9.30
“Daring to Say Loans Made No Sense”: in which the layman gets his due in daring to ask how in the hell did we get ourselves into this financial mess in the first place. Includes some quality linkage to an excellent “This American Life” episode that, if you are in as much of a mental quandary in regards to our current financial quagmire as I am, deserves you attention (the episode in question being popular enough to warrant a “sequel”, being broadcast next week).
7.21
In fact, no unbiased expert claims that exploiting the fields in the Alaskan wilderness would cause more than a bump in world supply or prices in the U.S.
Oil executives know that they haven’t explored 80 percent of their existing leases in the continental U.S., according to Barlett.
As followers of the “the peak-oil theory”, big oil believes that, by 2010, their industry will have hit a maximum level of output. After that, weather because of competing energy sources, depleted sources of oil or the increasing amount of money it takes to produce it, oil output will begin to permanently decline.
In “Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil” Howell Raines of Portfolio.com looks at the myths of supply and demand oil companies have perpetuated in order to gain monumental profits before their tap begins to run dry.
12.14
More on the ubiquitous voices in media (I’ll stop sometime)
Do you watch Frontline? You should, by the way. Best news-magazine style show on TV. Frontline retains a certain air of sober integrity amongst the crop of glitzy, ratings-hungry news-magazines one finds on network television. Anyway, much as there is a signature vocal manner associated with the marketing of films (embodied by these guys) Frontline, since I began watching it some years ago, has been graced with the commanding vocal imprint of one Will Lyman…and so has BMW.
This isn’t breaking news (this article bemoaning this association is from ‘05 after all) but as I have been thinking, lately, about signature voices in the media Mr. Lyman was bound to crop up.
Frontline is an incomparable, top-notch news-magazine program. I continue to watch it whenever I can. It’s hard, now, though, to get “The Ultimate Driving Machine” out of my head when I do.
8.2
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