" An oil spill in the North Sea is estimated to amount to several hundred tonnes, making it the biggest such leak in more than a decade...
Showing posts with label Big Oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Oil. Show all posts
Transmission Losses: Shell tries to halt North Sea oil spill
" An oil spill in the North Sea is estimated to amount to several hundred tonnes, making it the biggest such leak in more than a decade...
The electricity in gasoline
I just ran across the latest available data, from 2007, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries. The US is, hoorah, #1. Ove...
BP goes electric....a bit
Billion Dollars a Day
VoteVets.org has a campaign to highlight the true cost of our oil addiction. Yet another argument for plug-in cars.
"Transmission Losses:" West African pirates
West Africa's burgeoning oil industry has a pirate problem. On Jan. 5 Nigerian pirates stormed a Panamanian-flagged Ukrainian tanker, th...
Oil makes us impotent
“I had a surprising call this week,” the author Richard North Patterson told the audience that had gathered last weekend as part of the PEN ...
$92.22
NY Times reports: Oil Prices Continue to Rise $91.86 per barrel at Friday's close. A little context: oil at its lowest this year? $50.4...
Nothing to See Here - Oil Prices Retreat.....from $90.07
Forbes 12:43pm ET: Oil retreats from today's record highs around 90 usd as traders lock profits Bloomberg Crude Oil Falls From Record on...
They Don't Just Steal at the Pump
PBS' Now profiles government auditor Bobby Maxwell's attempt to get oil companies drilling on government land to pay royalties due. ...
The Mountain and Mohammed: Halliburton Moves HQ to United Arab Emirates
A Jewish Electric Car?
A report from IsraelNationalNews.com out of Davos reports on talks to build electric cars in Israel. At the just-ended World Economic Forum...
How Big Oil Stays on Top
Almost every American who drives (and for better or worse that's most of us), must pay oil companies for the privilege. And they make a ...
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