Want to save the world and some money?

..The price rises have generated enough heat to fire several power stations but the fact is that customers themselves could do much more to cut their bills. So far, the war against energy wastage, most recently exemplified by the Scottish Executive’s discontinued public service broadcasts telling us to “Do a little, save a lot”, has […]

Thai Raises Oil Prices

Local oil companies have raised petrol price by Bt0.30 per litre and diesel by Bt0.40 per litre, making the domestic diesel price as the highest in Thailand history. ..In view of the rising oil price, the Thai Government introduced several measures last year to cut down on oil consumption, including closing down petrol stations at […]

Iran/China: Oil Deal Reflects Geostrategic Realities

China and Iran are reportedly close to signing a multibillion-dollar agreement to develop the big Yadavaran oilfield in southern Iran. The semiofficial magazine “Caijing” reports that a senior Chinese delegation from the National Development and Reform Commission could arrive in Tehran to finalize the deal as early as March. Word of the move comes amid […]

The threat of oil jihad

..while terrorist attacks may cause temporary spikes in the price of oil, lasting price increases are the consequence of armed conflict, embargoes and basic economics. The big increases in the price of oil have come from the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the Iranian revolution, Iraq`s invasion of Kuwait, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and a […]

Tension in Western Towns Over Energy Boom

Ask cattle ranchers Dan and Cheryl Johnson how much money they make an hour and they will tell you itMSNBC

China to Cut Energy Consumption by 4 Percent in 2006

China will strive to chop down its energy consumption rate by 4 percent this year, a new key index to guide economic and social development, Premier Wen Jiabao announced Sunday. “Energy consumption per unit of GDP should fall by about 4 percent in 2006,” said Wen while delivering a report on government work at the […]

Western Energy Wealth Has Social Costs

The daycare center at the YWCA is full of children these days and has a list of more than 60 children waiting to get in. At the same time, the number of people using the YWCAMSNBC

OPEC Exports Set to Fall 0.6% in Four Weeks to March 18

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Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung

TOKYO – Scientists in energy-poor Japan said Friday they have found a new source of gasoline – cattle dung. Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted .042 ounces of gasoline from every 3.5 ounces of cow dung by applying high pressure and […]

US launches drive to plug leaks:

The Bush administration has launched several investigations to discourage government employees from leaking classified information to news reporters, The Washington Post reported in its Sunday edition. FBI agents have interviewed dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies in recent weeks as they investigate possible leaks that led to […]

Energy alternatives gaining popularity

That’s why increasing numbers of Canadians are looking for alternatives to fossil fuel systems for heating and cooling their homes. More and more are turning to geothermal heating, also known as geoexchange or earth energy, as a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly option. The Canadian Geoexchange Coalition, or CGC, which represents the geoexchange industry in Canada, […]

The myths and legends about high oil prices

ONE of the most enduring stories of the past three decades is that when oil prices go up, economies go down in flames. Oil price shocks, it has seemed, are just that .timesonline

China to build maglev railway from Shanghai to Hangzhou

A high-speed maglev railway from East China’s Shanghai to Hangzhou is expected to win government approval soon and start construction within this year, said a deputy to the Tenth National People’s Congress (NPC). “The railway is expected to go into operation before the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai,” said the deputy from Shanghai, who declined […]

Restoring Balance

A FEW days after the Chinese nuclear test of 16 October, 1964, as a deputy secretary in the Ministry of Defence, I wrote a note on the implications of the test for India and urged that India should initiate action to counter the Chinese nuclear capability. It is to the credit of President George W […]

A truly slick thriller

First the title. Syriana, apparently, is a term used by foreign affairs experts in Washington think-tanks to describe a possible realignment of the Middle East while playing power games and experimenting with new scenarios. In this world of realpolitik, everyday ethics and morality are turned on their heads, and people are expendable. Sixty years ago, […]

Death Rules the Delta in Battle to Control Oil

Kidnappings and ethnic war in Nigeria have one root cause – oil. The power struggles and corruption that flow from it have claimed thousands of lives. Eleven years after his own father was killed there, Ken Wiwa reports from the Niger Delta on the persistent conflict that is tearing the country apart The Observer

