Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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Does Ted Stevens (R-AK) use a gesture to show contempt for the charges?
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The Veep’s Pipeline Push
By Michael Isikoff and Tony Hopfinger | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 23, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 1, 2008
A two-year-old letter by Vice President Dick Cheney that pushed a controversial Alaska natural-gas pipeline bill is getting renewed scrutiny because of recently […]
Posted in Republicans, Energy, Cheney, Alaska, Sleaze |
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Jeesh!
Not only are they no longer free, the passenger has to assemble them.
Do they charge $20 for Small Pox-free bedding?
By SAMANTHA BOMKAMP, AP Business Writer 36 minutes ago
NEW YORK - JetBlue Airways Corp. said Monday it is now charging customers for pillows and blankets.
The carrier has done away with the recycled blankets and pillows […]
Posted in Business, Energy, Airlines |
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Perle Linked to Kurdish Oil Plan
By Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents outlining possible deals.
Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing […]
Posted in Iraq, Energy, Neo-Romanovs, Perle |
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Houston Refinery Latest in String of Crane Collapses
July 19, 2008
In a scene that has become all-too familiar, one of the nation’s largest mobile cranes came crashing down at a Houston oil refinery on Friday afternoon, killing four workers. It was the latest of a number of fatal crane accidents.
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Posted in Energy, Texas, Cartoons |
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
One lives and learns.
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Story.
Images: (Gas-X) via amazon.com; (pump) via treehugger.com; (API) via hispanicwire.com
Posted in Energy, Society, Health, Personal Products, S-E-X |
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
APNewsBreak: Companies get OK to annoy polar bears
By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer June 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
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Posted in Business, administration, Environment, Nature, Energy |
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
“Cheney Acknowledges He Lied About China Drilling ‘60 Miles Off The Coast Of Florida
On Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in which he claimed that China, in cooperation with the Cuban government, is drilling for oil “60 miles off the coast of Florida.” “Even the communists have figured […]
Posted in China, Energy, Cheney, Cuba, Ethics |
Friday, April 11th, 2008
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SPEND IT IN HELL!
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Exxon CEO Had a $16.7 Million Year
As Oil Price Skyrocketed,
Firm Had Record Profit
And Chief’s Pay Soared
By RUSSELL GOLD
April 11, 2008; Page B8
How much compensation befits the chief executive who delivered the most profitable year ever for a U.S. company?
For the Exxon Mobil Corp. board of directors, the answer was a $16.7 million […]
Posted in Business, Energy, Greed |
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’-
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’
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By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
3/3/2008 6:11:04 PM
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The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
Coleman told an audience […]
Posted in Business, Environment, Energy, Science, Weather, Technology, Cartography, Galileo |
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Max Cady: I’m Virgil and I’m guidin’ you through the gates of Hell. We are now in the Ninth Circle, the Circle of Traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to GOD! You, sir, are charged with betrayin’ the principles of all three! Quote for me the American Bar Association’s Rules of […]
Posted in Business, Environment, Energy, Alaska, John Roberts |
