World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10358/

'The Best Thing That Could Happen to the Country Is If No Oil Is Found'
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10346/

Our Cry for Cheap Oil Is Crude and Deadly
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10341/

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Saving money the government way

from Reason to Freedom
by Michelle L

07/14/08

The lamest of the lame-duck presidents has now, in a blinding show of ecological wisdom; lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling of the OCS and has challenged Congress to do likewise. Of course being the compliant and ever-bending-over-and-asking-for-more Congress we have all come to know and loathe, they will fall all over themselves to get in line. But the best part is that he and his oil-connected cronies are actually trying to sell this petroleum slight of hand to the public as a way to bring down oil prices and ‘trying to ease market tensions and boost supply’...

https://www.reasontofreedom.com/saving_money_government_way.html



Three biggest Bush administration myths about offshore drilling

AlterNet
by Faiz Shakir

07/15/08

[P]olls show increasing support for expanded offshore drilling. Conservatives are preying on Americans’ concern overskyrocketing gas prices by propagating false myths that drilling for oil off our coasts will allow us to ‘pay less’ at the pump, that it’s ‘environmentally safe,’ and that drilling is already underway by communist China...

https://www.alternet.org/environment/91588/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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