Raising the octane in gasoline — seen as a way to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions in today’s high-tech turbocharged, direct-injected engines — looks like it will get some attention from the EPA. That’s the good news.
Iran is sending positive signals that it may support joint action to prop up the oil market, sources in OPEC and the oil industry said, potentially aiding efforts to revive a global deal on freezing production levels at talks next month.
As Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leadership aim this month to extend the state’s targets to reduce greenhouse gases and the program that funds the effort, the fight over spending has emerged as one of the most prominent sticking points.
No other policy has so effectively undermined the international oil cartel that seeks to profit from our dependence on oil.
The oil-refining business has always been a tough way to make money.
In last month’s Short Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration projected that it now expects record U.S. gasoline consumption this year:
Researchers refute what they call “a common misperception about peak oil”: that fossil fuels are growing scarce. Rather, they argue, peak oil means it’s getting more difficult and costly to get oil out of the ground—and there’s less of the cheaper, easy oil available.
A prospective EV buyer’s chances of having a good dealership experience at Tesla stores in California are strong. At other automakers’ dealers outside of the Golden State? Not so good.
Work on a 1,154-mile pipeline that would carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois was halted near the Missouri River, amid growing confrontations between members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and police guarding a construction site.
If there is one thing I learned during my 14 years in Congress, it’s don’t always believe what you hear. There is no better example than the myth that ethanol and boat engines don’t mix.
