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Thursday, May 2, 2013

I guess I should not have been surprised by this one, but the clarity of it is pretty breathtaking. A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at attitudes about energy efficiency in liberals and conservatives. First, they gave people a fixed amount of money and gave them a [...]

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Two Sides of the Mouth Award

Sunday, April 28, 2013

[via Media Matters] Two months ago, Fox News anchor Jon Scott did a negative story about Tesla, the electric car maker. He used Tesla as an example of bad government spending, saying “we are all sort of co-owners of Tesla — that company got hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as part of the president’s, [...]

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Noah’s Arc

Saturday, April 13, 2013

This week, Texas Republican Joe Barton gave irrefutable evidence at a Congressional hearing that climate change is not man made: I would point out that if you are a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the great flood was an example of climate change. That certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon [...]

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Green or Brown

Friday, March 29, 2013

© Matt Wuerker I can’t think of a single reason why we shouldn’t stop subsidizing oil production in this country. Even if we don’t pour money into alternative, sustainable energy, if we stop subsidizing fossil fuels then I believe that the market would create plenty of increased demand for alternatives. In fact, as I’ve said [...]

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Sunny Germany?

Monday, February 18, 2013

Only on Fox News. Why let reality get in the way of defending the stranglehold large multinational oil companies have on our energy future? Fox and Friends was ridiculing Obama’s “failed” strategy to promote solar energy in the US, but there was the little detail of Germany to contend with. Germany is leading the world [...]

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Get the Lead Out!

Monday, January 21, 2013

Wouldn’t it be ironic if, after spending billions of dollars on prisons, police, and the war on drugs, the real answer to reducing crime was as simple as getting rid of lead in our environment? That’s the conclusion of new research that strongly indicates that the hidden villain behind violent crime, lowered intelligence, and even [...]

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Trolling Shell for Oil

Monday, July 16, 2012

Greenpeace, the Yes Lab, and members of the Occupy movement are trolling Shell Oil, creating fake websites that look like they are from Shell, throwing lavish parties, and issuing press releases in Shell’s name. The best part is this fake social networking site, that invites people to create ads about “Arctic Energy”. The “Yes Lab” [...]

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Giving Us Gas

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

What the Republicans said three months ago when gas prices rose above $4/gallon: Mitt Romney, March 18, 2012: “He gets full credit or blame for what’s happened in this economy, and what’s happened to gasoline prices under his watch, and what’s happened to our schools, and what’s happened to our military forces. All these things [...]

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Your Priorities Are Where You Put Your Energy

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Republicans in the US House are showing us their priorities. On Tuesday, they passed an energy spending bill that is riddled with amendments that are bad for our country. Compared to what Obama requested, they removed funding for clean-energy and efficiency programs, and added additional money for fossil-fuel and nuclear programs. But the most ironic [...]

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Fair and Balanced

Monday, May 7, 2012

© Mike Thompson Ironically, I can see both sides of this! I think tightening up rules on speculation could significantly lower gas prices, so Obama could do something about gas prices. But the chance of Congress doing something like that is pretty much zero. The other things that can be done to lower energy prices, [...]

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Role Reversal

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

© Adam Zyglis Once upon a time, the word “conservative” came from the same root as “conservation”. But today, the only thing conservatives are trying to conserve is their bank accounts. For thirty years prior to 2000, earthquakes in the central US averaged 21 a year. But after oil and gas drilling operations started using [...]

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All Obama’s Fault

Monday, March 26, 2012

© Matt Davies I’m sure someone would blame Obama for rainy weather if they could. Ironically, Fox News said it best when they declared “no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices” and that the best way to reduce gas prices is to reduce consumption, so Americans should “get rid of [...]

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Market Manipulation?

Thursday, March 22, 2012

© Kevin Kallaugher I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone is manipulating gas prices in order to hurt Obama. UPDATE: Meanwhile, the public is not sure whom to blame for high gas prices. I know who is to blame for that — the media for [...]

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The Elephant in the Room

Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Unfair and Unbalanced

Friday, March 9, 2012

Back in 2008 when gas prices spiked, Fox News said “no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices.” And that the best way to reduce gas prices is to reduce consumption, so Americans should “get rid of those gas guzzlers, buy decent insulation for your house.” But now, Fox News is [...]

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