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Suin' 'Bout the Schlock of the Bay San Francisco sues over oil spill, South Korea spill cleanup ongoing		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 11 Dec 2007 The city of San Francisco has sued the owners of the container ship that hit the iconic Bay Bridge last month and blackened the bay with 58,000 gallons of oil. The "wholly avoidable" accident caused "more injury to the San Francisco Bay Area than we can yet begin to fathom," says the suit, which seeks damages for costs ranging from overtime ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oil, San Francisco, South Korea, water pollution (all these topics)

Fools on the Hill Greed versus green on the energy bill	Joseph Romm	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As the new energy bill hit the Senate with a thud last week, we had to ask: Is it really so easy to stall vital public policy with tired old scare tactics? Last Friday, the answer was 'yes.' One of the potholes the bill has encountered is its $13 billion take-back from Big Oil. The bill proposes to repeal tax breaks given to the ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Bartlett opposes energy bill over RFS	David Roberts	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I'm a fairly enthusiastic supporter of the energy bill that just left the House, but I am painfully aware that the Renewable Fuel Standard, which would mandate (insofar as one can mandate ponies) 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2036 -- and worse yet, 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol by 2015 -- is a grotesquerie that will do far more harm than good. I tend to think that it will get ratcheted back by a subsequent Congress, particularly once the perversity becomes cl ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Can You Believe That Ship? Barge collides with tanker, spilling 2.7 million gallons of oil off South Korean coast		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 07 Dec 2007 A barge collided with a massive oil tanker this morning about five miles off the coast of South Korea, damaging the tanker's single hull in three places and resulting in an oil spill estimated at about 2.7 million gallons. The over four-mile-long oil slick is slowly making its way toward what were once probably some very nice beaches and a national m ...
Topics: news, oceans, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

How will you ride the slide?	David Roberts	02 Dec 2007	Gristmill
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Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Gristmill community chastised! The global nature of global warming	biodiversivist	02 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is my formal rebuttal to Brooke Coleman (director of the Renewable Energy Action Project), specifically to comments found in Tom Philpott's latest corn ethanol article. I'm using my access to the bully pulpit to pull it out of comments, like I did the last time a corn ethanol enthusiast joined the discussion. Welcome to the best environmental blog on the planet, Brooke. You don't seem to have a very high opinion of this community, but maybe you'll warm up t ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, climate, energy, ethanol, oil (all these topics)

White courtesy phone, paging Homer Simpson Necessity is the mother of invention ... and some really bad ideas	JMG	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Mein Gott. I was so hoping that this article was from The Onion or something. Porta-nukes will power oil-shale melters, because there's just no topping the American spirit -- the willingness to take a truly abysmal idea (oil shales) and make it worse: The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub. It's shaped like a sake cup, filled with a uranium hydride core and surrounded by a hydrogen atmosphere. Encase it in concrete, truck it to a site, bury it underground, hook i ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

No second helpings on gas Per-person gas consumption has decreased in the last year	Clark Williams-Derry	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
On the heels of the year's biggest travel week, some interesting news: Consumers purchased an average 9.32 million barrels of gasoline a day in the week ended Nov. 23, down 1.7 percent from the same week last year ... It was the fifth consecutive week that demand at the pump dropped compared with a year earlier. The price [of gas] was 38 percent higher than a year earlier. That's right, population rose, but gas consumption fell, year-over-year ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

The cash nexus Is there really so much money in environmental devastation that it can't be stopped?	Tom Philpott	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In the Nov. 12 New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert published an article (unavailable online; abstract here) typical of her style: spare, restrained, vivid, cogent, devastating. The topic was Canada's tar sands, now being profitably exploited by the major oil companies: Shell, Conoco-Phillips, Chevron, and ExxonMobil. And they've only just begun. According to Kolbert, the oil majors intend to invest more than $75 billion over the next five years in building infrastructure t ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

