While the oil continues to gush out of the wounded well on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico a group is gathered here in Boston today to try to head off development of an important tool that would help move us away from oil. In fact, these folks want us to shift to an even dirtier fuel that requires even more energy to extract than oil and has a whole different set of bad side effects for the public health and the environment. The group in question is the Consumer Energy Alliance an infamous “astroturf” group that acts as a public face for the oil industry. The fuel they are promoting, working with certain elements of Canadian provincial government, is oil produced by a messy and fuel intensive process read more…
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