The Best Electric Vehicle for you

For me that’s a very light super efficient EV that seats 2. It can also carry a few packages or groceries when required. A range of 50 miles will cover our travel 99% of the time. If I we need to go farther I can rent a car or take an airplane. Even better I […]

Let Them Go Green

Just last month, Goldman Sachs invested $27 million in Iogen, the Canadian ethanol producer. The little-noticed move was the latest piece of a larger strategy of enlarging the company’s profile in environmentally conscious investments. Goldman has now risked over $1 billion on renewable energy projects, including solar and wind-energy projects and alternatives to gasoline like […]

Norway Sets Up $3.2 Billion Renewable Energy Fund

It said the cash would help Norway achieve a goal of raising available power by 30 terawatt hours (TWh) by 2016, compared with 2001, from renewable energy sources and by greater efficiency. Its previous goal was a saving of 12 TWh by 2010 versus 2001. “Bioenergy, windpower, hydropower, and energy efficiency will contribute to new […]

United States doesn’t have to get oil elsewhere

According to the U.S. Geologic Survey, we have tens of billions of barrels of American oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean-burning natural gas ready to be tapped. We have hundreds of years of energy from coal and nuclear resources. And, we have a virtually endless supply from renewable resources. Because our […]

Segway in EasyConnect II Inter-modal Commuting Test

Segway is participating in a new alternative transportation program called EasyConnect II, a field test designed and coordinated by University of California, Berkeley greencarcongress

Scotland to hit green energy target three years early

“That this industry has got this far with electricity with only half-hearted Executive support really is proof that renewables have massive economic potential. Further, it underlines that Scotland does not need new nuclear power stations – it just needs a government willing to pull out all the stops to ensure we generate and use clean, […]

US governors adopt energy plans for the West

Governors of states in the U.S. West approved proposals over the weekend to add cleaner energy resources to meet the region’s growing demand for electricity and they called for reductions in greenhouse gases linked to global warming. The Western Governors Association, which represents 19 states and three U.S.-flag islands in the Pacific, passed measures on […]

Peak Oil 2010

Roger Blanchard, ASPO USA – IASPO USA Newsletter via EV World

China May Crude Imports Leap as Demand Strengthens

(Reuters) – China’s imports of crude oil leapt 19 percent in May from a year earlier, customs data showed on Monday, returning to buoyant growth rates seen in the first quarter and adding to signs of strengthening demand. In May alone, the world’s second-largest oil consumer received 12.39 million tonnes of oil, or 2.92 million […]

Explorer Shuts Products Pipeline in Okla. Tank Fire

(Reuters) – With fire still burning at a products tank in Glenpool, Oklahoma, the Explorer Pipeline Co. said Monday it would be at least Tuesday until it could reopen an oil products pipeline from Houston into Tulsa, Oklahoma, and another pipeline out of Tulsa to Wood River, Illinois. “We won’t be able to restart those […]

Polar Bears May Be Turning To Cannibalism

Yahoo! News – Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found. The study reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 […]

Economy Faces Bumpier Time – King

BBC – The global economy is set for a more turbulent time after a period of strong economic growth, Bank of England governor Mervyn King has warned. Mr King told business leaders in Scotland that recent fluctuations in stock markets reflected an economic outlook which was “far from certain”. Inflation was “volatile”, with higher crude […]

Oil, Natural Gas Prices on the Rise, But NM Production Declining

Rising oil and natural gas prices usually result in a corresponding increase in production. Not so in New Mexico, according to an industry report prepared by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico. Despite the price per barrel of oil rising 25 percent from the fourth quarter of 2004 […]

Mexico Stands at a Crossroads on Energy

MEXICO CITY — In the midst of Mexico’s biggest oil boom since the 1970s, the nation’s top two presidential candidates are debating whether to turn outward and open oil to private investors – or inward by exporting less crude and giving Mexicans subsidized gasoline. The question revolves around nationalist pride as well as pump prices, […]

Brunei Warns of Oil Crunch

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Zarqawi Death Won’t Reduce Iraq Oil Attacks: Bodman

(Reuters) – The United States is not expecting a decrease in the number of attacks on Iraq’s oil infrastructure after the death of Al Qaeda’s Iraq group leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on Monday. “We are not counting on a change,” Bodman told reporters, but he added: “Time will only […]

