Oil Addiction: How Did We Get Here?
GOOD Magazine
This animated video finally answers the question: 'How did oil get so expensive?'
2008
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The Iraqi Oil Ministry's New Fave Five
Nick Turse : Iraq
Mainstream media should consider these leads as they change gears from no-comment to hot-pursuit when it comes to the story of Iraq's most sought after commodity.
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Pain at the Pump
Countdown
The Nation's Christopher Hayes discusses the Right's woeful misunderstanding of the country's gas prices crisis.
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No Blood For ...er, um...
Tom Engelhardt : Middle East
More than five years after the invasion of Iraq--just in case you were still waiting--the oil giants finally hit the front page.
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Anatomy of a Price Surge
Michael T. Klare : George W. Bush Administration
Oil companies, speculators and OPEC helped spike the cost of oil, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the damage.
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Big Oil Fuels 'Straight Talk Express'
Brave New Films : Presidential Election 2008
McCain has received millions in donations from the same companies that helped the Bush administration create an energy plan that has helped raise gasoline to $4 a gallon.
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Just Blame Bush
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Sure, greedy consumers play their part. But George W. Bush is responsible for the five-fold increase in the price of oil.
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Oil Change
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
Forget change you can believe in and start dealing with the changes coming at you as fast as the price of fuel makes its way skyward.
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Praying for War at the Gas Pump
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
How have the Saudis thanked George W. Bush for protecting their sorry oil well of a country? Just check the price of gas.
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Gas Tax Holiday (from Reality)
Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008
As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, if you disagree with her gas tax plan, you're an elitist.
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The Candidates Pump Gas
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
As Clinton and McCain pander to frustrated voters with tax cuts, the real remedies to rising gas prices go unexplored.
2007
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Beyond the Age of Petroleum
Michael T. Klare : U.S. Economy
Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
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How Bush's Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry
Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.
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Who Will Get the Oil?
War and corruption have decimated Iraq's oil supply, and Western companies are angling for a cut of what's left.
2006
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Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy
Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
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Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy
Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
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Greasing the Skids
Nomi Prins : Electoral Politics
OK, market forces control oil prices. But market forces--with a lot of push from Republicans--are driving down the price of gas. And you can be sure they'll rise again after the election.
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Gas Pump Politics
Nicholas von Hoffman : Electoral Politics
Will Democrats lose 50,000 votes every time the price of gasoline drops? If they do, don't blame the GOP (they don't have that much power). Blame instead the greed of US consumers.
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Honey, We Killed the Planet
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
As the generation of power brokers over 40 continues to blow off global warming, our dependence on a waning supply of oil will create a miserable future for their children and grandchilden.
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Cuba's Pathbreaking Energy Policies
Nicholas von Hoffman : Sustainable Agriculture
As the world grows short of oil, nations in search of a viable energy policy should take a lesson from Cuba, which turned to sustainable agriculture to offset its own oil crisis.
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Life in a Post-Carbon World
Nicholas von Hoffman : Environment
If we are to survive and prosper in an oil-short world, we must not only think outside the box--we must get rid of the box. We must abandon the long-held idea that growth is the path to achieve every national goal.
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Road to Perdition
A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global warming and for our energy crisis.
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The Scramble for Oil
The Bush Administration's warm embrace of the Equatorial Guinea's despotic President Teodoro Mbasogo demonstrates how low it will go in pursuit of oil.
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For a Sane Energy Policy
There is no piecemeal solution to the gas price crisis. It's a systemic sickness that goes to the root of the American way of life: big cars, big oil, big business and sprawl.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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