big oil Archive
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We have our OWN Joe Barton (shameless offshore oil drilling whore) in the OC!
Posted on June 24, 2010 | No CommentsA timely reminder from the Bill Hedrick Campaign: Democrat Bill Hedrick Calls Republican Opponent Ken Calvert ‘the Joe Barton of California’ Calls on Calvert to Give $20,725 Received in Oil... -
Drill, Baby, Drill? Not in Our Coastal Waters!
Posted on June 12, 2010 | No Comments(Reprinted with permission from “Eddie’s Corner”, the weblog of Eddie Rose, at www.eddierose.org) One would think that the recent catastrophic BP oil spill off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf... -
Funny video: When BP spills coffee.
Posted on June 11, 2010 | 2 CommentsA little black humor for your Friday morning, from UCBComedy.com: Oh. have I mentioned that a lot of our local candidates, who advocate unlimited offshore drilling off California’s coasts, EVEN... -
Where are the Petroleum Engineers?
Posted on June 11, 2010 | No CommentsIn 1959, sitting in the USC Trojan Grill, playing bridge with a bunch of graduate student Petroleum Engineers…the discussion turned to slant drilling in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. The... -
BP needs to dig deep
Posted on June 7, 2010 | No CommentsAs the Gulf of Mexico becomes a slimey, firey oil pit, with thousands of birds, turtles, fish, crab. shrimp and indigenous animals dying in numbers one can only estimate – BP continues... -
Anti-15 spokesman Richard Wiebe changes tune, endorses PROP 15!
Posted on June 6, 2010 | 3 Comments“No! He didn’t!” Oh yes he did. Well, sort of. His words, in the midst of an argument on a comments thread here, were: If you believe BP and Wall... -
The Bloody English Oil Barons
Posted on May 26, 2010 | No CommentsWhere is LukOil now that we need them? Even the Russians could do better with the Chernobyl disaster than the Bloody English have done with the Gulf of Mexico! The... -
Iraq/Afghanistan Vets Want a Clean Energy Bill!
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 9 CommentsThis just over Jerbal’s fabled “transom” from VoteVets.org: Since last year, at VoteVets.org and our blog, VetVoice.com, we’ve stressed the need to pass clean energy legislation, and break our dependence... -
Don’t you think Exxon should pay at least SOME taxes?
Posted on April 17, 2010 | 13 CommentsOne of the caricatures made of us progressives is that WE have a caricature of the Vast, Evil Corporation. And it is easy to fall into thinking and talking that... -
Surfers turn against Dana Rohrabacher
Posted on July 29, 2008 | 8 CommentsOverheard at Sunday’s US Open of Surfing at the HB Pier: (from memory) “Hey, don’t you guys have that crazy Surfing Congressman out here? Dana something?” “Ah, Rohrabacher – he’s... -
jest sittin’ on my oil…
Posted on June 21, 2008 | 32 Comments. . . . . So I’m jest sittin’ here on my oil, havin’ a smoke and countin’ my money, and the phone rings, and I can see it’s the...
