Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Oil

Political Jockeying Over Gas Prices Is Divorced From Reality

By Tanya Snyder | May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment

Though many transportation reformers, economists and environmentalists would say that gas prices aren’t nearly high enough to disincentivize single-occupancy-vehicle use and to pay for the external harms, Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill take it for granted that gas prices are too damn high. In fact, it’s one of the very, very few things that they do agree on these […]

Obama Counters Gas Price Demagoguery With Commitment to Fracking

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 13, 2012 | 2 Comments

It’s been almost a year since the Obama administration released its Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future, but more importantly, it’s been two weeks since Energy Secretary Steven Chu got chewed out for not caring enough about lowering gas prices. And Newt Gingrich, whose presidential campaign is slipping into irrelevancy, can still do some political […]

With Contraception Vote Over, Senate Can Finally Get to Transpo Issues

By Ben Goldman | Mar 1, 2012 | 1 Comment

The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 today to reject an amendment to their transportation bill that would overturn measures in President Obama’s signature health care law dealing with contraception coverage. The vote clears the way for the Senate to finally begin considering actual transportation issues rather than dealing with delay tactics. The so-called “conscience” amendment, proposed […]

Who Still Likes the House Transpo Bill? Big Oil, Big Truck, and Big Box Retail

By Ben Goldman | Feb 3, 2012 | 16 Comments

The House has finished marking up its transportation bill in what shaped up to be a very Groundhog Day-esque ordeal of unending, repetitive partisan theater (if you missed it, follow coverage on twitter). The centerpiece was yesterday’s/last night’s/this morning’s Transportation & Infrastructure committee markup, where members debated more than 80 amendments for over 18 hours […]

Record Fuel Exports Don’t Mean the U.S. Is Not Addicted to Foreign Oil

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

The AP is reporting that for the first time since Harry Truman was president, the U.S. is a net exporter of refined petroleum products. In fact, fuel was the country’s top export in 2011, totaling $73.4 billion. However, “the small positive net export balance on petroleum products is still completely dwarfed by the huge negative […]

Streetsies 2011: Bums and Bummers

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

On our walk down the memory lane of 2011 so far, we’ve talked about some downers, some inspirations, some triumphs, and some struggles. Check out our first two installments of year-end Streetsie award nostalgia. Here’s some more. Best Obama Plan That Died a Slow and Horrible Death This Year: How to choose, when there were […]

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