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I’m beating a dead horse here, but just look at the AP’s stunning analysis of BP’s alleged oil spill clean-up plan. Excerpt: BP PLC’s 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf, and its 52-page, site-specific plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig vastly understate the dangers posed by an uncontrolled leak and vastly overstate the company’s…

My British friend Tim Montgomerie sticks up for the UK supermarket chain Tesco. Excerpts: If I was to draw up a list of ten people who had most helped the poor in the past few decades, near the top of my list would be Terry Leahy. The retiring Tesco boss has been the leader of…

Great post by Sharon Astyk about how the constructed media narrative around peak-oilers and others who are preparing for what they believe will be coming hard times is slanted toward a techno-optimism that is ahistorical and, in its way, stupid and unvirtuous. Excerpt: There are two reasons I think it is so convenient for the…

I’ve hesitated blogging on the Helen Thomas affair, mostly because I’ve been away at meetings in New York, and I didn’t have time to monitor the comboxes for anti-Semitism. My view is that her opinions are obnoxious and wrong, but that she is entitled to hold them and work as a journalist. If we started…
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