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Posts in May 2006

• General Motors: Lets Guzzle Away The War on Terror

  Andy Rowell

  May31

  Great Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today, who likens General Motors to a “crack dealer looking to keep his addicts on a tight leash”, after the company announced its “fuel price protection program” that guarantees gasoline at a capped price of $1.99 a gallon, with no limit on mileage.

• Friends of the Earth’s Novel View on Climate Change

  Andy Rowell

  May31

  How do you get people interested in climate change? Well, Friends of the Earth UK thinks it has the answer. It has just published an amusing video on the issue, featuring a female “dominatrix”, a whip and a politician tied to the bed, with an orange stuffed in his mouth! Called the “Sticky Question” it…
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• Gore: Bush is a Right-Wing Extremist

  Andy Rowell

  May31

  Ex-Vice President, Al Gore, in the UK to promote his film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, has made his strongest attack yet on George Bush, describing his administration as “a renegade band of rightwing extremists”.

• Canada: Scrap Kyoto

  Andy Rowell

  May30

  Two weeks ago we blogged how Canada was back-tracking on it climate change commitments. Now, it seems, the country has gone further and said that it wants the Kyoto Agreement scapped altogether.

• Exxon Faces More Pressure For Action on Climate

  Andy Rowell

  May30

  How long can Exxosaurus hold out before it takes action? It may dismiss concerns from environmentalists but it is coming under increasing pressure from shareholders to take decisive action over climate change. This time its pressure from the treasurers of seven US states and one city who are pressuring Exxon’s board of directors for a…
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• Peace in a Gas Pump

  Steve Kretzmann

  May29

  Great Memorial Day post from David Swanson on AfterDowning Street. Peace in a Gas Pump or Bringing Pharaoh’s Armed Madhouse Home | AfterDowningStreet.org

• Intervention!

  Steve Kretzmann

  May29

  The United States is addicted to oil and we’re working with allies and tens of thousands of citizens to intervene. Check out this great new flash video, take action, and please pass it on! Meanwhile, like the addicts that they are, G8 leaders focussed this year’s St. Petersburg Summit on promoting trillions of dollars of…
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• Putin Talks Tough With EU

  Andy Rowell

  May26

  Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is said to have “icily” rejected US and EU criticism of Russia’s blatant use of gas resources as a political weapon in a dispute with Ukraine earlier in the year. More importantly he also publicly rebuffed European attempts to gain access to his country’s vast gas pipeline network. Putin’s tough stance…
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• Sceptic Ads Are “A Deliberate Effort to Mislead”

  Andy Rowell

  May25

  A senior scientist whose work is being featured in adverts produced by the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Insitute, has condemned them as “a deliberate effort to mislead.” Professor Curt Davis of the University of Missouri-Columbia whose study on Antarctic ice sheets is used in the adverts, says they “are confusing and misleading the public.” The adverts…
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• Big Oil Goes on the Offensive With Advertising and Lobbying

  Andy Rowell

  May25

  As Big Oil comes under attack for high gas prices, “price gouging”, record profits and huge pay-outs to executives, it is spending millions on advertising to win over a skeptical public. They have also increased their lobbying efforts in Washington to reassure an increasingly hostile Congress.