Farm Bureau Fires Back Against Climate Bill's 'Power Grab'

The largest U.S. farm group will “aggressively” fight back against any attempts to change the landscape of American agriculture — including the farm bill or animal rights campaigns, American Farm Bureau Federation Bob Stallman said yesterday. In a fiery speech that kicked off the powerful farm lobby’s four-day convention in Seattle, Stallman said farmers and […]

Devaluation Sparks Chaos in Caracas

CARACAS — President Hugo Ch At Caracas’s middle-class Sambil shopping mall, lines at cashiers reached 50-deep. Carmen Blanco, a 28-year-old accountant, waited to buy a 42-inch flat-screen television she doesn’t need because she already has one at home. “It doesn’t make any sense to keep my savings,” Ms. Blanco said Saturday. “I’d love to see […]

Climate conditions in 2050 crucial to avoid harmful impacts in 2100

While governments around the world continue to explore strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study suggests policymakers should focus on what needs to be achieved in the next 40 years in order to keep long-term options viable for avoiding dangerous levels of warming. The study is the first of its kind to use […]

Petraeus: Iran's nuclear infrastructure can be bombed

The deployment in the Middle East of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group in the first week of January adds muscle to the words of Gen. David Petraeus, CENTCOM commander, on Jan 10 that Iranian nuclear infrastructure, albeit strengthened against attack with enhanced underground tunnels, wasn’t fully protected. “Well, they certainly can be […]

Saudi Aramco oil & gas project focus

Addressing delegates at the World Oil and Gas Assembly in Bangalore last month, Khalid Al-Falih, CEO of Saudi Aramco said that the Manifa and Khurais projects were vital to addressing the long-term call on oil, and that Aramco was aggressively ramping up exploration, improving recovery and building its reserves every year. Here are the project […]

Fusion breakthrough a magic bullet for energy crisis?

Sceptics and environmentalists may be locked into endless arguments around global warming, but there’s little debate that an energy crisis looms large. A Florida based research team, however, may have found a solution to the world’s energy woes that could provide a clean and near limitless supply of energy in as little as a decade. […]

Researchers to map High Arctic island

An upcoming research expedition to an Arctic island could help kickstart a new wave of oil and gas exploration in Canada’s Far North. The research team, led by Keith Dewing of the Geological Survey of Canada, will travel to Ellef Ringnes Island next summer to collect data from areas where petroleum resources were first discovered […]

Peak oil demand funds

There are plenty of peak oil investment funds, but this is the first peak demand – or post-oil, as they call it – fund that we

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More on Refining: Distillation Curves

Last week, I pointed out that the crude oil that comes out of the ground is not made up of a single hydrocarbon, but rather is a mix of different hydrocarbons that have to be separated. And oils from different parts of the world are formed as different combinations of these, and even those from […]

Economists: Appliance rebates waste government money

Taxpayers will lose a significant portion of the $300 Million they are shelling out for the federal government’s appliance rebate program and the energy-saving program could actually increase energy usage, two University of Delaware economists say. Economics Professors Burton Abrams and George Parsons published their analysis of the program in the 1st Quarter 2010 issue […]

Toyota Plans Compact Hybrid, Broader Line for Prius

…Carmakers have been adding gasoline-electric vehicles and developing models that can recharge from household electrical outlets as governments push for higher fuel economy. Toyota says it also aims to offer more advanced vehicles to counter the potential for an oil shortage. Lentz said consumer sales of a plug-in Prius hybrid, with 13 miles of range […]

Figuring out where to put the carbon

To meet our immediate energy needs without exacerbating climate change, most experts agree, we …It

Britain bracing for gas crunch

(UPI) — British consumers face mounting concerns over gas supplies as supermajor BP shuts gas networks in the North Sea for a week’s worth of maintenance. BP cuts 1 percent of the gas supply to Britain when it closes production at the Southern North Sea pipeline system for regular maintenance Monday, the Times of London […]

China car sales 'overtook the US' in 2009

China has said it overtook the United States to become the world’s biggest car and van market in 2009. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said 13.6 million vehicles were sold within the country last year. That compares with just over 10 million vehicles in the US, which was previously the world’s largest market. Unlike […]

