Take that Mother Nature! Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts Saturday to close intakes. […]
Here’s a view of a Republican America: From Think Progress: Yesterday, Chevron discovered a leaking pipeline that was spewing 50 gallons of crude oil per minute into Red Butte Creek in Salt Lake City, UT. By the time crews capped the leak, more than 21,000 gallons — between 400-500 barrels — of oil had spilled […]
Finally some good news from the White House: The Bush administration on Wednesday released $450 million in emergency funds to help poor families pay their expensive heating bills this winter. Record high heating oil prices due to record crude oil costs of $100 a barrel are cutting into family budgets, with senior citizens and poorer […]
OK – Now I have no doubts there is some conspiracy behind the high gas prices and Bush has helped me come to this conclusion: President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. He also […]
AFP Reports AL-AHMADI, Kuwait (AFP) – Kuwait announced that it had made a major gas find in the north of the emirate that promised to sharply reduce its dependence on imports from the other Gulf states. “We can say now that Kuwait has entered the world of natural gas,” Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah […]