oil
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Oil geopolitics of the Georgia pipeline
I’d like to be a fly on the wall for the upcoming talks between Condoleezza Rice and the Russian leadership. From The New York Times, May 6, 2006: A day after chastising Moscow for its use of oil and natural gas as "tools for intimidation or blackmail," Vice President Dick Cheney visited Kazakhstan on Friday […]
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New data point shows that OPEC’s production hit highest level ever last month
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 […]
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Polling on drilling
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.
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The New York Times’ absurd energy editorial
The lead editorial in today’s NYT, “Energy Fictions,” is a misguided and misinformed smear of Obama’s outstanding energy proposals. It harshly criticizes a few tiny pieces of Obama’s energy plan that deal with short-term oil strategies, in particular, his willingness to compromise on offshore drilling, and then ends: Here is the underlying reality: A nation […]
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Obama favored by Exxon employees, but McCain has gotten more oil money overall
Barack Obama put out an ad earlier this week accusing rival John McCain of being “in the pocket of Big Oil,” and the Democratic National Committee launched Exxon-McCain 2008, a website to promote the idea that the Republican candidate is in bed with the oil industry. But as Grist noted previously, Obama himself has received […]
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Gingrich says Republicans will shut down gov’t if they can’t get a vote on drilling
One might recall that Newt Gingrich resigned his seat in Congress in 1998. But he was back on the Hill yesterday to join the House GOP sit-in, and now he’s threatening that the Republicans will shut down government if they don’t get a separate vote on offshore drilling. Perhaps he hasn’t gotten the message yet […]
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Obama campaign’s attempts to get gas ads at the pump foiled
Barack Obama’s campaign wanted to bring the energy ad wars directly to the pump, but their attempts have been foiled. The campaign wanted to run an ad on the mini TV screens that appear on some gas pumps, pointing out that John McCain voted against higher fuel-economy standards and renewable energy, and that Obama is […]
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Drilling more in the U.S. won’t avert any environmental damage from drilling overseas
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 […]
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The ‘psychological effects’ of threatening war with Iran
Steve Clemons makes a point worth repeating — if you’re worried about "psychological effects" on oil speculators, perhaps a better strategy than hyping offshore drilling is dialing back the warmongering rhetoric toward Iran.