Monthly Archives: April 2011

ICYMI: http://bit.ly/hjqAmR [] #BOEMRE strains at gnats, swallows camel in the form of Petrobras’ FPSO. @RepJeffLandry @NatResources

Our Scarlett O’Hara moment: “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!”

“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” A March 17 press release from BOEMRE announced the approval of Petrobras’s permit application for the Gulf of Mexico’s first FPSO (“Floating Production Storage Offloading” facility), offshore Louisiana. I … Continue reading →

Vagisil Days, Zovirax Nights #BadPromThemes

Oil and natural gas are our primary transportation fuels, supplying 97% of the energy (27 quadrillion BTUs!) that we use annually to move our cars, trucks, buses, boats, planes and trains. The 3% that comes from renewables is ethanol. (Source.) … Continue reading →

#IfGovernmentShutsDown it will be like that creepy scene in “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Klaatu Birada Nikto! #rsrh

New York declares state’s top geologist “doubleplus undead” over his fracking opinions. http://bit.ly/gDJ7MU #rsrh

In his Wednesday address at Georgetown University, President Obama took another stab at elucidating his muddled energy policy: It was just three years ago that gas prices topped $4 a gallon. I remember because I was in the middle of … Continue reading →

Confusing headline: http://bit.ly/e8R7GP [] Spill didn’t kill 3 dolphins, scientists studying spill did. #rsrh