oil addiction
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More drilling won’t help
We have a problem we can’t drill our way out of.Photo: arbyreedCross-posted from the Center for American Progress. Unrest in Libya and Egypt is driving up oil prices, stirring concerns that gasoline could hit $5 a gallon by summer. Like a smoker’s persistent cough, it’s another warning to change our ways. America sends nearly $1 billion […]
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It’s like Gadhafi is telling us to get off oil or something
Self-congratulatory poster of Gadhafi in Green Square in Tripoli, LibyaPhoto: QuigiboMoammar Gadhafi is a crazy dictator who is murdering his populace and needs to get a cruise missile shat down his neck, but what we all really want to know is: how are the actions of this homicidal crazypants going to affect our summer vacation? […]
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Why you don’t want gas to get cheaper
Image: Grist Americans would like to pay less at the pump. But what would that take? How about another economic crash — or perhaps you’d prefer an ecological one. However the next century shakes out, one thing’s for sure: the ever-growing gap between world oil supplies and demand is making itself felt, and the longer […]
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What Obama should know about ending oil subsidies
This post originally appeared on the Great Energy Challenge blog, in partnership with National Geographic and Planet Forward. Despite my seriously mixed feelings about the State of the Union speeches, I tuned in to this year’s speech for the first time in several years. Like many, I was disappointed if not surprised that President Obama […]
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Live chat with Sierra Club’s Michael Brune
We were all horrified as we watched the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill unfold. So now what? Champion chatter (and Grist staff writer) David Roberts hosted a pre-Thanksgiving chat with Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. Thanks to all who joined us as Michael and David discussed how we, as motivated citizens, can pressure corporations and the government to change their energy priorities.
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Oil spill investigator says no corners were cut to save money
BP's critics are incredulous at the conclusion that people on the doomed oil rig weren't motivated by cost-cutting to take risks.
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China antes up, bets, and bluffs in the new world oil game
Future historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on Dec. 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan to Xinjiang Province in China's far west.
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Can we calculate the true cost of our dependence on oil?
A BP shareholder comes clean on big oil, the true costs of an increasingly dangerous dependency, and why BP may bounce back from this disaster virtually unscathed.
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A conversation with pro-drilling environmentalist Amanda Little [AUDIO]
Amanda LittleAlison Stewart of PBS’s Need to Know speaks with Amanda Little, a Grist contributor and self-proclaimed “pro-drilling environmentalist.” Little describes her personal experience on an offshore oil rig, her argument for continuing offshore drilling, and her optimistic belief that American ingenuity can solve our energy problems. Little is the author of Power Trip: From […]
