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Doesn't anyone know how to play this game? Unilateral drilling deal is bad politics	Gar Lipow	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Joe Romm seems to think Obama's public support for drilling is smart politics, getting something for nothing. Romm is one of the smartest policy guys out there, but I think he has missed a key point on the politics here. Supporting drilling is a way of reaching out to low-information voters. But low-information voters don't make up their minds based on policy details; they make up their minds based on symbolism and perception of candidate gestalt. For Obama to say 'Dril ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

When all you have is a Krauthammer, everything looks like a nail Drilling more in the U.S. won't avert any environmental damage from drilling overseas	David Roberts	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I was planning on ignoring this column from Charles Krauthammer -- always a good idea -- but two or three people have asked me about it now, so I guess it's worth saying something. Krauthammer's thesis is that when we put areas in the U.S. off limits to oil drilling, we push drilling into countries that have less sophisticated technology and fewer regulatory restrictions, thereby doing more environmental damage in the aggregate. In other words, by protecting the ...
Topics: energy, Nigeria, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

McMeltdown Keith Olbermann on McCain's campaign	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Brutal: See also Rachel Maddow's comments at about 3:25 in here:
Topics: advertising, gas prices, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Dumb as a Layer of Rocks NYC officials fear natural-gas drilling would taint water supplies		06 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:05 PM on 06 Aug 2008 New York City officials want to ban natural-gas drilling within a mile of six major upstate reservoirs for fear that the city's drinking water could become contaminated. Extracting gas from the Marcellus Shale rock layer, as some state regulators and lawmakers are pushing to do, would require shooting millions of gallons of water and unidentified chemicals underground to ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, New York, New York City, news, oil and gas drilling, water pollution (all these topics)

Matt Yglesias on the GOP drilling push Is drilling debate a repeat of the immigration debate?	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Last week, Matt Yglesias finished his stint blogging for The Atlantic. Next week he starts blogging for the Center for American Progress. In between he's taking a week off -- the first time, according to Matt, that he's gone more than 24 hours without blogging in over four years. We don't want Matt's head exploding from holding its opinions in, so in the interest of relieving the pressure, here's something he sent along about the drilling kerfuffle: So here's a thou ...
Topics: energy, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Drumming up outrage Are Obama's energy panders as bad as McCain's?	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I think Kevin Drum is being too hard on Obama here. Obama and the entire Democratic Party are getting killed on energy right now. The pressure to do something is extraordinary. Obama is looking for concessions that can take some of the heat off without giving away the game, and in terms of concessions, opening the SPR and taxing windfall profits are two of the least offensive. You can dispute the political calculation -- maybe he should have doubled down and bet big ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Congress, energy, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Something for nothing Since offshore oil is de minimis, why shouldn't Obama and the Dems make a deal? Part 1	Joseph Romm	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Getting something for nothing is always a good idea. Kudos to Senator Obama and other progressives for understanding this. The key questions are: How much of a 'nothing' is ending the congressional moratorium on offshore drilling? How much of a 'something' can progressives get by way of a serious effort to end our oil addiction once and for all? Right now, it seems like conservatives are willing to hold their breath until they turn blue in the face before the ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, offshore drilling, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

At last he's ready to vote McCain says he'd end his vacation from Congress to 'drill here, drill now'	Brad Johnson	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Wonk Room. In eastern Pennsylvania yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeatedly argued, 'We need to drill here and we need to drill now.' His invocation of the slogan of Newt Gingrich's right-wing 527 corporation, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), was coupled with the following call for Congress to 'come back to town and come back to work': Congress should come back into session, and I'm willing to come off the campaign tr ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, tax incentives (all these topics)

