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Oil Joke
Enjoy our oil joke/cartoon, even though it's hard to provide laughs about oil spills!
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HOW DO OIL COMPANIES USUALLY DEAL WITH OIL SPILLS?
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Containment
booms and
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JIMMY RAY "BLACKIE" GOLD
— Oil City, Texahoma
"When I saw the book '101 Photographs of Oil-Covered Birds,' I was sick—what a waste of our precious black gold. We GOTTA increase oil production, and I say we should do more oil exploration in them foreign countries, like Kuwait and Alaska."
Can we drill our way out of oil shortages? Tap the gusher on the next page:
Peak Oil Article
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“Earth and Sun and Moon”
– Midnight Oil, from the album Earth and Sun and Moon |
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There's the contours of the mountains, the deserts and plains,
And a hurricane is blowing, and it turns once again.
Now there's oil spills in the water where Columbus once sailed,
And there's history and mystery and it's rolling away . . .
I wish you could see this great mystery:
Earth and sun and moon, human tribe, thin blue line—
Earth and sun and moon will survive.
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Album Review: Earth and Sun and Moon opens with a chilling bass line and shimmering synths to create a feeling of intrigue. The song is "Feeding Frenzy," and to the introductory riffs are added guitars, drums, and fat-sounding vocals to make it a quintessentially great Midnight Oil song. Lyrically, we immediately get a dose of the Oils' trenchant observational wisdom, this time about the folly of basing our lives on sensory pleasure: "Ah, sweet sensation, the oldest temptation ... Truth and fiction must collide someday."
The next song, "My Country" (which was a hit single), continues in much the same vein, adding a nice piano touch. "Renaissance Man" has a driving tempo with an excellent psychedelic effect applied in just the right amount. The title track to "Earth and Sun and Moon" uses a slightly different guitar sound than normal and a thickly chorused hook to elevate the song above its plodding bass and drum lines. The remaining songs all benefit
from similar change-ups in tempo, instrumentation, and production effects to keep the material sounding familiar and fresh at the same time. We even get a rare acoustic-guitar treat from the Oils on the modern-folk-rock tune "In the Valley." Earth and Sun and Moon was the follow-up to Midnight Oil's highly successful album Blue Sky Mining. The three-year break between the two albums seems to have done the band good—the
songwriting is strong and the playing feels comfortable and assured. The album did not do as well as the band's previous two LP's at charting singles and garnering FM radio airplay, but lay the blame for that at the doorstep of changing times and the cluelessness of radio programming directors. Earth and Sun and Moon is as good as any album Midnight Oil ever did.
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ANIMAL COMMENT — Another good one from Flash-master Mark Fiore; this time ascerbicly addressing the horrors we direct towards our oceans and their inhabitants.
Go there
A wild-eyed poke at the oil-drilling frenzy currently in vogue among our Washington officials. (Somehow they failed to get the memo that we can't drill our way out of our oil-addiction problem.) Funny stuff from animator Mark Fiore. Go there
Related GP page:
-- Peak Oil/Energy Solutions
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