Tag: Deepwater Horizon

Can We Blame Dick Cheney for the Oil Spill?

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 3 Comments

According to William Galston of The New Republic, we just might be able to pin a good bit of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon spill on our illustrious…no, that’s not the word I’m looking for…despicable former Vice President. There’s no single smoking gun, or rig, as it were, but there is a collection of […]

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Dirty Energy Isn’t Cheap

Filed in National by on April 30, 2010 69 Comments

Yesterday we learned that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was five times worse than first thought. The oil is spilling at a rate of 210,000 gallons of oil per day. That oil is now hitting the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Unlike what we were told, offshore drilling is not so technologically advanced […]

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