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You campaigned for them, voted for them, got them into office. Now hold their feet to the fire

Foxes report: Henhouse is safe

The oilmen who run the country have found no evidence of wrongdoing by oilmen. What a shock!  (Read it here)
(credit: Title for this blog shamelessly cribbed from post by johnaries at Democratic Underground)

Gas prices and lemonade stand economics

With gas prices breaking the $3.00 barrier on average and jumping to over $4.00 in some places, most average Americans are feeling the pinch and it hurts.

While the oil companies themselves are not saying much, their apologists are all over the place, trying to tell us the outrageous increases at the pump are due to [...]

And George Jetson was named Energy Secretary

Not one to let minor concerns like the planet or all the people who aren’t yet done using it get in the way, George Bush celebrated Earth Day in his own inimitable style. He danced with the ones that brought him.

Rather than use the Oval Office bully pulpit to push alternative energy production and [...]

I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

The Steppenwolf recording of that old Hoyt Axton song should play on a loop through the corridors of DC as the soundtrack to the Bush administration energy policy.

It was less than three months ago that we were told “America is addicted to oil” and the best way to break the addiction was by developing “cleaner, [...]