keystone Jobs”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailFrom Media Matters, a survey of FOX News hype about the Keystone XL pipeline and the bazillions of jobs it will supposedly create (.PDF). Don’t be fooled. The project stands to do ecological destruction … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Peak Oil In Our Time
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Now you’re in trouble, you done pissed off Forrest Gump
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We Demand Supervision!
Share the post “We Demand Supervision!”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Foreign Policy asks the right question: what can the president actually do about an oil spill? (J)ust because the federal government has the authority to take over doesn’t mean it has the resources to … Continue reading
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The Morning Awful
Share the post “The Morning Awful”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailOn the one hand, it’s awful to watch the ongoing fiasco. OTOH, it’s interesting how the whole world is going to have an eye on BP. This is Gibson’s Law in real-time, and that part … Continue reading
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Corporate Fascism
Share the post “Corporate Fascism”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini When you hear progressives talk about “corporate fascism,” this is what they mean: private companies … Continue reading
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Murkowski’s $375 million BP Bailout
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Share the post “Murkowski’s $375 million BP Bailout”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The president has had enough of BP and the Interior Department. It’s a good time for getting mad at Big Oil. But Senate Republicans have been falling all over themselves to woo … Continue reading
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Interior Damage
Share the post “Interior Damage”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe Interior Department was already a mess in 2001 as Bush was sworn in. It spent the next eight years getting so much worse: billions in missing oil & gas fees, corruption, drug use, and mismanagement … Continue reading
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Our Last, Best Hope for Peace
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Share the post “Our Last, Best Hope for Peace”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMy fellow Americans, the troops are never coming home. The permanent occupation of Iraq is here, dressed up as a happy “relationship” between Iraq and the United States. Don’t say nobody warned … Continue reading
