Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Oil

What Went Unsaid at Last Night’s Debate

By Ben Fried | Oct 17, 2012 | No Comments

At last night’s presidential debate in Nassau County, the best opening for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to talk about transportation policy came when undecided voter Phillip Tricolla asked the following question of the President: QUESTION: Your energy secretary, Steven Chu, has now been on record three times stating it’s not policy of his department […]

NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2012 | 19 Comments

The overwhelming sentiment that greeted our story on the gas consumption maps the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club put out last week went something like this: These are almost useful. Just about everyone agreed that looking at total fuel consumption per county wasn’t very informative without weighing that number against population. There […]

Which Counties Have the Biggest Oil Addiction Problem? We Still Don’t Know.

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2012 | 12 Comments

Have you ever thought to yourself, “What I really need is a map showing what U.S. counties use the most gasoline, so that I can target my sustainability efforts there?” Funny, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club were thinking the same thing. What they came up with gets us partway there. “We were […]

Mitt Romney’s Other Running Mate: The Fossil Fuel Industry

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 14, 2012 | No Comments

Last month, Mitt Romney held a $50,000 a plate lunch with major donors in Houston. What does a $50,000 lunch buy you besides steak and shrimp? Well, according to a new report from the New York Times, it’ll buy you the presidential contender’s ear. And a lot of folks from the energy industry are eager […]

Romney Energy Plan: More Drilling, More Oil Dependence

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 23, 2012 | 5 Comments

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney unveiled his energy plan today [PDF]. The idea is to break our addiction to foreign oil — by increasing our addiction to domestic oil. If by “domestic” we mean Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Essentially, the plan is to go bananas on oil drilling. States would have the right to […]

Menendez Launches Big Oil Subsidy Tracker

By Ben Goldman | May 25, 2012 | No Comments

As we head into the Memorial Day holiday, and move from one congressional recess to another [PDF], Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has given us something to do with our extra free time: Watch taxpayer subsidies to big oil climb higher and higher. The clock, dubbed a STOP watch (for “Stop Taxpayer Oil Payouts”), tracks the […]

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