World’s Fastest Hybrid Vehicle

Hybrid Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: HYBT) www.hybridtechnologies.com emerging leaders in the development and marketing of lithium-powered products worldwide, is pleased to announce that national and international media will be invited to a PRESS ONLY occasion where Hybrid Technologies will unveil the LiX-75 as well as the US Federal Government Smart car and Military Cruiser. theautochannel

Some Democrats Ask Bush for Energy Summit

WASHINGTON – Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers urged President Bush on Thursday to hold an energy summit to find ways to reduce the country’s dependence on oil. The White House showed little interest in such a meeting. Yahoo! News

US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran

The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue…. One of the options under consideration involves the possible use of a bunker-buster tactical […]

Rural Housing Prices

But it brings up a larger point. I know many of our readers either live in or have moved to rural areas because they feel they’ll be more survivable post-peak. I’ve been concerned that rural areas will actually take the biggest hit from peak oil, because of their high gasoline dependence. This story seems to […]

Mega-suburb takes shape in Utah

Mining company builds community for half a million people WEST JORDAN, Utah — It’s a development plan that will take more than 50 years from start to finish. A string of “walkable” communities, expected eventually to house half a million people, is starting to rise on the nation’s largest piece of privately owned land next […]

Opec toothless to tame high oil prices : UAE

Opec is powerless to bring down oil prices that are closing in on their record $70 a barrel high, United Arab EmiratesFinancialExpress

Gas, OPEC, and Russian-Algerian gas agreements

The visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Algeria in the first half of March 2006 was brief but very productive. The media front-paged Russia

Dead Wells Come To Life

Oil wells in Montana, long abandoned and thought to be dry, have been resurrected, even as new oil fields are being developed. This new oil rush is a clear sign that supply concerns and sustained high prices have spurred a new wave of exploration and risk taking. According to the Journal, geologists estimate that there […]

Kaboom: Peak copper, superspike prices, oil and US debt

…In effect, higher oil prices have a double negative effect: * the increased cost of oil creates a significant trade balance for the USA; * but at the same time, the dollars captured by the oil producers are re-invested in US Treasuries, thus lowering the interest rates and making it easier for Americans (and international […]

Oil demand could outpace Saudi production capacity

The world’s only oil superpower boosted output last month, starting a pair of projects that are part of a massive $55 billion endeavor to keep pace with the world’s ever-intensifying thirst for oil. But demand for the world’s premiere source of energy is rising so fast thejournalnews.com

Addicted To Oil: Can The World Cope With The Coming Risks?

Tomorrow on CNBC’s new series Global Players with Sabine Christiansen, leading oil experts discuss if the world is addicted to oil and if we can cope with the coming risk.Kjell Aleklett, President of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) thinks that the biggest risk is in Saudi Arabia. “If something […]

Russia to control Armenia’s gas

Russia’s Gazprom is to take control of Armenian pipelines and a power station in exchange for setting gas prices at half of European levels until 2009. The move is part of wider plans by the Russian monopoly to seize access to gas supplies among former Soviet republics.

The great game of global gas

As the grim reality of Peak Oil dawns on an increasingly gas guzzling world, the smart money and Big Oil have rearranged the chessboard of international finance and power politics to stake their claim to the priceless reserves of the only hydrocarbon fuel that complement crude oil. Power generation, electricity, winter heating and industry are […]

Now in the Rearview Mirror: Low Gasoline Prices

Analysts warn that gasoline prices could jump further when the driving season begins. Yet there have been no shortages or hurricanes to blame for the high cost of fuel this year. Now, strong demand, limited growth in supplies and instability in some of the leading oil-producing nations are all contributing to more volatile oil markets, […]

Oilman with a Total solution

For Total, Iraq is more than just another oil-rich and desperate country. In its former guise as Compagnie Frantimesonline

Senate Takes Aim at Oil Industry in Election Year Legislation

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has submitted a bill that would substantially alter the way oil companies function under U.S. law. The bill would allow OPEC to be prosecuted under price-fixing laws and significantly increase scrutiny of any future oil company mergers. It comes after the Judiciary Committee heard testimony […]

