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Dig it Krupp On Charlie Rose, EDF leader Fred Krupp endorses domestic drilling for new oil	David Roberts	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
EDF chief Fred Krupp appeared on the Charlie Rose show yesterday. For the most part, it was the usual stumping for cap-and-trade. However, Rose pushed him on the question of whether, in the short-term, we need to drill for new oil. After quite a bit of dodging and weaving, Krupp, rather startlingly, said we should assess domestic drilling on a case-by-case basis. Rose kept pushing, saying, 'Do we need to be drilling for new oil in the short term?' Says Krupp: 'yes, abs ...
Topics: carbon trading, energy, Environmental Defense Fund, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Conservation good. Drilling stupid	Andrew Dessler	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman. Reads like a Grist post. Go figure.
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Stormy waters Offshore drilling likely to raise some voter ire in Florida	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's call this week for an end to the moratorium on offshore drilling isn't faring well with environmentalists across the country. In one key state, however, it might really come back to bite him come November. Florida -- yes, land of dangling chads and nearly-won elections -- may well prove to be the place where McCain's call for drilling cost him in the general election. 'I think that he has made a serious miscalculation,' Holly Binns, field director fo ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Why more drilling is not the answer Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt	Michael Moynihan	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the NDN blog. Of the various false solutions being proposed to the current oil shock perhaps none is more disingenous than the idea that it can be solved by drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and along the Outer Continental Shelf. This is the idea that the right wing media, recently John McCain, and now President Bush have been pushing as a cure-all for soaring oil prices. Since many Democrats oppose this drilling, the next false logica ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Well, when you put it that way ... Rasmussen poll biased on offshore drilling	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Rasmussen Reports did a poll that they tout as showing '67 percent Support Offshore Drilling.' Given the biased way they did the poll (details here), I'm surprised the number was so low. The first question they asked: 'How concerned are you about rising gas and energy prices?' Pretty much everybody is concerned. Duh. But in a flawed poll, almost a push poll, the point of the first question is to get people thinking about about the pain of gasoline prices, rath ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

What do oil lobbyists think about drilling for oil?	David Roberts	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell discusses McCain's plan to drill, drill, drill with RNC deputy chairman and McCain supporter Frank Donatelli: What Mitchell didn't tell you: Before joining the RNC, Donatelli was a registered lobbyist. For whom, you ask? What type of clients? Three guesses! Oh, fine, you got it the first time: ExxonMobil Corp. and Dominion Resources. But why would MSNBC viewers need to know that?
Topics: Big Oil, business, lobbying, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Oil drilling = oil spilling How greens and Democrats can win the energy debate	Glenn Hurowitz	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If the pro-environment Republican wasn't already dead, I think this week killed him. John McCain, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, President Bush, and many others threw overboard one of the last policy planks Republicans (at least in coastal states) used to show that they're pro-environment too by calling for a massive offshore drilling program. As chronicled in this excellent article by Politico's Charles Mathesian and David Mark, it's a politically risky move for Rep ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

No luv from Democratic guvs McCain's offshore drilling plan irks coastal state governors	Kate Sheppard	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Obama campaign hosted a press conference this afternoon with Democratic governors to highlight opposition to John McCain's call to end the moratorium on offshore drilling. The governors expressed uniform distaste with the proposal, and skepticism that voters in their states would approve of drilling off their coasts. 'Our economy is driven by tourism and use of the shore,' said Jon Corzine, governor of New Jersey. 'I think we would have a hard time getting p ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Windfalling for you Did McCain switch positions on windfall profits tax?	Kate Sheppard	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain on a windfall profits tax, in his speech on energy policy delivered in Houston yesterday: So what does Senator Obama support in energy policy? Well, for starters he supported the energy bill of 2005 -- a grab-bag of corporate favors that I opposed. And now he supports new taxes on energy producers. He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas. If the plan sounds familiar, it's because tha ...
Topics: Big Oil, elections, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Putting Lipstick on a Rig Backing up McCain, Bush calls for ending offshore drilling moratorium		18 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 6:36 AM on 18 Jun 2008 President Bush has joined John McCain in calling for an end to the offshore drilling moratorium that's been in effect for most U.S. waters since the early 1980s. Bush's reversal on the offshore-drilling issue follows on the heels of McCain's big energy speech in Houston on Tuesday, where he advocated offshore drilling as a way to lower energy prices. Industry analysts ...
Topics: gas prices, George Bush, John McCain, news, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Man in the Middle McCain calls for offshore drilling, renewables, and conservation in energy speech		17 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 9:27 PM on 17 Jun 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain tried to pack something for everyone into a big energy speech yesterday, saying the U.S. needs more conservation and renewables as well as more oil drilling, oil refineries, "clean-burning coal," and nuclear power plants. He called for ending a federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but reiterated his ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Texas hold 'em McCain calling for offshore drilling, renewables, and conservation in energy speech	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain. John McCain will give a big speech on energy policy this afternoon to a group of oil executives in Houston, Texas. According to his prepared remarks, his address will highlight the need to forge a path to energy independence, calling for expanded domestic oil and gas drilling as well as a move toward renewable energy sources and conservation. 'The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies not just of the current adminis ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Mixed messages McCain releases new climate ad ahead of speech calling for more drilling	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain unveiled a new climate-change ad today -- hours before he's scheduled to give an energy speech in Texas that will call for building more oil refineries and lifting a federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. 'John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming, five years ago,' says the ad. 'Today, he has a realistic plan that will curb greenhouse-gas emissions. A plan that will help grow our economy and protect our envi ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A kind word Will wonders never cease: not only sane economist, but author of a textbook!	JMG	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Upon occasion, I've been accused of having, shall we say, an uncharitable attitude towards the self-styled "science" of economics. I firmly believe that not all economists are Dungeons and Dragons geeks in suits or political sycophants whose only talent is covering their guesswork with a fog of intentionally obscure jargon. It's just the 98 percent who give the rest a bad name. However, when one stumbles on one of the rest, it's worth noting. I'm greatly enjo ...
Topics: business, economy, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

