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A Wonderfully Simple Explanation of Oil Price and the Economy [Video]





The price of gas seems to keep changing, but the truth is that the problem isn't just to do with decreasing oil resources. In fact, the price of the black stuff is linked into our economy in a complex way...
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Virus Attack Kills Iranian Oil [Hackers]





Iran may or may not be decoding American drone data right now, but one thing's for sure: someone cyber-punched the crap out of its oil infrastructure. Internet war! More »



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Deep Diver James Cameron Talked Ocean Geekery Way Back at D8

Famed Hollywood movie director James Cameron has always been a geek, most especially an ocean geek, so it’s no surprise that he would be the one to dive seven miles down into the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep.
That would be into the Earth&...
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Who Needs Oil When Scientists Can Make Plastic From Plants? [Science]





When our oil supplies run out, it won't just be fuel for our cars that dries up. Everything you own that's made of plastic has been made using the black gold and, until now, there's been no other way to cr...
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Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) & American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Team Up to Increase Renewable Energy

The Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) and American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) have announced “a partnership to explore how renewable energy can help the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) achieve mission objectives, save taxpayer money, and redu...
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Oil Rigs May Turn Migratory Birds Into Shark Food

In the stomachs of tiger sharks in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers are finding something unusual: land-faring migratory birds.
Sharks are known to eat seafaring birds, but land birds such as woodpeckers, meadowlarks, swallows and tanagers are unexpected...
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Oily Politician Attacks EV Tax Credit, Protects Oil Subsidies
 
Ah, the ever-noble efforts of oil-rich Congressmen…. They never cease to stop appalling us,.. and even their own constituents, it seems:

Oil-Rich Republican Mike Kelly Introduces Legislation To End $7,500 EV Tax Credit (via Gas 2.0)




No r...
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Iran Tests Long-Range Missiles Over Strait of Hormuz, Creates First Nuclear Fuel Rod [Weapons]





Iran has successfully tested two long-range missiles over the Strait of Hormuz—a crucial point for oil commerce—in response to Obama's December 31 sanctions against Iran's central bank. What's ...
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Nigeria Oil Spill Raises Concerns About New Drilling Tech

Satellite images of Nigeria’s coastline show the new Shell oil spill covering a 356 square mile patch of ocean.
By Deepwater Horizon mega-disaster benchmarks, it’s not so big — but it might be in the Exxon Valdez ballpark, and underscor...
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BP Irony
Yeah, that’s pretty ballsy coming from BP.
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Spongebob, By Salvador Dalí

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Omelet or Omelette? Basis: homemade bread with wholewheat flour,...
Omelet or Omelette?
Basis: homemade bread with wholewheat flour, white flour, a pinch of brown sugar and pink salt, oil and weast
Omelette: 1 and 1/2 eggs,  mozzarella, some 3.2% fat milk, Himalayan salt, sesame,fresh white pepper
On the side: green peppe...
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Lunchy Dinner by anchett Free-range eggs omlet with spring...
Lunchy Dinner by anchett
Free-range eggs omlet with spring onions, pieces of red beets and mushrooms)пачи-крак). Cooked in soybean oil.
On the side - some green salad, bio quark with flax butter, and a heart-cut mozzarella.
I forgot to add some flax and p...
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The Massive Deep-Water Drilling Rig Searching for Cuban Black Gold [Video]






Despite the Deep Water Horizon fiasco, deep-water drilling remains one of the worlds' primary sources of crude. And among deep drilling rigs, this 56,860 ton Scarabeo 9 is king. More »
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A 4,600 Gallon per Minute Oil Skimmer Just Won the $1.4 Million X Challenge [Video]






Current industry-standard oil recovery equipment pulls roughly 1,000 gallons a minute but, as the Deep Water Horizon incident showed, that simply isn't good enough. So Wendy Schmidt—as in wife of e...
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An Amazing Robot Sailboat that Kills Oil Spills [Watch This]






Recovering from an oil disaster isn't just horrific to endure—it's massively difficult and massively expensive to soak it all up. But what if we didn't need an army of oil-wiping humans? What about ...
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Maxcketti by AboutMax at the lunch box picnic Basis: wholewheat...
Maxcketti by AboutMax at the lunch box picnic
Basis: wholewheat multigrain (sesame, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, oats, rye, wheat)
Spread on it: garlic and olive oil
Vitamins: home-grown tomato pieces, black pepper and fresh basil
First picture taken...
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Chickpeas Under The Sun by Strawbana A salad of boiled chickpea...
Chickpeas Under The Sun by Strawbana
A salad of boiled chickpea with seitan, tomato, parsley, seasoned with Himalayan salt and olive oil.
A print screen from the tv show by @grigorovi aired by BNT
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Aquarium Sponsorship FAIL


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Aquarium Sponsorship FAIL


For the lighter side of politics, check out Pundit Kitchen!
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Tar Sands Showdown: The Fight Over the Future of Energy

Over two weeks at the end of August and beginning of September, more than 1,200 people were arrested in Washington, D.C. during acts of civil disobedience against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The protests were the environmental movement’s...
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When Someone Robs You at a Gas Station, Use the Nozzle to Spray Your Would Be Attacker [Crime]






Faced with a knife-wielding goon while working at a gas station in Massachusetts, an attendent pulled a Zoolander and doused the robber with gasoline, successfully fighting him off. More »
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Libya War: Gaddafi Falls… But Why Did We Invade In The First Place?




