Gasoline is like some kind of drug: we know it’s bad for the planet, but we just can’t give it up. Now a number of voices from the energy industry suggest that our addiction could begin to ease, thanks to the rise of electric cars.
General Motors plans to start offering fleet customers heavy-duty pickups and full-size vans powered by compressed natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas.
Six years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still taking stock of the damage it caused.
When you’re the International Energy Agency, you have to go out on a limb and peer a quarter-century ahead. The latest World Energy Outlook, published on Tuesday, weighs in at a magisterial 667 pages of detailed analysis and scenarios. I’m going to focus specifically on one aspect: oil supply and demand.
Imagine the U.S. without a single barrel of imported oil. From 50% imports in 2007 to 30% imports today to 0% in the mid-2020s – 50 years of geopolitical leverage from OPEC can be gone for good.
The Obama administration is set to block the sale of new oil and gas drilling rights in U.S. Arctic waters under a five-year blueprint, handing a victory to environmentalists who said the activity threatened whales, walruses and other wildlife in the region.
The Interior Department on Wednesday announced a settlement with Devon Energy for the cancellation of leases in Montana for oil and gas drilling on lands considered sacred by the Blackfeet Tribe.
On one hand, the market share for electric cars is minuscule. On the other, big automakers are aggressively pushing their electric cars. What gives?
According to a report released this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S crude oil production in 2015 reached its highest level since 1972.
It’s not exactly alchemy, but something magical is taking place inside an 8-foot-tall steel box at a Bucks County industrial park: The humming SimpleFuel machine is converting water into clean hydrogen motor fuel.
