Set of Priorities
A quarter century ago, when I began purchasing cigarettes and gasoline in significant quantities, a pack of smokes and a gallon of gas went for about the same price – 65 or 70 cents. Last week, a gallon gas was...
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When in Doubt…Blame the Greens and Feed Big Oil!
There are apparently three things we can be sure of in life: death, taxes, and that when the oil industry gets in trouble, environmentalists will get blamed and more money will be thrown at Big Oil. Yesterday, rather than addressing...
First They Came for the Airlines…
George W. Bush, who proclaimed America’s “oil addiction,” in his January State of the Union address, exhibited a classic symptom of addiction Tuesday: denial. As the price of a gallon of gas heads for (and beyond) three dollars, Mr. Bush...
Hypocrisy Starts at The Top
Great sketch in yesterday’s Washington Post by Dana Milbank about the hypocrisy of America’s politicians when it comes to driving. Suddenly as the price of fuel reaches $3 a gallon, everyone is up in arms. They preach that America has...
I Love Expensive Gasoline
OK, I don’t really love expensive gasoline. A better title would be “I Hate Cheap Gasoline.” Illogical? Perhaps, but not compared to the hysterical and incoherent reaction of some of my fellow Americans, both politicians and average citizens, to $3...
“Green Chemistry” Takes on the Oil Industry
Americans consume approximately one million barrels of oil a day in non-fuel products. As an article in Christian Science Monitor notes: “Look around you. What do you see? A computer screen, the print on this page, a pen, your shirt....
US Insurance Commissioners Take Action On Climate
So we now know that three-quarters of the American public is concerned about climate change (see blog below) and believes that Bush should be doing more. They are not the only ones. Earlier this month the Insurance Commissioners of the...
The Price of Oil: Seventeen Years On from the Exxon Valdez
Today is the seventeen Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, the worst spill in America's history. Over eleven million gallons poured into Prince William Sound polluting the pristine environment and devastating the local wildlife and with it...
Blair’s “Toothless Sop” to Bush On Climate
Tony Blair has been accused of caving in to American pressure by proposing a new "watered-down" replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding emission cuts as the solution to climate change. An article in...
Chevrolet Shoots Itself in the Foot
Keen to market its latest gas-guzzler by the trick of online viral marketing, American car company Chevrolet introduced a Web site allowing visitors to take existing video clips and music, and then insert their own words to create a customised...