The phony union split on the Keystone pipeline.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 20th at 06:30 PM  | 

Quick background: the Obama administration has rejected plans for an additional pipeline to transport ethical oil from Canada to the United States, despite the fact that support for this project is bipartisan, and in fact favored by traditional Democratic allies in organized labor (who were reasonably expecting that they’d be able to get some jobs out of it).  Anyway: while reading this darkly entertaining article | Read More »

Scene from the Conflict Oil Wars: Austan Goolsbee v. the Naive Greens

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 29th at 05:30 PM  | 

Quick background: there’s a lot of oil in Canada.  Quite a bit of it is tied up in the form of oil sands, which radical Greenies hate with the same passion that normal people reserve for ax murderers or child rapists.  Despite this hatred, the Canadians have noticed that the price of oil makes oil sand development highly cost effective, which is why they were | Read More »