Gulf Oil Spill math
June 1st, 2010
One of the best articles I’ve read on the math used to estimate Gulf Oil Spill quantities: Jenn Kepka’s “Putting the Gulf oil spill in perspective”, Salon.com, 5/28.
right-wing oil fantasies
August 18th, 2008
Peter Dizikes writes about a number of right-wing myths about oil in today’s Salon.com.
Unbelievably enough, there are people who believe:
# There’s more oil in Alaska than in the Middle East
# The Chinese are about to start drilling — or are already drilling — off the coast of Florida (the Cuba/China menace — Russia/Cuba 2.0 — new and improved!)
and — wait for it —
# Oil is not a “fossil fuel” but a nearly infinite non-organic resource like, I guess, rocks.