It’s crunch time for Tesla Motors. The Silicon Valley automaker is losing more than $4,000 on every Model S electric sedan it sells, using its reckoning of operating losses, and it burned $359 million in cash last quarter in a bull market for luxury vehicles.
As Slate’s Eric Holthaus saw it, “Jeb Bush and Scott Walker both effectively endorsed President Obama’s energy policy,” noting that “all of the above” is “the same language Obama uses.” It’s true that Obama occasionally uses the same phrase, but he means something different when he says it.
Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate was short on discussion of energy and climate policy, but two leading contenders did manage to squeak in some familiar ideas.
The population of a U.S. oil boomtown that became a symbol of the fracking revolution is dropping fast because of the collapse in crude oil prices, according to an unusual metric: the amount of sewage produced.
Talk about complexity. The key plank of President Obama’s climate plan is hardly one-size-fits-all. Its targets vary by state, and its details can be confusing, so here’s a myth-busting guide.
The only way for oil producers to cope with the low price of crude is to hike rather than cut production, an industry analyst told CNBC.
A drop in U.S. carbon dioxide pollution in recent years stems from burning natural gas instead of coal. Or does it?
Subsidies for fossil fuels amount to $1,000 (£640) a year for every citizen living in the G20 group of the world’s leading economies, despite the group’s pledge in 2009 to phase out support for coal, oil and gas.
Governors of the nation’s top two ethanol-producing states jointly announced the launch of a statewide pump labeling initiative to promote the American Ethanol brand.
Iraq’s Kurdish region has begun to sell oil independently of the central government, a move that is exacerbating divisions in the country as it struggles to turn back Islamic State militants.
