Pipeline blast may create ‘epic problem’ for drivers
A pipeline explosion on Monday shut down the flow of gasoline and diesel along the East Coast, potentially impacting prices at the pump for weeks.
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Tesla sales need a recharge
Tesla Motors sold just 1,650 cars in the U.S. in October, according to Inside EVs, which tracks monthly sales of electric cars. That’s well below the 7,500 cars it sold in the U.S. in September, the data show.
It’s not just clean air: Electric cars can save the U.S. billions
It’s hard to get a handle on the ugly, smoggy implications of this nation’s dependence on fossil fuel-burning cars.
Big oil companies reap windfall from ethanol rules
Environmental regulations designed to boost the amount of ethanol blended into the U.S. gasoline supply have inadvertently become a multibillion-dollar windfall for some of the world’s biggest oil companies.
‘Super yeast’ has the power to improve economics of biofuels
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel.
Warning: ExxonMobil may be in irreversible decline
ExxonMobil, like the rest of Big Oil, is in the midst of a serious slump.
Air pollution on Wall Street might actually be bringing down the stock market
Every week, it seems, we learn more about the consequences of air pollution — and in particular of the smallest airborne particles, known to scientists by the name PM2.5, which are capable of traveling deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, and from there, causing havoc.
OPEC may need help to end the global glut of oil
Even if OPEC defies a skeptical market by implementing output cuts in full, it still won’t drain the ocean of surplus oil already pumped from the ground.
Tesla zooms into the black with $21.9 million quarterly profit as vehicle sales jump
Tesla Motors reported just the second quarterly profit in its history as a public company, reversing a string of consecutive losses.
Automakers could be making a big mistake with their big bets on electric cars
A hundred years ago, the electric motor lost out to the gas engine. A century later, electric vehicles are staging a tepid comeback: they now make up about 1% of global auto sales.
