Russ McBee

Following a speech in Missouri yesterday, President Bush engaged in an exceedingly rare question-and-answer session with employees of the company where he was speaking. Among other topics, he repeated his threadbare spin of ethanol as a viable fuel source: ''As you know, I'm a ethanol person,'' he said, explaining his belief that it can help ...

The Bali conference on climate change has begun; its goal is to establish a framework for negotiating a treaty which will pick up the slack when the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012. The US delegation and the White House have been making public pronouncements lately which seem to support the Bali initiative: [The leader of the US delegation in ...

Well, this certainly isn't a good sign: Venezuela and Iran are forging closer oil ties in hopes of reducing their dependence on the United States, inking a $4 billion deal to develop a block of the lucrative Orinoco Reserve in Venezuela. According to Venezuelan Oil and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, production at the Ayacucho 7 block should ...

France, for whatever bizarre reason, is a popular target of scorn and derision among wingnuts, except when it suits their purposes: Congressional and government delegations, together with the defense and aerospace industries, are making final preparations for the 2007 Paris Air Show next week, one of the largest trade shows in the world. ...