“Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.” LittlesBitsLittle BitNewsOilDucksCoastGood NewsCatchingBad NewsGallonsCatching UpCoast Guard Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.” ThinkingHugeNewsEnvironmentalOilDisasterIceMexicoGood NewsCapsMeltingSpillsBad NewsRigsOil SpillGulf Of MexicoMelting Ice Author:David Letterman
“Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsBelieveWarStoriesFeelingsKidsSchoolBitsFiveMastersGoes OnNewsStrangerOilFeel GoodCaliforniaBombsShoreFloodBostonFaminePassportsCourteous Author:Brian Reade
“Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.” WayLongCharacterSchoolGuyEvilHoursCompanyNewsJokesCapitalismOilClassicCommunistBad GuysCablesOld SchoolAllegoryOil CompaniesMuppetCable News Author:James Bobin
“At the moment we are facing a whole collection of difficult to forecast developments from the situation in China and the oil-price crash to the worrying news from some banks in Europe and the US. All of that is linked: Worldwide company debt is high and there is a lot of money in circulation. That is why necessary structural reforms are not being made.” MadeWholeMomentsDifficultCompanySituationWorryDevelopmentNewsEuropeChinaDebtOilReformCollectionsLots Of MoneyCrashLinkedCirculationForecastsOil Price Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.” KnowsTwoCoursesStreetsWallMonthsNewsPressesOilNewspapersReportsArticlesMainstreamJournalMarineLandingHaitiTwo MonthsPetroleumWall Street Journal Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.” WorldLooksKindHardSeaNewsProtectionOilAround The WorldDestructiveGasFishingExplorationBad NewsMining Author:Sylvia Earle