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Why Are They Running Out Of Gas In Georgia?

I’m not kidding. I heard via my cousin and aunt who live down there that they’re having trouble getting gas - and when they do get it it’s up to something like $4.10 a gallon.
I haven’t seen anything about it in the national news, however.

Justice Department: A Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Big Oil

DRILL, Baby, DRILL.
Senior Justice Department officials blocked the U.S. attorney in Colorado from supporting a whistleblower’s suit last year, jeopardizing the government’s prospects for recovering as much as $40 million from a major oil company for its alleged underpayment of royalties.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said Washington overruled his request to enter the case against the [...]

Drill Baby Drill?

Yes, we need to multiply the existing rot times 10,000. More of the same.

Interior Department Ethics Scandal Is The Sort Of Thing John McCain Wants To Continue

This must have been what the GOP conventioneers meant when they said drill, baby, drill.
As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy [...]

Colorado Senate Candidate Bob Schaffer Cries For The Poor Oil Companies

He’s oh so upset at the government apparently somehow making money off of the oil industry’s record profits. Or something.

Oil Prices Rise Due To Threat Of Tropical Storm Fay

Yes, it is sure a good idea to leave our energy future up to a bunch of oil rigs in the ocean.

Planet Fakey Strikes Again

The twittering astroturfers on the right call for a march on Washington to demonstrate their support for oil companies. If only they cared as much about our country as they do the big industries they shill for. And why can’t the modern conservative movement do any better than astroturf? The evangelical right may have been [...]

Exxon John: Tax Breaks For Big Oil… Not For Wind Power

Well, the thing is the oil industry has made a multimillion dollar investment in John McCain and now they’re looking for a return on that.

Apollo Is Calling

From a new Rasmussen poll:
With energy issues taking center stage in the presidential campaign, 81% of Americans see development of new energy sources as an urgent priority. Only 9% disagree.
For nearly two-thirds (65%), finding new sources of energy is more important that reducing the amount of energy Americans now consume. Twenty-eight percent (28%) think reducing [...]

Gas Industry Fears Obama

They won’t run his ads taking McCain to task about energy. I guess since they’ve already bought and paid for “the Maverick”…

Exxon-McCain 2008

That’s an oil change we can’t believe in.

Oil Company Office Manager Gives Suspicious $61,000+ Donation To McCain

My friends, that’s not change we can believe in.
Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain’s decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.
At a June fundraiser, the Rocchios joined top executives [...]

Obama On John McCain’s Quarter Century Of Old Energy Policy

Yes, we can.

McCain’s Oil Gusher

One candidate is getting backing from the oil industry in such a disproportionate way. So the American people should ask themselves: Do you really think that candidate is going to do a thing about high oil prices or the addiction of the nation to oil? Those oil barons aren’t giving McCain money because they like [...]

Drill Now?!

Really?
Members of the Coast Guard attempt to contain a fuel oil spill in the Mississippi River at the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana July 24, 2008. A chemical tanker split a fuel barge in half on the Mississippi River on Wednesday, spilling thousands of gallons of fuel oil and forcing the closure of a 58-mile [...]

A Simple Decimal Malfunction

CNN’s Glenn Beck shows us some conservative math.
Glenn Beck falsely claimed that “drilling in ANWR alone would yield 100 million barrels a day.” In fact, according to Energy Department researchers, if the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is opened for drilling for oil in 2008, the estimated peak production would yield, at most, 1.45 million barrels [...]

Neat Trick

President Bush (is he still there?) accused Democrats in congress today of being the cause of our current high gas prices. Of course, congress has been Democratic for just over a year, and much of the problems with the cost of oil comes from that unnecessary war Mr. Bush started in the middle east. It [...]

McCain’s Two Faces On Drilling And Gas Prices

No actual core to the man, John McCain’s flip flopping is going from stupid to ludicrous.

John McCain Flip Flops On Windfall Profits For Oil Companies

Yesterday McCain and the GOP made a lot of noise about their opposition to a windfall profits tax for the oil industry. But a few months ago, in view of those cameras he loves so much, John McCain had a different position:

JOHN MCCAIN: I don’t like obscene profits being made anywhere–and I’d be glad [...]

McCain Tax Cut: $3.8 Billion Gift To Big Oil

Now that is change you can’t believe in.
Here is rare footage of one of Sen. McCain’s biggest backers at work:

The Future?






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