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Watch Live: Congressional Hearing with Top Big Oil Executives
1 Comment Published by Trina Zahller March 31st, 2008 in Big Oil Profits, Oil, Separate Oil and State, US politicsIts April Fool’s Day, and Congress is giving us a chance to have some fun while taking a serious look at the impact of Big Oil. Oil Change International will be watching the hearing closely, and we hope you can watch it with us!
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), who chairs the Energy Independence and […]
Follow the Oil Money
0 Comments Published by Trina Zahller March 24th, 2008 in Iraq, Oil, Politics, Separate Oil and State, War, oil subsidies, protestsLast week, on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War, hundreds of people stood with Oil Change International in the streets in front of the American Petroleum Institute demanding a Separation of Oil & State. They know, just as we do, that oil was the central motivation of the war in Iraq, that oil […]
Iraq = 25 million new cars, and counting
12 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 […]
“What will it take to wake the Senate up”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 3rd, 2008 in Energy Security, Separate Oil and State, US politics, energy policyGreat editorial in today’s New York Times, which argues that “One of the major shortcomings in last year’s admirable energy bill was its failure to extend vital tax credits to producers of wind, solar and other renewable fuels. This was entirely the doing of the Senate, which caved in to the oil companies and their […]
GOP Should Stop “Coddling Big Oil”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell February 27th, 2008 in Renewables, Separate Oil and State, US politics, oil subsidiesInteresting op-ed from a Silicon Valley newspaper by the CEO of Akeena Solar, which calls itself America’s leading solar installer.
The CEO, Barry Cinnamon, argues “This week the House of Representatives will vote on the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008. This act would eliminate $18 billion in tax breaks for oil companies […]
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