U.S. seeks to overtake Germany in solar

The United States could soon overtake Germany as the world’s top solar power generator, according to Sharp Corp. in a report from Reuters. “I think everybody in the know in the industry knows that the United States is going to be the biggest market in solar,eetimes

NetCo Acquires Innovative Technology to Produce Ethanol

NetCo Investments Inc. (OTCBB: NIVS) today announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all the assets, including patents of Syntec Biofuel Inc. (“Syntec”), a Canadian, scientific research company, located in British Columbia, who has developed and patented a Catalyst to convert Syngas into Ethanol. Syntec technology focuses on an entirely different […]

Toyota Bringing Fine-T Fuel-Cell Hybrid Concept to New York Auto Show

Toyota is bringing its Fine-T fuel cell hybrid in-wheel motor concept car to the New York Auto Show next week. The concept made its world premier at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show as the Fine-X. (Earlier post.) The Fine-T is powered by a new downsized, high-performance Toyota fuel-cell stack fueled by 70 MPa storage tanks. […]

Gas, technology ‘key to climate change’

Oil and gas giant ExxonMobil says it recognises the risks of climate change but gas fired power and technological advances hold the answer, not renewable resources or carbon trading schemes. ExxonMobil Australia chairman Mark Nolan says the company does not believe climate change has been conclusively scientifically proven, but it is still taking the risk […]

The Polar Bear in the Room

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US Energy Secretary: Oil Prices Eventually Will Impact Economy

U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Thursday that he’s “surprised” that oil price increases over the last year haven’t had a greater impact on the U.S. economy but said, eventually, sustained high prices will have an economic effect. “This country doesn’t need four (nuclear power) plants,” he said during a press conference after his speech. […]

Sustainable Development Technology Canada

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a not-for-profit foundation that finances and supports the development and demonstration of clean technologies which provide solutions to issues of climate change, clean air, water quality and soil, and which deliver economic, environmental and health benefits to Canadians. To do so, the Foundation draws from an investment fund of […]

IMF plan to relieve global imbalances

The growing imbalances in the global economy risk triggering a financial crisis and a global recession unless the world’s leading nations draw up a joint plan to relieve the pressure, the head of the world’s financial watchdog said yesterday. In a speech that hinted at the possibility of a 21st century version of the 1985 […]

World ‘Cannot Meet Oil Demand’

THE world lacks the means to produce enough oil to meet rising projections of demand for fuel over the next decade, according to Christophe de Margerie, head of exploration for Total and heir presumptive to the leadership of the French energy multinational. The world is mistakenly focusing on oil reserves when the problem is capacity […]

Cannibals, Cassandra and Oil Costing $200: Is a Crisis Brewing?

Why is Stephen Leeb, who manages $160 million for Leeb Capital Management, comparing himself to Cassandra and Jimmy Carter? Both of them predicted disaster, one for Troy if it messed with the big horse, and one for the U.S. if it didn’t wean itself off foreign oil. Leeb also has a vision. He foresees an […]

Nigeria: Jigawa’s Ethanol Project – Alternative to Oil?

From the wetland of Ringim in Jigawa State, to the highly fertile but inaccessible area of Baturiya at Yobe State boarder, something great is happening. The land, cutting across over 10 local government areas is marked for the first phase of Jigawa State sugar cane/ethanol project. It is an ambitious agricultural cum industrialisation project that […]

Ecuador: When the water runs out

Ecuador’s crops, its power grid and the drinking water for its largest city are all threatened by climate change. Lined up behind glass and concrete on a cliffside southeast of Quito, five giant hydroelectric turbines at the Guangopolo plant lay idle. Oversize pastel-colored tangles of steel tubes, built to transform liquid into energy, sit empty […]

Tokyo Embraces Renewable Energy

Renewable energy has a bright future in Japan’s largest city. On Monday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government issued its Renewable Energy Strategy in an attempt to go beyond the level of pilot projects and increase renewable energy use in the city to 20 percent of all energy supplies by the year 2020. Tokyo’s Bureau of Environment […]

Scientists Build High-Energy Batteries Using Viruses

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have figured out a way to use viruses to build ultrathin lithium-ion batteries that pack three times the normal energy level for their weight and size, they said this week. By manipulating genes inside the viruses, the scientists coaxed them into coating themselves […]

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