Condescending Wonka

Chart: Why the GOP's Gas Price Attack on Obama Is BS

Chart: Why the GOP's Gas Price Attack on Obama Is BS: "Driving back from the mountains this past weekend, I commented to my wife how unusual it seemed that we weren't hearing too much public bitching about $4-a-gallon gasoline, because that's what it costs right now in California. But I spoke too soon. When we returned home, there was the Sunday New York Times with an A1 story on exactly that, describing how the GOP leadership planned to attack Obama on the issue, blaming him for high gasoline prices.

This is the sort of well-worn populist trick that gets people riled up even when there's no substance to it. I created the chart above using an Energy Information Administration data set on weekly retail gasoline prices (excluding taxes) in selected countries. I used premium unleaded because the numbers were more complete...."

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What Wall Street doesn’t want us to know about oil prices

What Wall Street doesn’t want us to know about oil prices: "The top six financial institutions in this country own assets equal to more than 60 percent of our gross domestic product and possess enormous economic and political power. One of the great questions of our time is whether the American people, through Congress, will control the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, or whether Wall Street will continue to wreak havoc on our economy and the lives of working families.

I represent Vermont, a rural state where many workers drive long distances to jobs that pay $12 an hour or less. Many seniors living on fixed incomes heat their homes with oil during our cold winters. These people have asked me to do all that I can to lower outrageously high gasoline and heating-oil prices. I intend to do just that...."

12 Oil Spills In One Year—And They Want To Build Another One?

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279 Seconds Of Serious Civil Disobedience

Tar Sands Action/ Josh Fox from JFOX on Vimeo.

A little correction to note: The narrator in the video says, “The tar sands produces an unbelievable 36 million tons of carbon dioxide per day.” What he actually meant is that the tar sands produces 36 million tons of carbon dioxide per year—not per day. Just to give you an idea of how bad this stuff really is, the tar-sands project in Alberta produced 46 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 alone.

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Thom Hartmann: FDR has advice for Pres. Obama

It's Pretty Amazing

Climate Regulations a Job Killer? Quit Crying Wolf

Climate Regulations a Job Killer? Quit Crying Wolf

Deregulation kills people which is why I get so mad when people say we need to deregulate pretty much everything.

Big Oil’s Lying Statistics

Big Oil’s Lying Statistics - New Report Falsely Claims Cutting Tax Loopholes for Big Oil Worsens the Federal Budget Deficit

Um...seriously? :|

Markey: GOP Budget Takes Energy Out of Department of Energy

Markey: GOP Budget Takes Energy Out of Department of Energy

Seriously? What a bunch of hypocrites. I'm so sick of these people.

Exxon Oil Spill

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Can we send them to jail now? Along with Transocean, BP and the banksters?

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