Money and Big Oil

"...pick up the kids and drive to work, the oil industry recently celebrated record quarterly profits in the billions...."

Aug. 19, 2008 Postmarks

Ecuador v. Big Oil

Joe Berlinger documents the case against Chevron in Crude

"...between the massed corporate power of the U.S.-based Chevron oil company and the lawyers representing the Ecuadorian tribes whose..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Connection Between Big Oil and Republicans?

"...there is any connection between the lower price of oil and the petroleum industry's wanting to keep the Republican..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Postmarks

Texas Biodiesel Industry Talks Big Business in Austin

Conference and Expo drift: Those who have raised biodiesel industry out of infancy seeking sustained growth

"...Years from now, will "big biodiesel" occupy a place among America's other economic juggernauts:..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Letters at 3AM: A Big Picture and a Long Game

A U.S. military powered by biofuels could be a game-changer that ends the oil wars

"...another – and are further complicated by trade routes, oil fields, rebels, pirates, and terrorists – and the United..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Oil – the Problem Is Oil!

"...Re: Mike Homa's letter on Hugo Chávez and Venezuela's oil [“Postmarks” July 11]: Mike, look what happened when Iraq..."

July 28, 2008 Postmarks

Big Miracle

Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this fact-based story that shows us that whales are mammals too.

"...Googling – I looked up the book on which Big Miracle, a fictionalized account of an actual 1988 rescue..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

GOP Oil Spiel Not So Slick

Contrary to what John Cornyn would have us believe, speculators are to blame for the oil price spike, says new report

"...going for them, Republicans have insisted that this year's oil price spike was caused by supply and demand –..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Government Should Drill for Oil

"...11]: We have a shitload of land allocated for oil production. The oil companies have not started drilling on..."

July 14, 2008 Postmarks

Local Olive Oil Company Promotes Healthy Food Choices for Diabetes Awareness Month

Salud de Paloma offers recipes, cooking tips, and resources

"...Travis County and put the spotlight on local olive oil purveyor Salud de Paloma for the work they do..."

Nov. 6, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Review: The Annotated Big Sleep

Everything you need to know about Raymond Chandler's classic

"...and journalist. Fired from a high-paying job as an oil executive. Focus came in 1932 when he retyped a..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Texas Is 'Big, Hot, Cheap and Right'

Erica Grieder's ode to the Lone Star State

"...ways, the most American of all." – Erica Grieder, Big, Hot, Cheap and Right..."

May 1, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Ten Big Polluters Who Designed Bush's 1997 Anti-Pollution Program

"...Of the 17 industry executives the governor and Big Oil brought together in 1997 to clean up their..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature

Can a Veteran Oil Man Clean Up the Railroad Commission’s Mess?

Bill Burch is running to raise awareness of groundwater contamination

"...The Railroad Commission is in charge of wrangling the oil and gas industry in the largest-producing state in the..."

Feb. 23, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...Press, $23 hard The mythos of the braggadocious Texas oil man resonates from Odessa to London and from Australia..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Small Town, Big Find

The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville

"...tireless research and grassroots footwork once she realizes the oil companies are paying different amounts to different neighbors for..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Colosseum: There Will Be Oil

Arts on Real goes WWE with six seminaked, well-greased men wrestling for a championship title

"...once watched two somewhat scantily clad women wrestling in oil and have to admit I found it at least..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Day Trips: Hotel Settles, Big Spring

Impeccably restored hotel returns the glory days of travel

"...The Hotel Settles in Big Spring opened in 1930 as a proud beacon of..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Talking About the Concept of 'Peak Oil'

"...publicly acknowledged this week that "the concept of peak oil has not been widely written about. But people are..."

March 6, 2006 Postmarks

The Big Ugly

Vinnie (Jones) goes to (West) Virginia

"...a new moneylaundering deal with an old friend, Appalachian oil man Preston (Perlman). Neelyn's twitchy away from his home..."

July 31, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mondo's Big Picture

Gallery's huge success belies the company's humble beginnings, but like the art within, you have to see it up close

"...The tight space meant the occasional big name signing – like Olly Moss for An American..."

March 29, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Come on Jim, Don't Blame Oil Industry; Blame Obama

"...He had to invent a reason to blame the big, bad oil industry for something. He chose to accuse..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Postmarks

Big Hair, Bigger Hearts

Earnest Eighties bands get a second chance on XM Radio.

"...the Alarm, INXS, Tears for Fears, the Call, Midnight Oil, the Waterboys, and a few others. Post-punk bands tended..."

May 2, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...even compromise for a second." It came from Bennett's biggest fan -- Sinatra. -- Michael Bertin..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull

Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...love in all the wrong places, Texas enjoyed an oil boom that thrust big bank accounts, big shoulder pads,..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Texas Radio and the Really Big Beat

Capstar's Austin-based Empire

"...the tale of Texas radio and the really, really big beat...."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Bill Crawford

Janis Joplin, Texas, and the Big Beat

How East Texas Shaped Rock's First Female Superstar

"..."I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat...I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night Wandering the..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Big Tex Budget Blues

The money debate begins: 'Every Texan for himself' vs. 'All in this together'

"...afford to be skittish about the state budget? The Big Picture..."

Feb. 6, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...Swift grew up in the mean swampland of the Big Thicket, and here he is at the corner of..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Under the Big Tent

Does working from home help save the environment?

"...While it may be less directly polluting than burning oil, Sonnier called it "resource-intensive, just blasting water and taking..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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