Our modern-day Eris House Republicans' magical thinking on oil prices	David Roberts	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Wow. House Republicans are now saying that their hissy fit cum frat party on the floor is lowering the price of oil. Not for the first time, I have to wonder: do they believe this? Do they really indulge in this kind of magical thinking? The oil price issue is an interesting political case. It's immensely influential in our daily economic life, but we have virtually no idea why it behaves the way it does. Oil is like the gods were for Greeks -- omnipresent, looming, ...
Topics: Congress, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 1 The shape of the oil crisis	Michael Hoexter	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is the first in a series on how we can build an energy future based on our best science and no longer critically dependent upon exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. Lines formed at gas stations during the 1973 OPEC oil embargo. Too often, discussions of our future energy system simply reflect the current array of political forces in Washington or the novelty-hungry attention of the media and not the long-term viability of technologies and proposed sol ...
Topics: business, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, public transportation, renewable energy (all these topics)

Drill he or won't he? Enviros unhappy with Obama's offshore-drilling shift, but pleased with his energy plan	Kate Sheppard	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Many in the environmental community are annoyed by Barack Obama's change of position on offshore drilling, even while they applaud his comprehensive energy plan. The Democratic candidate had staunchly opposed new drilling on the outer continental shelf, but then shifted his position on Friday to say he would be open to some drilling if it were necessary to reach compromise on a broader energy plan -- like the one introduced by a bipartisan 'Gang of 10' late la ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Follow your money The breakdown of Big Oil's record-breaking profits	Joseph Romm	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Record Big Oil profits from record oil prices and taxpayer subsidies -- where does all your money go? With ExxonMobil's report of a $11.68 billion haul in the second quarter of 2008, the world's top five oil companies are now on track for more than $160 billion in profits this year ... I know what you are thinking: Surely, Big Oil will take those staggeringly immense and almost immoral profits from the suspiciously fast rise in oil prices -- along with the ...
Topics: Big Oil, economy, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Going rates How much does it take to buy a protest on the floor of the House?	David Roberts	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Here's another interesting chart (via Josh Nelson via Open Secrets) showing the amount of oil and gas contributions to the House Republicans now engaging in pep rally theatrics on the floor of the House: Republican House Member 2006 2008 Rep. Lynn Westmoreland $0 $0 Rep. John Boehner $65,000 $0 Rep. Adam Putnam $0 $20,000 Rep. Roy Blunt $87,300 $98,900 Rep. Louie Gohmert $76,700 $29,850 Rep. Tom Price $0 $ ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil and gas drilling, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Now they're ready The history of House Republicans on energy in the 110th Congress	David Roberts	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As you contemplate the House Republican spectacle today, wherein they protest the "Democrat five-week vacation" in the face of high gas prices, keep a few things in mind. The 109th Congress -- the first session of Bush's second term -- worked the least, and accomplished the least, of any Congress since the original do-nothing Congress of 1948. The Republicans totally botched it when they ran the place. Meanwhile, the 110th has worked its tail off, in the fa ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

A pox on the House Republicans continue shenanigans in the Capitol	Kate Sheppard	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As Grist reported, Republicans miffed about Congress going on August recess without a vote on offshore drilling started a sit-in in the Capitol on Friday. The shenanigans continued until police escorted the tourists out of the chamber at 4:30 p.m., and GOP lawmakers went home for the night. 'Today is the 2008 version of the Boston Tea Party,' said Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.). Missouri's Roy Blunt says: I'm not going home until you Show Me the drilling. Pho ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans, video (all these topics)

A handshake at a knife fight Should Obama consider compromise on drilling?	David Roberts	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Obama is taking lots of heat for his softening on offshore drilling. I have mixed feelings. On one hand, it's extremely important to get the renewable tax credits passed, and Republicans have made it very clear they won't allow that to happen unless they get some drilling. As usual, Dems don't have the votes to overcome united Republican opposition, so the choice is to let the credits go down in flames -- and get tagged as ineffectual on the most hot-potato political ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, tax incentives (all these topics)

