It’s only April and we’re already back to $3 gas. Wonder what the rest of the summer will be like. The Lane County Transit District said ridership increased over 10% between March, 2005 and March, 2006. That reduces pressure on oil supplies and eases congestion on the roads. Economists insist that increased prices reduce demand. [...]

Last week Portland’s Willamette Week gave its Rogue of the Week honors to a handful of Oregon legislators who seemed to turn themselves into lobbyists for PGE and PacificCorp:
Over the past nine years, Portland General Electric collected nearly $900 million from Oregon ratepayers to cover its income taxes. Instead of paying the taxes, however, PGE’s [...]

As Rick noted in an earlier post Big Oil stepped in to challenge the Oregon Apollo ballot title in Oregon’s courts. Since the initiative was about creating renewable energy options for the state of Oregon, it’s obvious why Big Oil is interfering. As a result of this, Oregon Apollo realized that there would [...]

Last night I dreamed the kind of dream I had feared dreaming twenty years ago, when Reagan taunted the Soviets and the struggle for peace was about nukes and not terrorists. I never had that dream then; I’ve had it now.
I was in a cave, like many found along the Oregon coast under the [...]

The latest gurus to jump on the doomsday bandwagon are Kevin Phillips, credited with being the architect of the architect of conservative dominance back in the 1970s & 1980s. Kevin has a new book out, “American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century” which I [...]