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Reid between the lines Senate Dems under pressure to lift ban on offshore drilling	Kate Sheppard	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Democrats in Congress are under increasing pressure to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling, The Wall Street Journal reported this week ($ub. req'd). Last week, some Democrats signaled that they would be willing to endorse offshore drilling. And on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he might allow voting on offshore drilling. 'We're happy to take a look at a number of different approaches,' said Reid. 'If we get on to the speculation bill, we' ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

No relief in sight The current oil shock	Guest author	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Dilip Hiro, author of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (Nation Books). It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- When will it end, this crushing rise in the price of gasoline, now averaging $4.10 a gallon at the pump? The question is uppermost in the minds of American motorists as they plan vacations or simply review their daily journeys. T ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Believe Mitt or not Romney believes McCain would allow drilling in ANWR	Kate Sheppard	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
About 59 seconds into this video, former GOP presidential candidate and possible VP pick Mitt Romney argues that John McCain would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: (Via Marc Ambinder)
Topics: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, video (all these topics)

Nothing Newt under the sun Gingrich's 'grassroots' drilling campaign is funded by Big Oil, report says	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Several corrections have been made to the original post to fix inaccuracies in the report from Alaska Wilderness League. 'Green conservative' Newt Gingrich is scheduled to deliver his 'Drill here, drill now, pay less' petition to Congress today. According to his American Solutions website, more than 1.3 million people have signed the petition. But who's funding the campaign that Gingrich is touting as a grassroots, bipartisan effort? Turns out a large portio ...*
Topics: Big Oil, Muckraker, news, Newt Gingrich, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Fighting the full court press Cost-benefit analysis can help environmentalists battle offshore drilling	Guest author	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Richard L. Revesz, dean of New York University School of Law, and Michael A. Livermore, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Regulation at New York University School of Law. They are co-authors of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, published in May 2008 by Oxford University Press. ----- In the last few weeks, two major barriers to renewed off ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Hog heaven, part 1 Increased offshore drilling does not substitute for national energy policy	Joseph Romm	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. When it comes to energy policy, Amory Lovins has proven again and again that he's a pretty smart guy. At the moment, nothing seems more insightful than one of Amory's comments in the May/June issue of Mother Jones. Asked what energy policies the next president should champion, Lovins was skeptical. He believes energy policy will continue to be mad ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, George Bush, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Dems: The breaks Some Democrats in Congress bending on drilling debate	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Some Senate Democrats are warming to the idea of opening some offshore areas in U.S. waters to oil and gas drilling, as we reported earlier this week. A few more may now be joining the ranks. Republicans in Congress have hyped the need to drill, and representatives are under pressure from constituents to do something about gas prices. Bending on drilling at least politically creates the appearance of doing something, despite the fact that opening offshore areas to ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

The cruel offshore-drilling hoax, part 1 EIA maintains offshore drilling gains will be negligible	Joseph Romm	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The GOP and McCain/Bush keep insisting that an end to the federal moratorium on (some) offshore drilling is a major solution to America's oil woes, even though Bush's own energy analysts make clear it is not. That Energy Information Administration analysis is, however, a couple of years old, so I called up the author today and asked if it was being updated. Turns out a new version will be published in a couple of days, but she explained to me that the 'answers are no ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, George Bush, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Here comes the story of the hurricane If we're already in energy crisis, what happens when a major Gulf storm hits?	Miles Grant	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he'd be open to letting Big Oil drill on previously-protected public lands. And now this: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on President Bush to release oil from the government's emergency reserve to knock down gasoline prices she says 'are helping push the economy toward recession.'Pelosi, D-Calif., in a letter to Bush noted that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been used three times before and each time th ...
Topics: Congress, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

The art of getting nothing for something Congressional Dems consider preventing oil drilled offshore from export	Adam Stein	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Any article on how politicians are gearing up to 'do something' about oil prices is bound to contain more than the usual share of silliness. Still, though, this managed to stop me cold: [Senator Harry Reid] also hinted at a potential element of compromise legislation: that any oil produced from wider access to federal lands off shore be reserved for domestic use and barred from export. Such a policy would, of course, be utterly useless in our highly integrated internati ...
Topics: gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Oil hysteria, part 3 Congress scrambles for short-term solutions to counter oil prices	Jon Rynn	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I was afraid of this. The irrationality being exhibited about the price of gasoline is on prominent display this week in Congress. According to the New York Times article 'Congress feeling pressure for action on oil prices,' some of the things being considered are 1) drilling, of course, 2) anti-speculation legislation, and 3) 'incentives for renewable fuels,' ergo, corn ethanol. The most ironic idea, to me anyway, was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) suggesting that voter ...
Topics: Congress, energy, gas prices, oil, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable Oil in the ocean: light as a feather!	David Roberts	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'These [oil] firms have learned a lot over the past two decades and three decades about their ability to go out and put a platform in water and extract oil and do it in a way that they're not causing any environmental harm at all.' -- White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto
Topics: dumbassery, energy, insanity, oil, politics, quotables, video (all these topics)

