Politics or Not, Bronx Warmly Receives Venezuelan Heating Oil

NEW YORK — A green Citgo tanker truck chugged up a hill with a grim view of tenement buildings, elevated subways and treeless sidewalks to deliver Venezuelan heating oil, a “humanitarian” gift from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Moments before the orange-gloved worker snaked the hose to a Bronx tenement, Eartha Ferguson, a manager and resident […]

Putin: Ukraine Can Afford to Pay Gas Price

NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a hard line Thursday in a dispute with neighboring Ukraine over natural gas supplies, saying that the former Soviet republic can afford to pay the market price for Russian gas. Cabinet officials reported to Putin that Russia and Ukraine had failed to strike a deal on Russian […]

Energy costs hit N.C. plants

Natural gas soars; layoffs, prices rise This winter, hundreds of manufacturing employees across the state will head to the unemployment office. Among them will be at least 150 workers from the Pine Hall Brick company. For the month of January, the Winston-Salem company will shut down half its production, chief executive Fletcher Steele said. The […]

What Corporate America Is Reading

MILWAUKEE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 8, 2005–800-CEO-READ, the leading distributor of business books in the country, today released their annual list of top-selling books. Twilight In the Desert was #13 on the list.The 800-CEO-READ Best Books of 2005: 1. Blue Ocean Strategy, Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne 2. The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business, Steven S. Little 3. […]

Al Qaeda will find oil targets tough to hit-analysts

DUBAI, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Al Qaeda will find it hard to deal a deadly blow to heavily-fortified oil facilities in Gulf states that supply a fifth of global energy needs, security experts and analysts said on Wednesday. Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged militants to strike oil targets in an Internet video posted […]

Misleading, untruthful, inaccurate: the verdict on British Gas adverts

Britain’s biggest energy supplier, British Gas, has been accused of playing dirty in the industry’s price wars after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned its advertising for the seventh time this year. In a ruling published today, the ASA judged that television and press adverts promoting the British Gas “price protection” promise broke its rules […]

Al-Qaida urges attacks on oil facilities

“I call on the holy warriors to concentrate their campaigns on the stolen oil of the Muslims, most of the revenues of which go to the enemies of Islam,” al-Zawahri, wearing a white robe and black turban, said in the video.

“Don’t let it be stolen by the thieves who rule our countries. … The enemies of Islam are exploiting such vital resources with incomparable greed,” he said, seated before a pale blue sheet, speaking to an off-camera interviewer.

“If the thieves don’t stop … then they should be killed.”

People’s Daily China

Transport electrification – a peak oil solution

My own view is that the electrification of transportation is a natural and highly efficient response to the problem of “Peaking of World Oil Production” (hereafter cited simply as “Peak Oil”). Furthermore, substantial oil substitution can be effected within 10 to 12 years by a combination of market forces, government action to facilitate the quick […]

Ford to cut 30,000 jobs

Ford Motor Co, the second largest auto maker in the United States, is preparing to cut as many as 30,000 jobs and close 10 plants as part of a broad restructuring plan, the Detroit News reported Wednesday.Ford had a total of 122,877 North American employees at the end of last year and 324,000 employees worldwide. […]

Manitoba’s ‘green heat’ has global reach

From the permafrost of Siberia to energy-hungry communities in China, Manitoba companies are turning up the heat around the world through the design and manufacture of geothermal heat pumps (GHPs). “Green heat” is the term many in the renewable energy industry are giving to the energy generated by geothermal technology because it is constant, free […]

EU must ensure bioenergy is really ‘green’

“Travelling in a car fuelled by biodiesel seems like a great, environmentally-friendly thing to do. However, if the biodiesel has come from soya planted in the Brazilian Amazon or palm oil from Indonesia, the green consumer is likely to be unwittingly driving another nail into the coffin of the world’s great ecosystems.” —Ariel Brunner, BirdLifeBioenergy, […]

Nigeria Backs High Oil Price

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Edmund Daukoru, said yesterday that Nigeria would prefer that crude oil prices stabilise within the range of $40 to $60 per barrel, which would be reasonable enough to enable producers meet up with equally soaring cost of production. Daukoru who spoke at the handing-over ceremony of the […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Gulf Stream

..Last week, however, a new and more disturbing report was published by the Southampton Oceanography Centre in the UK concerning the stability of the Gulf Stream — a major heat source keeping Northern Europe from becoming Northern Siberia . It seems that since the last time they took measurements 12 years ago, the flow of […]

Cracking Molecules To Make Oil Cheaper

David Lifschultz carries his solution to the world’s oil problems in a beatenup briefcase. Literally. “See – here,” Mr. Lifschultz, CEO of GenOil, said, bringing out a blue velvet box. “This is it.”New York Sun

Japan gives Iraq loans for oil work

Japan has agreed to grant Iraq low-interest loans to rebuild its oil infrastructure, saying that restoring the energy industry was key to bringing stability to the war-torn country. The loans, the exact amount of which is yet to be specified, will cover projects such as liquefied petroleum gas and reconstructing crude oil export facilities and […]

