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Oil Me Once Santa Barbara County officials give thumbs-up to offshore drilling		27 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:18 PM on 27 Aug 2008 Santa Barbara County supervisors on Tuesday voted 3 to 2 in favor of allowing offshore drilling along their coastline -- a move that has no practical impacts, but is rich with symbolism. The southern California county was hit with a devastating 3-million-gallon crude oil spill from an offshore platform in 1969; it coated beaches, killed wildlife, and helped to kick-start the modern en ...
Topics: California, energy, gas prices, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

'Drill, drill, drill' -- even if it won't solve the problem T. Boone Pickens airs his first television ad	Kate Sheppard	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
T. Boone Pickens -- the conservative billionaire oil baron turned wind activist -- just released his his first TV ad. Pickens has said that 'we can't drill our way out' of our energy problem, and in the ad he says that wind should be the primary energy source to help break dependency on foreign oil. But he also says in that ad that we should 'drill, drill, drill.' Watch it: Pickens will be at the Democratic National Convention Thursday at noon, in the Big Tent ...
Topics: advertising, energy, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics, T Boone Pickens, video, wind power (all these topics)

Q: Will we see $3 gasoline before we see $5? Short-term dip in oil prices will not offset long-term increases	Joseph Romm	21 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A: 'Who knows?' and 'It doesn't really matter.' Much higher gasoline prices that are sustained for a long, long time are now inevitable. The fundamentals in the oil market are that we are in the beginning stages of peak oil. Supply can no longer keep up with demand, which keeps soaring even in the face of record prices. The U.S. Energy Information Administration has the surprising statistics [PDF]: Preliminary data indicates that global consumption rose by roug ...
Topics: economy, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Frack and Ruin Nasty chemicals used in oil and gas drilling go largely unregulated		21 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:42 AM on 21 Aug 2008 Toxic chemicals pumped underground to break up seams of rock and increase oil and gas production have a fun nickname: fracking fluids, short for fracturing. (Go on, say it: frack!) But the fun stops there. Fracking fluids go largely unregulated, despite millions of gallons of use and hundreds of reported spills each year. Thanks to proprietary trade laws, energy companies don't ha ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, regulation, toxics (all these topics)

Back to whale oil McCain claims 'the truly clean technologies don't work'	Joseph Romm	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Late last year, after his campaign tanked, no one was paying much attention to McCain. As a result, some of the amazing things that he believes didn't get a lot of attention, such as this Cheney-esque stunner: John McCain: 'When you say wind solar and tide, most every expert that I know says that, if you maximize that in every possible way, the contribution that that would make given the present state of technology is very small, is very small. It's not a l ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

House GOP says drill here, drill now, compromise ... later 'Gang of 10,' part 2.5	Joseph Romm	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Part 1 argued argued that the Democrats would be smart to compromise on offshore drilling. Part 2 began an analysis of the bipartisan compromise proposed by the 'Gang of 10' senators, suggesting that deal isn't so bad. I am interrupting this series to point out that the House GOP is so nervous that the Dems might kill their pathetic political ploy by forcing a vote on a reasonable compromise that they are willing to delay indefinitely any deal that includes drilling, ...
Topics: energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, tax incentives (all these topics)

