Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Friday, July 23, 2010

The Twelve Minute Sea

by anderson


Egypt currently produces 685,000 bbls of oil per day.  Because of this, the Red Sea is also experiencing a relentless and constant pollution by oil.  The experience of a recent, if not ongoing, oil spill in the Red Sea has brought those fun facts to the fore.

Having previously described our modern industrial carbon cycle, it seems only fitting to drill down and into these oil fun facts in order to glean another: oil pursuit is adversely affecting the ecosystem of the Red Sea, if not threatening it entirely, should further large and secret oil spills continue.  Egypt threatens its own $7.6 billion tourist industry.

We are doing this for a grand total of 685,000 bbls a day.  This amount of oil is the equivalent burned by the United States in 50 minutes and 35 seconds.  The entire world burns this oil in 12 and half minutes.

Twelve minutes of oil is the price of the Red Sea.

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