The states of high gas prices How oil-intense is your state's economy?	Eric de Place	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Last time I checked, oil prices were hovering just below $100 per barrel. This reminds me of something I used to obsess about: high oil prices hit some places harder than others. All else being equal, oil-efficient economies are more insulated from oil price shocks than are economies that require large oil inputs to function. I'm not talking about the amount of oil consumption, but about the "oil-intensity" of an economy. New York state consumes a lot ...
Topics: economy, energy, oil, United States (all these topics)

The price of oil will go ... down We have $100-a-barrel oil due to speculation and fear	Jason D Scorse	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
As this Foreign Policy article points out, there is no fundamental rationale for the current prices; oil should be between $40-$60 a barrel, but because of speculation and fear the price has been driven up much higher. The peak oil people love to say "I told you so" when the price goes up. What are they going to say when the price goes down? I expect crickets.
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

OPEC issues bizarre oil threat, Financial Times also confused OPEC nations demand that petroleum-consuming countries maintain current thirst for oil	Joseph Romm	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
NPR's Marketplace called me today for comments on this bizarre Financial Times article: 'Opec to seek assurances on oil demand.' Apparently these absurdly rich countries -- with projected revenues of $658 billion this year -- who are selling their product at nearly $100 a barrel, are threatening not to invest in new production unless the consuming countries promise to maintain demand. Seriously! No, seriously: Opec will this week seek assurances f ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Junk the Bunker Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in wake of S.F. oil spill		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 13 Nov 2007 In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill in San Francisco Bay, green group Friends of the Earth has started a petition drive urging Congress to ban the use of bunker fuel, which is gooey, chock full o' toxins, and slow to break down. The fuel, a byproduct of oil refining, is favored by the shipping industry because it's cheap; it's also "the dirtiest fuel on the planet," ...
Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, news, oil, Russia, San Francisco, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

It Takes a Spillage to Raze the Wild Tanker spills over 500,000 gallons of fuel oil in Black Sea		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 7:07 AM on 12 Nov 2007 On Sunday, a storm in the Black Sea sank five ships and ran others aground, including an oil tanker that split in half, spilling about 550,000 gallons of fuel oil -- roughly half its cargo. Two other ships carrying fuel oil were among those that hit shore, but they apparently didn't spill anything. At least two of the sunken ships were carrying thousands of tons of s ...
Topics: news, oil, severe weather, wildlife (all these topics)

The Sands of Grime Waterways downstream from oil sands are full o' toxins, says study		09 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:46 PM on 09 Nov 2007 Fish, water, and sediment downstream from the gigantic oil sands projects in Alberta are chock-full of carcinogens and other toxins, says a new study. While the research does not make a direct link between the oil sands, the toxins, and presumed health consequences, the largely Native residents of downstream community Fort Chipewyan have long suspected that they experience high ...
Topics: Alberta, energy, environmental justice, health, news, oil, oil sands, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
You're probably against drilling in the Alaskan Refuge, but what you really ought to be worried about is offshore drilling on Alaska's continental shelf, which isn't protected by law or by close attention from environmentalists -- and where the likelihood and impact of accidents are far worse. Read Peter Matthiessen's definitive piece in The Nation: When one considers the more than four thousand spills -- over one a day -- recorded by the oil industry in its land ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Gnarly Sheen Ship crashes in San Francisco Bay, leaks 58,000 gallons of oil		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:46 PM on 08 Nov 2007 A container ship larger than the Titanic collided with San Francisco's Bay Bridge on Wednesday, tearing a 160-foot gash in its hull and spilling at least 58,000 gallons of oil. The leak nauseated some bystanders, closed down beaches and fishing, and could threaten the health of seals, birds, and other wildlife. The spilled substance, known as bunker oil, "tends to be rather heavy, a ...
Topics: California, news, oil, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

