Fuel economy bigger threat to gasoline demand than electric cars
Increasing efficiency of fossil-fuel powered cars is a bigger threat to gasoline demand than electric cars, energy consultant FGE told the Platts refining summit in Brussels.
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These California cities just sued five oil companies over climate impact
Two California cities have separately sued five major oil companies over their contribution to global warming, and are seeking billions to pay for projects protecting the people and property in the Bay Area against rising seas.
Russian oil company says it sent the U.S. its largest ever oil shipment
Gazprom Neft said nearly 2 million barrels from the Badra oil field in Iraq is on its way to the United States.
The ‘Tesla of buses’ just set a range record that could spell the end for diesel buses
Silicon Valley-based Proterra just set a new record for its electric bus.
Ignore the hurricanes and keep deregulating, fossil fuel CEO says
The president and CEO of the largest fossil fuel trade organization in the U.S. said Wednesday that while he takes climate change “seriously,” there’s nothing to worry about because his industry has everything under control.
Good news! Avoiding catastrophic climate change isn’t impossible yet. Just incredibly hard.
When they signed the Paris climate agreement, the countries of the world committed to a common goal: Hold the rise in global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels” and “pursue efforts” to hold it even lower, to 1.5 degrees.
Here’s one big reason Tesla still doesn’t dominate our roads
Can a national network of charging stations convince Americans to finally drive electric cars?
Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock
A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from researchers at the University of Illinois estimate that this aircraft could fly for 10 hours on bio-jet fuel produced on 54 acres of specially engineered sugarcane.
Fatbergs should be dragged out of sewers and used as biofuel
A seemingly boring report on the future of the creation and use of biofuels in the UK exploded into life with one bizarre suggestion.
How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years
Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine long ago, if only the company making them hadn’t been run by swindlers.