Iran’s Oil and Gas Wealth

Source: U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee Iran’s Oil and Gas Wealth (PDF; 154 KB) From press release: “Irandocuticker

BACK TO THE COAL AGE

The UK’s biggest coal producer signalled a brighter future yesterday after it returned to profitability and eyed benefits from the UK’s energy review. UK Coal, which owns the former assets of British Coal, is hopeful the Government will recognise the importance of domestic coal in tackling concerns over security of supply and price stability. Coal […]

How we duped the West, by Iran’s nuclear negotiator

The man who for two years led Iran’s nuclear negotiations has laid out in unprecedented detail how the regime took advantage of talks with Britain, France and Germany to forge ahead with its secret atomic programme. In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan Rowhani, who headed talks with […]

Iraq pull out by early ‘07

The United States and Britain are planning to pull all their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two newspapers reported in their Sunday editions, quoting unnamed senior defence ministry sources. The Sunday Telegraph said the planned pull-out followed an acceptance by the two governments that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq […]

ASPO-USA on ExxonMobil

Last week, ExxonMobil ran a Peak Oil Advertisement in The Washington Post and The New York Times which claimed that peak oil is “decades” away and attempted to discredit what it called the “theory” of peak oil. ExxonMobil may be the world’s most profitable energy company, but it is important to recognize this ad as […]

EDITOR Ed Orr knows this land well. A rancher and developer whose family roots in Colorado date back more than a century, Orr says the real estate business is growing increasingly difficult because gas producers want access no matter what the plans are for the property.

Why I Would Not Be a Farmer

Time was when most Americans were farmers. Today, about two percent of the population does an astonishing job of raising and harvesting all the crops that turn into an astonishing variety of foods that we take for granted. Our supermarkets are stuffed to overflowing and, given the abundance, so are a lot of us. You […]

Bush U-turn on Iranian pipeline

President George W Bush has indicated the US has dropped its staunch opposition to a proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan. Mr Bush said on his visit to Pakistan he understood the need for natural gas in the region and that the US argument with Iran was over nuclear weapons. The $6bn […]

Slick Virgin oil to lubricate market

Sir Richard Branson is taking on the oil industry. The British billionaire vows to build the most environmentally friendly fuel company in the world. Sir Richard, who shook up the Australian aviation and superannuation industries, has established Virgin Fuel to build or acquire ethanol plants to develop a new product, cellulosic ethanol. “In 15 years, […]

States Ask Supreme Court for Emissions Aid

WASHINGTON – A group of states, cities and advocacy organizations appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday to get involved in a fight with the Bush administration over carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks. The group, which includes 12 states ranging from Maine to California, the cities of Baltimore, New York City and Washington, […]

Fuel prices to go up in May

Industry experts believe that the government is merely postponing the price hike till the state elections are over; tax relief for loss making petro-units likely NEW DELHI – Finance Minister P Chidambaram did not increase the prices of cooking gas and other petroleum products in this budget. But this might soon change due to mounting […]

Fewer bees, high pollination fees hurt farmers, crops

TRENTON, N.J. – With all the sophisticated technology today’s farmers use, little honeybees remain crucial, pollinating billions of dollars of fruit, vegetable and nut crops each year while collecting food for their hives. But the number of honeybees and managed beehives is down so much that production of pollinated plants has fallen by about a […]

L.A. South Central Farm Receives 3-Day Eviction Notice

Immediate Action Required to Save Model for Post-Peak Sustainability in Cities In L.A. No one has better articulated what is at stake here than USC Professor Clara Iraz

Congressmen distribute NY Times op-ed piece to colleagues

by Reps. Roscoe Bartlett and Tom Udall Dear Colleague: We want to alert you to a 3,000 word article, The End of Oil, by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Robert B. Semple, Jr. of the New Times Editorial Board. Mr. Semple writes, When President Bush declared in his 2006 State of the Union address that America […]

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