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Any government concerned about global security and climate change should be banning 4Ă—4s.
Fossil Fuels
Costly crude not the end of the story for oil majors
A significant factor behind the higher prices this year is the fear that the global oil industry is close to capacity.
Spanish Seek Oil Off Cuba, as Americans Watch Silently
Recent announcements from Repsol YPF, the big Spanish oil and gas company, indicate an ambitious expansion program, with projects planned for countries like Libya and Equatorial Guinea that are not for the risk-averse. But none has attracted as much attention as its gamble on Cuba.
Total shuts down oil, gas production in Nigeria in face of strike threats
Energy giant Total has shut down oil and gas production in Nigeria in the face of a threatened labor strike that raised management fears that there could be violence, the company said Tuesday.
Time to kick the oil habit
IT SHOULD BE clear by now, even to those in the White House, that America needs a new oil strategy.
A to push for global standards on reserves
The International Energy Agency is planning to unveil plans in October that it hopes will lead to a mandatory global standard for accounting of oil and gas reserves.
Ten steps to a sustainable energy future
This essay was in large parts presented at the
“Renewables 2004” in Bonn (June 3 2004) and at
“Lucerne Fuel Cell Forum” (June 29 2004).
The roles of hydrogen, oil, gas, coal and nuclear are reconsidered as well as the perspective of a energy system mainly based on renewable energy.
Canada: N.S. offshore energy suffers setback
Nova Scotia’s sluggish offshore energy sector has suffered another setback as several major energy companies have opted out of plans to spend up to $275-million on exploration.
China: Coal and power: The situation gets worse
Coal and power stocks in China have fallen to their lowest level in 20 years. The catastrophic forecasts on effects of an overheated economy are coming true showing how much more the government has to do to cool down.
Iraqi Oil Exports Are Cut Nearly in Half
Iraq’s oil exports were cut nearly in half as workers struggled Monday to repair a key pipeline shut down after looters sabotaged the line, officials with the South Oil Company and traders said.
NZ well positioned before energy rollover
Energy price rollover will signal the day when oil becomes “way too expensive and tourism may have a problem in New Zealand’’.
O is for Oil
How might America cure itself of energy illiteracy? Realistically, teaching Americans to give energy the priority it deserves would be an incremental process that could take years.
