Liberal Talk Radio

I have to admit that I’m not quite sure if I should pat myself on the back or start chewing shoe now that the Louisiana oil spill shows just how dangerous off shore drilling can be. After all, I was pretty pragmatic back when Obama announced that he’d allow expanded drilling. “Will never see the [...]

The President says he’ll drill, baby, drill. Dave Roberts tweets: Under Dems, we’ve established that off[s]hore drilling is OK. Nuke subsidies are OK. Coal subsidies are OK. As yet, gotten NOTHING in exchange. I suppose after the health care victory we have to give Obama the benefit of the doubt that he can still get [...]

Back in Alaska, Sarah Palin’s discovering that keeping those sky-high approval ratings is much easier when oil’s trading at $150 per barrel: Oil prices, which provide the bulk of state revenue, were well over $100 a barrel in late August when Ms. Palin left to campaign with Senator John McCain. Now they are slumming south [...]

Before Ike hits: Oil analyst Peter Beutel says residents in the greater New York area will see a raise of 50 cents a gallon in the next 72 hours. Beutel is also predicting the Chicago area will see a 75 cent raise and Houston area will be hit with a $2 increase. Beutel says Hurricane [...]

This is completely absurd. I’ve thought for a while now that America today resembles nothing so much as Rome in the 3rd or 4th centry, when they all turned into hedonists just before they were sacked by the Visigoths. Now read this and judge for yourself: The report says that eight officials in the royalty [...]

Interesting piece in the NY Times about how France is doubling down on nuclear power: Nuclear power provides 77 percent of France’s electricity, according to the government, and relatively few public doubts are expressed in a country with little coal, oil or natural gas. With the wildly fluctuating cost of oil, anxiety over global warming [...]

Man, Tom Friedman sure is annoying today, getting all sanctimonious about how Bush needs to either get with the alternative-energy program or else STFU. But why is Friedman so angry? Bush already had a strategy to lower oil prices: invade Iraq. And he did so with the blessings of… Tom Friedman. Back in ’02, Friedman [...]

Interesting piece in the NYT about the Saudis finally getting nervious and increasing oil production to lower prices. While you’d think that they would be happy with $140/barrel, the truth is that nefarious “alternative fuels” are becoming cost-competitive. They’re also planing on bringing a whole new field online next year. The question is, how do [...]

Jon Golob concludes his six-part investigation into nuclear power with a call for more research into next-generation reactors: Where are these plants? The ideas here aren’t new ones. A pilot project, the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) was to build a liquid sodium metal cooled, plutonium and U-235 fueled fast neutron reactor with an on-site waste [...]

Maybe you trust this man to make smart environmental policy? I wouldn’t: Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, drives a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, leased for $219 a month. Representative Michael R. McNulty, a Democrat from the Albany area, gets around in a 2007 Mercury Mariner hybrid, a sport utility vehicle, for $816 [...]