Project FREE: The Next Apollo Program Both Candidates Should Embrace
The next administration should implement a massive national program to innovate the next generation of carbon-emission-free energy based on hydrogen, fusion, or other technologies.
The next administration should implement a massive national program to innovate the next generation of carbon-emission-free energy based on hydrogen, fusion, or other technologies.
Trey Ellis | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
What will it be? A nod to Israel to bomb Iran? An American-engineered coup in Pakistan? Whatever it is, it is coming and if Obama intends to weather the dirty trick he will have to be prepared.
Mark Cooper | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green
More domestic drilling means more product for oil companies to sell at the high world market price. The consumer doesn't see a cent, while oil companies rake in even more cash.
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
Until oil companies start acting like they are on the American team and help us reduce ALL oil consumption, I will be glad we have lots of grassroots advocacy campaigns to keep the pressure on them.
Josh Dorner | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
After hitting a real gusher of campaign cash from Big Oil, what does McCain propose to do about high gas prices and obscene oil company profits? Why, he wants to give Big Oil a Texas-sized tax cut.
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which s...
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest profit from operations ever by any U.S. cor...
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported a 33 percent jump in second-quarter profits Thursday, its biggest quarter ever at $11.6 ...
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — The roiling global oil market continues to pick its winners and losers, as oil giant BP PLC reported a 28 percent rise in second-quart...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain addressed a town hall meeting in Rochester, NY, today, and the line that everyone will be talking about, or would, if anyone in the media ...
Wall Street Journal | Margaret Coker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- With oil near record highs, the Persian Gulf is awash in cash, stimulating a return to some very conspicuous consum...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
The long term massive substitution of technology-driven innovation, fueled with cheap wages and energy, may be at increasing risk. Rising energy costs are hard to substitute around.
BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business
As consumers around the world struggle to fill their gas tanks, captains of the oil industry are getting a raise. Starting with info provided by Capi...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.04.2008 | Business
SAN RAMON, Calif. — Astounding profits in the oil industry are becoming as routine as the anguished looks of motorists filling up their gas tank...
Bloomberg | Daniel Whitten | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at last year's pro...
New York Times | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. | Posted 03.15.2008 | Politics
The Baiji refinery, with its distillation towers rising against the Hamrin Mountains, may be the most important industrial site in the Sunni Arab-domi...
AP | John Poretto | Posted 01.17.2008 | Business
Historic oil prices and $3-a-gallon gasoline have been contributing to fears of a recession, but they've yet to cause the hue and cry that some might ...
Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber | Posted 08.28.2008 | Green