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Polar bears are ... doing great? So say Big Oil-friendly opponents of protecting them	Miles Grant	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
You know, if you set aside the massive threats to their habitats posed by global warming and oil and gas development, polar bears are an 'otherwise healthy' species.That was the argument made Wednesday by William Horn, an attorney and former Assistant Interior Secretary for Fish and Wildlife in the Reagan administration, at a Capitol Hill hearing about the ongoing delay in whether to cover the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. Horn's case was echoed by several ...
Topics: Alaska, endangered species, energy, natural gas, oil, polar bears, shenanigans, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

The forgotten solution Transit investment should and will be a part of the peak oil solution	Ryan Avent	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Joseph Romm has made a number of very good points in his new Salon piece (and accompanying Gristmill post) on the problem of peak oil. He is, in my view, quite correct that oil prices will continue to increase based on supply and demand fundamentals. He is right that alternative oil source development would be a monumental mistake, and that biofuels are unlikely to be much help either. And I'd like to strongly associate myself with his statement that a solution to the cli ...
Topics: placemaking, oil, energy, urban planning, public transportation (all these topics)

Peak Oil? Bring it on! Solving the climate problem will solve the peak oil problem, too	Joseph Romm	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I have a new article in Salon on perhaps the most misunderstood subject in energy: peak oil. Here is the short version: We are at or near the peak of cheap conventional oil production. There is no realistic prospect that the conventional oil supply can keep up with current projected demand for much longer, if the industrialized countries don't take strong action to sharply reduce consumption, and if China and India don't take strong action to sharply reduce cons ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids, oil, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Obama and oil companies The latest primary dispute: Does Obama take oil money?	David Roberts	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is a new ad from Obama, playing now in Pennsylvania: In response, the Clinton campaign rushed out a statement claiming that Obama does too accept money from oil and gas companies: According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies. Two major bundlers for his campaign -- George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar -- are oil company CEOs. Sen. Obama has accepted money from Exxon, Shell, BP, Chevron and ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Big Oil, Hillary Clinton, oil, politics, presidential race 08, shenanigans (all these topics)

Survey says ... environment and economy not mutually exclusive! Americans favor conservation and see economically sound opportunities in protection	Anna Fahey	29 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Standard survey questions often uphold (or manufacture) false dichotomies. Case in point: the perpetual practice of pitting the environment against the economy. Nonetheless, these questions can reveal interesting trends over time. And every now and then, the numbers show that the public sees right through 'either/or' questions that just don't add up -- like recent research that shows Americans link economic opportunity to environmental protection. First, recent trends ...
Topics: business, coal, economy, energy, green jobs, natural gas, oil (all these topics)

Mood in the hood	Sir Oolius	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company, was on Charlie Rose Tuesday night. About 22 minutes into the segment, he says the following [my own transcription]: If we don't drill more in this country, I am quite concerned about civil disturbances in our urban areas because of the price of fuel. ... I was meeting in Los Angeles with mayor Villaraigosa and I asked him a specific question because I lived there during the Rodney King civil disturbances. [I] said, ' ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, oil, quotables (all these topics)

Sachs gets it wrong Since when is regulation optimal?	Sean Casten	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I like Jeffrey Sachs, and I generally agree with what he has to say about poverty, health, and the obligations of the rich to look after the poor. But he gets it dead wrong in the current Scientific American: Even with a cutback in wasteful energy spending, our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy. Says who? Why can't we find ways to dramatically lower our primary energy use per dollar of GD ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, natural gas, oil (all these topics)

Dealing with gas prices involves healing the economy On oil and the dollar, Bush and McCain acknowledge their own cluelessness	Brad Johnson	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This post was originally published at the just-launched Think Progress Wonk Room, the new public policy rapid-response blog of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Brad Johnson, the climate specialist for the Wonk Room, was a writer for Hill Heat. Skyrocketing gas prices are crippling the budgets of Americans, as Bush has newly discovered. But he doesn't have a solution. Nor does Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Bush's every response to energy problems is to drill f ...
Topics: politics, business, oil, energy (all these topics)

