Fuel-cell vehicles named world’s top emerging technology
The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies releases its Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for 2015.
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Low oil prices mean more congested railways
“As oil has gone from $100 to $50, it’s really cut the incentives to build pipelines into North Dakota,” Bloomberg Business writer Matthew Phillips says in a video accompanying his story. “Lower prices make it more attractive for oil companies to actually use rail more than they’re using today.”
5 reasons why we still need alternative fuels when gas is cheap
5. We won’t be fooled again. As a nation, we have seen fuel prices rise and fall. While we are all enjoying low prices today, few of us expect them to last forever.
U.S. is running out of room to store oil … is a price collapse next?
For the past seven weeks, the U.S. has been producing and importing an average of 1 million more barrels of oil every day than it is consuming. That extra crude is flowing into storage tanks, pushing supplies to their highest point in at least 80 years.
Senate fails to override Obama’s Keystone pipeline veto
A bipartisan majority of U.S. senators were unable to reach the two-thirds majority required to undo President Obama’s veto of the Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday. The vote was 62 to 37.
One source of funding could end for climate change-denying scientist
Funders appear to be backing away from a prominent climate change denier who may have failed to disclose that his peer-reviewed articles were funded with grants from petroleum companies.
Hermosa Beach easily defeats oil-drilling measure
In what could be a modern-day record for election turnout in the SoCal city, Measure O was going down by a vote of 79 percent to 21 percent, at last count.
Yossie and NRDC’s Lehner: Lower oil prices needn’t slow EV sales
The last two years’ experience with electric vehicles proves that clean fuel technologies can compete with oil, and the continued strong sales of the last few months prove it, even at oil’s new price.
Gas prices spike in California, for many reasons
Orange County drivers, excited about cheap gasoline just a few weeks ago, are suddenly feeling the pinch as prices reverse course, rising 43 cents a gallon in the past week and more than $1 in the past month. Consumers are not happy about it. (Photo: David Sommars, on Flickr)
Mary Bono: ‘All of the above’ means renewables too
Although “all of the above,” as a slogan, was mostly created to bolster the domestic production of oil and gas, “all” meant then what it means today: A diversified energy policy that harnesses all that we have to offer.
