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.
Plain-Spoken Politics with a Long Island accent
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.
What New Yorkers Should Know About Hydrofracking
You can’t put the Earth back the way it was. Can’t cure the cancer these companies left behind. Can’t put the pieces of rock back together.
Crowning Joules
This proposal was not unprecedented. In the depths of the Great Depression with oil going for 10¢/bbl, a group of industrial engineers proposed that currency be based on units of energy, like a joule, which is the amount of energy required to lift the weight of one Newton, i.e. a small apple, one meter.
Chuck Pumps It Up
Obviously emboldened by the fact that either no one cares about his role in this disaster or no one understands how deep his involvement is, Schumer and his PR machine have continued to push the envelope of denial while pointing a crooked finger in the direction of everything but himself and the robber barons on Wall Street he has been protecting since taking office.
