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OK, so the McCain/Clinton gas tax holiday idea would probably get some stiff competition, but its in the running, for sure.
It will encourage more driving, thus driving up demand, thus meaning higher prices. It will simultaneously discourage investments in alternatives, which are our only hope to end our oil addiction and get out of […]
Don’t Buy It! Tar Sands Oil Still Dirty
1 Comment Published by Steve Kretzmann April 29th, 2008 in Oil, PollutionDeputy Premier of Alberta Ron Stevens is in Washington this week, meeting with Bush Administration officials and members of Congress to promote the importation of dirty tar sands oil to the United States. Oil Change and our coalition partners took out an ad (pdf) to greet him.
Stevens is expected to advocate that tar sands oil […]
Iraq = 25 million new cars, and counting
10 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann March 19th, 2008 in Climate Change, Separate Oil and State, WarOn the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War (pdf) quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War and the opportunity costs involved in fighting war rather than climate change. Here are some facts on the war and warming:
Projected total US […]
The movement to reduce the United States’ addiction to oil suffered a blow today, with the passing of Milton Copulos. He was President of the National Defense Council Foundation, senior fellow at Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) and a founding member of the Set America Free Coalition.
US Congress says no to tar sands (quietly)
3 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann January 15th, 2008 in Oil, Oil Shale, coal to liquids, oil sandsHere’s one that somebody missed. Apparently Section 526 of the Energy Bill signed into law by Bush less than a month ago stated that the U.S. government would not purchase transportation fuel from nonconventional petroleum sources that have higher life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from production and combustion than equivalent conventional fuel.
That means that the […]
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