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METRO | Is cheaper driving here to stay?
Gasoline may stay cheap until we burn through the current market glut in perhaps a year. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 14, 2015 [This article was written as a companion piece to Roger Baker’s Rag Blog … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, RagBlog
Tagged Fracking, Metro, Oil Prices, Peak Driving, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Texas Shale, Transportation
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America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally!, Part 2
The estimate of three years of easily affordable driving depends primarily on how long the current fracking boom, which is holding down the global oil price, can be sustained. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | October 1, 2014 … Continue reading
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America: You’ve got three more years to
drive normally!
Three more years? That’s pretty scary! Surely there must be a mistake in that headline. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2014 First in a series Is it possible that average Americans could have a hard … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Driving Series, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Oil Production, Peak Driving, Peak Oil, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Transportation
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Obama is wrong about natural gas
A new scientific study argues that both shale gas and conventional natural gas have larger greenhouse gas footprints than do coal or oil. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2014 Natural gas is falsely promoted … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gasses, Jack A. Smith, Methane Pollution, Natural Gas, Rag Bloggers
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METRO | San Antonio art show takes on the South Texas ‘fracking frenzy’
Exhibit: Frackaso: Portraits of Extraction in Eagle Ford and Beyond Opening reception: Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. Place: Esperanza Peace & Justice Center Address: 922 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio Dates of exhibit: Friday, April 18 – Sunday, August 31, 2014 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Art Exhibit, Carlos Lowry, Esperanza, Fine Arts, Fracking, Metro, Political Arts, Rag Bloggers, San Antonio, Social Activists, Visual Arts
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Keystone XL’s Houston ‘Fork in the Road’
Houston’s refinery row. Image from Gulf Restoration Network / DaSmogBlog. Keystone XL fork in the road: TransCanada’s Houston Lateral Pipeline Houston’s LyondellBasell refinery is retooling itself for the looming feast of tar sands crude and fracked oil bounty that awaits … Continue reading
Lamar W. Hankins : Politicians Refuse to Protect the Public
Explosion at fertilizer plant in West, Texas, April 17, 2013. Photo by Andy Bartee / KVUE.com. Texas explosion, guns, and fracking: Politicians refuse to protect the public Only a dramatic revolution of values focused on respect for people, creatures great … Continue reading
Richard Raznikov : Keep the ‘Change,’ Barack
Label this! Image from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.Label this!Keep the ‘change,’ Barack I wonder whether the writer knew that Obama has appointed Monsanto’s chief lobbyist and a corporate vice president to serve as the ‘food safety czar’ of the Food … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Big Business, Democracy, Fracking, GMO's, Monsanto, Richard Raznikov
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Jack A. Smith : The U.S. and Irreversible Climate Change
Cartoon from Saida Online.With U.S. leading the way:Irreversible climate change looms By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | November 29, 2011 The Obama Administration has largely remained passive about the critical imperative to reduce greenhouse gases to limit … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Global Warming, Jack A. Smith, Keystone XL Pipeline, Obama Administration
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Lamar W. Hankins : Natural Gas and the Perils of Fracking
Light my fire. Images from the documentary film, Gasland.The perils of fracking:Protecting our waterfrom natural gas production By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 Anyone who drinks water has a stake in the production of … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Documentary Film, Environment, Fracking, Gasland, Natural Gas, pollution
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