TBogg, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. August 4, 2008. The GOP is demanding an emergency congressional session to help alleviate gas prices. Wait for it ... here comes the punchline:
Andrew Lam, New America Media. July 24, 2008. Giving up a car isn't easy -- even amid the gas crisis. But the covetous American way of life has become unsustainable.
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com. July 17, 2008. The current oil shock, the fourth in the past 30-plus years and the deadliest so far, shows every sign of continuing for a long, long stretch.
Foreign PolicyJuly 16, 2008. Sure, it's ruining the global economy and making everyone miserable, but there's an underappreciated upside to the high price of oil.
Harvey Wasserman, Huffington Post. June 26, 2008. Republicans are funneling billions into the coffers of their oil baron backers; it's no surprise Bush and McCain aren't pushing for renewable energy.
Michael T. Klare, The Nation. June 21, 2008. Oil companies, speculators and OPEC played their part, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the crisis.
Jasmyne Cannick, New America Media. June 18, 2008. Democrats rail against big oil yet ride around in chauffeur-driven high-polluting Lincoln Town cars.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. June 10, 2008. Looking for villains around the gas pump? Look at the super-rich making bets with billions while regular people always lose.
Jon Ponder, Pensito Review AlterNet: Video. February 29, 2008. The "liberal media" will let Bush off the hook on this one, just as they always do, because his being out of touch is simply par for the course.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 13, 2007. As the holiday season approaches, a recent poll shows that the economy has beaten Iraq as the issue of most concern to Americans.
Brian Beutler, Media Consortium. August 14, 2007. Oil companies know that gasoline expands at higher temperatures and has less volume at lower ones, but they've refused to upgrade gas stations with a simple tool that would adjust the price of gas according to its temperature.
