Shill, Baby, Shill

U.S. Oil Consumption

The McBush campaign wants to continue an environmental devastation initiative.

“Yes,” observes Joseph Romm, “the delegates to one of the two major political parties were chanting for crack cocaine to feed an addiction that is destroying the economic health of this country, strengthening our enemies, jeopardizing our security, and ultimately posing “an existential threat to civilization” itself. (With apologies to T. S. Eliot)

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  1. jcwinnie
    Posted 2008-9-11 at 12:48 am | Permalink

    Gene Karpinski, League of Conservation Voters, invited me to sign a petition:

    “With rising gas prices and America’s growing dependence on oil, it is clear that too many politicians in Washington are paid for by Big Oil.

    We need to stop letting oil companies run our energy policy. To make America truly energy independent, we call on Congress to boost production of clean energy, end all tax breaks for oil companies, and resist the false promise of drilling in environmentally sensitive areas.

    We need an energy policy that isn’t paid for by Big Oil.”

  2. jcwinnie
    Posted 2008-9-11 at 1:30 am | Permalink

    “Just when you think the two oil-men in the White House can’t top themselves for corruption metaphors,” observes Joseph Romm…

    Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.

    The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in Denver and Washington. Their alleged improprieties include rigging contracts, working part-time as private oil consultants, and having sexual relationships with – and accepting golf and ski trips and dinners from – oil company employees, according to three reports released Wednesday by the Interior Department’s inspector general [Earl Devaney].

    Naughty Nympho Sex Oil
    Regarding the sex-for-oil scandal in the Department of Interior, Romm begs Climate Progress readers: “Please no jokes about Drill, Baby, Drill or Bush Energy Policy!”

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