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The Challenges of Energy Part II: Petroleum & Ecology issues
In the second part of my series on energy issues - today I want to talk about oil, Texas tea, black gold. For most of us, we see “oil” when we gas our cars - cursing I’m sure at the high price of gasoline. However, oil is must more ubiquitous than just gasoline. Oil and [...]
FT: US begins to break foreign oil ‘addiction’
London, UK (FT.com): The US is starting to break its “addiction” to foreign oil as high prices, more efficient cars, and the use of ethanol significantly cut the share of its oil imports for the first time since 1977.
The country’s foreign oil dependency is expected to fall from 60 per cent to 50 per cent [...]
Bush faults Democrats on housing crisis, energy and taxes
Washington, D.C. (AP):
President Bush on Wednesday criticized Democrats in Congress for their approach to dealing with the nation’s housing crisis and soaring energy prices and called anew for an extension of expiring tax cuts and government wiretapping authority.
Bush met at the White House with Republican leaders of Congress and then critiqued the Democrats’ strategy for [...]
It’s is time to drill for OIL in ANWR
Washington, D.C. (rightcommentary.com): To drill or not to drill oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been debated since the 1970s. The time to drill is now.
Many polls have indicated a majority of Americans favor not drilling in the ANWR. Overnight, the national average price Americans pay to gas up rose 0.4 cent overnight [...]
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