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Published: 11/12/10

Opinion: 3 Painless Ways to Kill the Debt Dragon

By not in system - AOL News

(Nov. 12) -- Gen. George S. Patton once proclaimed that the duty of the American soldier wasn't to die for his country but to get some poor bastard from another country to die for his. We would do well to pay heed to that advice as President Barack Obama's debt commission starts to lay out the pain and sacrifice it says will be needed to cut the nation's crushing debt load. The message of U.S. citizens to federal officials should be "You first." To be sure, Obama's bipartisan deficit hawks, former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, are ...

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Published: 10/7/10

Peak Oil Is Here: What Should We Do?

By Dave Thier - AOL News

(Oct. 7) -- The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas made a dire prediction today. The world has been extracting oil from the earth for just 150 years, but "peak oil," the point at which fuel production will begin to decrease while demand continues to increase, has finally come. "We are at the point of no return," said Jim Baldauf, ASPO-USA president. "Without affordable energy to drive our economy, we can expect price spikes and economic crisis to be the new normal. The debate about peak oil is over; it is time for bold action. If we do not change our current approach, we will see ...

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Published: 06/22/10

'Gasland': The Battle Over Energy Extraction Moves Inland From the Gulf

By Sandra Fish - Politics Daily

While BP chief executive Tony Hayward turns his attention to yachting and other company officials take control of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company continues its quest for energy resources inland. In fact, BP plans to start drilling again for natural gas in one Colorado county this fall. But that method of drilling -- hydraulic fracturing is the technical term, "fracking" is the shorthand -- is getting plenty of attention this week with the release of the HBO documentary "Gasland," currently airing on On Demand. The film, which won the special jury prize for ...

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Published: 03/13/10

Cold, Hard Facts: U.S. Trails in Race for the Top of the World

By Bob Reiss - Politics Daily

Most Americans give little thought to our far north. We think of the Arctic as a single region, a cold place divorced from our everyday lives, a setting for documentaries from which we learn that polar bears are in danger as their icy habitat shrinks. But the U.S. also faces huge, new geopolitical consequences from the melt. A whole new area of Earth is suddenly open for international conflict, environmental destruction, and an economic bonanza. On March 1, Alaska's senators sat down at the Council for Foreign Relations with other experts on the region to figure out how to get the rest of ...

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