Update: Obama Says 'No Way'WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary's suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy."It is not and will not be the ...

When I was working in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2007 I had to fly out to oil and gas platforms in the North Sea. Regulations there require that anyone doing so has to undertake survival training in case a helicopter goes down in the sea while transporting people to the platforms. ...

At least according to the New York Times, if you pull out the energy-related provisions from the just passed stimulus package, the $80 billion "would amount to the biggest energy bill in history."An $80 Billion StartAn excerpt from the NYT editorial:...

The previous post provided an introduction to Jatropha curcas, a tropical, oil-producing shrub. In this essay I want to get into why I believe there is great potential for jatropha to make an impact on the world's energy supply. I will also explain the hurdles that need to ...

I have written a few posts in the past about Jatropha curcas, a tropical shrub with the potential to make an important contribution to our fuel supplies. (See here and here for previous essays concerning jatropha). While I believe that the present status of jatropha has ...

The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota, also noted that the health risk to humans from ethanol may be even greater than the risk from gasoline.

Some people think that the oil industry is hostile toward the ethanol industry because they consider them a real threat. But I always point out that the oil industry dwarfs the ethanol industry by such a large amount that it could easily buy up all the available assets of the ...

The stimulus package that President Obama would like to see passed - and is currently under debate in Congress - has about $100 billion (of $900 billion total) that is devoted to renewable energy and environmental projects. Today CNN published a story that detailed this portion of the package:...

The U.S. national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline jumped 5.4 cents over the past week, reaching a level it has not seen in ten weeks.

While the most recent two posts (here and here) on Changing World Technologies' thermal depolymerization (TDP) process were reposts, this one has not been previously posted here. Regular reader "Optimist" was initially optimistic about the TDP technology. During his investigation, he went through the chemistry of the process, ...