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Real life ‘Promised Land’: Fracking comes to suburban Texas
Residents of Gardendale, a suburb near the hub of the west Texas oil industry, face having up to 300 wells in their backyards The corner of Goldenrod and Western streets, with its grid of modest homes, could be almost any suburb that went up in a hurry – except of…
For wingnuts, the oil industry is a god
Oh man, the BP oil spill has got to be hard on wingnuts. On one hand, the spill visibly Pisses Off Liberals, and usually in Wingnutville, anything that pisses off liberals is automatically assumed to be a good thing. But they’re not completely stupid. They know this oil spill is…
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