Negative Space: oil
- Going Rogue: An American Life
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Unlike politicians who have to fall back on their ancestors for middle-class anecdotes, Palin lived them. In the seventies, her father took them from rural Idaho to greater opportunities in Alaska, but it wasn’t her father who built their family business: it was Todd and Sarah.
- He’s not telling the truth, entirely
- Isn’t “not telling the truth, entirely” kinda like “lying”?
- Lard
- Making lard from scratch.
- My job fell in the (oil) well
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Through steel tariffs, we killed tens of thousands of jobs in industries that use steel by raising the cost of steel in the United States. Now Irwin M. Stelzer wants to do the same to industries that use oil. That is, all of them. Everyone uses energy.
- Ryan: End oil subsidies?
- Of course we want to end oil subsidies. Maintaining oil subsidies because gas prices might rise is crazy: we pay for those subsidies, too!
- Sometimes you wonder, other times you expunge the vote
- California state assembly so proud of vote they… erase it from the public record.
More Information
- Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy• (hardcover)
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“Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on solar energy captured in living plants.” (Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White)
- Rush Rips AP’s Coverage of Obama’s Keystone Pipeline Pretense
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“…the Corps of Engineers approved it, the Department of Agriculture approved it, the Department of Interior approved it, the Department of Transportation approved it, the Environmental Protection Agency—believe it or not—approved it, the Defense Department approved it; the Justice Department approved it, the Homeland Security Department approved it and the Department of Commerce approved it. Only the State Department did not approve it.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Obama’s Rush to Approve Keystone Segment Won’t Speed Construction
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“The White House announced on Wednesday that it would expedite the approval process for the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, but the company building the pipeline says the move will do nothing to speed its construction.” (Memeorandum thread)
- On Burning Oil, Part 2
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“Consider the following as representative of a torch applied to a pool of oil on a dungeon floor. Is it possible to get that pool ignited by applying a flame? No way! I emptied a whole book of matches on multiple attempts…”
Some great photos.
