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Matt Yglesias is making sense	David Roberts	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Republican gas price demagoguery: [Anti-density zoning and minimum parking mandates] are regulatory barriers to solving our energy problems every bit as much as the ban on offshore drilling is. And conservatives are against regulation, right? Except the anti-drilling regulation is good for the environment and for coastal economies whereas anti-urbanist regulation is economically inefficient and environmentally destructive. Naturally, conservatives have chosen ...
Topics: energy, oil and gas drilling, politics, regulation, urban planning (all these topics)

This Too Shale Pass Bush admin proposes rules for domestic oil-shale development		22 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:35 AM on 22 Jul 2008 The Bush administration today will propose rules for tapping the U.S.'s vast oil-shale deposits, estimated to hold up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Oil shale development is enormously expensive and spectacularly polluting, but the U.S. Department of the Interior is expected to frame the debate in terms of high fuel prices and domestic "energy security." Presid ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Newt's got a song Will Washington buy his brand of snake oil?	Miles Grant	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
One of the all-time great episodes of The Simpsons is 'Marge vs. the Monorail,' written by Conan O'Brien. The EPA fines Mr. Burns for dumping nuclear waste, leading to an unexpected cash windfall for Springfield. Marge suggests spending the money to repair the town's tattered infrastructure. But just as her proposal is about to pass, a fast-talking charlatan named Lyle Lanley arrives and sells the ever-gullible people of Springfield on a plan to build a monorail, cli ...
Topics: energy, Newt Gingrich, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Speaker for yourself Grist talks to Speaker Nancy Pelosi about climate and energy politics on the Hill	Kate Sheppard	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), any action on climate change hinges on Barack Obama winning the White House this fall. Only the bully-pulpit of the presidency can hope to overcome the deep pockets of the 'agents of the status quo,' Pelosi said Saturday in a conversation with Grist. Pelosi came to the Netroots gathering for an 'Ask the Speaker' session, where attendees got a chance to pick her brain about what's going on in Congress. It was during this eve ...
Topics: climate, Congress, Muckraker, Nancy Pelosi, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, video (all these topics)

Gore at Netroots Nation? UPDATE: Gore at Netroots Nation!	David Roberts	19 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The hot rumor at the moment is that Al Gore is going to appear at Netroots Nation immediately following Nancy Pelosi's Q&A session (which is going on right now). We'll keep you posted. UPDATE: There he is! Let's blog along, shall we? He loves the netroots -- informed citizenry, etc. etc. North pole melting -- 75-80 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap will be melted and gone within five years. How can we absorb the meaning of an event of that ma ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Seeking New Shores House Dems fail attempt to make Big Oil drill on the land it's got		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:15 AM on 18 Jul 2008 A bill that would have required oil companies to drill on leased land they already hold before seeking new conquests failed in the House of Representatives Thursday. The legislation's "use it or lose it" provision would have required that oil companies exhaust oil exploration on already-leased land before acquiring new acreage. The legislation also would have required ...
Topics: energy, legislation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

The center can't hold A collection of Venerable Old White Guys weighs in on the energy challenge	David Roberts	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
High Broderism has finally and fully descended on the energy debate. The AP reports that a 'bipartisan group of 26 elder statesmen' (that sound you hear is a wave of spontaneous erections from the Beltway press corps ... schwing!) has sent a letter to both presidential candidates, along with members of Congress and the press, warning of the coming energy crisis. And what is the most important thing for everyone to do in the face of this crisis? The top priority? The ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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, offshore drilling, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Drill Bill, Vol. 1 2.6 million acres opened to drilling in Alaska, Dems introduce Drill Act to spur production		17 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:02 AM on 17 Jul 2008 The U.S. Interior Department announced it's opening up some 2.6 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) to exploratory drilling. A decision on drilling in the sensitive Teshekpuk Lake area of the reserve has been deferred for 10 years, delighting many environmentalists who have advocated for its permanent protection. Bidding on ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, gas prices, legislation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (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)

Show Us That You CAAE New business coalition wants cheaper energy, stat		15 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:40 PM on 15 Jul 2008 A group of businesses has kicked off a new campaign with the goal of making energy cheaper by whatever means possible. The new Coalition for Affordable American Energy -- not to be confused with, ahem, the existing Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy or Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy -- is backed by various business associations, including the Business Roundtable, National As ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, renewable energy (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, offshore drilling, 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)

Tanks, but no tanks Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling signed by his father	Kate Sheppard	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
President George Bush will announce this afternoon that he is lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling that has been in place since his father, George H.W. Bush, signed an executive order as president in 1990. The move is mostly symbolic, however. Unless Congress repeals its long-standing ban on offshore drilling, nothing will change. The executive order Bush intends to repeal bans oil companies from exploratory drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. L ...
Topics: George Bush, Muckraker, news, 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, offshore drilling, 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, offshore drilling, 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)

Slowly But Offshorely, the Drills are Gonna Turn Top Dems in Congress open to possible compromise deal on offshore drilling		09 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:43 AM on 09 Jul 2008 Some key Democrats in Congress have said they're willing to work out a compromise deal to open some offshore areas in U.S. waters to oil and gas drilling. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he's "open to drilling and responsible production." He also said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might also sup ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (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)

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)

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)

Speculating about speculators Cornucopian thinking about oil	Jon Rynn	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
There seems to be a disturbing tendency in the progressive community to blame speculators for most, if not all, of the increase in oil prices. In its most extreme form, the implication seems to be that the supply of oil is virtually limitless, and that only financial manipulation is to blame. Ironically, this mirrors the views of many mainstream economists, who have what is sometimes called a cornucopian view of the world. Julian Simon was the ultimate spokesperson for t ...
Topics: economy, energy, fossil fuels, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Great minds: Saudis prove EIA's point Offshore drilling has an 'insignificant' effect on oil prices	Joseph Romm	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I am glad that so many in the energy debate have picked up on one of the two messages from my previous post (see 'EIA to McCain: Drop offshore [drilling]'). But in listening to the radio and TV debates, I realize that some people have the impression that U.S. Energy Information Administration said offshore drilling might eventually lower oil prices. It did not. It found that allowing offshore drilling would have no significant effect on prices as far out into the fu ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

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