How many times have you heard a Republican interviewed about energy and they say we would have lower gas prices and wouldn’t need to rely on imports from the Middle East if us terrible liberals would just let oil companies have access to more public lands. Maybe dozens or hundreds of times right. Whenever you ...
The Real “Skinny” On Gas Prices
Actual journalism being committed here: That’s because oil is a global commodity and U.S. production has only a tiny influence on supply. Factors far beyond the control of a nation or a president dictate the price of gasoline.When you put the inflation-adjusted price of gas on the same chart as U.S. oil production since 1976, the ...
Biggest Oil Spill In American History
The sheer magnitude is just staggering. A federal team created to produce a more precise estimate of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico has determined that the rate is at least twice what was previously acknowledged and possibly five times as much, officials said on Thursday. If the team’s estimates are accurate, this ...
I'm Noticing A Pattern Here
Lately, there seems to be a pattern in developments surrounding the BP oil gusher spill: the news is always bad and getting worse. Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. ...
This Inspires So Much Confidence
You have to be shitting me: That question hangs in the air here at a BP crisis center as hundreds of engineers and scientists work to cap the undersea well that for more than three weeks has spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Officials with BP and other companies involved in the effort, who ...
Al Gore: The Crisis Comes Ashore
Al Gore says ee need to use a little reason, logic, and maybe some science to understand that we are utterly destroying the planet. Not going to hold my breath any of that will happen. However, in a wonderful article written for the New Republican Gore has his great graph. Just as the oil companies ...
