Tag: energy independence
member name: Raymond Learsy
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July 26, 2006 06:22 AM EDT --
With the release of Al Gore's new documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, has come a blizzard of commentary, both in print and over the airwaves. Speculation that Gore may be ramping up to campaign . . .
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August 09, 2006 08:23 AM EDT --
Hello! Wakeup Call!
Just what we need! A brand new 4,000-mile, $184 billion transportation highway splitting the country in two. With oil over $75 a barrel and gasoline topping $3.00 a gallon, a host . . .
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September 10, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
I hate to say "I told you so," but the news of a big new oil discovery by Chevron and two partners in the Gulf of Mexico confirms what I've been saying for years: Oil is not scarce. Big Oil's . . .
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August 01, 2006 03:08 PM EDT --
The imams, mullahs, and everyone else in the Middle East who wish us not just ill but dead have much to be thankful for. Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly owned oil company, announced in late . . .
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April 18, 2006 09:08 AM EDT --
Quite rightly, if a bit late, President Bush has endorsed ethanol as an alternative to gasoline. He now supports financing for "cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but wood . . .
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May 04, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
As the price of oil soared toward its all-time record of $75 a barrel the other day, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hard-line president, read us a little lecture. He said oil was still priced . . .
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August 20, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Whenever I write about the manipulation of oil prices and the need to bring the oil industry and its allies to heel, my musings elicit the riposte that high prices are part of the solution. High prices . . .
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June 02, 2006 06:10 AM EDT --
I have just come back from China, and I have seen the future. It is ominously murky. Literally! The enormous strides being made, the torrent of new buildings and factories, the expansive . . .
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April 13, 2006 05:28 AM EDT --
As its latest favor to Western consumers, OPEC plans to increase refinery capacity in the Persian Gulf by 60 percent over the next decade. If we want to lower oil prices, said Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi . . .
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May 22, 2006 10:28 AM EDT --
This is not Tehran. This is not Riyadh. This is not Lagos. Neither is it Caracas. In short, I am reporting from the capital of a nation that is not a card-carrying member of the Organization of Petroleum . . .
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July 11, 2006 08:04 AM EDT --
The enveloping miasma of climate change and its risk to us and future generations calls for dynamic action to forestall and hopefully prevent the disasters ahead.
It calls for a clear understanding that . . .
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April 25, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
Given the prices we are paying at the pump, given the egregious profits rung up by Big Oil and the oil patch generally, given the influence oil's billions has over our elected officials in government, . . .
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April 28, 2006 05:51 AM EDT --
The president's mad ,and he's not going to take it anymore. He's putting his foot down. He's going to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with $70-plus oil. He's . . .
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May 09, 2006 07:19 AM EDT --
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has surely been a thorn in the side of the Bush administration and western oil companies. But there is this to be said in his favor: However hostile he may . . .
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May 26, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
Oil industry executives have launched an especially vigorous public-relations campaign trying to polish up the image of an industry that Sen. John McCain recently likened to approaching that . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:13 AM EDT --
One of the great misnomers distorting today's energy debate is the misconception that the price gouging at the pump is a key cause for today's high gasoline prices. Now, pump-gouging may . . .
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May 12, 2006 07:42 AM EDT --
When news broke the other day that Cuba is making deals with China and India to drill for offshore oil on its side of the line dividing Cuban waters from U.S. territory, oilmen set up a clamor to drill . . .
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