Oil Addiction: How Did We Get Here?
GOOD Magazine
This animated video finally answers the question: 'How did oil get so expensive?'
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The Iraqi Oil Ministry's New Fave Five
Nick Turse : Iraq
Mainstream media should consider these leads as they change gears from no-comment to hot-pursuit when it comes to the story of Iraq's most sought after commodity.
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Pain at the Pump
Countdown
The Nation's Christopher Hayes discusses the Right's woeful misunderstanding of the country's gas prices crisis.
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No Blood For ...er, um...
Tom Engelhardt : Middle East
More than five years after the invasion of Iraq--just in case you were still waiting--the oil giants finally hit the front page.
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Anatomy of a Price Surge
Michael T. Klare : George W. Bush Administration
Oil companies, speculators and OPEC helped spike the cost of oil, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the damage.
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Big Oil Fuels 'Straight Talk Express'
Brave New Films : Presidential Election 2008
McCain has received millions in donations from the same companies that helped the Bush administration create an energy plan that has helped raise gasoline to $4 a gallon.
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Just Blame Bush
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Sure, greedy consumers play their part. But George W. Bush is responsible for the five-fold increase in the price of oil.
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Oil Change
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
Forget change you can believe in and start dealing with the changes coming at you as fast as the price of fuel makes its way skyward.
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Praying for War at the Gas Pump
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
How have the Saudis thanked George W. Bush for protecting their sorry oil well of a country? Just check the price of gas.
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Gas Tax Holiday (from Reality)
Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008
As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, if you disagree with her gas tax plan, you're an elitist.
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The Candidates Pump Gas
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
As Clinton and McCain pander to frustrated voters with tax cuts, the real remedies to rising gas prices go unexplored.
2007
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Beyond the Age of Petroleum
Michael T. Klare : U.S. Economy
Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
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How Bush's Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry
Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.
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Who Will Get the Oil?
War and corruption have decimated Iraq's oil supply, and Western companies are angling for a cut of what's left.
2006
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Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy
Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
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Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy
Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
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Greasing the Skids
Nomi Prins : Electoral Politics
OK, market forces control oil prices. But market forces--with a lot of push from Republicans--are driving down the price of gas. And you can be sure they'll rise again after the election.
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Gas Pump Politics
Nicholas von Hoffman : Electoral Politics
Will Democrats lose 50,000 votes every time the price of gasoline drops? If they do, don't blame the GOP (they don't have that much power). Blame instead the greed of US consumers.
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Honey, We Killed the Planet
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
As the generation of power brokers over 40 continues to blow off global warming, our dependence on a waning supply of oil will create a miserable future for their children and grandchilden.
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Cuba's Pathbreaking Energy Policies
Nicholas von Hoffman : Sustainable Agriculture
As the world grows short of oil, nations in search of a viable energy policy should take a lesson from Cuba, which turned to sustainable agriculture to offset its own oil crisis.
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Life in a Post-Carbon World
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
If we are to survive and prosper in an oil-short world, we must not only think outside the box--we must get rid of the box. We must abandon the long-held idea that growth is the path to achieve every national goal.
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Road to Perdition
A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global warming and for our energy crisis.
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The Scramble for Oil
The Bush Administration's warm embrace of the Equatorial Guinea's despotic President Teodoro Mbasogo demonstrates how low it will go in pursuit of oil.
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For a Sane Energy Policy
There is no piecemeal solution to the gas price crisis. It's a systemic sickness that goes to the root of the American way of life: big cars, big oil, big business and sprawl.
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Getting Hosed
Nicholas von Hoffman : Congress
As oil profits soar, Americans are getting hosed at the gas pump, and Congress can't decide whether to raise taxes, lower them or throw money at the voters.
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Democrats: When the War Was Lost
Alexander Cockburn : Energy Policy & Deregulation
It's no surprise to learn that oil companies are underpaying royalties for drilling on public land, or projecting profits in the billions. The battle for energy regulation was lost a long time ago.
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The Geopolitics of Natural Gas
Natural gas is rapidly emerging as the next big prize for consumer countries like the US and China. In the twenty-first century, alliances and hostilities between economic powerhouses and volatile nations will be carved by the pipes that will someday carry this environmentally safer resource.
2005
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Waist Deep in Big Oil
While political pressure is mounting for a pullout from Iraq, the subject of total withdrawal remains unbroachable within the political establishment. Control of the Iraq's oil reserves, from the beginning, was the Bush Administration's real reason for this war.
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An Oil-Slicked Playing Field
The scramble for petroleum by developing countries worldwide is reshaping global geopolitics in favor of oil-rich nations like Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.
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Oil Tycoons Grilled on Windfall Profits
Top oil execs were asked numerous questions at a Senate hearing on spectacular profits earned in the wake of tropical storms. But they had no real answers about how to ease the burden on ordinary Americans.
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Gas Price-gouging or Business as Usual?
As the Senate opens hearings this week calling energy execs to account for their windfall profits on gasoline and natural gas, the question must be asked: Is this price-gouging or just good old-fashioned capitalism?
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The Virtues of Gas Guzzling
Alexander Cockburn : Venezuela
Gas-guzzling can be a revolutionary experience, like puffing Montecristo cigars, now that Citgo's 1,800 gas stations and eight oil refineries passed into the hands of Venezuela's national oil company.
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Out of Gas
: Energy Policy & Deregulation
Before 9/11, the Bush Administration thought tax breaks and environmental deregulation would solve the energy crisis. They were wrong. Now it's time for policies that promote conservation and energy alternatives.
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Katrina and the Coming World Oil Crunch
Michael T. Klare : US Military
Beyond the human suffering, Katrina's sucker punch will be felt in America's increasing dependence on foreign petroleum.
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A Noose, Not a Bracelet
The people of Africa, not Western corporations, should benefit from Africa's resources.
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Hugo Chávez and Petro Populism
What Venezuela's revolution is made of.
2004
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It's a Baker Botts World
When the Bushes need a fixer, they turn to James Baker III. He and his firm benefit.
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Africa's Oil Tycoons
Daphne Eviatar : US Foreign Policy
Western firms and government leaders, not the people, benefit from Angola's wealth.
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Whatever It Takes
Ashley Shelby : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Exxon has used the legal system to avoid paying damages for the Valdez spill.
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The Battle for Iraqi Oil
Aram Roston : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Until there is a legitimate government in Iraq, it's unclear whether any new oil deals will stand.
2003
2002
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Oiling the Wheels of War
This could prove to be the biggest oil grab in modern history.
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