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Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins - NYTimes.com

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:29:11 +0000

Today, a principal tenet of geology is that a vast majority of the world’s oil arose not from lumbering beasts on land but tiny organisms at sea. It holds that blizzards of microscopic life fell into the sunless depths over the ages, producing thick sediments that the planet’s inner heat eventually cooked into oil. It is estimated that 95 percent or more of global oil traces its genesis to the sea.

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Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins - NYTimes.com

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:29:11 +0000

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FactCheck.org: Energetically Wrong

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:03:21 +0000

"Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close."

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Barack Obama | Obama HQ Blogger: Barack in Lansing, MI: "We must end the age of oil in our time."

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:12:30 +0000

"We simply cannot pretend, as Senator McCain does, that we can drill our way out of this problem. We need a much bolder and much bigger set of solutions. We have to make a serious, nationwide commitment to developing new sources of energy and we have to do it right away. "

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Oil Execs to Be Asked to Justify Profits - Yahoo! News

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:38:48 +0000

"There is growing distress among both Republicans and Democrats in Congress about the huge profits reported by oil companies last week."

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CNN.com - Presidential gasbill gets steeper - Aug 24, 2005

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:26:35 +0000

"About the only vehicle Bush has much say in is the 2001 white Ford F250 pickup he keeps on his ranch. At the nationwide gasoline average of $2.61 a gallon, it would cost at least $75 to fill the Ford's tank. The 1999 four-wheel-drive model gets 13 miles

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:55:17 +0000

"The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation." Any voters' remorse yet? Anyone else convinced they're crooks?

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MSN Money - Extra: SUV owners get free gas -- courtesy of Uncle Sam

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:30:47 +0000

"It's hard to think of a worse formula for wrecking the country."

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The Detroit Project - by Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:07:17 +0000

'Welcome to "The Detroit Project," our grassroots campaign to prod Detroit automakers to build cars that will get Americans to work in the morning without sending us to war in the afternoon -- cars that will end our dependence on foreign oil.'

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Biodiesel Boom Well-Timed

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:12:20 +0000

"Higgins said most diesel vehicles do not have to be modified to burn biodiesel, and auto manufacturers support fueling their vehicles with biodiesel, which burns cleaner than standard fuel."

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Nation's thirst for gas reaching the limit

Fri, 07 May 2004 19:43:40 +0000

Beginning of Peak Oil? Glad I have a gas-thrifty car instead of a wide-ass SUV

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Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:25:30 +0000

Peak oil, here we come!

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'Out of Gas': They're Not Making More

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:51:41 +0000

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Oil: The illusion of plenty | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:05:04 +0000

"Petroleum reserves are limited. Petroleum is not a renewable resource and production cannot continue to increase indefinitely. A day of reckoning will come sometime in the future."

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Plan Now for a World Without Oil

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:58:35 +0000

"The conclusion is clear: if we do not immediately plan to make the switch to renewable energy ... then civilisation faces the sharpest and perhaps most violent dislocation in recent history."

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