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• Commodities Casino Keeps Rolling

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  by Matt Taibbi True/Slant.com HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–Sunoco Inc. (SUN) swung to a third-quarter loss on a host of charges and continued weak demand for oil-based fuels and chemicals. Those difficulties are expected to continue amid the economy’s weakness, said Chief Executive Lynn Elsenhans. ...
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• Medved Calls Conservatives Who Denigrate Lindsey “Stupid”

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 141
  Michael Medved is, in The Pink Flamingos humble opinion, the top radio talking head. He is conservative, but he is a shining example of a conservative with Vulcan logic. He can see both sides of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Removing Coal River Mountain

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 139
  Removing Coal River Mountain by Rob Perks (Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, DC), Switchboard , October 26, 2009 The message was like a punch in the gut: "The blasting has begun." Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia, heretofore Americas "most endangered" mountain, is now under ...
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• Oil and Gas Company Wants You to Write Congress About the Undue Hardship Clean Energy Legislation Will Place on the Oil and Gas Industry

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 534
  Via Stephen Webster we learn of this ad that is being displayed at Valero gas stations in Austin, Texas: And you wouldn’t know by looking at the ad itself, but ‘Voices for Energy’ campaign is paid for by Valero. The site itself is a simple ’send a letter to Congress’ tool, which includes this ...
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• Oil Majors are Coming Back to Iraq

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 562
  Businessweek: In June many of the world’s biggest energy companies walked away from bidding on potentially rich oil fields in Iraq. While they liked the billions…
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• Time For Some Blunt Talk

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 634
  The Republicans never even tried to take part in a serious health care debate. When they controlled Congress and the White House they did nothing (but create the donut hole and transfer billion of dollars from American families to their donors at Big Pharma). And once Obama was elected president, the GOP stance was ...
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• Grand Old Party of Teabaggers and Business has Infringed Energizer Bunny Trademark for a Decade

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 511
  Yesterday Dailykos diarist, the girl, hit the recommended diary list with her post of the powerful impact one person may produce in the simple act of shining bright light into the dark space created by deception. The inherent power over an adversary that is achieved by lying is particularly odious in application ...
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• Shell Oil to Pay California $19 Million for Environmental Violations

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 534
  Raw Story : Shell Oil Company will pay California more than 19 million dollars because of environmental violations at service stations throughout the state, officials said.The agreement, filed Friday in a California state court, requires Shell to pay 17.8 million dollars in civil penalties as well as 1.7 million ...
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• Greenpeace Demands Answers, Balance in Newsweek’s Pay-to-Play Forum with Big Oil

  
  BASIL & SPICE--LIVING GREEN! — Authority: 128
  Washington, DC — Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford today pressed Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham for answers on the magazine’s financial ties to Big Oil companies and for balance in an upcoming “pay-to-play” forum about climate legislation that currently includes only one panelist, Big Oil’s top ...
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• Renewable Energy Fails And The Lights Go Out - This guy is so wrong in so many ways it is hard to count

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
   It is jam band Friday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZi18VR31M This is a perfect example of an Oil and Gas shill. Actually at this point I guess I should call him a Carbon front man. Ever notice how it’s always a man? He ignores the subsidies paid to the Oil and Gas business right now, which are huge. He ...
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• Power To Spare

  
  Outer Continental Shelf — Authority: 98
  Posted 11/05/2009 07:33 PM ET Leadership: As Palin jousts with Biden on energy independence, the government reports that we lead ...
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• Power To Spare

  
  Wishy-Washy Politicians — Authority: 127
  Posted 11/05/2009 07:33 PM ET Leadership: As Palin jousts with Biden on energy independence, the government reports that we lead the ...
  6 days ago

• Power To Spare

  
  Speciality Sites 24-7 — Authority: 135
  Posted 11/05/2009 07:33 PM ET Leadership: As Palin jousts with Biden on energy independence, the government reports that we lead the ...
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• Clean Energy Works Statement on EPW Passage of Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Bill

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 534
  Talking Points Memo : A major climate change bill passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee amid a Republican boycott this morning, setting the stage for other panels to amend the legislation. The final vote was 11-1. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)–whose Senate Finance Committee probably have its own ...
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• The Population Of Britain Falls To 2 Milllion After Spectacular And Blody Die Off

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
  That is that there will be a massive die off when the cheap oil runs out. He also believes in euthanasia for the less fortunate. http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2009/11/peak-oil-and-population-control.html November 04, 2009 Peak oil and population control Last week I had the miserable experience ...
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• Newsweek Partners with Oil Lobbyists on Climate and Energy Event

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 534
  Clean Air Watch : Some offices on Capitol Hill are abuzz this week about an invitation they received from Newsweek magazine to participate in an “Executive Forum” on “Climate and Energy Policy” that is being “co-hosted” with the American Petroleum Institute — the oil industry lobby that is fighting an ...
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• United States Could Be Energy Independent If…

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 556
  The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, a ccording to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report . As shown in the first chart below , the United ...
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• What Is Worse..A leaking oil well…Or one that leaks and catches fire

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
  I do not normally post twice in one day but the contrast of this story with the cute little story is laugh out loud funny and sob in you beer sad.. http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2009/11/02/whats-worse-than-an-oil-rig-leaking-into-the-sea/ What’s worse than an oil rig leaking into the sea? November 2, 2009 ...
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• Oil Bubble - No way there would have to be a Market in Oil for there to be a Bubble

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
  There is no such thing as supply and demand in the liquid carbon fuel markets so it is tough to argue that there was a “Bubble” per se in the run up to 140 $$$ oil. For instance, oil spikes and gas hikes are being blamed on a “weak dollar” but in fact should be attributed to the fact that 2 major refineries in ...
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• Nigerian speculators create artificial scarcity of petroleum products

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 534
  DPR threatens to deal with culprits businessdayonline.com | Nov 1, 2009 by Olusola Bello Artificial scarcity of premium motor spirit, better known as petrol hit Lagos, Abuja and neighbouring areas yesterday leading build ups of long queues at filling stations. The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says ...
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