Subject: Fossil Fuel Energy

• The Fix Was In For The GOP?

  Your hunch at the gas pump was right. In advance of recent federal elections, oil companies seemed to have lowered gas prices--a move that's benefited the party in power: Republicans. But now there's conclusive evidence that you weren't nuts. Last week, the good folks over at The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights released data demonstrating that oil companies sharply reduced gas prices in the months before the last three federal elections. After the Republicans retained their politica

  November 7, 2006

• Eddie Rose on "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"

  Eddie Rose writes: "In California this year, we have--with one notable exception--the WORST slate of candidates, including a man who can't pronounce the name of the state he claims to serve! Were it not for the importance of several ballot propositions, it probably wouldn't make much sense to go to the polls at all--unless you believe that we should simply vote for the LESSER OF EVILS. What an option! Here are my recommendations: Prop. 1A: Use existing gas taxes for roads and transportatio

  October 29, 2006

• Oily characters

  The holidays are a time for celebrating tradition, and a story from The Associated Press reminds us of one of our country's greatest traditions: corporations screwing the public and lying about it. Confirming what you've suspected as you stand at the self-service gas pump, swearing under your breath, "an Associated Press analysis suggests that big oil companies have been crimping supplies in subtler ways across the country for years. And tighter supplies tend to drive up prices." The analysis,

  November 27, 2006

• Foxes, Henhouses, and the Fashion Police

  Just like breaking a leg can take your mind off a toothache, the major traumas the Bush administration has inflicted on the body politic make it easy to forget the lesser damage it's doing.  Or, as Ruth Marcus puts in her column in today's Washington Post, "The tornado of disastrous headlines -- a Pentagon that can't take proper care of its wounded, a Justice Department that can't be trusted to follow the law or tell the truth to Congress, a top White House aide who lied to a grand jury-- h

  April 4, 2007

• OC's leading indicator an economic downturn looms

  Forget sky-high gas prices, stagnant home sales and shaky consumer confidence. Around here, all you need to know that rotten times are ahead is Sharper Image quarterly profits have sunk 62 percent.

  April 18, 2006

• White House Oil Men: OUT! More Taxes on Gas: IN!

  My how times change. The boost that 9/11 gave the oily men in the White House was as short-lived as any post-Seinfeld sitcom starring Jason Alexander. It seems like only yesterday that Dickless Cheney was defending our latest Blood for Oil campaign by suggesting Americans essentially have a God-given right to our "way of life"--even if, no, ESPECIALLY if that means giving a petroleum-jelly-covered middle finger to Kyoto, worldwide imbalances in energy consumption and all the nasty diseases assoc

  May 23, 2006

• Drilling Bit Players

  Further proving that otherwise politically conservative Newport Beach has an environmental streak when it comes to its own shores (but no one else's): Rep. John Campbell (R-The Arches) joined Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) as the only members of the Orange County congressional delegation to vote against lifting the 25-year ban on oil and natural gas drilling off most of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, which passed by a vote of

  July 5, 2006

• Tiger Woods: Corporate Stooge?

  One of my favorite columns is "Edge of Sports," written by Dave Zirin. The man combines the best of sportswriting and progressive politics, disproving those asshole hipsters who say sports means nothing in this world. When Zirin's People's History of Sports arrives later this year, y'all crazy lefties better make some room between the Chomsky and Cornel West tomes in your bookshelf. This week, Zirin focuses his razor pen on a surprising subject: our own Tiger Woods. 'Round here, Tiger is a god,

  May 30, 2008

• Economy Down, Surf(line) Up

  Is a rise in traffic to Huntington Beach-based surf camera Web site Surfline.com a leading economic indicator -- of a down economy? Ventura County Star's Alexandra Wilcox makes that case in a Sunday business report. Surfer Ozzie Osborn, no relation to the bat-head decapitating rocker, says in the story that high fuel prices have him checking out surf conditions online rather than driving out to eyeball the waves himself, as the 57-year-old used to do. It's apparently a trend. As Wilcox report

  July 21, 2008

• On The Wall: Freeda Freada Frida

  Picture This Gallery’s “Frida Kahlo Art Exhibit" Everything about Frida Kahlo was wild and colorful. She lived an amazing, romantic, tragicomic life, her art was full of rich, surreal yet deeply personal symbolism and she was an arresting image in her own right, with that pretty face spiced up with a unibrow and a daring little moustache. Every year the good folks at Long Beach's PICTURE THIS Gallery & Custom Framing present a group show of art about Kahlo, and every year the show gets more

  August 26, 2008

• Beach Boulevard Breakdown

  March 25, 1999

• Uncle Sam's Crude Solution

  October 31, 2002

• Spot the Gas Leak

  January 2, 2003

• Crude Methods

  April 10, 2003

• The Spoils of War

  October 17, 2002

• Baby, You Can Still Drive My Electric Car

  May 18, 2006

• Who Wants to Be a Figurehead!?

  May 1, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  Nov. 8 - Nov. 14

  November 16, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 5, 2006

• Grease Bandits

  August 31, 2006

• Thar's Coyotes in Them Thar Hills

  July 13, 2006

• Hey, You!

  May 11, 2006

• 'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

  April 20, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 13, 2006

• Letters

  March 2, 2006

• You've Been Pump'd!

  February 16, 2006

• It's Ball Over Now

  February 9, 2006

• Call Me

  February 9, 2006

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Fire Foxes in the Hen House?

  April 22, 2004

• Ooze Responsible?

  April 1, 2004

• Eat the Press 1

  February 26, 2004

• Crude Attitude

  January 29, 2004

• Checklist, Please!

  July 3, 2003

• MTBE Lies I Told You

  June 19, 2003

• Course Of Empire

  May 22, 2003

• Colonial Capitalism

  May 1, 2003

• Daddy Warbucks

  April 3, 2003

• Toxic Politics

  December 26, 2002

• ARCO settlement

  December 26, 2002

• T

  October 24, 2002

• The Martian Plan

  August 1, 2002

• Oy, No! We Won't Go!

  April 18, 2002

• Bad Company

  January 24, 2002

• Waiting

  October 12, 2000

• Screaming Bedlam

  September 21, 2000

• Guadalajara, Guadalajara

  June 24, 1999

• Got Gas?

  May 6, 1999

• Crime Time: Stabbings, Curfews, Drunk Marines, Drunk Councilman and Van's a-Rockin'

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more stabbings and [alleged] drunken-driving politicians . . . Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentKnew those Trader Joe's bags were good for something . . .​MONDAY, JULY 27Cash and Carry A man walked up with a Trader Joe's bag in hand to a teller at the Wells Fargo branch near Alicia Parkway and Charlinda Drive in Mission Viejo around 12:45 p.m. He asked for and received cash before walking out. Surveillance cameras reve

  August 4, 2009

• Full Film Slate: "Imagine This," "Crude," (the Return of) "The Cove," "Coco Before Chanel" and Michael Moore's Latest Polemic

  Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead. "Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains. First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion Bailey, an actor you may remember from TV's ER, took some friends and a film crew into a remote mountain village in Peru to see if they could change the lives of the people there in one week. Hi

  September 17, 2009