Tag: oil
All the articles with the tag "oil".
Diving the Elly and Ellen Oil Rigs
Photos of Diving the Elly and Ellen Oil Rigs On Saturday I headed out on the Sea Bass to dive some oil rigs just off the coast of LA. The first dive was on the Elly oil rig. Visibility was a solid 50 …
Eureka Oil Rig dive
Photos of diving the Eureka oil rig Off shore oil rigs stretch from Long Beach to Santa Maria on the coast of California. Some are decommissioned , but most are still in active operation. These rigs a…
Oil prices
Some people ( like the US House ) seem to not understand how oil prices are calculated. Luckily, Marketplace has a great introduction to the subject called " Who's getting fat on higher oil prices? " …
Energy assumptions
Jim Kunstler's latest post is typically inflammatory, but definitely makes for some good reading : The price of oil is up 53 percent over a year ago, creeping up now toward the mid-$90-range. The news…
CA oil rigs - remove them, let them be reefs?
As anyone who has driven through OC to the California central coast knows, there are lot of offshore oil rigs out there. The UT has a great article on the debate over what to do about the California o…
The ethanol scam
RollingStone has a great article called Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America's Biggest Political Boondoggles . If you aren't familiar with the subject, this article is a g…
Energy concerns
So Bush has finally admitted the US is addicted to cheap oil. He made some statements in his address to the nation: - Coal. $281 million to develop clean coal technologies "to generate electricity whi…
Enviro & Government
- This really sucks - Million Solar Roofs Bill Dies in California Assembly - This bill had bi-partisan support until Assembly Democrats added union-sponsored amendments, including a provision that req…
Oil, energy and enviro info
Most of these are older links, but I just haven't had the time to post them. In case you missed it: A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has …
Food & Oil
Remember how the US was outraged over the oil for food scandal with the UN and Iraq? Well.. Turns out the US and UN condoned Iraq oil smuggling to Turkey and Jordan . "How is it that you stand on a mo…