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Give the Gift of an Extra 10 Miles Per Gallon Reuters

Give the Gift of an Extra 10 Miles Per Gallon

Rather than giving an energy-guzzling device this holiday season, here are three ways to stuff a stocking with the gift of fuel efficiency

Question for BP: How Close Are We to the Unthinkable? Alex Wong/Getty Images

Question for BP: How Close Are We to the Unthinkable?

If the casing of the spewing oil well is deteriorating, the flow of oil could increase and the situation could become much worse

Oil 2010: There Will be Blood (But Less Oil)

Whew! It's been a very exciting decade in petroleum. We started in the spring of 2000 with an infamous Foreign Affairs article fretting about the…

Dissecting the "Leaked" Danish Documents at Copenhagen

I was reading a summary of the leaked supposed proposed Danish climate treaty when it hit me: This is what climate treaty porn looks like. There, in…

Update: Azerbaijan's "Donkey Bloggers" Get 2 Years in Prison

Two months ago I posted on the energy politics around Azerbaijan's arrest of two "donkey bloggers," who obliquely criticized the government. Today…

Obama's Energy Policy is Hardly Electric

Imagine, for a minute, that you're the president of the United States and you have to deliver a barn burner of a speech about...electrical meters.…

Next on Oprah: Carbon Confessions and Zombie Troubles

Last week internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee apologized for the waste of time and paper he caused by inserting the slashes in web urls back in the…

Is the Climate Legislation Worm Starting to Turn?

If you look at crude oil prices, still bobbing around in the high $60's, you might think that not much happened last week. But I think we may look…

The Frugal Genius of "Swarm Power"

The Germans have found a new way to solve a classic greenhouse gas logic puzzle while keeping their auto assembly lines running.The puzzle: What's…

Climate Change and the Culture of Surrealism

The political debate over Waxman Markey and the US response to climate change is on brief hiatus, but the cultural process of adjustment crunches…

Talking Donkeys, Ramadan With Barack, and Our "One True Friend"

This morning, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry whined that its U.S .ambassador was invited to Hilary Clinton's post-Ramadan feast but NOT Barack Obama's…

Happy 150th Birthday to Oil

Exactly 150 years ago oil was drilled out of the ground for the first time in Titusville, Pennsylvania. In honor of the energetic hydrocarbon, here's…

Sayonara Cash-For-Clunkers (And What Could Have Been)

So yesterday the much discussed Cash For Clunkers ended its $2.877 billion run, moving 690,114 new cars off America's car lots and into the traffic…

Astroturf on Coal's Grave?

I know I'm supposed to be outraged that lobbying firm Bonner and Associates, acting on behalf of the (ironic tongue twister alert!) American…

Oil Smuggling: Is It Time To Start Worrying Yet?

I've been waiting in vain for more information on the U.S. companies involved in buying oil smuggled out of Mexico by drug gangs. So far the money…

The Freaky Math of Plug In Hybrids

Times have changed: the once-mighty GM seems to be live blogging its "game changing" Chevy hybrid electric VOLT today, claiming its $40K price is…

Lessons from the Lunar Leftovers

All week I've been stewing on the connection between landing on the moon and solving our climate, pollution, economic and security problems with…

Dr. Chu in China: Warnings, Money, Leapfrogs

Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke are both in China today, forming a new joint research program for US/China cooperation…

Who pays more than $5.61/gallon of gas? You do, when it's for the US military....

How much do we really pay for the gasoline we use? What we pay at the pump is only the beginning, with direct and indirect subsidies and tax breaks…

Regulating Oil and Onions...

The US is reportedly considering regulating "speculative" trading in the oil and gas markets, according to the New York Times. This brings to mind…

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