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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 2 Comments

In mid-June, when Obama went on television to announce that he would "inform" BP how much it had to contribute to a compensation fund for the Gulf oil spill, I predicted that the fund -- despite the grandstanding -- would not put much money in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2010 14 Comments

No really. Milk is Oil according to the EPA, EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers:Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a hard time seeing how spilled milk can be labeled the same...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 4 Comments

Here is a full copy of Judge Martin L.C. Feldman granting a preliminary injunction preventing the implementation of the Obama administration's 6-month drilling moratorium. The actual Order is here.The key finding (at p. 3) was that the government was misleading in claiming that all experts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 8 Comments

Barack Obama has staked the energy future of this country on wind energy:"Some say" Obama is obsessed with wind energy: Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmillsAs with Obama's dream for socialized health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 3 Comments

Headline: "Payments from BP settlement slow to arrive in Gulf"Subheadline: "Unexpected bureaucratic snafus snarl claims system."--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 12 Comments

There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it's almost hard to know where to begin.Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I'm focusing on the tentative settlement with BP. While...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2010 5 Comments

Live at 8 p.m. HERE, because it will be more fun to be among friends than to listen very carefully to the "words, just words."(If you want your brilliant thoughts preserved for eternity, you still can leave a comment to this post.)Obama - The Historic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2010 13 Comments

There is something profoundly bass ackwards in the way Obama is reacting to the disaster in the Gulf.Obama keeps focusing on legal liability:President Obama will use his first Oval Office speech Tuesday night to outline a plan to legally compel BP to create an escrow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2010 10 Comments

The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact:U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits - "Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 6 Comments

This is my obligatory "Tommy, you're doing a heck of a job" post. Or more appropriately, "Tommy, keep paddling."Jake reports, I repeat:Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

Dana Milbank argues that conservatives are hypocritical in seeking government involvement in the Gulf oil cleanup, Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better:There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2010 5 Comments

As I posted earlier, the key elements in "green" technology are rare metals mined mostly in China. The green economy envisioned by the Obama administration as the means by which we will grow "green jobs" and lessen our dependence on foreign oil in fact simply...

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