Gasoline is like some kind of drug: we know it’s bad for the planet, but we just can’t give it up. Now a number of voices from the energy industry suggest that our addiction could begin to ease, thanks to the rise of electric cars.
General Motors plans to start offering fleet customers heavy-duty pickups and full-size vans powered by compressed natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas.
Six years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still taking stock of the damage it caused.
When you’re the International Energy Agency, you have to go out on a limb and peer a quarter-century ahead. The latest World Energy Outlook, published on Tuesday, weighs in at a magisterial 667 pages of detailed analysis and scenarios. I’m going to focus specifically on one aspect: oil supply and demand.
For a state that likes to considers itself a pioneer on environmental issues, the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016 were disastrous for California.
We’ve all been stuck behind one before. A car that clearly hasn’t passed a smog check in years, spewing smoke from its tailpipe like there’s no tomorrow. You probably know that the stuff coming out of there isn’t good for you, or the environment. But what exactly is it composed of?
We all know oil prices are extremely volatile, and trying to predict them is a fool’s errand. But just how easily can they be impacted? Here’s look at the some of the craziest events that caused the price of oil to rise.
So we’re dependent on foreign oil. How bad could that be?
We’re producing more crude and our cars are more efficient, yet we still import millions of barrels of foreign oil per day. What’s going on?
