Big Corn courts old foe Big Oil to combat electric car threat
A U.S. biofuels lobbying group on Tuesday said it is seeking to work with longtime rival the oil industry to fight the threat to both from subsidies for electric vehicles.
Archive for month: February, 2017
The American commute is worse today than it’s ever been
The Census’s 2015 American Community Survey data, released last fall, show that the average American commute crept up to 26.4 minutes in 2015, or about 24 seconds longer than the previous year.
What cars will we be driving in 2050?
Today, there are approximately 1.1 billion light-duty vehicles in use around the world.
About 1.2 million, or 0.1 percent of the global fleet, are all-electric or plug-in hybrids. More than 1 billion of those vehicles run on gasoline and diesel-powered internal combustion engines.
Thousands of spills at U.S. oil and gas fracking sites
Up to 16 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells spill liquids every year, according to new research from U.S. scientists.
Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as world’s top crude oil producer
Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest crude producer in December, when both countries started restricting supplies ahead of agreed cuts with other global producers to curb the worst glut in decades.
Texas oil fields rebound from price lull, but jobs are left behind
In the land where oil jobs were once a guaranteed road to security for blue-collar workers, Eustasio Velazquez’s career has been upended by technology.
DOE finds renewables employed more Americans than oil and in gas in 2016
A new report by the United States Department of Energy concludes that American renewable energy firms are creating more jobs than their fossil fuel counterparts.
Algae: the future of biofuel?
Recent advances in technology mean the idea of creating fuel from sources as diverse as coffee and whisky is no longer science fiction.
Nigeria loses up to $100 billion in revenue as attacks cut oil
Production fell by 1 million barrels a day to 1.2 million a day at the peak of the attacks, Emmanuel Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum, said
Japan is at odds with Elon Musk over hydrogen fuel cells
Elon Musk may think hydrogen-powered vehicles are rubbish, but Toyota Motor Corp. and a cadre of Japan’s leading manufacturers are betting otherwise — and not just on cars.
