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A Hoffa you can't refuse Blockbuster Teamsters announcement rejects oil drilling as an energy solution	David Roberts	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
For years, the Teamsters have supported opening the Arctic Refuge and other protected areas to oil drilling; they ran ads bashing John Kerry on it in 2004. So it is a Very Big Deal that the Teamsters have just come out and rejected drilling as a solution to the energy crisis. At an event in Oakland, Calif., Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said that drilling won't do anything to help; he announced that the Teamsters are withdrawing from the coalition pushing for ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, renewable energy (all these topics)

What is Gore's next step? From fossil fuels to manufacturing for wind and solar energy	Jon Rynn	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
A couple of years ago, Al Gore made the case, in a film called An Inconvenient Truth, that we have a big problem called global warming. But the film was not effective at pointing to a solution. Humans evolved to consider a crisis as a challenge, as long as a solution is readily available. Otherwise, panic or resignation sets in. Now, Gore has moved a significant step further by arguing that all sources of electricity should be carbon-free -- in other words, all of our ...
Topics: Al Gore, economy, energy, green jobs, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

No relief in sight The current oil shock	Guest author	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Dilip Hiro, author of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (Nation Books). It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- When will it end, this crushing rise in the price of gasoline, now averaging $4.10 a gallon at the pump? The question is uppermost in the minds of American motorists as they plan vacations or simply review their daily journeys. T ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oil prices will go ... up? No easy explanation for continued price increases in the oil markets	Jason D Scorse	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
At the end of last year I predicted that the price of oil would go down; so far I have been terribly wrong. My prediction, shared by many other economists and energy experts, was premised on a reasonable assumption: Since the world was headed for an economic slowdown, brought about the housing bubble and the financial crisis, global demand for energy would likely moderate, putting downward pressure on prices. While it was a sensible prediction, I am happy that no one ...
Topics: economy, energy, gas prices, oil, oil sands, renewable energy (all these topics)

Town meeting fun Small-town politics meets big-time energy crisis	Katharine Wroth	21 May 2008	Gristmill
Last night I went to the town meeting where I live, which -- well, if you've never lived anywhere podunk enough to have a town meeting, you're missing out. This one was just as I remember them from my childhood, though PowerPoint has replaced mimeographed pages: ambition, exhaustion, confusion, and the one crusty, bearded guy who has to argue every point. After a presentation by the head of the municipally owned utility, a tall, thin audience member in a tan suit an ...
Topics: climate, energy, energy at home, green living, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oil hysteria, part 2 Are low gas prices an inalienable right?	Jon Rynn	02 May 2008	Gristmill
I'm listening to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talk to Thom Hartmann on Air America. Sanders is arguably the best senator in decades, and understands, as he just explained, that we need to transform our energy system toward renewables. But he also said something to the effect that 'we have to get gas prices back down.' I can't blame him -- particularly in his state of Vermont, rural people are getting slammed by high gas prices, because they have to drive long distances. ...
Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, politics, public transportation, renewable energy, sprawl, Vermont (all these topics)

Celebrating the high price of oil ... kind of Increased attractiveness of alternative energy is some consolation	Jason D Scorse	08 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Oil just passed the $106 mark, putting it well above the inflation-adjusted record set just a few days ago. In an earlier post, I predicted that the price of oil would go down. So far I have obviously been wrong, although I suspect that the price will decline by the end of the year since this seems awfully like a part of the greater speculative commodity bubble we are witnessing. But putting that aside for a moment, there is one great benefit of the high price of o ...
Topics: carbon tax, economy, energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Wildcatting the wind in Texas Conventional energy vs. renewable energy	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As all eyes turn toward Texas this week in advance of the Democratic primary, we will see a state that is beginning its transition to a new energy economy. Texas is grappling with a shift the entire nation faces -- and as usual, it's doing it on a big scale. When it comes to energy and to carbon emissions, Texas is a place of super ...
Topics: coal, energy, nuclear power, oil, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Dave's First Law of Sustainability Politics Sustainability doesn't just happen	David Roberts	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Tom Friedman is fond of the theory that high oil prices will drive investment in renewables and spur reform in corrupt governments. He's not alone -- some peak oil types believe that oil price spikes will force us to do the very things that will save us from global warming. This has always struck me as dangerous folly. Nothing good in politics happens automatically. Regress is the path of least resistance. Progress must be fought for. To wit, I commend you to Drake B ...
Topics: energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill		25 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill Call it the light and dark sides of the energy industry: yesterday, as news spread that a major California utility will make a ginormous solar buy, a British Columbia neighborhood was drenched in crude oil spewing from a broken pipe. Related? Only ...
Topics: British Columbia, California, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

A nicely organized summary on energy Energy 101	JMG	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The Oil Drum has an excellent post that provides a neat framework, and then a huge series of links to specific stories that fit into the framework. The subject is energy. Nicely done, TOD.
Topics: energy, oil, renewable energy, websites (all these topics)

Oil lobby resorts to open extortion Hardly new, but brazen nonetheless	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Senate Democrats want to pay for renewables with taxes and royalties on oil companies. This pressure is causing the oil lobby to threaten higher gasoline prices: Bill Holbrook, communications director for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, told ABC News that there are conflicting signals about what path the nation will take coming from both President Bush and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The president is calling for a 20 percent reduction on gasol ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