A Rig Deal Visiting oil rig, McCain calls again for more offshore drilling		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:56 AM on 20 Aug 2008 Sen. John McCain visited an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana Tuesday, reiterating his call for more offshore drilling and bashing Barack Obama for not sharing his enthusiasm. "Sen. Obama opposes new drilling," said McCain, who himself opposed new offshore drilling until this summer. Actually, to the chagrin of enviros, Obama said recently that he'd consider voting for offshore ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Putting lipstick on a rig McCain visits an oil rig, repeats call for more offshore drilling	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Hurricane Dolly blew away John McCain's planned visit to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last month, but the senator made another go at it today. On a Chevron-operated rig 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, McCain reiterated his call for more offshore drilling and bashed his opponent for not being enthusiastic enough about oil exploration. 'Sen. Obama opposes new drilling,' said McCain (who himself opposed new offshore drilling until this summer). 'He has said ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Pelosi to nation: Dems support drilling too! Speaker's radio address aimed at blunting GOP message on energy	Russ Walker	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took up the 'drill more, drill now' refrain Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address, offering up a list of policy proposals intended to show that Democrats do indeed care about high gas and energy prices. Here's the YouTube version (text can be found here): Pelosi bashes the Bush administration for failing to deal with energy issues for the past eight years, and she offers up all the obligatory slams against Big Oil ...
Topics: energy, Nancy Pelosi, oil and gas drilling, politics, radio, video (all these topics)

Something else for nothing The good, the bad, and the ugly of the 'Gang of 10' drilling deal, part 2	Joseph Romm	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Major legislative compromises are unsatisfying by design. They invariably have good, bad, and ugly parts. I have previously argued that the Democrats would be smart to compromise on offshore drilling. The rest of this series will examine whether the so-called Gang-of-10 deal is in fact a smart compromise. That question can be rephrased as, does the good beat out the bad and the ugly (as, of course, Clint did in the epic spaghetti western)? I will focus here on ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, tax incentives (all these topics)

Bachmann drilling overdrive Cuckoo bananas energy policy from House conservatives	Josh Dorner	17 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues. She quickly made a name for herself after being elected to Congress in 2006. In fact, she gained some dubious notoriety even before being elected, announcing to a Brooklyn Park, Minnesota congregation in October 2006 that "God then called [her] to run for the United States Congress." If possibly violating election laws we ...
Topics: energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, tax incentives, video (all these topics)

The Twinkie lobby	David Roberts	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Nathan Pruzaniec I've been pondering writing something about this story in Politico, in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's fine with any energy bill that doesn't "raise taxes," which is Republicanese for revoking some of the billions in tax breaks and subsidies U.S. taxpayers provide oil companies. McConnell is well aware that this completely ties Dem hands, since the leadership in all its wisdom decided Dems need to live by PA ...
Topics: brilliance, Congress, funnies, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Colbert on offshore drilling	David Roberts	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As you can see toward the end there, everything comes down to the fact that nobody -- outside of rarefied energy experts -- believes that alternatives to fossil fuels are here, ready, and reliable. Everything hinges on getting that message out.
Topics: energy, funnies, oil and gas drilling, renewable energy, TV, video (all these topics)

Dog bites man; more beats less On energy, survey results show public favors supply, increasingly favors Republicans	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
New polling from Rasmussen confirms current D.C. scuttlebutt: Republicans are winning on energy. The reason can be boiled down to this: Voters overwhelmingly want prices brought down, they're convinced that increasing supply is the way to do that, and Republicans are the ones most vocally calling for increased supply. There's lots in recent survey results to mull over, but the most important is this, the central truth of energy politics in the U.S.: By substanti ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Shore We Do Nearly two-thirds of Americans support offshore drilling, says poll		14 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:04 PM on 14 Aug 2008 Nearly two-thirds of Americans support offshore drilling, if a new Rasmussen poll can be believed (and considering the phrasing of past polls, that's arguable). The recent survey shows 64 of Americans in support of drilling offshore and 20 percent against it. John McCain was originally opposed to offshore drilling but embraced it in June; Barack Obama opposes it but said recently tha ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, news, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Drill bits The internets weigh in on drilling	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A few bits and pieces from around the internets on the drilling issue. Rick Hertzberg has a piece on his New Yorker blog about arguments against drilling. He points out that most of the opportunistic Dem arguments against drilling used thus far -- it's too far out; it won't save us; it's gimmicky -- aren't particularly effective. He hones in on the one he thinks will work: We take all the risks. We pay all the costs. But we don't get all the benefits, such as ...
Topics: Congress, energy, mainstream media, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