Curses, oiled again! High oil prices reshape the geopolitical landscape	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Check out Mark Landler on how rising oil prices are changing the geopolitical landscape. Here's the nut: The prospect of triple-digit oil prices has redrawn the economic and political map of the world, challenging some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations are enjoying historic gains and opportunities, while major importers -- including China and India, home to a third of the world's population -- confront rising economic and social costs. Hey, I can think of a ...
Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Lurching along on $100/barrel oil Why we're not conserving like it's 1980	Tom Philpott	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
On Tuesday, the price of oil set yet another all-time nominal high, leaping above $97/barrel. More importantly, it has just about reached its all-time inflation-adjusted high, reached amid the turmoil of the Iran hostage situation way back in 1980, the Associated Press reports: Crude prices are within the range of inflation-adjusted highs set in early 1980. Depending on the how the adjustment is calculated, $38 a barrel then would be worth $96 to $103 or more today. ...
Topics: oil, energy, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Barreling Ahead Energy demand, greenhouse-gas emissions expected to soar, says report		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 8:36 AM on 07 Nov 2007 The International Energy Agency has released its annual World Energy Outlook, and it's fair to say that the outlook is, um, not good. World energy demand is projected to surge by 55 percent by 2030, with China and India accounting for nearly half of that increase and China overtaking the U.S. as the globe's primary energy glutton. Think $100-a-barrel oil is spendy? That's nothi ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil (all these topics)

The Zen parable of peak oil awareness Disturbing news is more likely to be ignored	JMG	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
An interesting post on the phenomenon encountered by peak oil 'doomers' in trying to explain their dour views to those that are unaware: But if the purpose of the peak oil movement is to spread awareness and ultimately spur action, then telling uninformed people news which radically challenges their worldview may cause them simply to tune us out. In this regard, the worse the news is, the less likely people are to want to hear what we have to say or to believe it if they do l ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Incorrect predictions Do the experts know anything about oil prices?	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Finally, after a four-month stretch in which oil prices rose from under $70 to over $95, oil industry analysts seem to have caught on that prices are rising. From Bloomberg news (emphasis added): Twenty-one of 35 analysts surveyed, or 60 percent, said oil prices will rise through Nov. 9 ... Respondents [had] predicted price drops in the previous 16 weeks. That's right, for each of the preceding 16 weeks, the consensus of oil industry experts was that ...
Topics: oil, energy (all these topics)

'Mideast Oil Forever?': Part III Abandoning the solution	Joseph Romm	04 Nov 2007	Gristmill
After the introduction and an explanation of 'The Coming Oil Crisis,' the next part of 'MidEast Oil Forever?' (subs. req'd) begins the discussion of the technology-based solution -- and how the Congress is working to block it. Yes, long before Shellenberger & Nordhaus claim to have pioneered the positive technology message that everyone else supposedly never tried, many of us were waging a public death-match (without their help) to save those technologies -- espe ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, fuel efficiency, hydrogen, oil (all these topics)

'Mideast Oil Forever?': Part II The coming oil crisis	Joseph Romm	03 Nov 2007	Gristmill
After the introduction, the next part of 'Mideast Oil Forever?' (subs. req'd) predicted in 1996 that we would have an oil crisis in ten years, and that we would be in a weak position to respond if Congress succeeded in gutting our clean energy programs. That may seem obvious now, but oil prices were low in the mid-1990s -- in the previous three years, oil prices had averaged about $16 a barrel -- and only a few oil/security analysts (whom we cite) were raising alarm ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil (all these topics)

'MidEast Oil Forever?': Part I Drifting toward disaster	Joseph Romm	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Eleven years ago, I wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly with various predictions and warnings on oil and energy technology and climate. Since those subjects remain hot today -- concern over oil prices and peak oil is at a three-decade-high, and Shellenberger and Nordhaus have reignited the technology debate with a variety of historically inaccurate claims about the clean energy R&D message -- and since this is probably the best thing I wrote in the 1990s, I ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil, tech (all these topics)

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