RNC: 'balance' = a climate in crisis; Senate GOP: 'balance' = climate-destroying shale Republican leaders advocate domestic shale development	Joseph Romm	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' The Republican National Committee just launched an ad called, 'Balance' claiming we have 'a climate in crisis.' Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) introduced the Climate Destruction Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008 late last month that would repeal the congressional moratorium on shale development. In a press release ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Oil prices will go ... up? No easy explanation for continued price increases in the oil markets	Jason D Scorse	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
At the end of last year I predicted that the price of oil would go down; so far I have been terribly wrong. My prediction, shared by many other economists and energy experts, was premised on a reasonable assumption: Since the world was headed for an economic slowdown, brought about the housing bubble and the financial crisis, global demand for energy would likely moderate, putting downward pressure on prices. While it was a sensible prediction, I am happy that no one ...
Topics: renewable energy, gas prices, oil sands, oil, economy, energy (all these topics)

The Iraqi Oil Ministry's new fave five All the oil news that's fit to print	Guest author	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- On June 19, the New York Times broke the story in an article headlined 'Deals with Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back: Rare No-Bid Contracts, A Foothold for Western Companies Seeking Future Rewards.' Finally, after a long five years-plus, there was ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Iraq, mainstream media, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, White House (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon II A chat with Portland's Charlie Stephens about petrodollars and oil wars	Melinda Henneberger	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. One thing I learned traveling around the country a couple of years ago, talking to voters for a political book I was working on, is that Americans tend to give their elected officials a super-size helping of benefit of the doubt. One night, I was in Suffolk, Va., having dinner with some active-duty ...
Topics: Iraq, energy, Voters Voices, oil, politics, economy, Oregon (all these topics)

Pray harder!	David Roberts	06 Jul 2008	Gristmill
My petroleum god, why hast thou forsaken me?
Topics: energy, oil, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Notable quotable War and stagflation -- surprisingly cute!	David Roberts	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'As you all probably know, in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty.' -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), self-styled 'Godfather of Green
Topics: cutesy, oil, quotables (all these topics)

Drilling offshore vs. fuel efficiency	David Roberts	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Over at CEPR, Dean Baker makes a somewhat cutesy but still quite illustrative comparison: the barrels of oil per day we could get by 2027 through offshore drilling (when production rate will max out) vs. the oil savings we would have gotten per day if we'd continued ramping up the CAFE standard at roughly the 1980-1985 rate. Here's what he came up with: Hm, efficiency or a crack addict's desperate search for increased supply? Tough choice!
Topics: cutesy, energy, fuel efficiency, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

No shame in our game Climate policy isn't a pill to swallow, it's a way off a sinking ship	David Roberts	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This Ezra Klein post echoes what has rather rapidly become conventional wisdom among progressives on climate legislation, and it makes me want to tear my hair out. The idea is that climate legislation will inevitably hurt people financially in the short-term, in order to secure environmental benefits in the distant future, so the only way to get it through is with a bunch of obscurantist double-talk to bore or distract people in the hopes that you can sneak something ...
Topics: climate, economy, gas prices, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Big, bad John Texas Sen. John Cornyn hearts drilling and a good brew	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Okay, so this campaign ad for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has nothing to do with the environment, but it needs to be posted: Cornyn's latest ads focus on his energy plan, which includes offshore drilling and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for exploration and drilling. He also says he supports 'viable alternative sources,' which in his book includes nuclear and coal. This is the same senator who during the debate over the Lieberman-Warner Climate ...
Topics: elections, energy, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, US senate (all these topics)

Milk jug gets a makeover Another example of how carbon constraints may benefit big box retailers	Adam Stein	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Wal-Mart and Costco have adopted a version of the one-gallon milk jug designed with efficiency in mind. The boxier containers stack better, eliminating the need for milk crates and conserving space in trucks and on refrigerated store shelves: The company estimates this kind of shipping has cut labor by half and water use by 60 to 70 percent. More gallons fit on a truck and in Sam's Club coolers, and no empty crates need to be picked up, reducing trips to each Sam's ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, oil (all these topics)

A new way of thinking Manufactured Landscapes is as good as they say	JMG	28 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Obviously I need to watch movies faster. Almost a year ago today I posted about wanting to watch Manufactured Landscapes, featuring the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky, mainly shot in China. I finally got around to it.Not only is the movie visually arresting, but it is very, very disturbing.Surprisingly to me, the sparse narration includes a pretty good description of peak oil. The filmmaker, Jennifer Baichwal, shows some incredible aerial shots of a ginormous highway octo ...
Topics: green living, movies, oil (all these topics)

Notable quotable Newt thinking on energy arousal (and domestic oil production)	Sara Barz	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'... when the American people are aroused, they can in fact coerce the Congress ...' -- Newt Gingrich on 'Energy Independence Day
Topics: energy, Newt Gingrich, oil, quotables, video (all these topics)

The gas legislation we pass House approves two measures to address energy prices, third fails	Kate Sheppard	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The House of Representatives took up a triumvirate of environment and energy-related bills today, passing two that would increase funding for mass transit and curb oil market speculation. A third, more controversial measure would have forced oil companies to drill on the land they already own. The votes highlighted the split between Democrats and Republicans on energy policy. Legislators have been battling for weeks over how to deal with record gasoline prices, wi ...
Topics: Ed Markey, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

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