Energy / Transportation (106)

Carbon dioxide is essentially harmless to human beings and good for plants. So now will you stop worrying about global warming? Utah's House of Representatives apparently has at least. Officially the most Republican state in America, its political masters have adopted a resolution condemning climate alarmists, and disputing any scientific basis for global warming. The measure, which passed by 56-17, has no legal force, though it was predictably claimed by climate change sceptics as a great victory in the wake of the controversy caused by a mistake over Himalayan glaciers in the UN's landmark report on global warming.(2/12/2010)
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Audi presented the clean diesel Green Police ad. The humorous nature of the ad allows your mind, for just a moment, to slip into neutral and allow the idea to percolate. GNP has been keeping an eye on this idea for some time. As you consider the benign nature of having a funny green police, consider the following real world articles posted recently from around the world. The commercial suddenly looses it's funny edge.(2/9/2010)
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Beneath the rubble and tragedy of Haiti lies what some geophysicists believe may be one of the globe’s richest zones for oil and gas hydrocarbons outside the Middle East. Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2010/02/04/haiti-s-untapped-oil-gas-and-mineral-wealth.aspx#ixzz0eodsbdnz The Financial Post is now on Facebook. Join our fan community today.(2/6/2010)
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Thieves are swiping tractor-trailers filled with goods, triggering a spike in cargo theft on the nation's highways.(2/2/2010)
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In the case of a station, the gates would only shut if somebody tries to board without a tag. On a bus, the technology would mean that the driver could demand payment is somebody tries to walk past a reader without the electronic tag. The electronic tag could be fitted as a chip on a plastic card - which would remain in the passenger's pocket - or be embedded into a mobile phone.(12/29/2009)
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano flip-flopped today on the government's performance in the Christmas Day Northwest Airlines terror attack, saying changes need to be made to the passenger screening system.Just a day earlier, she told CNN that the system worked and there was no suggestion that [the suspect] was improperly screened. Abdulmutallab has warned that there are more men like him but U.S. officials have no evidence that the incident was one in a wave of planned attacks.(12/29/2009)
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For ABC News and the corporate media, it is a foregone conclusion.The Christmas underwear bomber is al-Qaeda.Meanwhile, more suspicious information about the underwear bombing has surfaced.An eye witness told the news talk radio station 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee that a man on the flight had videotaped the entire flight.On Saturday it was reported that a “sharp-dressed man” had escorted Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab when he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam.Mutallab was allowed on the plane without a passport.It was later reported that Mutallab seemed to be in a trance.Unfortunately, we no longer have a functioning investigative media in this country.Instead we will hear endless pabulum about a resurgent al-Qaeda and murderous idiocy from neocons like Joe Lieberman who are screaming for another small and defenseless country to be bombed.(12/29/2009)
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Cars sit in traffic on a highway. The Dutch government said Friday it wants... The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a green road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill, the transport ministry said in a statement.(11/14/2009)
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Lindsey's latest information from inside sources. Hyperinflation will be rampant within 2 years to the point 'the dollar will be dead.' 'After two years you will be so poor you will not be able to do anything.' The elite have used the devil's messiah or a long-term system of deception to take away America's God in order to destroy them and take control of the world.(2/2/2010)
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“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear.” Revelation 13:7-9 The people of this country, and in fact of the entire world, are witnessing the concluding constituents of an ancient and diabolical plan, an infernal contrivance that is as evil and fiendish as the spirit behind it, Satan the god of this world. It is the quest for world conquest through the institution and insinuation of fear, which is a mystery only to those who lack the illuminating power of God’s Spirit. It is a demonic - formerly clandestine and now forthright - sinister weaving together of finance religion and politics by the Order of the Illuminati an order that envelopes and encompasses the earthly sons of Satan. These are no less wicked and evil than their demonic counterparts of the dark and dirty Mephistophelean spirit world that guide them, lead them, and possess them in spirit.(10/22/2009)
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America is being regulated to death under the guise of Sustainable Development. The playbook is the United Nation's policy paper, Agenda 21 that was originally revealed at the U.N.'s Earth Summit in 1992. Sustainable Development is the globalist's complete plan for economic and social change. So what is Sustainable Development? The Sustainablists insist that society be transformed into feudal-like governance by making nature the central organizing principle for our economy and society. To achieve this, Sustainablist policy focuses on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control. Keep in mind that America is the only country in the world based on the ideals of private property. But, private property is incompatible with the collectivist premise of Sustainable Development. If you doubt that, then consider this quote from the report of the 1976 UN’s Habitat I conference which said: “Land …cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice.”(10/19/2009)
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Treaty expected to be signed in Copenhagen to establish a communistic world government framework based upon the threat of climate change.(10/19/2009)
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On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. Lord Monckton served as a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He has repeatedly challenged Al Gore to a debate to which Gore has refused. Monckton sued to stop Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth from being shown in British schools due to its inaccuracies. The judge found in-favor of Monckton, ordering 9 serious errors in the film to be corrected. Lord Monckton travels internationally in an attempt to educating the public about the myth of global warming.(10/19/2009)
