The Oil Drum: Heyward, Congress, Afghan Minerals, and Drumbeat

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Deepwater Oil Spill - the BP CEO and Congress - and Open Thread

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6617

Afghan Minerals -- Cure, Curse, or Hype?

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6607

Drumbeat: June 18, 2010

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6618

Top two articles in drumbeat (right now--it changes):

ANALYSIS - Britain: the pivot point for global LNG

(Reuters) - Britain will continue to play a pivotal role in balancing the amply-supplied global liquefied natural gas market this year, using its big new LNG import terminals and export pipeline to refill European gas stocks drained over a long winter.

British gas exports to continental Europe via the Interconnector UK (IUK) pipeline have surged around 70 percent, year on year, since May 1, as European companies buy gas in Britain's open market to stock up for next winter with cheaper fuel than they can get from long term supply deals.

$7-a-gallon gas?: The folly of O's oil-spill 'fix'

President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess. So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill? Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak. The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."