AUGUST 18, 2011 By RUSSELL GOLD Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting with the U.S. government to keep control of one of its biggest oil discoveries ever, in a showdown where billions of dollars hang in the balance for both sides. The massive Gulf of Mexico discovery contains an estimated one billion barrels of recoverable oil, […]
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– Big Government – http://biggovernment.com – Putting ‘Big Oil’ to Rights Posted By Jason Bradley On August 2, 2011 @ 9:45 am In Economics, Politics, Regulation, energy | 25 Comments “Big Oil” has taken a public relations pounding. After all, the industry is thoroughly protected and its profits guaranteed out of necessity of the market.
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2011 Kirkuk is a ‘land mine’ where all sides want U.S. to stay By ROY GUTMAN McClatchy Newspapers If civil war were to resume in Iraq, a dread event that could mean the breakup of the world’s next great oil power, Kirkuk is the likely epicenter. It doesn’t take much
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support
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JULY 7, 2011 Jobs in the Pipeline The EPA tries to scuttle oil transport from Canada’s tar sands. With 9.1% unemployment and gasoline prices in the stratosphere, President Obama must sometimes wish that some big corporation would suddenly show up and offer a shovel-ready, multibillion-dollar project to create 100,000 jobs and reduce U.S. reliance on
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JUNE 25, 2011 The real risks of the shale gas revolution, and how to manage them. The U.S. is in the midst of an energy revolution, and we don’t mean solar panels or wind turbines. A new gusher of natural gas from shale has the potential to transform U.S. energy production—that is, unless politicians, greens
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JUNE 25, 2011 The latest GOP presidential candidate talks about cutting defense to better compete with Asia. By DANIEL HENNINGER No Republican presidential candidate stirs more curiosity than Jon Huntsman. “What about Huntsman?” You hear it all the time. Who is Jon Huntsman and where is he coming from? On the morning after he announced
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS June 27, 2011 Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof By Michael Barone EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Sometimes it seems he’s president of the AFL-CIO, not the U.S.A. The man who said he wanted to double exports in five years has nothing to say about his National Labor Relations Board appointee’s attempt to
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June 16, 2011 Our Reactionary President ‹ By Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Tue, Jun 14, 2011 BY MICHAEL BIESECKER – Staff writer Published in: State In a largely party-line vote, the state House approved a Republican-backed bill that rewrites state energy policy to promote and approve of drilling for natural gas on land and off the coast. Supporters
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