An end to subsidized parking

The people of Arcata remember back 10 years ago to 2006 when gas steadily climbed past $3 per gallon and wonder how they ended up saddled with this mess. Few people drive anymore, and yet so much of our land that we need for housing ourselves and growing food is taken up by pavement. Sounds […]

Biofuels May Not Be Sustainability Panacea

Biofuels (such as bioethanol and biodiesel) are touted as eco-friendly alternative energies helping to solve a host of problems clouding the oil industry, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contributing to climate change, over-dependence on oil importation, rising prices, and peak oil. While biofuels will clearly play an important role in addressing these problems, they may […]

When Mexico runs dry

Country’s giant oil field is shrinking Mexico’s economy and government are living on borrowed time, and the day of reckoning may be coming sooner rather than later. A third of the country’s federal revenues come from the profits from government-run oil fields. A single field known as Cantarell provides most of the oil and the […]

Senate Approves Bill to Expand Oil, Gas Drilling

Gulf States Would Get Share of Royalties The Senate approved yesterday a bill that would open more than 8 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, but it must be reconciled with a vastly more permissive House measure that would end a 25-year-old moratorium on drilling off the nation’s Atlantic […]

Power office ransacked in Jhalakati for power outage

JHALAKATI, Aug 2 (UNB): Angry demonstrators deprived of regular electricity supply ransacked the power office in the town during their three-hour demonstration programme Wednesday, leaving an engineer and five police injured. Witnesses said residents of the town, under the banner of Jhalakati Power Crisis Prevention Committee, brought out a protest procession from Jhalakati chamber office […]

Yukos declared bankrupt by court

OAO Yukos, once Russia’ biggest oil company, was declared bankrupt Tuesday after a three-year campaign by government tax authorities that critics called a politically motivated campaign against Yukos’ founder.Ledger-Enquirer

Political issues might motivate Russian oil blockage: Lithuania PM

VILNIUS (AFP) – Political factors could be the real reason behind a halt in crude oil supplies by pipeline from Russia to the Mazeikiu Nafta refinery in the Baltics, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas has said. “A key political factor is the expiry of the EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation agreement,” Kirkilas said in an interview […]

Saudi Arabia rules out oil weapon

Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, believes oil should not be used as a weapon because it is the economic lifeline of Arab states, its foreign minister said. Asked whether the oil weapon should be used if the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah escalates, Prince Saud al-Faisal said: “The two issues should not be […]

NY Times: Energy From the Restless Sea

 There is more riding the waves here than surfers, thanks to a growing number of scientists, engineers and investors. A group of entrepreneurs is harnessing the perpetual motion of the ocean and turning it into a commodity in high demand: energy. NYTimes

Why we must give up flying

Nothing, but nothing since the last Ice Age has posed a bigger threat to mankind. Some scientists think that we may have 10 years to make a sharp reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions. Other s think it is already too late, and that mankind will be lucky to last until the end of the century. My […]

Question of human survival: Er, I don’t know

Introducing himself to the online community as a theoretical physicist and Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, the 64-year-old scientist posed an open question: “In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?” But Prof Hawking’s frank admission that even he […]

Vegetable prices to soar as heatwave blights harvest

The heatwave which delivered the hottest July on record has caused a disastrous slump in vegetable crops which is expected to send prices soaring, as they did when the 1976 drought hit. This year’s pea harvest is now estimated to be 30,000 tons, a fifth of the expected figure, and the British Potato Council says […]

Audio Interview with Randy White at Portland Peak Oil/Peak Oil Task

This afternoon I interviewed Randy White, a member of Portland Peak Oil and also of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force. You can find the article containing the interview at: http://etopiamedia.net/empnn/pages/cpt-emnn/cpt-emnn615-5551212.html This audio interview has also been re-purposed as a Flash 8 file and added to the Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel Brightcove Player in this […]

Coming Soon: The Air Powered Car

The MDI Air Car. Runs on compressed air. Costs less than a penny a mile. After twelve years of research and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century. Using bi-energy (compressed air + fuel) the CAT vehicles have increased their driving range to […]

