Costing a mere $100,000, built by Lotus in England using components from around the world, and designed in Silicon Valley, the Tesla Roadster is ripping up preconceptions that electric vehicles are as slow and boring as golf carts. This one...
As the first stage of new talks on the Kyoto agreement got under way in Bonn yesterday it emerged that one of the key countries - Canada - is willing to comply with its Kyoto commitments only if its emissions...
As crude-oil prices hit record highs, US congressional leaders are planning to ask President Bush to order an investigation into possible price gouging by oil companies. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, plan to send a...
Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency has picked up on comments made by British Defence Secretary John Reid, that we reported in a blog last month (see blog here). Writing...
Do you remember George W’s promise to end oil addiction? Part of that process would be beginning to end the vast subsidies given to the oil industry at tax-payers expense. But last month, as yesterday’s great article in the New...
Last week The Independent newspaper in the UK asked its readers what to do about climate change. The response has been overwhelming. “Today we publish a summary of the most popular ideas which, if put into practice, would be potent...
For years oil analyst-turned whistleblower, Chuck Hamel, has been saying that the oil company operations in Alaska are a sham. He has become a conduit for whistleblowers working on the North Slope and for Alyeska -the joint pipeline company. They...
Yesterday saw BP join Shell and Exxon in reporting record profits of $19.3bn (£11bn). What the three company results highlight is the fundamental flaw of how they are valued by city investors. As both Shell and BP posted record profits...
The George Clooney movie, Syriana opens in cinemas across Europe this week. Some oil campaigners believe that any film that tries to portray the deep-rooted web of connections between oil companies and politicians is a worthwhile exercise. Others think that...
Will the bad news ever stop for BP? US federal investigators have now charged the beleaguered oil giant with “secretly and illegally” cornering a portion of the U.S. propane market - a move that drove up heating and cooking costs...