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Global currency to replace the dollar, climate controls, global taxation...one world government.(9/18/2009)
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A Member of Congress proposes to use taxpayer money to fund the development of technology to track motorists as part of a new form of taxation. US Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) introduced H.R. 3311 earlier this year to appropriate $154,500,000 for research and study into the transition to a per-mile vehicle tax system. The “Road User Fee Pilot Project” would be administered by the US Treasury Department. This agency in turn would issue millions in taxpayer-backed grants to well-connected commercial manufacturers of tolling equipment to help develop the required technology. Within eighteen months of the measure’s passage, the department would file an initial report outlining the best methods for adopting the new federal transportation tax.(9/18/2009)
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Last week, WND reported the official communist-oriented manifesto of a radical group founded by Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was published in full on the Internet. Just hours later, the manifesto was removed and the entire website was taken down. It is, however, still available in web archives.(8/31/2009)
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Just days before his White House appointment, Van Jones, President Obama's environmental adviser, used a forum at a major youth convention to push for what can easily be interpreted as a communist or socialist agenda.(8/31/2009)
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Love them there Progressives, don't we? How many trillions of ruined electrons have been sacrificed to hear all about how concerned Progressives are with the environment, fossil fuels, foreign oil, blah, blah, blah? To hear them tell it, the EARTH MUST move from fossil fuels. No, no, we CANNOT drill our own oil? Offshore of the Continental US? No, no!(8/20/2009)
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In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago. The prize is the culmination of 10 years of research and testing -- a new generation of deep-storage battery that's small enough, and safe enough, to sit in your basement and power your home.(8/17/2009)
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An Oregon congressman says he wants to test having a government GPS unit in every car so a tax could be imposed on the miles driven.(8/6/2009)
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A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference.(7/25/2009)
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Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?(7/8/2009)
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The U.S. may have as many as 115 billion barrels of “technically recoverable” oil in federal waters off its coast, a report today from the Interior Department found.(4/2/2009)
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A United Nations document on climate change that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.(3/27/2009)
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Twenty years ago this week, a pair of previously unknown scientists stunned the world by announcing they'd done the impossible by achieving nuclear fusion in a lab flask at room temperature.

Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons quickly became celebrities as the news media hailed them for discovering a cheap source of nearly limitless power. But it all fell apart as other scientists couldn't duplicate their results, and the pair later admitted they'd made mistakes in the experiments.

Now a U.S. Navy researcher, speaking on the anniversary of their announcement and in the same city where they made it, thinks Fleischmann and Pons may have been right.(3/26/2009)
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Mexico has announced a decision to increase tariffs on 90 U.S. products in retaliation for a congressional decision last week to remove the funds for the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project, making it clear the NAFTA trucking is by no means finished.(3/17/2009)
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Anyone departing the UK by land, sea or air will have their trip recorded and stored on a database for a decade. Passengers leaving every international sea port, station or airport will have to supply detailed personal information as well as their travel plans. The owners of light aircraft will also be brought under the system, known as e-borders, which will eventually track 250 million journeys annually.(3/14/2009)
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The classified ads in Dubai read like an obituary for a real-estate market that until a few months ago seemed immune from the global credit crisis.(12/5/2008)
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Oil prices on Monday fell below $50 a barrel for only the second time this year after Opec delayed a further production cut until mid-December.(12/1/2008)
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Oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel today for the first time in three and a half years as the slowdown in the global economy dragged down demand for fuel.(11/20/2008)
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A recent meeting of the national oil companies in Beijing had predicted oil prices would fall to about $40 a barrel, Fu Chengyu, chief executive of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, told a conference in Barcelona.(11/19/2008)
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Congressional Democrats are pushing legislation to send $25 billion in emergency loans to the beleaguered auto industry in exchange for a government ownership stake in the Big Three car companies. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hope for quick passage of the auto bailout during a postelection session that begins Monday.(11/12/2008)
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Libya and Russia signed a civil nuclear cooperation deal Saturday, Tripoli's foreign minister said, as Moamer Kadhafi visited Moscow for talks he said could help restore geopolitical equilibrium.(11/5/2008)
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If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted, Barack Obama said to the San Francisco Chronicle in January.(11/3/2008)
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A Russian floating platform will start to drill deep test wells on November 7 to prospect natural gas fields in the Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.(11/3/2008)
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LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday said he wanted closer energy ties with Russia, shifting the emphasis away from the arms sales which until now have been at the core of their relationship.(11/3/2008)
