Standing up against natural gas waste in New Mexico: a win-win
Big oil and gas companies are wasting so much natural gas you can see it from space.
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Iran and oil: You ain’t seen nothing yet
The number that everyone in the energy market has penciled in for Iran’s output, absent voluntary restraint, is 4 million barrels a day. That number stems from both the country’s pre-sanctions peak and Iran’s stated ambition. Whether it gets there and how quickly is a matter of disagreement.
What keeps killing electric cars?
Many people think that the electric vehicle’s time has finally come, with the roughly 300,000 orders for Tesla’s Model 3. However, this sector of the blogosphere has a tendency towards uncritical thinking that deserves a lot more attention that it normally gets.
Poet’s Emmetsburg plant could be at full output in 2016
A top official with ethanol producer Poet said the company’s goal is to have its cellulosic facility in Emmetsburg at full production by the end of this year.
Why oil prices will rise and many pundits will be caught by surprise
Inevitably, we will have another price shock – or at minimum an upside surprise. It’s unavoidable at this point.
Tesla, rivals, software may kill petrol car as soon as 2025
We thought it would be useful to explain more about how it is that Elon Musk has killed the petrol car. And for that we went back to Stanford University’s Tony Seba, the academic who predicts that fossil fuels, coal and oil in particular, will be redundant by 2030.
Columnist: Tesla brought down by ‘hubris’? Who could have expected that?
Tesla Motors Inc. pulled a pretty slick fake-out on investors and fans Monday by revealing, to their surprise, that it had delivered only 14,820 cars to customers in the first quarter of 2016, well short of its projected deliveries of 16,000 cars.
Why Tesla’s Model 3 is blowing away expectations
Years from now, people will look back at the unveiling of the Model 3 as a watershed moment not only for Tesla Motors, but for the entire auto industry.
What is octane?
You pull into a gas station and are presented with three options: regular, mid-grade, or premium —all gasoline of course, as true fuel choice isn’t currently a reality in America. But have you ever wondered what those three numbers — 87, 89, and 93 or some similar variation — on the pump itself mean? Read more →
What low oil prices really mean
Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145.