Obama's new 'New Energy' plan More drilling in exchange for comprehensive energy legislation	Kate Sheppard	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Democrat Barack Obama on Friday said he would be willing to support some offshore drilling if it were necessary to enact a comprehensive energy plan, and indicated that he could support the bipartisan energy plan put forward by the Senate's 'Gang of 10' that includes both drilling and a major investment in renewables. The shift on drilling drew a lot of heat over the weekend, as pundits accused the candidate of flip-flopping on the issue, though Obama says he st ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, gas prices, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Not so fast Coastal governors stand in the way of offshore drilling, even if Congress approves it	Kate Sheppard	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
President Bush keeps repeating his call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. Republican presidential candidate John McCain is consistently drilling home the same message. And on Wednesday of last week, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that just in case the ban is lifted, his department is laying the groundwork so offshore drilling in new areas could begin in as few as three years. What drilling proponents don't say is that even if the ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, offshore drilling, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Thrills, Drills, and Bills Obama softens opposition to offshore drilling, and more political news		03 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:33 PM on 03 Aug 2008 Barack Obama opened the door to offshore drilling on Friday, saying, "My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Waived by the bell Congress goes on recess without passing energy legislation	Kate Sheppard	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Congress broke for August recess today without making any notable progress on energy issues -- as expected. Despite multiple attempts in both the House and Senate to pass legislation that would curb oil-market speculation, release some oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and extend tax credits for renewable energy, members of Congress will go home to their districts this weekend with nothing to tout. House Republicans decided to protest the lack of movemen ...
Topics: Congress, energy, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

'Can this planet be saved?' Conservatives will drill-and-burn this planet to the point of destruction	Joseph Romm	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Great Paul Krugman column in The New York Times today. And another absurd Charles Krauthammer column in The Washington Post -- yes, I know, that's a dog bites man story. They both teed off Nancy Pelosi's statement that one of the reasons she was blocking a vote on coastal drilling was, 'I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet.' Krugman understood that, notwithstanding the fact that offshore drilling would never have a significant impact on oil ...
Topics: climate, Congress, John McCain, mainstream media, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Oil Vey Oil companies' continued record profits tick off Democrats, consumers		31 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:39 PM on 31 Jul 2008 Major oil companies reported ginormous second-quarter profits this week, irking consumers and fueling harsh rhetoric from congressional Democrats. ExxonMobil reported a record-breaking profit of $11.68 billion -- the highest of any U.S. company ever -- besting its own previous record set in the first quarter of this year. Royal Dutch Shell raked in $11.56 billion, BP hit $9.5 billion, ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Offshore thing McCain compares Obama to Britney and Paris in new energy ad	Kate Sheppard	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In the ongoing energy ad battle, John McCain released another television ad today on the subject. Or at least it purports to be about energy. The ad juxtaposes video of Obama at his recent speech in Berlin with photos of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and alleges that while he might be celebrated the world over, he's not ready to lead on energy concerns. 'He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead?' the ad asks. 'With gas prices soaring, Ba ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Chomping at the drill bit The offshore drilling hoax, part 2	Joseph Romm	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In part 1 we saw that lifting the moratorium on coastal drilling can't possibly reduce gasoline prices. After all, two years ago, we opened most of the Gulf of Mexico -- with its estimated 41 billion barrels of oil -- and oil prices then doubled. The remaining prohibited coastal areas have only 18 billion barrels, of which 10 billion is off of California and likely to be blocked by the state. Another four of the 18 billion is in the Eastern Gulf off of Florida, which ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Deadlock, stock, and oil barrel Congress hopes to break energy deadlock before August recess -- but don't hold your breath	Kate Sheppard	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Members of Congress are desperate to pass anything something on energy this week before August recess begins on Friday and they head home to face voters restive over gas prices. But Democrats and Republicans are so bitterly divided over what to do that prospects for progress look uncertain at best. Democrats in both branches of Congress are hoping to pass bills to curb speculation in the oil-futures market and release some oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reser ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

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