Global warming, peak oil, and coal-to-liquids Coal companies try a fast one	Jon Rynn	29 May 2007	Gristmill
There is no better reminder of the perils of the end of the cheap gasoline era than the article in today's New York Times, ''Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process,' i.e., coal-to-liquids. This is the process that converts coal to diesel fuel, and while doing so, according to the NYT, emits 119 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional diesel. (David discussed the article this morning.) Of course, the coal companies will allegedly 'try' to sequester the ...
Topics: climate, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Not In My Back Yardarm Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines		22 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Not In My Back Yardarm Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines They would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling pipe fitters: the nation's largest oil-tanker company, Overseas Shipholding Group, will pay $37 million for gooping up U.S. seas. For nearly five years, the company's ships dumped waste oil and sludge off the coasts of ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, news, oil, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics)

Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation		02 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation While you were whooping over your Wii, the energy industry exulted in a few holiday gifts of its own. Just before Christmas, a federal appeals court gave ExxonMobil a $2.5 billion break, slashing in half the $5 billion in damages that had been awarded to thousands of Alaskans affe ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, environmental justice, news, oil, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Magnificent 87 California's Prop. 87, which would tax oil to fund renewables, spurs big spending		14 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Magnificent 87 California's Prop. 87, which would tax oil to fund renewables, spurs big spending Proposition 87, a California ballot measure that would tax oil production and use the proceeds for research into alternative energy, is spurring some big spending. Oil companies have raised nearly all of the more than $35 million in the "No on 87" piggy bank, with Chevron donating a not ...
Topics: California, energy, news, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

It's Like Rain on Your Wedding Day New Arctic Refuge drilling bill would spend proceeds on alt-energy		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
It's Like Rain on Your Wedding Day New Arctic Refuge drilling bill would spend proceeds on alt-energy The recurring nightmare of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back, but with a new twist: proceeds would support alternative energy. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is introducing a bill today to open 2,000 acres of the refuge to oil drilling. Backers of the legislation estima ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

How Not to Prove Your Innocence BP under criminal investigation for oil pipeline problems in Alaska		06 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
How Not to Prove Your Innocence BP under criminal investigation for oil pipeline problems in Alaska When your massively profitable oil company is under criminal investigation by the U.S. government for possible violations of the Clean Water Act, it's not a good idea to spill tens of thousands of gallons of crude onto the Alaskan tundra. So oopsie at BP. Turns out that fe ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Sweden Hereafter Sweden aims to be oil-free in 15 years		09 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
The Sweden Hereafter Sweden aims to be oil-free in 15 years It's official: Sweden is the coolest ... country ... evar. Already widely admired for meatballs, Ikea, and, um, other Swedish stuff, the country has now announced its aim to have an oil-free economy by 2020. The Swedes cut the percentage of their energy coming from oil from 77 percent in 1970 to 32 percent in 2003, and they're favoring biofuels over n ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, renewable energy, Sweden (all these topics)

Let It BP BP making big boost to clean-energy spending		30 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Let It BP BP making big boost to clean-energy spending Oil giant BP plans to invest up to $8 billion of its oil-and-gas profits into clean energy technologies and greenhouse-gas abatement projects over the next 10 years. An $8 billion investment would represent an eightfold increase over the company's clean-energy outlay in the past decade, says CEO John Browne. BP expects an eve ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Shake, Rattle, and Bankroll Hillary calls for Big Oil to fund a cleaner energy future		26 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Shake, Rattle, and Bankroll Hillary calls for Big Oil to fund a cleaner energy future Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) says the oil industry should pony up for a multibillion-dollar "Strategic Energy Fund" that would invest in clean-energy technologies and help folks struggling with spiking heating costs. At the Cleantech Venture Forum in D.C. yesterday, Clinton called for Big Oil to ...
Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, news, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Watts On, Watts Off Japanese manufacturing leads the world in energy efficiency		07 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Watts On, Watts Off Japanese manufacturing leads the world in energy efficiency When oil supplies contract, oil-dependent economies suffer -- and Japan prospers. Investors are bullish on Japan's manufacturing sector, which has been investing in energy efficiency since the oil crisis of the early 1970s. Faced then with few domestic energy sources and near total dependence on foreign oil, the nation's industrial ...
Topics: energy, Japan, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies		14 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies The clean-energy sector is experiencing a post-Katrina bounce. Petroleum stocks are looking less attractive after the storm damaged Gulf Coast oil rigs and refineries, and many investors seem to think pre-Katrina high fossil-fuel prices are here to stay, making renewable-energy investments more attrac ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Just a Viscous Rumor Kenneth Deffeyes' Beyond Oil forecasts a fast-approaching petroleum peak	Jennifer Weeks	07 Jun 2005	Arts and Minds
Mark your calendar: annual world production of crude oil will reach its peak this coming Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. At least, that's the tongue-half-in-cheek prediction of Kenneth Deffeyes, who starts his latest book by suggesting that readers stop and give thanks for a century of plentiful supplies. Beyond Oil by Kenneth Deffeyes, Hill & Wang, 202 pgs., 2005. After the Pri ...
Topics: energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge		10 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge A cargo ship that ran aground Wednesday on the shore of Unalaska Island, 800 miles southwest of Anchorage, has begun to leak fuel into sensitive wildlife habitat. After an unsuccessful search for lost crew members, officials have begun to survey the damage from the wreck; the freighter, which was loaded with soybeans and h ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

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