OPEC Pumps 29.75 Million Barrels Per Day in May According to Platts

MSN Money – OPEC crude production averaged 29.75 million barrels per day (b/d) in May, up 120,000 b/d from a revised figure of 29.63 million b/d in April, a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials showed June 8. Production from the ten members with quotas — Iraq does not have one — averaged […]

Petrol would have to double to deter drivers – study

LONDON (Reuters) – Petrol prices would have to nearly double before drivers would consider switching to public transport, according to a poll on Monday. Research for car insurer esure showed the tipping point would not come until the average price reached 1.83 pounds a litre from about 95.6 pence now. The “Carry on Pumping” poll […]

Western governors focus on energy issues

SEDONA, Ariz. – Western states must work together to reduce greenhouse gasses in the fight against global warming, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday at the annual meeting of the Western Governors’ Association. “We are long past the time when we can just talk about this problem,” said the Republican, who is running for re-election. […]

The Oil Drum: Questions About the World’s Biggest Natural Gas Field

Generously, Matt Simmons and SCI have given me permission to reference their report Simmons Oil Monthly – Qatar, by Robert A. Kessler, April 24, 2006. Matt wanted me to “alert readers that SCI made a major exception to their strict rules of only sending their institutional research to their institutional clients”. My thanks to Matt […]

Asia demand growth not to blame for high oil: S. Arabia

KUALA LUMPUR – Asia is leading oil demand growth but its effect on pushing up oil prices has been exaggerated, while speculative trading is distorting supply security, the head of Saudi Aramco said on Monday.

Chastain to ride the rail again

Coming soon to a grocery near you: Clay Chastain. The signature-gathering activist who left KC a few years back for Tennessee and later Virginia is riding once more to our rescue, this time for light rail. Chastain will be petitioning to get an initiative before voters in March for a rail system that would run […]

Fidel Castro Warns of World Food Crisis

Havana – Cuban President Fidel Castro asserted the lack of fuel in the world and its current price will worsen the problem of food. Grain and cereal productions are increasingly targeting the production of alcohol to be used as fuel for automobiles, stated Fidel Castro in his address to the Cuban People That means automobiles […]

Ethanol as Economic Elixir

Fuel alternative helps revive a struggling Illinois farm region Lena, Ill. — The sunrises seem brighter and the mood is jauntier in this rural village of 2,900 — ever since ethanol, dreams of American energy independence and an economic shot in the arm came to town. Lena, in the fertile northwest corner of Illinois, is […]

Abdullah warns tussle for energy resources may spark global crisis

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s leader on Monday warned of a global crisis over the tussle for energy resources amid declining supply, and urged major oil producers and consumer nations to jointly develop new resources. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the period of cheap oil is “effectively over” as rising demand in Asia and the United […]

’Energy plantation’ would require water guarantees (Hawaii)

Alexander & Baldwin has long said that the future of HC&S cannot continue to be in sugar as a commodity. The 37,000-acre farm must become an “energy plantation.” In concept, at least, this fits in with the state’s energy policy, which calls for 20 percent of inputs from renewable sources by 2020. Whether it also […]

Suburbia’s Worst Enemy

Since the 1994 release of The Geography of Nowhere, author James Howard Kunstler has been among the most acerbic critics of North American urban design. Kunstler has argued that suburban sprawl has left citizens almost entirely dependent on cars, just as the world nears the historic peak of oil production. What happens after we pass […]

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President Ch Sanctions The trip of Chavez will also lead to China, Vietnam and Russia. Last month, the USA called for sanctions against Venezuela for a lack of support in the battle against terrorism. RTL (Text in Dutch. Above is translation.)

Japan tries to cut down on plastic bags

Buy lunch and a magazine at any Japanese convenience store, and you’re likely to get your drink in one plastic bag, hot lunch box in another, and your magazine in yet a third. The mega-packaging keeps your food hot, your drink cool and your newspaper clean, but environmentalists say it also creates a mountain of […]

Ontario to build nuclear reactors

The provincial government will announce tomorrow that Ontario is embracing more nuclear power plants, sources told the Toronto Star. Premier Dalton McGuinty has privately spoken of his government’s plans to confidants for days, insiders say. In an off-the-record speech on Saturday night in Ottawa to the secretive Bilderberg group, McGuinty discussed the pros and cons […]

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