Ex-Shell Chief Hofmeister Promotes US Fuel Diversity the market for ethanol,...
Alternative fuels have lost some of their luster in the US, lately, for understandable reasons. Oil production here is boomingbased on shale resources that keep expanding, while the market for...
View ArticleLower Gas Prices, But for How Long? Higher oil prices new extraction...
By now, who hasn’t heard about the oil boom in the United States? Higher oil prices and new extraction techniques are largely credited for creating a rash of new oil fields, resulting in domestic...
View ArticleBusting Big Oil Myths on the e Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Part I Busting...
Anyone with even a casual interest in energy policy knows that a full frontal assault has been launched against the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Big Oil has gone on the offensive, using a variety of...
View ArticleUS Oil Boom Shifts Focus to North Dakota Bakken Shale Information by the...
North Dakota may soon be giving Texas a run for its money in the oil industry. Information released last month by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), an agency of the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleOur Energy Use In Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] world’s countries for the United...
80.6% of the total energy consumption of the world still comes from fossil fuels. And this percentage hasn’t changed much in recent years. This might come as a surprise since climate change and...
View ArticleElectric Vehicles in May 2013 electric vehicle business.
This past May appeared to be a dismal month for the electric vehicle business. Coda went bankrupt, Better Place filed for liquidation, Fisker was expected to file for bankruptcy, Fiat-Chrysler...
View ArticleA Crisis of Leadership? Rebuilding Trust in the Energy Industry [VIDEO]
Energy is a multi-trillion dollar sector and energy products form some of the most basic inputs into our modern industrial society. What’s more, the energy industry sits at the intersection of...
View ArticleBusting Big Oil Myths, Part IV: Gas Prices oil industry continues to spread...
In its ongoing quest for repeal of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the oil industry continues to spread misinformation about ethanol and other renewable fuels. In previous posts (here, here,...
View ArticleUnlikely City Claims Largest Electric Car Share …and moving inland....
Far from high-tech Silicon Valley or hipster Austin, Texas, the largest all-electric car-sharing service is being built. If your second guess is Portland or Brooklyn, keep guessing…and moving inland....
View Article“All of the Above” Energy Policy Must Be Weighted by Common Sense energy...
“All of the Above” is just a cliché if not tempered by an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of different energy sources, and a standard basis of comparison. Renewable energy is gaining...
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