oil
-
Media drops the ball on drilling
The Center for Economic and Policy Research has a new analysis out looking at the way the media is presenting the drilling issue. Suffice to say, educating its audience about the facts has taken a back seat: This paper examines television news coverage of proposed drilling for oil in environmentally sensitive zones in the United […]
-
Most revealing Palin energy whopper: Iran could cut off a fifth of the world’s energy supplies
Palin’s full speech contained yet another energy lie, one that is very revealing: To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of the world’s energy supplies … Not even close. Yes, if you live in a world where the only energy source is oil, then the Persian Gulf countries […]
-
Lowballing the future of oil costs money
At a glance, this San Francisco Chronicle article is a bit difficult to parse, but it points to exactly the reason why I’ve been ranting about lousy oil price forecasts churned out by federal U.S. agencies (see here, here, and here). To wit: The Environmental Protection Agency says another arm of the Bush administration may […]
-
Congressional Dems get smart on pushing ‘all of the above’ energy vote
Looks like the Congressional Democrats are shrewd enough to take on the GOP big lie that Republicans in Congress actually believe in an “all of the above” energy policy. Greenwire reports today that “Democrats plot strategy for putting GOP on its heels” ($ub. req’d): Democrats plan to return to Washington and the campaign trail next […]
-
‘War on the Poor’ astroturf campaign pushes for increased fossil-fuel production
Van Jones often warns clean energy proponents that anyone they don’t organize into their coalition will be organized against them. Increasing energy prices disproportionately impact the poor, which leaves low-income people and minorities open to demagogic appeals from groups focused on increasing fossil-fuel production. We saw some evidence of that dynamic today at a press […]
-
Grist talks to Freedom From Oil author David Sandalow
I caught up with David Sandalow yesterday, an expert on energy policy and climate change at the Brookings Institution. He was the assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs from 1999 to 2001, and he served as a senior director on the National Security Council staff. He’s author of the […]
-
Short-term dip in oil prices will not offset long-term increases
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 […]
-
Take note, everyone: Oil is not energy
Should business-section newspaper articles about tobacco companies ritually include statements such as, “The company’s profits and future existence, of course, wholly depend on its ability to externalize the health effects of its products”? Probably not. The newspaper article is a genre narrowly focused on one item — perhaps that’s why newspaper articles are sometimes called […]
-
McCain claims ‘the truly clean technologies don’t work’
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 […]