Musk: Don’t fine Volkswagen, make it produce zero-emissions cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has joined several other industry heavyweights urging California to change its response to the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
There is a downside to cheap oil. Really.
The upshot is that low oil prices aren’t something to celebrate. Over time, long investment horizons tend to generate boom and bust cycles in oil production and prices. But if prices remain low for too long, that will hurt efforts to address climate change, especially in the U.S., where citizens largely oppose raising oil taxes.
Big investors predict catastrophe for oil industry
Some of the most respected investors around are sounding dire warnings on the implications of low oil prices for the energy industry.
Oil prices hit eleven-year low as global supply balloons
Brent crude oil prices hit their lowest in more than 11 years on Monday, while U.S. crude flirted with seven-year lows on more signs that swelling global supply looked set to outpace tepid demand again next year.
2015 will end with oil and gas markets writhing in pain
The hard question to answer however and one that nobody has gotten right in a very long time is: When will prices find a floor and start to trend up again?
Yossie on Fox: Natural gas is a solution to oil dependence
Natural gas is abundant and cheap in the United States, and we should be using more of it for our transportation needs, Fuel Freedom co-founder and chairman Yossie Hollander said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Friday. “Everybody talks about the oil and gas industry, but we’re using only the oil,” he said.
Islamic State eyeing oil targets beyond Syria stronghold
Islamic State is looking at potentially vulnerable oil assets in Libya and elsewhere outside its Syria stronghold, where the militant group controls about roughly 80 percent of the oil and gas fields, a senior U.S. official said.
Goldman Sachs expects oil prices to fall further as OPEC stands pat
Goldman Sachs sees further weakness for oil due to the worsening of already weak fundamentals after OPEC held back from cutting production at its recent meeting.
Oil in $20s a risk as Citigroup sees crude storage tanks fill up
U.S. oil prices may fall into the $20s if tanks used to store crude start to fill up before producers sufficiently curb output, Citigroup Inc. predicted.
China emerges as a global leader in EVs
It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody some good, and it’s an ill pollution day that doesn’t have an upside somewhere.
