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Colbert on gas prices and oil profits	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill
(thanks LL!)
Topics: TV, funnies, green living, oil, energy, Big Oil, messaging, gas prices (all these topics)

Break up with your utility company ... or get dumped Millions of Americans may not be able to afford heat or power this year	Sharon Astyk	09 May 2008	Gristmill
So, I spent almost $2,000 today ... to fill up our oil tank. We heat primarily with wood, but we use oil as a backup system to keep the pipes from freezing and occasionally on days when we're going to be out for an extended period. Our hot water is also heated with oil. For whatever reason, most oil heat in the U.S. is in the Northeast, mostly in towns beyond gas lines like mine. I suspect today's purchase may well be the last tank of heating oil we ever buy. Unfor ...
Topics: environmental justice, energy at home, oil, energy (all these topics)

Portrait of an oil-addicted former superpower How rising oil prices are obliterating America's superpower status	Guest author	08 May 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Michael T. Klare, author of the new book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. It was originally published on Tom's Dispatch, which has graciously permitted us to use it here. ----- Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political entity stumbled on for another two years, but it was clearly an ex-superpower from the moment it lost co ...
Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics, Russia (all these topics)

Five bucks a gallon? Goldman says oil 'likely' to hit $150-$200 by 2010	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Goldman Sachs' Arjun N. Murti said this in a May 5 report: The possibility of $150-$200 per barrel seems increasingly likely over the next 6-24 months, though predicting the ultimate peak in oil prices as well as the remaining duration of the upcycle remains a major uncertainty. That would mean gasoline prices of $5 to $6 a gallon. Unless, of course, we permanently suspend the gasoline tax, in which case gasoline prices would only be $5 to $6 a gallon. Why sho ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

Straight as a circle Big Oil's crooked talk on profits	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Has the oil industry borrowed the (laughable) tagline of presidential candidate John McCain? As Fox Business reported last Friday: The American Petroleum Institute took out a full-page ad in USA Today, and other major media were tapped this week to provide 'straight talk on earnings.' The earnings that need 'straight talk': ExxonMobil's $11 billion quarterly profit, and Chevron's $5.2 billion quarterly profit. (Note to Big Oil: When Fox doesn't give your spin fav ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, John McCain, lying liars, oil (all these topics)

How to get people to pay attention to peak oil	David Roberts	07 May 2008	Gristmill
I can't decide if this is horribly crass or effing genius, or both:
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, green living, oil (all these topics)

I smell a hedging strategy How much would you pay for cheap gas?	Sean Casten	07 May 2008	Gristmill
Suppose you're a commodity trader. Someone offers you a future contract to buy gasoline at $2.99/gallon for the next three years. If you think that you can sell that gasoline for more than that, you might think this is a license to print money, and would therefore pay for that privilege. Which raises the following questions: How much would you pay for that future 'strip'? Is the answer to Question 1 more or less than a Chrysler?
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, oil (all these topics)

Do as the Bill Says, Not as It Does Senators both GOP and Dem introduce destined-to-fail legislation		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:54 PM on 07 May 2008 Senate Democrats are trying once again to yank $17 billion in tax breaks away from oil companies that are enjoying booming profits. The Consumer-First Energy Act, introduced in the Senate on Wednesday, would also put a 25 percent tax on oil companies that don't invest in renewable energy. Bill cosponsor Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sums up, "Big Oil is making money h ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Triangulation Or how to prove you're even dumber than your opponents	Adam Browning	07 May 2008	Gristmill
There are a lot of things I miss about Bill Clinton. 'Triangulation' is not one of them. For those unfamiliar with the term, triangulation is the political strategy by which a candidate takes the stupidest ideas of his/her opponent and adopts them as his/her own, thus depriving one's opponent of a monopoly on stupidity and dispelling any misconception that you might be a candidate of substance and principle.If you remember, after the spectacular rise of the charism ...
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, messaging, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain: We went to war for oil	David Roberts	07 May 2008	Gristmill
In '91, that is! Not in 2003. No sir.
Topics: energy, John McCain, lying liars, oil, politics (all these topics)

Danny sings the blues Seattle Times columnist needs a new ride	biodiversivist	07 May 2008	Gristmill
Via the Sunday Seattle Times: Danny Westneat has wrecked his car and needs a new ride. Now, I don't expect it to be easy being green. But this is ridiculous. What was hailed as our leading green alternative to petroleum [biodiesel] is now an affront to humanity? I wonder which print media gave him this false impression that biodiesel was our leading green alternative? But when we asked around about biodiesel, it didn't take long before the scolding started. Biodie ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, oil, Seattle (all these topics)

Candidates talk energy in victory speeches Obama takes NC; Clinton appears to win Indiana	Kate Sheppard	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama claimed North Carolina, and Hillary Clinton is the likely winner out in Indiana. In his speech in Raleigh, Obama noted the need for new, clean energy policy, and took the opportunity to knock Clinton and McCain's 'gas-tax holiday' plan: The man I met in Pennsylvania who lost his job but can't even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one - he can't afford four more years of an energy policy written by the oil companies and for the oil compa ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain campaign gets in on the anti-intellectualism	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: insanity, John McCain, oil, politics (all these topics)

