Oil and gas industry uses deceptive energy independence message to push U.S....
With gasoline scaling $4 a gallon recently, plans announced last week by international oil giant BP to export U.S.-produced crude oil ought to have Americans howling. For such a plan to be good energy...
View ArticleHow It Could Happen, Part Three: To The Brink
This third part of a five-part series uses the tools of narrative fiction to explore some of the ways in which America's global empire might come apart. As the East African war ends in an American...
View ArticleLiberal Expectations
The presidential campaign offers a great deal of material concerning what liberals believe and expect. I am especially interested and troubled by the constant focus on the middle class. By comparing...
View ArticleDefeat Romney, without illusions about Obama
The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line with mine -- progressives, especially activists -- to make this goal one of your priorities during this...
View ArticleCanadians could free themselves from oil imports, but will they?
You are not alone if you think it's odd that Canada--the world's ninth largest exporter of crude oil and petroleum products and the main supplier of oil imports to the United States--is itself a...
View ArticleHow it could happen, part four: crossing the line
This fourth part of a five-part series uses the tools of narrative fiction to explore some of the ways in which America's global empire might come apart. As the multiple impacts of American defeat in...
View ArticleWhy the U.S. is NOT the new Saudi Arabia
Last week's energy news included a piece from the Associated Press with a headline reading: "U.S. poised to become world's top oil producer; may soon overtake Saudi Arabia." If the reporter had...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy, from relief to resistance
Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey...
View ArticleWorld Energy Outlook 2012 – NYT article focusing on the USA
Today the IEA’s World Energy Outlook for 2012 was released. I will comment on the report when I have had an opportunity to read it. At the moment numerous newspaper articles have misunderstood the...
View ArticleDid oil decide the last three American elections?
Was the most recent American election outcome determined by the presidential debates, changing demographics, voter views on issues, Hurricane Sandy (and the president's reaction to it) or voter...
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