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Dave Johnson's picture

Devastating, Job-Killing, Socialist Regulations

Conservatives, their movement funded by big oil and king coal, constantly complain about "job-killing regulations." They say that more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Conservative Message Machine In The Service Of Big Oil

See if you can spot the common theme in the latest the conservative message machine pumped out today and in the last few days.

Heritage Foundation: Obama Keeps Turning His Back on Jobs: more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Oil-Backed Conservatives Try To Kill Green Jobs Effort

For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

How Koch Front Groups Influence Laws

Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to continue tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies. Every Republican voted to support the tax breaks and subsidies. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Fairy-Tale Social Security Policy

Lots of kids believe in Santa Claus. This is because people repeat the fable to kids over and over, telling them that Santa Claus will deliver presents to them if they're good. And then there's the Boogeyman, the "amorphous embodiment of terror." In some regions stories of the Boogeyman are repeated and repeated, and to keep the Boogeyman away little children do what they are told. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Obama: We've Been Outflanked, Cap & Trade Dead

The headline of my local paper today is Obama: Act on clean energy. (But a different headline online - do they do that just to mess up bloggers?) more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

We Already Have A Huge Carbon Tax - But Oil And Coal Companies Get The Money

We all pay a huge "hidden" tax when we burn oil and coal. Oil companies get the money. This is holding our economy back. more »

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Alexander Sewell's picture

Despite Energy Independence Efforts, U.S. Dangerously Dependent

Fifty-eight percent of oil consumed in the U.S. is imported.

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Sara Robinson's picture

Decline and Fall of America's Energy Empire

Beyond today's political squabbles over such topics as offshore drilling or oil speculation is this hard fact: the Age of Oil — and an American empire built on oil — is coming to an end, and there is no turning back. Americans can either get out in front of this change and come out of it at the century's end with much of their greatness intact — or continue to fight it and end up as another of history's has-beens.

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Bill Scher's picture

After Eight Years In The White House, No "Quick Fix" On Oil

Bush's Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is on a Middle East tour. Apparently, it's a comedy tour.

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