20/20 Energy

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

7-11 tells Citgo to take a Big Gulp

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7-Eleven announced this morning that it has ended its relationship with Citgo, the American subsidiary of Venezuela's state-run oil comp...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Oil Price Conspiracy, continued

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Stories about falling gas prices just don't pack an entertainment punch the way stories about waiting in long lines at the pump, forgoin...

More California dreamin'...clear skies, but how's business?

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California's lawsuit against automakers isn't winning a lot of new friends over the the National Association of Manufacturers. At le...

Googling energy efficiency

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Two weeks ago, VIA Technologies was touting the benefits of its carbon-free computer processor. Today, Google weighed in with a plan for im...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

MIT's invisible floating turbine

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CNET reported on Monday that researchers from MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are getting ready to unveil a wind tu...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Making the Wind-Hydro-Hydrogen Link

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John Gartner's blog Autopia on Wired makes some great points about how the future of fuel-cell cars is linked to the production and ava...
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But, how do they feel about coal in Newcastle?

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According to a report today from the Associated Press , the Dutch are complaining that energy-generating windmills are "blighting the l...
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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Legislators gone wild, deregulation in Illinois

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Next to Maryland's 70 percent electricity rate hike, you'd think no one would even notice increases in the 20-50 percent range, but ...

Legislators gone wild, deregulation in Maryland

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Maryland's Court of Appeals shot down a measure passed by the state's General Assembly earlier this year firing the entire Maryland ...

Good news and bad news for oil at week's end

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Good news first: The planned three-day Nigerian oil strike ended early , after the country's federal ministry of productivity and labor ...

DOE to hydro and geothermal: You're old enough to support yourself

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The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy has declared geothermal and hydroelectric power "mature...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Caldicott taking her show on the radioactive road

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Long-time anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott officially announced the schedule for her upcoming 12-city book tour today. The founder of ...
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Bad timing for a conspiracy on oil prices

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Earlier this week, the folks at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) took a swing at CNN's Jack Cafferty for suggesting that...

PSEG gets no respect in the non-merger

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Less than a day after Exelon and Public Service Enterprise Group called off their long-planned merger, Exelon stocks are inching up, while P...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Russian shift signals new nukes, increased oil production

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Russian president Vladimir Putin announced this week that his country will shift its energy mix significantly over the next 20 years as it ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Carbon-free computing and offset hedges

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Taiwan-based VIA Technologies announced a new computer chip that claim's to be the world's first "carbon-free" processor ....

Nigerian oil strike may signal trouble ahead

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Nigeria's oil unions started a three-day strike on September 13 amid growing security problems at the country's petroleum facilities...

Natgas price has to double to make nukes pay, Russian fed says

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The head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) told a meeting of Russian nuclear industry officials that nuclear power won...

Ag policy and energy policy dovetail in UK

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Scotsman.com is reporting that Scotland's farmers are taking a hard look at how they might be able to profit from a global -- or even U...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Trash becoming a resource in Florida

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Fort Pierce, Florida, is getting set to turn its garbage into an energy resource, according to an Associated Press report . St. Lucie Count...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

Another coal plant in activists' crosshairs

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North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN) filed a motion with the North Carolina Utilities Commission in late August s...

I want my MTV! (Green-powered, please)

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Energy Action Coalition , a group dedicated to building student support for the "clean energy movement," announced this week that ...
Sunday, June 18, 2006

Resource swap: Uranium for Oil

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Developing an effective naitonal energy policy isn't just a Western concern, as editors at Zimbabwe's Sunday News demonstrated in an...

Ethanol and water use in Illinois

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The Associated Press ran a story on June 18 about ethanol's water demands in Illinois , reporting that some city officials in Champaign ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Blair says energy prices trump nuclear worries

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Reuters is reporting that British Prime Minister Tony Blair is standing by his position that nuclear energy must be a part of Britain's ...

Giuliani plants energy policy flag

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In an address to the Manhattan Institute on June 13, possible Republican presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Rudy Giulian...
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