Jurassicpork, Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2008. "Amazingly, according to John McCain, George W. Bush is still our savior whenever luck infrequently wafts our way like a fragrant fart."
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.
Nomi Prins, AlterNet. July 8, 2008. Oil prices won't be dropping any time soon. Not until the first mandatory and detailed trade reports cover the entire global futures trading markets.
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.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. June 25, 2008. There was a day when the Chamber was more than an ideological organization.
Jasmyne Cannick, New America Media. June 18, 2008. Democrats rail against big oil yet ride around in chauffeur-driven high-polluting Lincoln Town cars.
Geoffrey Lean, The Independent. May 27, 2008. The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should. How are our lives going to change with oil heading toward $200 a barrel?
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. April 16, 2008. Get ready for a new world order in which energy will govern what we eat, where we live, and if and when we travel.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. April 8, 2008. Faced with $4-per-gallon diesel fuel, truck drivers -- who deliver 70 percent of the nation's goods -- are hitting the brakes.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. March 15, 2008. On March 3, the price of crude reached its highest ever. Are energy costs becoming the decisive factor in the balance of global economic power?
