They’re at it again! The government wants to bring back a zombie. Originally created by Congress in 2007, the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program provided…
After 40 years of empty promises, the prospect of U.S. energy independence has finally become a real part of the national conversation.
In fact, if current production trends continue, the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s largest oil producer in 2017, according to both the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the International Energy Agency.
When going overseas, Chancellor Merkel doesn’t leave home without planeloads full of executives from Germany’s most coddled companies – exports being the core of foreign policy. And if these deals get snagged on the rusty nails of payment…
One of the most popular questions among energy investors this year is will natural gas prices keep rising in 2013, or will their price climb come to an end?
The nuclear fiasco in Japan has shaken the omnipotent nuclear industry – and government agencies that aided and abetted it. Yet they still obfuscate the consequences of the triple melt-down. Latest revelation: the number of workers at the plant w…
There is a long-held belief that significant increases in oil prices are harbingers of building inflationary pressures.
It follows from the observation that a market able to absorb more expensive oil is also one where prices are rising elsewhere.
And for those who remember their “Intro to Economics,” there is an additional element.
Voestalpine, an Austrian steelmaker with 46,000 employees, saw its revenues decline by 4% last year. It blamed the “cooling down of the global economy,” and “dwindling momentum in Asia (especially China).” Now it’s under p…
Documentaries frequently succeed in visually portraying the inconceivable better than any other form of story-telling. Eye-opening and shocking, many spark controversial conversations even before they air.
This is not a green jobs story. There are no soirees, no socialites running across the veranda drinking mojitos to hear about the latest, Obama electric car boondoggle.
Since President Obama climate change speech at Georgetown University last week, Republicans and critics have accused Obama of engaging in a “War on Coal.”
This isn’t the first time that the President’s statements on coal-fired power plants have raised questions about his energy policies. He even campaigned on higher electricity costs in 2008 when he suggested that costs would “necessarily sky rocket” to prevent the construction of new coal plants.