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First, let’s start with demand. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), the United States imports 8.9 million barrels of crude petroleum a day and produces 5.8 million (all statistics used in this article are from the DOE, some from its Energy Information Administration). If you price those supplies at the moderate and currently prevalent price of $25 per barrel, you arrive at a daily crude oil expenditure by U.S. firms and the government of $222.5 million, which is $81 billion annualized. We spend $81 billion a year buying crude oil on the world markets, primarily...
...cute date balancing on the side of a fountain. He can do savvy without resorting to “I’m-Slick” posturing (e.g., Pierce Brosnan, whose tie-adjusting characterizations all suffer from acute Bond Envy), and he can do sensitive, but without the moistened doe-eyes (e.g., Nicholas Cage, whose recent turns in Family Man and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin have proved that he can do insufferable mournfulness like no other). Looks-wise, he’s solid and then some, his smooth face a juxtaposition of an aristocrat’s brow...
...announce your firm intention to intention to wean America off coal in ten years, natural gas in 20, and oil in 25. (Let the current nukes die of natural causes.) Corporate tax breaks will be handed out according to cleanliness by the EPA; personal ones for conservation by the DOE. Subsidies will be generously provided so that Big Coal, Big Gas and eventually Big Oil can die a humane death by diversification...
...family faces sets off the photo database, it seems reasonable to wonder what good the cameras could possibly be doing - and to feel a vicarious sense of outrage on behalf of the entire Shmo family. But let?s imagine a different scenario: Say little Suzy Shmo is actually Jane Doe - whose frantic parents have been searching for their missing daughter for over a year. Suddenly, theoretical concerns over privacy don?t seem quite so pressing...
...story about the newly released documents in the Timothy McVeigh case [NATION, May 21] mistakenly said an FBI sketch of John Doe No. 2 was based on images captured by a surveillance camera in a bank near the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. In fact, the sketch was based on an FBI interview with the man who rented to McVeigh the Ryder truck used in the bombing...