Category: Oil
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James Howard Kunstler: A Future Without Cars
That’s the background on our energy predicament. Against this background is the whole question of how we live in the United States. I wrote three books previously about the fiasco of suburbia. There are many ways of describing it, but lately I refer to it as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of […]
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Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)
Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our […]
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Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast
Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast Dr. Eric from drericsblog.com and I work out the world’s problems.
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Conserve Maybe?
Talked with Karen this morning which managed to include the malaprop ‘self-defecating’ and the plural of the word ‘scotum’ (which would be ‘scrota’). She said she’s feeling the gas prices and trying to car pool in to work in San Diego. She noticed the same thing I am. NOBODY IS SUGGESTING WE USE LESS GAS. […]
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Why We Fight
Whoo I’m drunk! Kevin and I met up for a good ol’ lefty meeting. We went to see Why We Fight. Why We Fight starts with Eisenhower’s presidential exit speech where he warns of the enroachment of the military-industrial complex and the documentary explores how Americans are inevitably drawn to war as a solution to […]
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Budget Would Give Oil Industry $7 Billion of Oil From Federal Lands – With No Royalties
Via DailyKos: The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years. New projections, buried in the Interior Department’s just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and […]