Shale oil’s retreat threatens to leave U.S. short on natural gas
The retrenchment in drilling for U.S. oil is threatening to leave a different market short: natural gas.
Skelton: The time is ripe for a tax on oil extraction to pay for California road repairs
California still is the only major oil-producing state that doesn’t tax the goo as it’s pumped from the earth. Yes, high-tax California. But never has there been a better time to change that and start making the oil companies pay their fair share.
America’s once magical – now mundane – love affair with cars
For nearly all of the first century of automobile travel, getting your license meant liberation from parental control, a passport to the open road. Today, only half of millennials bother to get their driver’s licenses by age 18. Car culture, the 20th-century engine of the American Dream, is an old guy’s game.
Documentary ‘Gasland’ pivotal to anti-fracking movement: study
An Oscar-nominated HBO documentary that showed American homeowners near hydraulic fracturing sites setting fire to their tap water may have been the main trigger for a surge in public opposition to the oil and gas production technique, according to a study to be published next month.
POET releases first-ever economic impact study
POET, one of the world’s largest ethanol producers, released its first-ever economic impact study, revealing the impact the company has made to national economic growth and job creation in 2014.
Administration balks at GOP-led effort to lift oil export ban
The Obama administration signaled that it would not back legislation to authorize widespread crude exports, as a Republican-led effort to lift decades-old restrictions on foreign oil sales gained steam on Capitol Hill.
Help now available for adding E-15 gas pumps
Iowa fuel retailers who want to offer the E-15 blend of ethanol can now get help through the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association’s infrastructure program.
How climate change impacts women the most
Particularly in developing countries, social structures that disadvantage women often put them at higher risks of harm and even death from climate change.
50 years of fuel cells started with NASA’s Gemini 5
Fifty years ago, Gemini 5 made history as the first manned spacecraft to utilize fuel cells, allowing the United States to seize the manned spaceflight endurance record from the Soviet Union for the first time, and launching the commercial fuel cell industry
U.S. shale oil output to drop 80,000 b/d in October
Crude oil production in October from seven major US shale plays is expected to drop 80,000 b/d to 5.21 million b/d, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest Drilling Productivity Report (DPR).
