The Original Occupy
Americans maintain a somewhat outdated vision of Canada as a nation of tree huggers and environmentalists. To wit, unlike every other industrialized nation in the world, Canada has regressed on climate change initiatives.
SO FAR LEFT, WE ARE RIGHT
In Sprecher We Trust. Hopefully.
Jeffrey Sprecher built a better mousetrap. But a mousetrap big enough to catch a whale? Apparently so.
Why Gas Prices Are So Damn High (Video)
The investment banking industry, with the assistance of the federal government, has surreptitiously hijacked the oil business over the past decade and caused the price of oil to skyrocket.
That 70′s Show
There is no shortage of theories as to why Americans are finding themselves staring helplessly at rising gas prices, but few of them are real. In fact, much of the prevailing wisdom offered by television pundits is false.
The Grammy’s, Lin-Sanity, Jon Stewart (and Iran)
This is another column about the burgeoning crisis between the US and Iran. Since I have yet to gain any traction with this issue I have decided to sprinkle gratuitous pop-culture references throughout the piece to generate interest.
Iran From 10,000 Feet
Simultaneously clutching his Nobel Peace Prize in one hand and George W. Bush’s preemptive strike doctrine in the other, Obama has straddled this no-man’s land about as well as any president possibly could.
Fracking: The Ultimate Scam Revealed
By touting natural gas as the clean-burning fossil fuel that is cheaper to use and helps reduce our dependence on foreign oil, the industry has nailed the PR trifecta: cheaper, cleaner and patriotic.
Fracking in Canada
As furious debate over fracking continues in the United States… Canada struggles to balance the economic benefits drilling has brought with the reports of water contamination and air pollution that have accompanied them.
ProPublica: EPA Confirms Fracking Linked to Contamination
The agency’s findings could be a turning point in the heated national debate about whether contamination from fracking is happening, and are likely to shape how the country regulates and develops natural gas resources in the Marcellus Shale and across the Eastern Appalachian states.
Onions and Oil
The marriage of deregulation and technology over the past several decades has birthed franken-markets that influence nearly every aspect of our daily lives.
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