TIME cover photo from 31 years ago: Islam and oil
“Pres. Obama oil drill crafty politics.Keeps bans off coast where unpopular (CA, OR, WA), allows where it’s popular (VA, NC) and may hold red leaning states that went blue with jobs.”
“Giving Big Oil more access to our nation’s waters is really a ‘Kill, baby, kill’ policy: It threatens to kill jobs, kill marine life and kill coastal economies that generate billions of dollars.”
An animated intro to a big environmental problem
this is excellent
“Remember how only losers, paranoids thought the attack on Iraq might have something to do with oil?”
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Dennis Kucinich on Meet the Press, February 23, 2003:
MR. RUSSERT: Congressman, you made a very strong charge against the administration and let me show you what you said on January 19. “Why is the Administration targeting Iraq? Oil.” What do you base that on?REP. KUCINICH: I base that on the fact that there is $5 trillion worth of oil above and in the ground in Iraq, that individuals involved in the administration have been involved in the oil industry, that the oil industry certainly would benefit from having the administration control Iraq, and that the fact is that, since no other case has been made to go to war against Iraq, for this nation to go to war against Iraq, oil represents the strongest incentive…
MR. PERLE: It is a lie, Congressman. It is an out and out lie.
Graph compares rock music quality with US oil production 1949-2007
“The remarkable similarity between the arcs of U.S. oil production and songs in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” by year is staggering.”
