Islamic State torches oil wells in northern Iraq
Islamic State militants set fire to three oil wells near Hawija, west of the oil city of Kirkuk, one of two areas of Iraq still under their control, military and oil officials said on Monday.
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Entries by Landon Hall
Tesla made only 260 Model 3 cars in Q3, but is ‘confident’ it can fix bottleneck
Tesla had said in August that it should be able to achieve production of around 1,500 cars during the quarter, so it clearly undershot its earlier target.
Unstoppable force meeting immovable object stumps oil market
The oil market is battling with a paradox: what happens when the unstoppable force of OPEC production cuts and soaring global demand meets the immovable object that’s U.S. shale?
Can this Tesla alum build the world’s greenest battery?
How will they do it? Raw materials like graphite and nickel will be sourced from deposits in Sweden, while cobalt will come from a huge refiner in Finland.
Want to bet on $100 oil in 2018? Some investors already have
When crude prices crashed in early 2016 to $27 per barrel, most industry executives said the world had seen the last of oil at $100.
The oil ghost towns of Texas
If Texas’s Permian Basin is Exhibit A for the U.S. oil boom that refuses to die, then the Eagle Ford, a smaller shale patch some 400 miles to the east, represents all those places that have been left behind.
Electric and plug-in hybrids are the fastest-selling cars on the used market
With the notable abundance of alternative-fuel cars on this list, it sure seems like cost is still a high barrier keeping people from adopting electric and plug-in hybrid cars on a more widespread scale.
Senate Republicans pave way for oil drilling in Alaska refuge
Senate Republicans set the stage for using the budget to end the 37-year ban on oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Zinke took $12,000 charter flight home in oil executive’s plane, documents show
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.
Trump told Iowa he’d save ethanol. His EPA chief has other ideas
As he sought votes during last year’s Iowa caucuses, candidate Donald Trump courted farmers with praise for ethanol and promises that he would boost the home-grown fuel.
