[Editors Note: Well, that is helpful… Might go up, might go down, might not move at all.] The Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (AEO2012) presents three alternative paths for world oil prices based […]
Right now, all across the US, producers of an alternative fuel called “biodiesel” are in a state of panic. Over the next year, up to three-quarters of them may have to shut […]
Economic growth and population growth, these are undoubtedly the questions of our time. These questions are highlighted by most of today’s major news events: climate disruption, economic meltdown, hunger, poverty, species extinction […]
New fuel economy standards proposed in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation could create 570,000 jobs between 2017 and 2030, according to a report released today by the […]
My bedtime reading tonight is “Oil: The Next Revolution – The unprecedented upsurge of oil production capacity and what it means for the world.” This mind-bending report points to a prolonged period […]
West Texas Intermediate at Cushing, Oklahoma (WTI Cushing), a light, sweet crude grade, is North America’s most closely observed crude oil price benchmark and the underlying commodity of the NYMEX crude futures […]
The housing stock in the United States could support significant numbers of plug-in electric vehicles. Of households that own at least one car, an estimated 49% (49.6 million housing units) park within […]
One of oil’s most important characteristics is its fungibility, which means that a barrel of refined oil from Texas is equivalent to one from Saudi Arabia or Nigeria or anywhere else in […]
It won’t be cheap, or easy. But it’s technically feasible for the United States to get 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050, according to a new report from […]
The Secretary General of OPEC, Abdalla El-Badri couldn’t have put it any better in Vienna today, ‘there are genuine demand uncertainties’. To prevent further ‘demand destruction’, OPEC has decided to keep official […]
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