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How Crude Midwest refineries source more crude from tar sands; emissions will rise		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:39 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Emissions from Midwest oil refineries are expected to jump by up to 40 percent in the next 10 years, thanks in large part to an industry-wide trend of sourcing crude oil from Canada's tar sands. The sands produce petroleum of such poor quality that it requires more energy -- and thus more pollution -- to process it into usable fuel. The trend flies in the face of national and regi ...
Topics: Big Oil, Canada, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil (all these topics)

Show me the (oil) money New tool tracks financial ties between politicians and oil companies	David Roberts	03 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Check out Follow the Oil Money, a tool from the Center for Responsive Politics Oil Change International. You can find out exactly how much oil money any politician is getting (by zip code). You can also see cool charts showing the oil connections among sets of politicians. Here, for instance, is a chart of the presidential candidates -- it shows that Giuliani was clearly the biggest oil man. Here is a chart of all House members. Looks like one Stevan Pearce of New M ...
Topics: business, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Canadian sportswriters better than 99.9 percent of U.S. media	JMG	03 Feb 2008	Gristmill
It's truly depressing to find a better, more solid treatment of climate change and peak oil in the fricking sports pages of a Canuck paper then you will ever find in most U.S. papers. This sports writer schools the NHL and educates readers with a technique unheard of down here: assuming the readers aren't morons! What a nefarious trick!
Topics: climate, energy, oil (all these topics)

Oil industry barely hangs on, thanks to brave Republican defense of subsidies	David Roberts	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
You may recall that a couple of months ago, Republicans in the Senate threatened a filibuster to defend about $13 billion in oil company subsidies. In other news, Exxon Mobil just posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company in history -- $40.6 billion. It also set a record for the largest ever quarterly profit -- $11.7 billion. The second biggest U.S. oil company, Chevron, saw its profits rise 29% to $4.88 billion for the quarter. Clearly, this is an industry ...
Topics: business, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Gasoline will be free Sheryl Crow chats about TP, Rove, and the price of oil	Sarah van Schagen	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, Sheryl Crow talks about the One-Square Scandal: Last spring, you were held up as a parody of environmental correctness when you proposed restricting the use of toilet paper to one square per bathroom visit. What was that about? I think it's a fantastic and eye-opening example of how the media is operated by political figures, of how Karl Rove was humiliated in the media and how, within 24 hours, he was ab ...
Topics: celebrity, energy, gas prices, music, oil, waste (all these topics)

Will peak oil force the localization of agriculture?	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Stuart Staniford says no. Sharon Astyk says yes. Jeff Vail also says yes.
Topics: agriculture, energy, food, local food, oil (all these topics)

An ominous statement from Shell Conventional oil will peak within seven years	Joseph Romm	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The oil company with the best strategic planning says the day of reckoning is nigh: World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, according to Royal Dutch Shell. The oil multinational is predicting that conventional supplies will not keep pace with soaring population growth and the rapid pace of economic development. Jeroen van der Veer, Shell's chief executive, said in an e-mail to the company's staff this week that outpu ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, oil (all these topics)

Moving on out There are limits to the positive environmental change we can expect from high gas prices	Ryan Avent	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
You can scarcely pick up a paper or turn on the television these days without hearing the word recession. Leading economic indicators have wiggled in different directions over the past few months, but the general trend appears to be negative. The conventional wisdom points toward an economic downturn of some kind during 2008, and businesses in all sorts of consumer markets are bracing for the inevitable tightening of purse strings. A funny thing happened on the way tow ...
Topics: consumerism, economy, energy, gas prices, oil, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

A picture worth many thousands of words	JMG	21 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This ranks up there (and could have been included) with Bill Maher's terrific book, When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Laden.
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Myth me? Alberta premier heads to D.C. to preach the virtues of tar sands	David Roberts	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Kevin Grandia has the skinny on Alberta (it's in Canada) Premier Ed Stelmach's visit to D.C. to shill for tar sands and to fight "the myth that the environmental cost of the oilsands is too high." Below is Stelmach with a very perspicacious polar bear:
Topics: politics, oil, energy, Canada, Alberta (all these topics)

Another desperate addict Bush asks Saudi king to open oil spigots	Joseph Romm	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The president who said 'America is addicted to oil' now begs the Saudis for another fix. Like some binge-drinking, pill-popping starlet -- is there any other kind? -- the president is prostrate before his top foreign 'dealer,' begging for more, even at the risk of public humiliation: The Saudi oil minister, however, waited only a short time before announcing that oil prices would remain tied to market forces -- a direct slap at Bush. Wow! When even your dea ...
Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'Conservation is great, but conservation does not equal growth. To sit out there and say people need to buy less and less heating oil, okay. Buy natural gas furnace, or any number of things, but if this country has always been about: 'You need heating oil? It's going to be there. You need gasoline? It's going to be there.' The burden is not on you to conserve so that it's always there!' -- radio host Rush Limbaugh (h/t: Sir Oolius)
Topics: oil, energy (all these topics)

Can we tax for transit? New transportation proposals to ease energy dependence	Eric de Place	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This is one of those weeks when it feels like things are changing fast. Here are two stories that caught my attention: A panel organized by Congress -- the melodically-named National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission -- just called for higher federal gas taxes. In fact, they recommend a 40-cent-per-gallon hike. It sounds like the tax would go mainly to repair and maintain current road infrastructure rather than road expansion. The pa ...
Topics: carbon tax, oil, public transportation, energy, politics, climate (all these topics)

