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POPSOil magnets Imagine corralling an aquatic oil spill with a ring of magnets — and then dragging that magnetic fence to some convenient spot where the fuel can be sopped up
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POPSPelosi Wants to Save the Planet? Democrats want no oil from the American OCS or ANWR. But of course they do want more oil. From OPEC. From where Americans don't vote. From places Democratic legislators can't see. On May 13 Sen. Chuck Schumer -- deeply committed to saving just those pieces of the planet that might have huge reserves of American oil -- demanded that the Saudis increase production by a million barrels a day. It doesn't occur to him that by eschewing the slightest disturbance of the mating habits of the Arctic caribou, he is calling for the further exploitation of the pristine deserts of Arabia. In the name of the planet, mind you. The desire to swing a cluebat at these twits is strong....
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POPSStorms destroy 113 offshore oil rigs; slicks visible from space Hurricanes Katrina and Rita completely destroyed 113 oil rigs; Leading Repubs insist spills are not "significant." I wonder how many dozens of square miles of space-visible waterfowl-drowning oil muck it takes for an oil spill to become "significant" to Republican leaders.
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POPSWill Reid Bring A Vote To Open New Areas For Exploration
“Some people are just scared of the accusation that not leasing more acres has an impact on oil prices,” said Rep. Peter DeFazio, a senior Democrat from Oregon. “It just doesn’t.” Democratic lawmakers say the Reid-Bingaman proposal seems to be gaining momentum, though these same sources questioned whether Pelosi would schedule it for a vote in the House. But Pelosi has balked at scheduling any drilling legislation for a regular floor vote because that would give Republicans an opportunity to force vulnerable Democratic incumbents to vote on difficult amendments. Votes against expanded drilling would open Democrats to accusations that they had blocked efforts to lower record gas prices. Votes for Republican amendments to encourage more drilling, however, would anger environmental activists. Republicans are demanding votes on several amendments and have pledged to block Democrats from moving to other issues until drilling receives floor votes.
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POPSNothing says ‘drill safely’ like the smell of diesel in the French Quarter "Nobody was injured, but more than 419,000 gallons of heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, forming a slick 12 miles long, said Lt. Cdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau, a Coast Guard spokeswoman." The collision occurred about 1:30 a.m. CDT just upriver from the Crescent City Connection, a pair of bridges between New Orleans’ east and west banks. ~and I repeat~ "Nothing says “drill safely now” like an oil spill that closes 29 miles of the Mississippi River near New Orleans."
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POPSNow who's in denial? And now with a straight face liberals say we'll have to starve the people in order to save the planet. Now who's in denial?
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POPSCourt overturns Exxon $2.5bn fine It's important to have your men on the Supreme Court. It's at times like these that having 'friends' in high places pays off in spades. A $2.bn savings. Sure a nod is as good as a wink to a blind man, as we say over here. What's a lit bit of old fashioned I'll scratch yours if you'll scratch mine type corruption between friends. Sure aren't they dealing with corruption everyday. What's $2.bn. Change to these crooks really. And anyway, who lost out. Just a few victimless crimes and desperate fishermen. They're used to it by now. Roll on until the next spillage.
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POPSSummary of Thursday's Supreme Court actionsSummary of Thursday's Supreme Court actions Do you think that if I commit a massive crime, like say, I spill several tons of oil into my surrounding environment while in a drunken stupor, that the courts would give me two decades to work on my defense? Would they wait 2 decades while I fought it. It's the Exxon Valdez issue at the bottom of the clip that really gets me. How could it have gone on this long, unless Exxon paid for preferential treatment. If this isn't a sign of oil/government alignment, then nothing is. Exxon will never pay even a fraction of what the judgment against them deigned.
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POPSOil and Democrats Who is responsible for the high price of oil? And who supports even further price increases in oil? Obama and the democrats.
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POPSSitting On An Ocean Of Energy, Doing Nothing California won't drill for the estimated 1.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil off its coast because of bad memories of the Santa Barbara oil spill - in 1969. We won't drill for the estimated 5.6 billion to 16 billion barrels of oil in the moonscape known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) because of - the caribou. Our waters may hold 60 trillion untapped cubic feet of natural gas. As in Brazil, these are surely conservative estimates. While Brazilians proudly embrace Petrobras, yelling "We're Going to Be No. 1," the U.S.'s Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, promises to impose an "excess profits tax" on American oil producers. You'd think the "national security" nominee, John McCain, would get this. He's clueless - a don't-drill zombie. The Democrats' climate-change bill collapsed last week under the weight of brutal cost realities. Why we are sitting on an ocean of energy but won't drill for it?
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POPSOil spill threatens Buenos Aires Another reason why oil is destroying the environment. They make no mention of the impact on Ocean life. Just as long as it doesn't "dirty" the sandy beaches, where I am guessing tourists and or the wealthy go for recreation.
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POPSWhat is the worst environmental disaster in history? Despite the relatively small amount of oil released, several factors contributed to the spill's severity: timing, location, abundance of wildlife and substandard cleanup efforts. In comparison, one of the largest oil spills in history, the rupture of an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that released 140 million gallons (3.3 million barrels) of oil, caused relatively little damage because it happened in the open sea where currents and winds contained it until it disintegrated.
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POPSThe U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing? An important article about an under-discussed topic. The investment required to keep the grid from falling apart is billions (hard to find at the best of times, harder in the "credit crunch"). Will the result be re-nationalisation and e-rationing?
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POPSObama's Oil Spill Obama$$$money from oil companies? Two oil industry executives are bundling money for Obama – drumming up contributions from individuals and turning them over to the campaign. George Kaiser, the chairman of Oklahoma-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co., ranks 68th on the Forbes list of world billionaires. He's listed on Obama's Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the candidate. Robert Cavnar is president and CEO of Milagro Exploration LLC, an oil exploration and production company. He's named as a bundler in the same category as Kaiser. We're not making any judgments about whether Obama is influenced by campaign contributions. In fact, we'd note that he singles out ExxonMobil in this ad, even though he's received more than $30,850 from individuals who work for the company. But we do think that in theory, contributions that come in volume from oil industry executives, or are bundled by them, can be every bit as influential as PAC contributions, if not more so.
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POPSArctic Oil Bonanza Worries Alaska Native
Native groups and environmentalists most fear a serious oil spill in the Chukchi. The MMS itself estimated in the environmental impact statement authorizing the lease sale there was a 40 percent chance of a spill of at least 1,000 barrels or more over the life of any single oil development project in the Chukchi. “If oil spills under ice in the middle of January there is absolutely nothing they can do about it,” said Rick Steiner, an oil spill expert at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. “There’s a large stretch of time when they would be producing oil and have no way of cleaning up a spill.” A legal challenge to the validity of the MMS’s environmental impact statement is under way, and a similar suit temporarily halted Shell’s plans to drill in the Beaufort Sea last summer. Drilling opponents are pessimistic about their chances of putting a stop to the rush into the Arctic. “Maybe there can be something worked out, but at this time it really doesn’t look that way,” sa
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