Man Mixes Water, Boiling Oil

On a Korean cooking show. The results are terrifyingly zany! (via arbroath.blogspot.com)

Raymond Sultan 5 months ago 5 responses

In Homophobic Industries, Gay Men Struggle To Blaze A Trail

Sports, construction, and other male-dominated fields remain very unfriendly to gay employees. But a few are working to make things better for everyone.

Anna North 10 months ago 19 responses

23 Surreal Animal Paintings

Chris Buzelli is really good at weaving animals into his work. Here are some of his great oil paintings. (via mymodernmet.com)

Keenan Roberts a year ago 143 responses

Incredible Before & After Picture Of An Oil Pipeline Fire In Syria

The pipeline, which runs through the rebel-held neighbourhood of Baba Amr, had been shelled by regime troops for the previous 12 days. Whoa.

Matt Stopera a year ago 116 responses

Chevy Impala Goes Boom

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.

Brian Abrams a year ago respond

Girl Makes Funny Faces At Congressional Hearing

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) Watch Video ›

Richard J. a year ago 66 responses

Lady Gaga Is An Oil-Covered Mermaid

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,” View List ›

LindsayMarie a year ago 73 responses

Oil Bikinis

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) View List ›

Gavon Laessig a year ago 25 responses

Oil-Spill Victims: Where’s Justice? on theroot.com ›

Aside from being the Christmas of Pot, today also marks the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

theroot.com 2 years ago respond

Refraction

Oil and water do not mix, but together they create stunning visuals. Watch Video ›

Ashley Baccam 2 years ago 18 responses

Machine to Converts Plastic Into Oil

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? Watch Video ›

Reddit Top Links 2 years ago respond

BP Oil Spill In A Nutshell

I think this pretty much sums it up. (If anyone know where it’s from can you email me?) View Image ›

anteater 2 years ago 3 responses

A Million Gallons Of Oil May Leak Into Lake Michigan

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? View Image ›

Rohin Guha 2 years ago 29 responses

Polluted Beaches Pin-ups

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. View List ›

Mathieu S. 2 years ago 73 responses

Child is Sad About Oil at the Beach

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. Watch Video ›

Dmo 2 years ago 18 responses

Why the Oil Cleanup is Taking So Long…

Time to invest in Bounty, I guess… View Image ›

disgruntor 2 years ago 25 responses

Lax Oversight Cited in Failure of Oil Rig’s Failsafe Device on nytimes.com ›

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.

NYTimes 2 years ago respond

What If The Oil Spill Happened Where You Live? on ifitwasmyhome.com ›

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….

Jess Amason 2 years ago 23 responses

Obama Calls To End Dependence On Fossil Fuels on news.yahoo.com ›

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.

Yahoo News 2 years ago respond

Lol, Sarah Palin. You’re Still A Moron.

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. View Image ›

Reddit Top Links 2 years ago 1 response

Oil Spikes 9% on us.rd.yahoo.com ›

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.

Yahoo News 4 years ago respond

Oil Drops on Weak GDP Report on us.rd.yahoo.com ›

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.

Yahoo News 4 years ago respond

Exxon Mobil Posts Biggest US Quarterly Profit Ever on us.rd.yahoo.com ›

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.

Yahoo News 4 years ago respond

Sarah Palin Loves To Drill on ap.google.com ›

Sarah Palin spoke at the Solar Technology Startup Company In Toledo yesterday. Of course there was a lot of talk about drilling.

Reddit Top Links 4 years ago respond

Palin Calls For Break from Bush Energy Policy on us.rd.yahoo.com ›

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called on Wednesday for a “clean break” from the Bush administration’s energy policies, which she says rely too much on importing foreign oil. Really? Good idea.

Yahoo News 4 years ago respond

OPEC Cuts Production on us.rd.yahoo.com ›

OPEC decided to cut oil production for the first time in almost two years because prices are falling. Everyone else in the world hates this idea, but so far the price of oil isn’t going back up, because demand is falling.

Yahoo News 4 years ago respond

Oil Consumption By State

The U.S. consumes a quarter of the world’s oil. Where does it all go? Hi, Texas! Actually, on a per capita basis, Alaska is the biggest user of oil, but don’t tell Governor Palin that. View Image ›

Scott Lamb 4 years ago respond

Rock Music Vs. Oil Production

A weird correlation appears when you compare the last 60 years of U.S. oil output to Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest rock songs of all time. And no amount of drilling in Alaska is going to bring back the music of the ’70s. View Image ›

Scott Lamb 4 years ago respond

Sex For Oil

Government official within the Interior Department traded sexual favors and illegal gifts for access to key contracts. The scandal centers around the Denver Minerals Management Service office, which sounds more like a frat house than a branch of government — skiing holidays, cocaine, body shots, and lots and lots of sex (we made up the cocaine and body shots). Read More ›

Scott Lamb 4 years ago respond