Japan’s Itochu to build world’s largest geothermal plant in Indonesia

Itochu Corp plans to build the world’s largest geothermal power plant in Indonesia to tap demand for alternative energy sources in Asia as crude oil prices rise, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported without citing sources. The facility, which will be built in North Sumatra, is estimated to cost 600 mln usd or about 68 bln […]

US DOE to Invest $250 Million in New Biofuels Centers

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight. greencarcongress

We can end oil addiction

There is a growing consensus America must end its addiction to oil. Yet there is despair we can actually do so, short of draconian cuts in energy use that would leave Americans sweltering — or shivering — in the dark and trudging to work for miles on foot. Such defeatism is unworthy and unwarranted. America […]

King Abdullah

In the period since King Abdallah became king, the world has remained as concerned about Saudi Arabian and other Gulf oil issues as before, if not more so. Not only have all the GCC countries been producing flat-out. More importantly but strategically, in the eyes of some, also more ominously, only Saudi Arabia before as […]

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Major world cities team up to fight global warming

Los Angeles, London, New York, Seoul and 18 other cities joined forces on Tuesday in a global warming project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Launched by former President Bill Clinton’s foundation, the initiative will allow cities to pool their purchasing power and lower the price of energy-saving products and provide technical assistance to help […]

Honda UK

Honda UK has pledged to offset the CO2 emissions of Civic Hybrid customers until they take delivery of their new car. The offer follows what Honda characterizes as greencarcongress

New York Plans Plug-in Hybrid Conversion Program for 600 State Vehicles

New York Governor George E. Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno announced plans for a new $10-million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids and for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP). Under the $10 million plug-in […]

Tax credits for saving energy

Start living an energy-efficient lifestyle and you could reap federal tax credits, not to mention rebates from your local utilities and the savings that come with reduced power use. But you’d better act soon and don’t be overly hasty: the federal credits only apply to 2006 and 2007 purchases and there are strict caps. One […]

India hopes to double wind power generation by 2007

India hopes to almost double its wind power generation to 10,000 megawatts by the end of 2007 to meet rising energy demand and cut its reliance on dirty coal and costly oil, a minister said on Wednesday. Capacity in the world’s fourth-largest wind power generator rose by 45 percent in the year to March 2006, […]

Gas Inventory Drops. Blip or the Beginning of a Trend?

EnergyBulletin.net – Unbeknownst to many Americans, the demand for natural gas during the winter months, with rare exceptions, greatly exceeds real-time domestic extraction volumes. This gap is overcome by tapping into the surplus natural gas injected into vast underground caverns during the warmer months. Historically, storage volumes increase from April through October and decrease during […]

Road Projects a Casualty of Oil Crisis

ABC News – Asphalt Prices Escalate as Oil Prices Climb, Making Highway Projects More Expensive What do the gas flowing through your car and the black asphalt under your tires have in common? Both are derived from crude oil, and as the price per barrel reaches record levels around the world, the cost of asphalt […]

How Quickly Unacceptable Becomes the Status Quo

Ottawa Business Journal – Bottom line, we as consumers need more convincing arguments, if not painful lessons, to consume less as a matter of lifestyle. Because consuming less is also a matter of necessity. The age of “Peak Oil,” when supply will peak and demand will continue to grow, is nigh. If a sudden upturn […]

Qantas: fuel costs greater threat than terrorism.

The Age – The soaring price of fuel poses a greater commercial challenge to Qantas than terrorism, SARS or the Asian tsunami, airline boss Margaret Jackson says. In a lecture in Canberra on Wednesday, the Qantas chairwoman said she did not know how high fuel prices would go, or how long they would stay at […]

Nigeria Another Step Closer to ‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Energy

Mail & Guardian Online – Nigeria took another step towards acquiring nuclear technology for civilian use when it officially swore in the board of the National Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC). The ceremony on Monday was presided over by Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also head of the body. “In addition to the generation of […]

King Abdullah’s First Year: A Personal Perspective

Saudi-US Relations Information Service – Some banking and financial publications have caused a stir by hyping the fear that Saudi ArabiaSUSRIS

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