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Web & media - July 7
Energy Bulletin - — Click on the headline (link) for the full text. Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage Chat with a peak oil screenwriter Amanda Kovattana (Earthworm), Flickr [image] Jon Cooksey, on the left, created the fun Boil A Frog video I just reviewed for the Energy Bulletin. EB editor, Bart Anderson, on the right, invited me to join them for breakfast. Jon lives in Canada, but works in the LA TV producing scene. I was stunned to learn that he spent $300,000 to produce his little video and says he needs nearly as much to see that it gets distribution and that's going to be hard because he used so much copyrighted material. He ...

Big Oil/Lundberg Survey Scare Tactics Against Climate Legislation
Ecoearth.info Blog — Lundberg Survey is regularly quoted across the U.S. on gasoline prices and related oil industry developments, even though the firm has dwindled from the 1970s and '80s when it was more widely known and called "the Bible of the oil industry." It changed from an independent family business to a 100% tool for Big Oil, decrying "burdensome environmental regulations" while the corporation's head says global warming is "political hot air." So how can Lundberg Survey's new study on climate legislation be accepted as credible? The Lundberg Letter of July 8, 2009 is titled "Early Estimates, Under a 'Cap and Trade' Law: THE GASOLINE PRICE IMPACT OF CARBON PERMITS" (revised July 9, ...