Update to Senate To Call ‘Big Oil’s Slippery Six’ Back To Testify About Their Price Gouging On Gas Prices. The Washington Post reports, House panel grills oil company executives on high gasoline prices: The top executives of “the slippery six” of the nation’s largest oil and gas companies testified before Congress on Wednesday, at a time … Read more
Millionaire coal baron Sen. “Masarati” Manchin demands an “all of the above” approach to U.S. energy needs, in other words, mantaining the status quo of dependence on fossil fuels because he richly profits from it. House progressives say they may be prepared to accept policies that boost fossil fuels in the short term in order … Read more
Axios reports, Corporate profits hit a new record high in 2021: Corporate profits hit another record in 2021, though the breakneck pace of growth slowed sharply during the fourth quarter. This shows that companies have been able to overcome the inflationary wave flowing through the U.S. economy — and even profit from it. Companies complained … Read more
Permanent musical accompaniment, A Change Is Gonna Come, by Sam Cooke (1964). We all could use a feel-good story of late. This story has the biblical proportions of David v. Goliath: an Amazon worker fired for specious reasons engages in grassroots organizing of a union with little or no outside support, and defeats the mighty … Read more
Is this 2022, or 1859? (when Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities): “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of … Read more