Nay, Cap'n Ship pilot charged in San Francisco oil spill		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:58 PM on 17 Mar 2008 The pilot of the ship that spilled more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay in November has been charged with criminal negligence, harming federally protected birds, and violating the Clean Water Act. If found guilty, Capt. John Cota could face up to 18 months in jail and more than $100,000 in fines. source:� Associated Press see also, in Grist:� Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in ...
Topics: endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil, politics, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

Drill Team Alaska senators introduce legislation to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:22 PM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Madhav Pai The push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back on. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens have introduced legislation that would allow drilling in the Refuge if oil should hit $125 a barrel for five straight days. (For those keeping track at home, oil prices Thursday hit a record high of $111 a barrel.) "I can't believe that they would ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Canadians Are So Cute When They're Mad Canadians fear U.S. energy bill clause could disallow oil-sands exports		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:17 PM on 11 Mar 2008 A clause in the recently passed U.S. energy bill could be interpreted to prevent the U.S. from sourcing fuel from Canada's oil sands, putting Canadian officials all in a tizzy. Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act prohibits the U.S. government from purchasing alternative fuels with higher lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions than conven ...
Topics: Canada, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, oil, oil sands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Crude oil at $130 this year? And $150 next year? Rising cost of oil pushes value of the dollar down	Joseph Romm	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Bloomberg reports: Crude oil may reach a record $130 a barrel this year because pension funds are investing more in commodities, said Pierre Andurand, the chief investment officer of BlueGold Capital Management LLP, a hedge fund ... 'Next year, oil may rise even further to $150 a barrel.' Okay, this is a hedge fund guy who is betting the ranch on oil and probably doing his part to drive up prices. But at the end of the day, this is an issue of fundamentals -- ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, economy, energy, investing, oil (all these topics)

Celebrating the high price of oil ... kind of Increased attractiveness of alternative energy is some consolation	Jason D Scorse	08 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Oil just passed the $106 mark, putting it well above the inflation-adjusted record set just a few days ago. In an earlier post, I predicted that the price of oil would go down. So far I have obviously been wrong, although I suspect that the price will decline by the end of the year since this seems awfully like a part of the greater speculative commodity bubble we are witnessing. But putting that aside for a moment, there is one great benefit of the high price of o ...
Topics: carbon tax, economy, energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sand Boxed Canadian federal court ruling could halt planned oil-sands project		06 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 06 Mar 2008 A Canadian federal court has ruled in favor of environmental groups that sued in opposition to a massive planned oil-sands mine in Alberta. The 120-square-mile strip mine had recently been approved by a joint federal-provincial panel that found the project's estimated annual greenhouse-gas emissions of 3.7 million tons to be insignificant. Yet no justification was given for the finding ...
Topics: Canada, climate, litigation, news, oil, oil sands (all these topics)

The wheel turns against gasoline Americans reduce gas consumption as prices continue to rise	Kit Stolz	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Shocked by high gas prices? You're not alone: according to the lead story in today's Los Angeles Times, prices are at a record high. The gravity-defying price of oil shot through another barrier Monday by briefly touching $103.95 a barrel in New York trading, the highest cost ever for black gold even after adjusting for inflation. But the experts say it's not so much a rise in demand that is pushing up the cost, but a fall in the value of the dollar. 'I d ...
Topics: consumerism, energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Internal combustion news Volkswagen's new entry to the clean diesel fleet	Erik Hoffner	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Enough election talk, it's time to put some honest-to-goodness car news in the Gristmill (so this one's for you, JMG!). Volkswagen is about to unveil a new Golf hybrid, said to feature an all-electric mode at low speed and regenerative braking to compete with the Prius and its ilk. The difference is that this is a diesel-electric hybrid, which VW says will get 69 mpg and exceed Europe's (and California's) tough emissions standards. The point is somewha ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, oil (all these topics)