By Washington`s Blog
Now that the Libyan “rebels” have taken Tripoli, and Gaddafi’s days are quickly ending, it’s time to take stock about the meaning behind the war, and why we’re really there.
A War For Oil and Gold?
In...
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Auto Shop Cleanliness FAIL



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California May Be Riddled With Poorly Mapped Underground Fuel Pipelines [Wtf]






Since 1998, fuel pipeline owners in California were required by law to give local officials detailed maps of their underground pipe network. Problem is, many companies submitted inaccurate maps early on a...
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BP Has Another Spill On Their Hands [Blip]


Seriously? BP admitted today that a pipeline leak on Saturday resulted in "2,100 to 4,200 gallons" of methanol and oily water being spilled onto the Alaskan tundra. After last year's 5 million barrels spilt, can they really afford even smal...
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Let Plastic2Oil Turn Your Discarded Plastics Into Fuel [Recycling]






Canadian company JBI is setting the recycling industry on fire with its new Plastic2Oil plants that promise to convert non-recyclable plastics into fuel. More »






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Sunlight May Turn Jet Exhaust Into Toxic Particles

Airports can pose a far bigger threat to local air than previously recognized, thanks to the transformative power of sunlight.



In the first on-tarmac measurements of their kind, researchers have shown that oil drop...
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How the First Waterproof Jackets Kept Us Dry [Design]






Long before Gore-Tex or Patagonia's H2No, people kept the rain off their backs with the most obvious of repellants: oil. It was a trick gleaned from mariners in the 1500s. Sails slicked with grease and oi...
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Gulf Oil Shouldn’t Spill Beneath the Radar

A year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout sent 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, smaller leaks still bubble across the Gulf — but unlike big spills, they’re largely ignored.
A nonprofit organization called SkyTruth,...
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Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Future Oil Disasters

Hundreds of lawsuits have flowed from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, filed by citizens, states and the federal government. And someday, perhaps, the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems will also file suit.
Environmental philosophers, and many people, s...
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Instead of Bombing Libya…




By Don Emmerich
If protecting civilians from evil dictators was the goal…—as opposed to, say, safeguarding natural resources and the investments of major oil companies—there’s an easier, safer way than aerial bombardment for the U.S. and its all...
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The Gulf Spill, One Year Later [Gulf Oil Spill]






Fixing This | One year on, we take a look at the technologies used to combat the worst oil spill in US history More »






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Business And World Peace- The Taught Challenge





By Len Hulsbos
Business has been involved in war since the beginning of international trade. At first we called it colonialism and it was a sign of obvious progress and superiority of western society. Now a days we don’t really hear manything about i...
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nikumiso ra-yu
This recently caught my eye at the supermarket.Nikumiso ra-yu. Nikumiso is made by combining pork with miso and other condiments. I've seen it used in musubi or eaten as is.This particular product is combined with ra-yu (chili oil).It is similar to gu-...
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One Man's Trash Bags are Another Man's Heat Source [Energy]


A Japanese inventor has created a machine which can melt down plastics—such as bags and bottles—into a crude oil that can be used as energy in a home heating system. In one hour, two pounds of plastic (polypropylene, polyethylen...
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BP CEO Thinks Last Year Was Almost the Company's Best [Blockquote]






Ah man, don't you hate those days where everything goes totally right except for when you, I dunno, step in a puddle? BP CEO Bob Dudley feels like that about BP in 2010, except his "puddle" was an environ...
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OVERKILL


OVERKILL
That bass only needs four strings.
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Relative Prices of Various Liquids
Oil doesn’t seem all that expensive now does it?





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Exhaustive Investigation Details Final Moments of the Doomed Deepwater Horizon [Deepwater Horizon]






Earlier this year one of the worst oil-related disasters ever caused by man started with a deadly explosion. Now, eight months later, questions are answered. Chief among them is how a rig with so many fai...
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Chevrolet Volt Car Will Use Recycled Oil Booms From BP's Oil Spill Disaster [Cars]






What to do with all those leftover oil booms that BP used to mop up its oil? If you're a car manufacturer, you could recycle all of the oil-slicked plastic tubes into new Chevrolet Volts. More &ra...
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Oil Lamp Grenade: Because a Round-Base Flame Carrier is a Safe Idea [Lamps]






Don't lob this grenade, whatever you do—unless you're attempting insurance fraud and actually want your house burned down. Perfectly rounded, filled with oil, and then lit up. What could go wrong? L...
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HOLY CRAP!


HOLY CRAP!
He’s leaking oil
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BP Planning To Challenge Oil Spill Estimates To Reduce Their Fine [Bp]






Sometimes we all have to to own up to our mistakes and serve the time. But not the classy folks at BP! According to the NY Times, BP will challenge estimates of the oil spilled in order to reduce their fi...
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Rock Music Vs. Oil
An obvious connection.  Saudi Arabia has great music!



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Rock Sugar Dont Stop the Sand Man! The Best Music Video You Will See This Week!
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BP Dispersants Causing "Non-Stop Diarrhea" and Other Pleasant Side Effects [Bp]






Remember when BP was responsible for horrible things, and then they plugged the hole and we moved on to worrying about other horrible things? Things are still horrible! The chemical they used to break dow...
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BP and Halliburton Knew Deepwater Disaster Cement Was Unstable, Report Says [Oildisaster]






Halliburton and BP knew the cement mixture used to seal the Macondo well, the one drilled during the Deepwater Rig explosion, was unreliable but used it anyway, according a new report from the presidentia...
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BP's Oil Used as Paint For "Oil & Water Do Not Mix" Posters [Bp Oil Disaster]






I love the series of photos of Anthony Burrill using oil from Louisiana beaches left from the BP oil disaster for his posters. From something so horrible comes something pretty eye-catching—and bene...
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cool
Recently, I did some frying and was wondering how to throw out the oil.I usually don't do frying because it makes the house smell and plus throwing out the oil is usually a pain with all the "rules" we have for throwing garbage out.But I found this neat ...
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