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Culture Buzz An apparent oil overflow during a routine oil change caused one man's 2001 Impala to catch fire and completely torch his entire engine. The guys at the station claim it was a factory defect, but the real story here is that someone was clever enough to mash up Bon Jovi's hit single from “Young Guns II” with the incident. Nice.
The oil drilling argument between Alaska Representative Don Young and Rice University Professor Doug Brinkley — ah who cares? The look on that staffer's face is priceless. (via c-spanvideo.org)
Lady Gaga takes on the form of a mermaid for the latest “Larger Than Life” issue of Visionaire magazine. “There is no oil too thick as to destroy the imagination,”
Culture Buzz This probably isn't what you have in mind when you think of oil and bikini models. These are from the Surfrider calendar in Europe. Surfrider, if you couldn't tell from the BP-themed satire, is an environmental preservation organization. Relax. It's not really crude oil. Photoshoppery ahoy. (via mymodernmet.com)
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Aside from being the Christmas of Pot, today also marks the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Akinori Ito has invented a machine that will convert plastic back into oil. Just don't let BP invest in this one and everything should be fine, right?
I think this pretty much sums it up. (If anyone know where it's from can you email me?)
As if the Motor City wasn't beleaguered enough, a regional oil company sprang a leak and is set to inadvertently feed upwards of one million gallons of oil into Lake Michigan. Err, are oil tycoons asleep at the wheel these days?
Culture Buzz A Pin-up calendar created by a french agency for the Surfrider Foundation. A foundation which is passionate about cleaning up our beaches and fighting pollution around the world.
Awwww. Shame on you BP. All little Carter wants to do is go to the beach and play in the water but he can't because it's covered in oil. His childhood is ruined.
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The federal agency charged with regulating offshore drilling repeatedly declined to act on advice on how it could minimize the risk of a failure of the device, an examination found.
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Ifitwasmyhome.com has created a tool using Google Maps to help put the scope of the BP spill in perspective. Just enter your city, state and country to see what a spill of that size would mean in your home. For example, if the spill happened in Manhattan, it would have already made it to Boston….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama
Seizing on a disastrous oil spill to advance his agenda, President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil and send him a clean-energy bill that would help the nation end its “fossil fuel addiction” for good.
Sarah Palin has never had a strong grip on logic, reason, and the actual science behind drilling for oil. Thanks to her twitter account we can now see her idiocy play out in real time.
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Oil prices jumped 9 percent Monday, pulled along by a surging Wall Street that reacted to news of a U.S. government bailout for Citigroup.
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The latest U.S. economic report to suggest the nation has fallen into recession pushed oil prices lower on a strengthening conviction that the rest of the globe will follow.
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Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter. Drill baby drill.
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