With friends like these ... Saudis agree with McCain: Cut gasoline taxes!	Joseph Romm	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If anything should put a stake through John McCain's absurd gas tax holiday idea, it's that the Saudi King advocates it, too! As I have previously noted, the only ones who benefit from the gas tax are the oil companies and the petroleum producers. Case in point, the biggest producer just said: Next month, the Saudis will be pumping an extra half-a-million barrels of oil a day compared to last month, bringing total Saudi production to 9.7 million barrels a ...
Topics: Big Oil, gas prices, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Drill on the Hill Republicans exanding their drill base, at least to other Republicans	Kate Sheppard	15 Jun 2008	Gristmill
While Dick Cheney's busy cheerleading for increased domestic drilling from the White House, House Republicans have been cooking up yet another bill to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling. The bill, which they're calling the 'American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act,' would 'direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound prog ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Gas prices to peak soon? EIA: Making the same mistake again and again	Eric de Place	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If you believe the Energy Information Administration, U.S. gas prices will peak at $4.15 per gallon in August. Whew. That's a suprise for most Americans, 86 percent of whom believe that prices will top $5 by the end of the year. We can be confident that the EIA -- the agency that does the country's official projection of oil prices -- knows what they're talking about. Yessiree. If you detect a note of sarcasm in my post maybe that's because the EIA has a hilario ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Garrisoning the global gas station Challenging the militarization of U.S. energy policy	Guest author	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from energy analyst Michael T. Klare. It was originally run on TomDispatch; it is reprinted here with Tom's kind permission. ----- American policymakers have long viewed the protection of overseas oil supplies as an essential matter of 'national security,' requiring the threat of -- and sometimes the use of -- military force. This is now an unquestioned part of American foreign policy. On this basis, the first Bush administration fou ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, fossil fuels, Iraq, Nigeria, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Dick move Cheney perpetuates myth about China-Cuba oil partnership	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
During his 'drill, drill, drill' rant yesterday, Dick Cheney complained that Cuba and China are drilling for oil closer to the coast of Florida than American companies are currently allowed. It's become a common talking point for Republicans arguing that more areas should be opened to drilling -- but, reports McClatchy, it appears to be bogus. [N]o one can prove that the Chinese are drilling anywhere off Cuba's shoreline. The China-Cuba connection is 'akin to ...
Topics: Big Oil, Cuba, energy, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Drill team coach Cheney: 'Drill, drill, drill'	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Dick Cheney has weighed in with his answer to the nation's energy woes: Vice President Cheney yesterday called for a substantial increase in domestic drilling for oil and other natural resources, including in environmentally sensitive areas, saying that only increased production -- and not new technology -- will satisfy the nation's demand for energy. 'We are an economy that runs on petroleum. Some 20 million barrels of it a day. That can and will change over tim ...
Topics: Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Mad Max meets Wall Street ... on ice Colbert on the Arctic	David Roberts	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic, energy, funnies, oil, polar bears, United Nations (all these topics)

No country for dead dinosaurs House committee hears testimony on the future of oil (hint: it's dim)	Kate Sheppard	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
With gas prices at record highs and the Senate engaged in a fruitless struggle to find a new way forward on energy policy, the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming held a timely hearing this morning on 'The Future of Oil.' The general consensus: the long-term prognosis for global oil supply and demand ain't good, and the U.S. had better start doing something different, quick. But what exactly? No consensus on that point. Many Rep ...
Topics: energy, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

That's a gas Today's gas consumption shows that price increases are only one part of the solution	Gar Lipow	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
As SUV sales plummet and gasoline use finally drops, one meme spreading around is, 'Looks like people respond to price after all.' The implication seems to be that any demand response other than zero proves that prices are wonderfully effective. The problem, however, is not response is or might be zero. (I can think of few who ever claimed that.) The problem is that it takes a big price increase to produce a small response. The current data support the conventional wisdo ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Good big-picture view of the emerging cleantech market	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I found this video, from an NDN event called 'Understanding the Cleantech Investment Opportunity,' intensely educational (warning: it's over an hour long):
Topics: business, energy, investing, oil, tech (all these topics)

What Mr. Crude Oil sees ahead High oil prices are our lot until demand is destroyed, but no peak	Joseph Romm	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Goldman Sachs analyst Arjun Murti predicted the recent spike in oil prices, so it's worth looking at his recent interview in Barron's:IN 2004, ARJUN N. MURTI, A TOP ENERGY ANALYST AT GOLDMAN SACHS, published a report predicting 'a potentially large upward spike in crude oil, natural gas and refining margins at some point this decade.' It was a controversial call, with crude around $40 a barrel at the time. But it was right on the money. Four years later, crude is tradin ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, interview, oil (all these topics)

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