Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Chip in the news
Still more laudatory press coverage for our Maximum Leader, this time in the form of a story from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), in which Chip participated lo many years ago.It's a great story, but if I can raise the question on everyone's mind: Why must every story about Chip feature him standing on his head? What's up with that?
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Canadian tar sands
Everything you ever wanted to know about the burgeoning efforts to suck oil out of the Canadian tar sands in an enormous, magisterial story by Marianne Lavelle in U.S. News & World Report.
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Gas prices
Since everybody else on the planet is commenting on the issue, I suppose I should as well:
No, high gas prices are not the result of oil-company price gouging or nefariousness. It's the market balancing supply and demand (i.e., you, dear consumer).
Yes, politicians -- mostly Democrats -- attempting to substitute oil-company bashing and demagoguery in the place of real energy proposals deserve only snorts of derision.
No, it would not be a good thing for gas to be cheaper. It's been artificially cheap in the U.S. for a long time, but it's inevitably going to rise. Get used to it.
That is all.
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Green roof of doom
Wal-Mart is building a store inside Chicago city limits with a 67,000 square foot green roof. Unfortunately, Wal-Mart's plants do not absorb rainwater or prevent runoff. They only emit eeeevil. You've been warned.
(via TH)