All of the above minus one	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is poison: If everyone agrees that we should do everything, why is it that we're spending so much time talking about drilling, and less time on other measures like conservation and alternatives? [Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign] said because drilling is one area in energy policy where Obama and McCain disagree. "We're not talking about alternatives because we both support alternatives," he said. This is of cours ...
Topics: Congress, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics)

Together, we can empower our worst enemies The two faces of Newt Gingrich	David Roberts	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Here's Newt Gingrich cuddling up with Nancy Pelosi, basking in the reflected glow of her credibility on climate change: Here's Gingrich on C-SPAN, attacking the 'Al-Gore-Hard-Left-Pelosi-Reid' Democrats for failing to vote on Republicans' drilling-only bill:
Topics: environmental movement, Newt Gingrich, oil and gas drilling, politics, video (all these topics)

Republican rules The media will not tell the public the real story on the energy clash in Congress	David Roberts	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I'm not sure what's more astonishing, the current political drama around energy or the utter and complete failure of the media to portray it accurately. Let's recall what's happened over this past session. Congress had some 13 chances to support renewable energy, as bill after bill was put forward by Democrats. Republicans blocked them all. Now Republicans have gotten the idea in their head that drilling for oil in protected areas in the U.S. is a political winner, ...
Topics: Congress, mainstream media, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans, tax incentives (all these topics)

Peak oil? New data point shows that OPEC's production hit highest level ever last month	Jason D Scorse	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I've written about energy issues a few times and been wrong as often as I've been right. One of the reasons predictions about energy prove so difficult is that data on oil production are so poor. But we do have a new data point out today that shows that OPEC's production hit its highest level ever this past month. It's just one piece of information, but it seems as if there was at least some additional capacity in the system.
Topics: oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Wait and Pelosi House Speaker says she's open to compromise on offshore drilling		12 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:45 PM on 12 Aug 2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on "Larry King Live" Monday night that she would consider allowing a vote on offshore drilling, but only if it were part of an energy package that included renewable-energy investment and release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Pelosi has refused to allow a vote on offshore drilling as a stand-alone issue, despite Rep ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

NOAA's Arctic U.S. scouts out territory in Arctic; ice-cover loss could be worst ever		12 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 Aug 2008 U.S. scientists will head to the Arctic this week on a quest to map the ocean floor, and will collaborate with Canada on a surveying trip in September. The two nations -- and their Arctic-bordering compatriots Russia, Denmark, and Norway -- are scrambling to measure their respective continental shelves, with an eye to claiming as much as they can of the estimated 90 billion bar ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news, oil and gas drilling, scientific research, United States (all these topics)

Bluffing Republicans too sissy to shut down federal government over drilling	David Roberts	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Congressional Republicans -- and Newt Gingrich (wtf?) -- continue to threaten to shut down the federal government if Pelosi won't allow them an isolated up-or-down vote on oil drilling. I say: yes! Please, please, pleeease organize Congressional Republicans to stomp their feet and completely shut down the federal government because the majority leader won't give them exactly the vote they want, on the bill they want, when they want it -- a vote for boosting oil compan ...
Topics: Congress, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Polling on drilling	David Roberts	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Over on Washington Monthly, former Gallup VP David Moore offers some interesting thoughts on polls about oil drilling, suggesting the public might not favor it quite so much as the media has led you to believe.
Topics: oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Where there's a drill, there's a way New House bill combines drilling with tax extensions for renewables	Kate Sheppard	09 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A bipartisan group of House members has unveiled a new compromise energy bill, roughly along the lines of the Gang of 10 bill released in the Senate last week. 'The National Conservation, Environment, and Energy Independence Act' would repeal federal prohibitions on offshore oil and gas production and lift the ban on finalizing regulations for oil-shale development. Some of the proceeds from offshore leasing would be spent on environmental programs: 15 percent on ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

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