Everyday of my life is exactly like this. I know you’re jealous.

Definitely the greatest corporate anthem I have ever heard. Go Gazprom!

Don’t bother trying, you’ll never ever find
A surer friend than Gazprom
We’re giving people warmth and light
For office and for home
We should always keep in mind
From dawn till sun down,
That our work is always needed
Working day or holiday
Ref.:
Let’s drink to you, let’s drink to us,
Let’s [...]

See, we’re not all that evil:

Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker
An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.
[...]
The team, which left Mount Batten Marina in Plymouth on 19 April in a boat named the Fleur, aimed to rely on sail, solar [...]

I would probably say “dude” more often, though.

Via “Hark, a Vagrant!” by K. Beaton.

Hilarious. Thanks to Ryan for sending me this button. Aspiring Daniel Plainviews can order them from democraticstuff.com.

I really wish Gazprom would post videos of their press conferences, because it would be rather hilarious to see Sergey Kupriyanov and Alexey Miller shouting their statements to reporters:

As of January 7, when Gazprom was forced to cease gas supplies, the transit pipelines in Ukraine were filled with Russian gas. Therefore, the pipeline pressure is [...]

Especially when they use exclamation marks!

Providing gas for technological needs is the sole responsibility of transiting party!

Indeed!

I never thought this day would come. The CPC Consortium has finally agreed to expand the pipeline’s capacity, which will carry some 1.4 million bpd of Kazakh crude by 2013.

No promises from Russia on production cuts, but I thought this was interesting:
In a speech to the assembled OPEC ministers, Mr. Sechin said that Russia’s beleaguered oil producers had already pruned production in November, and could cut still more if market conditions warranted. But he gave no promises.
Instead, he put forward a list of changes [...]

Now, I’m not going to get too down on the coal industry, because my family in Illinois has worked in it for several generations (both mining and power plants) and it’s still a vital source of energy in the United States, but the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity’s “Clean Coal Carolers” are ridiculously lame. [...]