More anti-intellectualism from the Clinton camp	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Cringe along with Terry McAuliffe, who explains why economists don't know nothin':
Topics: business, economy, energy, Hillary Clinton, oil, politics (all these topics)

Rejecting and renouncing	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton has been pushing Congresscritters to take a stand on her gas tax gimmick. Now a group of 28 members of the House of Representatives have issued a statement in which they 'unequivocally' reject the notion of a gas tax holiday.
Topics: Congress, Hillary Clinton, insanity, oil, politics (all these topics)

Escape from Suburbia New peak oil documentary fluffs the faithful	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
A while back I wrote a short review of 2004's End of Suburbia, and after watching the sequel, Escape from Suburbia, I guess I'd say roughly the same things. I want a movie like this to convince Average Joes. And when it comes to the Romantic agrarian peak oil evangelism this movie traffics in, the Average Joe needs lots of convincing. You'd think the way to go would be to play against stereotype, but to my eye, Escape from Suburbia plays right to it, again and ag ...
Topics: movies, oil, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics)

McCain and Clinton: job killers	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
According to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, the gas tax holiday proposed by John McCain and Hillary Clinton would destroy 23,107 jobs in California alone. UPDATE: Steve's got a point. The ARTBA report only criticizes McCain's proposal, because McCain proposes no replacement for the lost revenue. I should have looked more closely at the source report before passing this along.That said, this doesn't get Clinton off the hook. She's propos ...
Topics: Hillary Clinton, insanity, John McCain, oil, politics (all these topics)

Reid smarter than Clinton	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Vows to keep the gas tax holiday out of pending Democrat gas price legislation.
Topics: legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Better Ungulate Than Never Indian camels celebrate high oil prices		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:22 AM on 06 May 2008 Rising oil prices have many Homo sapiens in a tizzy, but at least one species is celebrating high fuel costs: the camel. Finding it spendy to fuel their tractors, farmers in India are turning to ungulate power. "It's excellent for the camel population if the price of oil continues to go up because demand for camels will also go up," says Ilse K�hler-Rollefson of the League for Pastoral ...
Topics: agriculture, India, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

I will bring oil to your house, carrying the barrels on my own back! Clinton vows to take down OPEC	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Gristmill
Now Clinton's going to dissolve OPEC: 'We're going to go right at OPEC,' she said. 'They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they're going to produce and what price they're going to put it at,' she told a crod at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.'That's not a market. That's a monopoly,' she said, saying she'd use anti-trust law and the Worl ...
Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, insanity, oil, politics (all these topics)

Name that tune Clinton sings the faux-populist, anti-intellectual Manichean blues	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Gristmill
I must say I'm surprised and gratified at the amount of coverage the gas-tax holiday is getting. It appears to be blowing up in Clinton's face, which is exactly what would happen in a Good and Just world. Earlier this week, asked about the fact that not a single policy expert or economist thinks the holiday would do anything for consumers, Clinton spokesflack Howard Wolfson said: 'We believe the presidency requires leadership,' said Wolfson. 'There are times that a ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Hillary Clinton, oil, politics, presidential race 08, shenanigans (all these topics)

Change now or change never The longer we wait to move away from gasoline, the more high gas prices will hurt	Ryan Avent	05 May 2008	Gristmill
Like Americans, Europeans are generally not fond of rising fuel costs. Unlike Americans, they're much better at handling them. It isn't difficult to understand why; they simply planned ahead. Geoffrey Styles writes: A big part of our problem is that most Americans are still driving cars that were purchased when gasoline was under $1.50/gal., to commute between work and home locations that were chosen when fuel was even cheaper ...As of this week, nominal U.S. retail ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, fuel efficiency, oil, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Americans grow up CBS/Times poll: We reject gas-tax holiday	Charles Komanoff	04 May 2008	Gristmill
The margin was narrow -- 4 percentage points. And 5 percent of those polled didn't choose sides. But a CBS News/NY Times poll released Sunday just might signal the moment when Americans began to grasp the intertwined realities of climate, energy and national security. The poll [PDF] found that 49 percent of Americans think suspending the gasoline tax this summer is a bad idea, while 45 percent approve of the plan (see Question 49). If memory serves, t ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Kunstler meets Colbert	David Roberts	03 May 2008	Gristmill
Painful:
Topics: books, energy, funnies, green living, oil, oil and gas drilling, TV (all these topics)

Oil hysteria, part 2 Are low gas prices an inalienable right?	Jon Rynn	02 May 2008	Gristmill
I'm listening to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talk to Thom Hartmann on Air America. Sanders is arguably the best senator in decades, and understands, as he just explained, that we need to transform our energy system toward renewables. But he also said something to the effect that 'we have to get gas prices back down.' I can't blame him -- particularly in his state of Vermont, rural people are getting slammed by high gas prices, because they have to drive long distances. ...
Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, politics, public transportation, renewable energy, sprawl, Vermont (all these topics)

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