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Sep 03, 2012 at 17:59

Well, its official – the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when about 58 percent of the…

Sep 03, 2012 at 17:51

What were the prices of oil and gasoline in 1998? Do you remember? Without looking them up (or looking below this line), make your best guess.I've been taking…

Sep 03, 2012 at 17:44

The growth of oil and gas exploration in shales begun in North America is setting off a global race for shale E&P development and threatens to turn the old conventional…

Sep 03, 2012 at 17:37

Recent headlines have referred to the fact that the arctic ice has melted to a record low and many are using this as evidence to support the theory of global…

Sep 01, 2012 at 08:48

The Achilles Heel of China’s dramatic economic growth has been its reliance on imported energy, everything from oil to natural gas to coal. Quite aside from draining China’s treasury to…

Sep 01, 2012 at 08:43

A new ruling requires US automakers to more than double average fuel economy by 2025 in a move that will push up prices for cars but more than offset the…

Aug 31, 2012 at 18:05

Citi is projecting that (PDF) oil costs will stabilize at $80 to $90 a barrel by the year 2020. And a recent report from Harvard's Belfer Center warns that…

Aug 31, 2012 at 18:00

A new study out of the University of California Santa Cruz demonstrates that old organic matter in sedimentary basins located beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been converted…

Aug 31, 2012 at 16:39

Category 1 Hurricane Isaac’s offensive through the Gulf of Mexico and an explosion and fire at Venezuela’s biggest refinery were key drivers of energy prices this week. Over 70% of…

Aug 31, 2012 at 15:52

What if we could take a soil bacteria and tinker with its genes to create a biofuel much in the same way that a cow produces milk? Well, we can,…

Aug 30, 2012 at 21:06

After losing its empire to the Western powers at the close of WWI in 1918, Turkey is now making a comeback in the region, a policy that has many people…

Aug 30, 2012 at 20:53

In July 2011, the Obama administration announced the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that will begin taking effect in 2017. The standards for U.S. light-duty vehicle fleets (passenger…

Aug 30, 2012 at 20:39

The top foreign policy chief for the European Union met this week in Nairobi with Kenyan leaders. The country is a key Western ally in ongoing efforts to bring stability…

Aug 30, 2012 at 20:34

As Labor Day nears, a quiet summer seems poised to turn into an autumn to remember. Our concern here, as it has been for many years now, is the price…

Aug 30, 2012 at 19:25

Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent—at a cost of 25 percent efficiency.Based on computations done on a spreadsheet and published in…

Aug 29, 2012 at 16:46

Why are we even talking about Iran’s nuclear program when renewable energy offers a clear way out of this conundrum? If we can remove bad politics from the equation for…

Aug 29, 2012 at 16:40

Investors – particularly Canadians – may recall Colombia as one of the hottest oil plays in the world.That was just a few years ago. Huge wells in these…

Aug 29, 2012 at 16:33

Pipelines carry political consequences. Now energy-rich Azerbaijan is dangling a massive political carrot in front of its western neighbor Turkey, as a new report asserts that Building the Trans-Anatolian…

Aug 29, 2012 at 16:30

A new solar technology developed at RTI International (Research Triangle Institute) could make solar energy more affordable by as much as 75% and thus speed-up its market adoption.

Aug 29, 2012 at 16:25

Not long ago, the Obama Administration raised the federal fuel efficiency standards, known as CAFE, to an average 35.5 mpg by 2016. Yesterday, they announced the CAFE were being raised…