As my colleague Jordan Weissmann wrote Tuesday, there are a number of factors behind the continuing global slide in oil prices, including North American production, increased energy efficiency, Europe’s economic stagnation, and China’s slowing growth. But a big one is Saudi Arabia, which, to the dismay of fellow oil -producing nations, has resisted pressure to […]
U.S. ethanol producers and the oil industry responsible for mixing the renewable fuel into the gasoline supply rarely agree on anything. But the two foes say the failure of the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize how much ethanol should be mixed into the country’s motor fuel supply in 2014, more than a year after the […]
The U.S. Senate failed, by one vote (as some observers predicted), to advance legislation demanding that President Obama approve the Keystone XL pipeline. New York Times opinion-page writer David Firestone says the debate surrounding the vote — 59 senators approved, including 14 Democrats, leaving the measure shy of the 60 “yeas” needed to avoid a […]
Dennis Prager interviews Yossie Hollander on “PUMP The Movie”
Residents and businesses in need of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for their vehicles will have an increased ability to fill up in town. The city has added new Compressed Natural Gas fuel dispensers at its corporate yard to allow up to four alternative fuel vehicles to fill up at the same time. “There’s not a […]
Rebecca Harrell Tickell joins us to discuss ‘Pump,’ the critically acclaimed new documentary film she produced with her husband, Josh Tickell. Made with consumers in mind, the film shows Americans how many other alternatives to oil exist. Kicking the American addiction, Tickell says, is possible. She’ll tell us about meeting Tesla’s Founder, Elon Musk and […]
There are dueling bills in Congress that would clear the way for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the United States. The House already has passed a bill, sponsored by Republican Bill Cassidy, who’s a candidate for Senate in Louisiana. The Senate has its own pro-KXL bill, sponsored by Democrat Mary Landrieu, the […]
Our friend John Brackett, one of the stars of the Fuel Freedom-produced PUMP, attended the giant SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) expo in Las Vegas last week. What he found was the usual mind-blowing parade: thousands upon thousands of amazing, tricked-out vehicles. And of course ingenious technology, the product of some of the most intelligent […]
Great, informative piece by Vox.com about the Keystone XL pipeline, which the U.S. House approved yet again Friday. The Vox post answers “9 questions about the Keystone XL pipeline you were too embarrassed to ask.” There’s even music! President Obama is described as possibly leaning toward skepticism about the project, saying in an ABC interview: […]
North Dakota’s top energy industry regulator unveiled new rules on Thursday that would require oil companies to reduce the volatility of crude before it is shipped by rail. The regulator, the mineral resources director Lynn D. Helms, proposed to the North Dakota Industrial Commission that all crude from the state would have to be treated to […]
