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 Stories About: energy AND oil AND jackassery
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Yowza
Drilling for oil is good for climate change -- see how! |
David Roberts |
21 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) explains why drilling in the Arctic Refuge will help us fight climate change: Won't drilling for more oil make global warming worse? What some might perceive as the contradiction in further drilling, when we take into account the mean estimate of what we take from ANWR, it will be the equivalent of what we have seen from Prudhoe Bay, which has produced 20 percent of this country's oil [production]. If we could tap into a source that c ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, jackassery, oil, US Senate (all these topics) |
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Peak-a-who?
Some guy on CNBC |
David Roberts |
14 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| There's plenty of oil. We're swimming in it! What I don't get is, why does he think production-capacity limitations and geological limitations are mutually exclusive? (via Hugg) |
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| Topics: energy, jackassery, oil (all these topics) |
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