MayesColin_CPC.jpg Science Denying Tory MP Can't Get Anything RightThe Conservative Member of Parliament from Okanagan Shuswap, Colin Mayes, writing in an error-ridden email to a constituent (reprod... [more]

According to the Department of Defense News report, the Defense Department's total energy costs for fiscal 2006 and 2007 was above $13 billion. In the year 2008, due to soaring rise in oil prices, their department's energy bill was $20 billion. It i... [more]

U.S. Senator (R.-Alaska) Lisa Murkowski signaled on C-Span Sunday that she might go along with the climate change bill, as long as it includes provisions for expanding domestic oil drilling and nuclear energy. When you see changes to the land coming ... [more]

Optimism seemed to wane today but the Dow still managed a 21-point gain as the 10,000 mark inched closer. Nasdaq didn't fair as well by finishing the day with a tiny loss. The National Association of Business Economists (NABE) proclaimed that the re... [more]

By John Addison (10/5/09). A growing number are eager to buy plug-in hybrids from Toyota, Chevy, Ford, Fisker, and others that are completing new manufacturing for 2010 orders and serious competition in 2011. Oil prices have doubled from their low th... [more]

Even with oil prices remaining fairly stable over the last few months, biofuels are still hot amongst investors as South San Francisco's LS9 announced that they received $25M from investors including $10M from Chevron. Previous investors CTTV Investm... [more]

Tuesday morning I dialed into an API media teleconference concerning the administration's latest proposals on energy taxation and access. During the call API's President, Jack Gerard, mentioned the recent Congressional testimony of a Treasury Dept. ... [more]

There are many features of Hawaii that make the 50th state utterly different from the other 49. Probably one of the most obscure, however, is that it generates nearly 80% of its electricity from imported oil, mainly from Indonesia. When oil prices sh... [more]

A couple of years ago I was thinking about the possible fates of various nations in a world in which depleting oil reserves begin to have a very strong impact on oil prices. I had visions of $100+ oil and eventually $5-10 gasoline, which would place ... [more]

Brian Kelly submits:After shrugging off the first signs of blatant protectionism, the markets have begun to focus on the battle between inflation and deflation. The good v. evil debate was reignited when BoE governor King suggested that reserve hoard... [more]