Gas up The next generation of infrastructure should help more Americans go carless	Ryan Avent	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
It appears that oil has reached a new all-time high in real terms. Given that gas prices normally peak during the summer season, the stage could be set for some ugly pump prices this year, although expensive oil may not be the most painful part of the current commodity price boom for consumers (an honor which may go to the exploding cost of grain). With oil so expensive, commuters may wish they had better transportation options. Some of them may even begin to wonder ...
Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

The natural resource curse is such a bitch Oil and the status of women in the Middle East	Nathan Wyeth	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm not sure this falls under my 'campus news' beat for Grist, but I heard it at a seminar at a college campus, and it's compelling enough that I'm going to say that because it falls within academia, it counts. Michael Ross is a political scientist at UCLA who was published in the February 2008 American Political Science Review with the assertion (PDF) that much of the gender inequality in the Middle East relative to the rest of the world can be explained not by tradi ...
Topics: Africa, Middle East, international politics, politics, environmental justice, energy, oil (all these topics)

Starting to Tank Americans using less gasoline		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 03 Mar 2008 Well, it's finally happened: Americans are starting to use less gasoline. It took a weakened economy and record oil prices -- crude hit an all-time high of $103.95 a barrel Monday -- but in the past six weeks, U.S. gasoline consumption has fallen by an average 1.1 percent from 2007 levels, the most sustained drop in at least 16 years (excepting the dropoff that followed Hurricane Katrina). As Americans move to mitig ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'Oh, yeah? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.' -- President George W. Bush, upon hearing that numerous analysts are predicting $4/gallon gasoline
Topics: quotables, energy, oil, George Bush (all these topics)

Familiar refrains from some fossil fossils Big Energy promotes Big Energy at Houston energy conference	Josh Dorner	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Today's first panel focused on 'supply-side solutions' and featured quite a line-up: Dana Flanders, President, Chevron Technology Ventures James Hackett, Chairman, President, and CEO, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Thad Hill, Executive Vice President and President, NRG Texas Robert Kelly, Founding Director, DKRW Energy LLC Aubrey McClendon, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Director, Chesapeake Energy Corporation This being a veritable who's who of the ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, Texas (all these topics)

John McCain and Exxon Valdez Mr. Straight Talk voted against requiring double-hulled tankers after the biggest oil spill	David Roberts	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
You're likely aware that the notorious Exxon Valdez case is back in court yet again. Yesterday, the Most Profitable Company of All Time argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that it shouldn't have to pay $2.5 billion in damages to Alaskans harmed by the spill. (That was reduced from the original $5 billion, but Exxon argues it shouldn't have to pay any damages. Yes, really.) It is, of course, morally repugnant almost beyond measure for the company to be fighting ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, litigation, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

The problem with tar sands Could Canadian oil be the most destructive on earth?	Eric de Place	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Check out this new report from Environmental Defence Canada. The title sort of says it all: 'Canada's Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project On Earth' (PDF). I found the title a bit overheated at first, but take a look before you decide. The claim may be debatable, but it's also not mere hyperbole: the tar sands oil extraction very well could be the most destructive project on earth. In fact, it's already yielding catastrophic results for human health, not ...
Topics: Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

Wildcatting the wind in Texas Conventional energy vs. renewable energy	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As all eyes turn toward Texas this week in advance of the Democratic primary, we will see a state that is beginning its transition to a new energy economy. Texas is grappling with a shift the entire nation faces -- and as usual, it's doing it on a big scale. When it comes to energy and to carbon emissions, Texas is a place of super ...
Topics: coal, energy, nuclear power, oil, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'I have the same feelings about wind as I had about the best oil field I ever found.' -- financier and oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens
Topics: energy, oil, quotables, wind power (all these topics)

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