Pay Attention to Africa’s Strategic Importance, Policy Panel Concludes

..”We are very concerned that we reach a broad audience and say: listen, pay attention, things are happening in Africa – the role of terrorism, competition with the Chinese, the extraordinary new importance of Africa when it comes to energy resources, a growing importance.”..”And if we don’t take a strategic view and be building African […]

Stop climate killing coal plants in Thailand

With its flagship the Rainbow Warrior looking on, Greenpeace activists today climbed the loading crane of the BLCP coal plant at Map Ta Phut in Thailand and unfurled banners demanding the plant’s immediate closure, calling on the Thai government to phase out coal power and to commit to renewable energy. “The catastrophic droughts across Thailand […]

Asian states agree to pool energy assets

Asian countries, including central Asian republics, China and Russia, on Tuesday agreed to pool their vast energy resources and enhance regional cooperation by uniting financial resources and technical expertise to counter a looming energy crisis in the world. They also jointly asked the United States not to follow destructive policies in different regions of the […]

‘Peak Oil’ Argument does Not Account for Nontraditional Sources

The world is not running out of oil, and fears of “peak oil” are prompted more by outdated reserve reporting requirements than anything else, an industry analyst told a U.S. House panel today. Robert Esser, senior consultant and director of global oil and gas resources for Cambridge Energy Research Associates, said his firm’s field analyses […]

Slash Fuel Costs: Make Your Own Biodiesel

Fleet managers are always looking to reduce fuel and running costs, and are also conscious about helping the environment. Now they can do both – by making their own biodiesel. Bioprocessor units that produce diesel fuel from vegetable oil have been introduced by MB Industrial, a UK company based in Cheltenham. TNN

Lawmakers: US Should Prepare for Global Oil Flow Peak

While there is disagreement about when world crude oil production will hit its peak, the US should begin preparing for it now, two US House members told an Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Dec. 7. Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-Md.) and Tom Udall (D-NM) led off the hearing before the Energy and Air Quality […]

How America plotted to stop Kyoto deal

Last night green groups hit out. Kert Davies, Greenpeace’s climate campaign co-ordinator, which initially obtained the documents, said: “These are the hitmen for the Bush administration and the likes of Exxon. They are behind the scenes doing the dirty work. They are extending efforts to Europe where they are trying to undermine the momentum to […]

What’s Catching Fire in Alternative Energy and Why

Alternative energy is still dependent on poorly defined public policy in the United States. The excitement on the overly subsidized energy bill is unfounded. It will not solve our growing energy dependency. It would make more sense to debunk the nonsense of a “hydrogen highway or economy,” send checks to farmers for biofuels instead of […]

New Solar Panels for Hybrid Cars Improve MPG

Solatec LLC(TM) is pleased to introduce flexible, rooftop-mounted Solar Panels for Hybrid Vehicles, starting with a kit for the 2004-2006 Toyota Prius. The $2,195 kits will be available nationwide through dealer franchises.automotive

Murphy Oil Strikes Crude Off Republic of Congo Shire

El Dorado-based Murphy Oil Corporation has announced that one of its drills off the shore of the Republic of Congo struck oil. A flow test on the Azurite Marine well produced about eight thousand barrels of oil per day from the single zone. Murphy Oil president Claiborne Denning said the flow test confirms an oil […]

Fuel independence through the combined efforts of the U.S. Government and Silver

Due to their high inherent moisture levels, low-rank coals (LRCs) were not considered good feedstocks for Texaco gasification. High-rank bituminous coals and petroleum coke were preferred feedstocks to make concentrated slurries for feed to Texaco gasifiers. However, the development of Silverado’s hydrothermal treatment process enables LRCs to be formulated into low-rank coal-water fuels (LRCWFs) with […]

Governor Ed Rendell (D-PA) pleads with Bush to develop alternative fuels

BP and Shell and the other international energy companies are making investments in alternative energy because they have seen the data.   And the data is nothing short of startling.  First of all, whether we are going to run out of oil anytime soon is not the question.  Regardless of who you believe about the size […]

SHEC LABS are pleased to announce the world’s first Solar Hydrogen

SHEC LABS – Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation, with its partners, Giffels Associates Limited (Ingenium) and Clean 16 Environmental Technologies and in conjunction with the University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, will deploy the world’s first Solar Hydrogen production station using methane, an environmentally damaging greenhouse gas expelled from our city landfills. […]

Research Advances Hydrogen Fuel Production

Oxygen may be necessary for life, but it sure gets in the way of making hydrogen fuel cheaply and abundantly from a family of enzymes present in many microorganisms. Blocking oxygen’s path to an enzyme’s production machinery could lead to a renewable energy source that would generate only water as its waste product. renewableenergyaccess

Peak Oil Fring Group Gains Congressional Attention

A House energy subcommittee met Wednesday morning to learn more about the so-called peak oil movement, which says that by 2008 humans will have extracted half of the earth’s oil. In other words, we’re using oil faster than we can ever hope to find it. “We have all been enjoying the greatest party the world […]

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