McCain's Energy Ignorance
John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?
John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?
Rob Runyan | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
Dealing with one sector without thinking about the other is one-hand clapping. That's why we have popular alternative fuels like ethanol that don't factor in the drain on water resources.
New York Times | David Streitfield | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
The ethanol industry, until recently a golden child that got favorable treatment from Washington, is facing a critical decision on its future. Gov. R...
Josh Tickell | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
The next time you eat a cookie off of your Mahogany table that was brought to you on diesel-fueled transportation, consider this: everything you touch, everything you buy and everything you eat comes at a price.
Bob Franken | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
The "More of the Same with John McCain" campaign continues its uphill ride on the Straight Talk Express. McCain's best hope is is that the Democrats will find some ridiculous way to lose this election.
CurrentTV's Vanguard | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
Rightly blamed for everything from rising food and commodity prices to water degradation and soil erosion, biofuels have seen their cachet plummet in recent months.
Josh Tickell | Posted 07.06.2008 | Green
Corn may be environmentally detrimental, but it is difficult to pin the systemic problems in our international markets solely on biofuels.
EcoGeek | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
Ethanol plants based on food crops are taking a serious hit because of the price hike for grains and the flooding in the Mid-west that has wiped out a...
Treehugger | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
yes, all of those vines are kudzu. photo via flickr Our colleagues over at Discovery News have brought attention to a new report that an invasive ...
New York Times | Larry Rohter | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green
When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry's most prominent boosters show...
Josh Tickell | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green
Much of the "Food vs. Fuel" controversy centers on ethanol. Very little ink is given to the other biofuels, especially fuels from non-food sources from new crops like algae.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
Ethanol and biodiesel are slowly sinking as biofuel options, but the Farm Lobby will ensure that, if we decide to form a methanol producing enterprise, we will have a few years to refine the effort.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green
Ethanol and biodiesel are dead, long live methanol! Methanol is the simplest alcohol, with one carbon atom; ethanol has two. Thus, given biomass, it should be cheaper to produce methanol than ethanol. Surely enough, in a comprehensive assessment Stone & Webster performed for the U.S. Department of Energy two decades ago, with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute as an associate, this fact was confirmed.
Diane Francis | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business
The biggest reason prices have been soaring is that astute investors are now understanding the future supply and demand reality.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
There are some hard questions from the green movement -- especially on his disingenuous touting of "clean coal" -- that Thomas Friedman has been ducking for too long.
Paige Donner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living
Ed Begley, Jr., resident Rockstar of the Hollywood Green Movement, spoke at last Tuesday's Venice Beach Bioneers meeting held at the Electric Lodge.
Lisa Selin Davis | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
Here's the real problem with corn plastic: it's nearly impossible for the little lone consumer to find.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
Ethanol was once touted (and still is by some) as an effective way to slow global climate change, but that effectiveness is increasingly being questio...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
Leaders are forever promising a vigorous campaign of alternative fuel initiatives. GasHole recaps a thirty-year history of alternative fuel promises made by U.S. presidents.
Chris McGowan | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Biofuel has a positive role to play, but it will come from its production from agricultural and food waste or from renewable native grasses in areas that are not environmentally sensitive.
Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration's former deputy to Condi Rice, Robert Zoellick, who currently runs the World Bank, has been making some frantic calls. It is just that they are a trifle late.
Posted 04.15.2008 | Business
Western countries are feeling political and moral heat from poor countries over their use of biofuels. The New York Times reports: The idea of turn...
Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...
Harry Fuller | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business
We don't have to be the bloated, hated, mistrusted bully. We could conserve. Our great-grandparents did it during World War Two.
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Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green