U.S. sales of Daimler's Smart brand minicar plummet

Daimler’s two-year effort to win over U.S. drivers with a thrifty, plastic-clad minicar is running out of steam, adding urgency to the German automaker’s effort to find a partner for the Smart brand. The U.S. debut of the urban two-seater is foundering after a promising start in 2008, when North American sales propelled Smart to […]

Economists start to consider that money can't buy happiness

Obsession with GDP as a measure of how good people feel is losing its grip against concerns for welfare and sustainability …But with unemployment still rising, taxes going up and personal debt still high, the public may decide they do not feel any better just because of a couple of abstract numbers that don’t correspond […]

Kurt Cobb: Making society forecast-proof

The trouble with forecasts is that they are almost always wrong. That’s in part because the accuracy of forecasts deteriorates rapidly with time. I might predict quite well what I will be doing tomorrow. But predicting accurately what I will be doing exactly one year from today or exactly 10 years from today is exceedingly […]

Russian energy group with the power to plunge Europe into darkness

Gazprom has so much natural gas under the tundra of Siberia that its energy resources are equivalent to all the oil and gas fields owned by western energy companies put together The next cold war may well take place in a room that looks oddly like a scene from the last one. Along one wall […]

Iraq joins oil transparency group

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq joined a global transparency initiative Sunday in a bid to heal its reputation as a nation plagued by corruption and misuse of its vast oil wealth. Ranked fifth from the bottom of Transparency International’s corruption list of 180 nations, Iraq is in the process of signing deals with foreign oil companies […]

As the World Burns

How Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming This was supposed to be the transformative moment on global warming, the tipping point when America proved to the world that capitalism has a conscience, that we take the fate of the planet […]

U.S. Economic Energy Efficiency: 1950-2008

How is energy related to economic output? Energy is the underpinning of all modern society, as our economy and society would grind to a halt without gasoline, electricity, and other similar forms of energy [1]. Since energy plays such an important role in the nation As the above graph illustrates, the amount of energy (in […]

World Future Energy Summit dissects renewable energy issues

As one of its several founding convictions, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which is closely associated with the summit, quotes Saudi Arabia “Preparing for the future is not a threat,” said IRENA interim director-general Helene Pelosse. “Many oil producing countries are blessed with sun

U.S. economy in trouble and why

…”I believe that America’s economy has reached zenith,” said Folkerth. “What I’m saying is that should anyone care to consider inflation and per-capita share of GDP, we’ve hit the top of the mountain, when a nation reaches the tippy-top of the mountain, it’s a beautiful view right up to the point of realizing that everything […]

China's commodity imports soar in December

BEIJING (Reuters) – China ended 2009 with record monthly imports of crude oil and soybeans and a strong appetite for iron ore and copper, while its aluminum and steel sectors saw a welcome increase in export volumes. Crude oil imports averaged more than 5 million barrels per day for a month for the first time […]

A Letter To Mothers and Grandmothers

Dear Mothers and Grandmothers, I write to you because you are the keepers of the future, the ones who have the children, rear the children and sustain the children. You are the ones who sacrifice for the children, who save for the children, who watch over them throughout their lives and yours. And now I […]

The unintended ripples from the biomass subsidy program

It sounded like a good idea: Provide a little government money to convert wood shavings and plant waste into renewable energy. But as laudable as that goal sounds, it could end up causing more economic damage than good — driving up the price of raw timber, undermining an industry that has long used sawdust and […]

Dozens of Qaeda militants 'hiding out in Yemen'

SANAA (AFP) “There are dozens of Saudi and Egyptian Al-Qaeda militants who came to the province,” Ahmadi told the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily. “This is in addition to Yemenis who came from Marib and Abyan (provinces) and a number of militants from Shabwa province itself,” he added. Among them, he added, are the leader of […]

The end of consumerism: Our way of life is 'not viable'

Ditch the dog; throw away (sorry, recycle) those takeaway menus; bin bottled water; get rid of that gas-guzzling car and forget flying to far-flung places. These are just some of the sacrifices we in the West will need to make if we are to survive climate change. The stark warning comes from the renowned Worldwatch […]

Three Gorges' underground power station to start operation in 2011

YICHANG (Hubei) (Xinhua) — The first underground turbine of the world’s largest hydropower project is expected to be put into operation in 2011, according to the China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC). A 700,000 kw underground turbine is expected to start operation in July 2011, while the rest five will be put to use by 2012, […]

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