Spectacularly ignorant claim of the day Nukes don't replace oil	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Over at the New Republic's blog, Adam Blinick writes: As it stands, nuclear power is the only environmentally friendly, economic, and efficient source of energy that can help the U.S. wean itself off foreign oil. For the record: Oil is primarily a transportation fuel. Nuclear power, in contrast, is a source of electricity. Ergo, nuclear power will do absolutely nothing to "help the U.S. wean itself off foreign oil" (unless we miraculously electrif ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Soliciting the House of Saud Bush and big U.S. banks beg for help from the oil barons	Tom Philpott	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bush has been doing some fast talking in the court of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, imploring His Majesty to boost oil production to so that gas prices for U.S. consumers can come down in time for the fall election. As part of his charm offensive, Bush has promised to bolster the dictatorship's arsenal with '900 sophisticated satellite-guided missiles.' He also rattled his tattered saber against Iran, Saudi Arabia's archenemy. While Bush and the King talk bombs, ...
Topics: economy, international politics, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

We're Getting the Shakes President Bush asks OPEC to boost oil production		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:15 PM on 15 Jan 2008 President Bush, on a trip to Saudi Arabia, has urged the key member of OPEC to boost oil production. "Oil prices are very high, which is tough on our economy," said Bush. "I would hope, as OPEC considers different production levels, that they understand that if ... one of their biggest consumers' economy suffers, it will mean less purchases, less gas and oil sold." Tran ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, international politics, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Sands Between Your Woes Canada oil sands not good for the environment, says study		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:34 PM on 11 Jan 2008 To absolutely no one's surprise, Canada's oil-sands operations have been given poor environmental marks in a study by green groups Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund. Ten oil-sands ventures in the province of Alberta, including seven that have not yet started producing, were rated on their pollution of (or potential to pollute) the land, air, and water, as well as their ...
Topics: Canada, energy, news, oil, oil sands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Vex and the Single Hull South Korea to outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in 2011		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:42 AM on 07 Jan 2008 South Korea has announced that it will outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in its waters by January 2011, four years earlier than its original goal, due to the country's largest oil spill in December. The December spill dumped about 2.7 million gallons of oil some five miles off the country's coast when a barge struck a massive single-hulled tanker, puncturing it in three places. As of ...
Topics: international politics, news, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

Bad combo Cheap coal and $100 oil	Tom Philpott	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Amid vague talk of how $100/barrel oil might represent a kind of sea change, inspiring corporations and individuals to lower their carbon footprints, the smart money is betting on another direction: the burning of more coal.That's a harrowing trend. As NASA climatologist James Hanson recently put it:Coal will determine whether we continue to increase climate change or slow the human impact ... Increased fossil fuel CO2 in the air today, compared to the pre-industrial at ...
Topics: climate, coal, economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

One-hundred-dollar oil	Andrew Dessler	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Oil Drum had a few comments yesterday on $100 oil: Today, someone in the NYMEX pit session paid $100.00 per barrel for front month crude oil. (Logical for it to happen during a TOD holiday short staff period). Despite the talking head rationale for today's $4 rally, the underlying reasons for the 8 year+ climb in crude are geologic in nature. $100 oil in itself is no big deal -- its 1% higher than $99 oil. But it serves as a milestone reminder that the future i ...
Topics: economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

Hawk, Stock, and Too-Smoking Barrels Oil hits $100 a barrel		03 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:44 AM on 03 Jan 2008 Some folks are reeling after yesterday's brush with significant arbitrariness (if there is such a thing) as oil prices briefly hit $100 a barrel in trading before settling slightly lower. The significance of $100-a-barrel oil has often been debated, with environmentalists and others coming down on all sides of the issue. Some greens get all freaky. Some rejoice since it could lower consumption. Others t ...
Topics: business, news, oil (all these topics)

'Stop using so much oil'	Joseph Romm	23 Dec 2007	Gristmill
A great little story today in Tom Rick's Inbox, from the Washington Post's military correspondent: As most Americans prepare to celebrate the holidays, others are marching off to war. One of the unusual aspects of the Iraq conflict is that the same people keep going back, which means that they often take with them the no-nonsense attitude of the combat veteran. Here, Lt. Col. Mark Yanaway, an Army reservist returning for his second tour, reports on his first steps ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Proof that 'beyond petroleum' was greenwashing BP joins 'biggest global warming crime ever seen'	Joseph Romm	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The tar sands are rightly called one of the world's greatest environmental crimes, as I've written. No company that invests in the Canadian tar sands can legitimately call itself green. Yet BP, the oil company that lavished millions on advertising its move 'Beyond Petroleum,' announced this month it's putting $3 billion into this dirtiest of dirty fuels! BP is buying a half-share of the ironically named Sunrise field: 'BP's move into oil sands is an opportunit ...
Topics: business, energy, fossil fuels, greenwashing, oil, oil sands (all these topics)

Clean Up That Oil, Stat! Up to a million gallons of oil spill in North Sea		12 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 12 Dec 2007 Perhaps jealous of the recent oil spills in San Francisco, Russia, and South Korea, Norway has had a spill of its very own. Oil company StatoilHydro says a mistake transferring crude from an offshore oil platform to a tanker resulted in up to a million gallons of black liquid flowing into the North Sea. The spill, likely the second-largest in Norwegian history, occurred 125 miles from sho ...
Topics: news, Norway, oil (all these topics)

Thirsty oil-rich nations reduce exports Some Arab countries have passed the U.S. in per capita oil consumption	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
A fascinating and important article was the lead story in Sunday's New York Times: The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast ... several of the world's most important suppliers may need to start importing oil within a decade to power all the new cars, houses and businesses they are buying and creating with their oil wealth. Indonesia has already made this flip. By some projections, the same thing could happen within five y ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

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