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What some are advocating... The world is heading for an ecological credit crunch far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today.(10/30/2008)
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Oil fell sharply and traded below $65 a barrel Friday amid weakening global demand for crude -- despite a decision by the OPEC cartel to cut production quotas by 1.5 million barrels a day from next month.(10/24/2008)
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OPEC, the supplier of more than 40 percent of the world's oil, plans to cut output for the first time in almost two years as the worst financial crisis since the 1930s sends crude toward $50 a barrel. Options contracts to sell oil at $50 by December soared 50- fold in the past two weeks on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. analysts say crude, which fell more than 50 percent from a record high in July to a 14-month low last week, may drop another 44 percent should the world economy slip into a recession.(10/20/2008)
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The price of oil slumped below 72 dollars on Wednesday, its lowest level for more than 13 months, as recession fears raised concerns about a prolonged drop in energy demand, analysts said. The global financial crisis will give a vicious twist to an economic slowdown and is hitting world demand for oil, although the effect on emerging economies is unclear, OPEC said on Wednesday.(10/15/2008)
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Goldman Sachs, a long-standing commodity bull, became a near-term bear on Monday after conceding that global financial turmoil would take a far bigger toll on demand and that oil prices could hit $50 (see Lindsey Williams on $50 per barrel) if the crisis deepened. We have underestimated the depth and duration of the global financial crisis and its implications on economic growth and commodity demand, Goldman's commodity markets research team said. The bank cut its year-end U.S. crude oil target to $70 a barrel, down from a previous forecast of $115 a barrel, and slashed its average 2009 forecast by a third to $86 a barrel.(10/13/2008)
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Over the summer he was all the rage - a Texas oil billionaire ready to make a difference and get the U.S. off of foreign oil dependency. Pickens certainly advocates drilling more American oil, but also came up with a reasonable-sounding plan to make wind power a reality. People quickly responded to support his efforts. Environmentalists praised him. Pro- free market advocates have flocked to him, invited him to address their conferences and hailed him as a hero. That's the Public Relations story. It's not the whole story.(10/8/2008)
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Almost half the members of the Opec oil cartel are considering an emergency meeting in Vienna next month as oil prices dropped to their lowest level in nearly a year. Almost half the members of cartel have in the past few days called on the group to act to halt the slide before their next official meeting scheduled to take place in Algeria in late December. Oil prices on Wednesday resumed their slide towards $85 a barrel, a level last reached in December last year.(10/8/2008)
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It is reported that, in three years, buildings covered in steel sheets could be generating large amounts of solar electricity, thanks to a new photovoltaic paint that is being developed in a commercial partnership between UK university researchers and the steel industry.(10/5/2008)
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A coal fired power-plant in Oregon has started a pilot project to curb pollution by using algae to harvest greenhouse gases and make fuel and other useful products. How does it work? Just like you and I breathe in oxygen to make energy, algae breathe in carbon dioxide to make energy. So, if you capture all that carbon dioxide and feed it to the algae, they grow. Algae are particularly oily little buggers so after they’ve matured they can be squeezed to make oil. The leftover algae carcasses can then be converted to ethanol and used as feed for livestock.(10/3/2008)
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Oil prices tumbled more than $8 a barrel Monday, dropping below the $100 level as traders bet that global demand for petroleum products will keep falling despite a planned $700 billion U.S. financial bailout.(9/29/2008)
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ATLANTA — A storm-related gas shortage in the Southeast that has left some places bone-dry and others with two-hour gas lines is expected to continue for at least another two weeks, energy experts and industry officials say.(9/29/2008)
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Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision that would allow exploration just three miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines unless the next president reinstates an executive branch order that prohibits drilling. At least temporarily, the moratorium is lifted. This next election will decide what our drilling policy is going to be, said Rep. David R. Obey (D-Wis.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee.(9/24/2008)
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Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.(9/24/2008)
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Oil prices spiked more than $25 a barrel Monday—the biggest one-day price jump ever—as anxiety over the government's $700 billion bailout plan, a weak dollar and an expiring crude contract ignited a dramatic rally.(9/22/2008)
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Shell and BP have been warned by Greenpeace and other investors that their involvement in unconventional energy production such as Canada's oil sands could turn out to be the industry's equivalent of the sub-prime lending that poisoned the banking sector and triggered the current financial crisis. The global warming agenda is being used to control the energy sector. What would we do without these environmental saviors?(9/20/2008)
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The House approved a package of energy initiatives yesterday, including measures that would allow oil drilling as close as 50 miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and finance the long-term development of alternative energy sources. In the first substantive votes since gasoline prices rose above $4 a gallon this summer, the House divided largely along party lines, 236 to 189, with most Republicans rejecting the Democratic-sponsored legislation because it would prohibit exploration of much of the known oil reserves closer to the coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico.(9/17/2008)
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New oil sands extraction technology, the uncertainty of future access to Middle East oil and the expectation that high prices are permanent have combined to shift the focus of future U.S. oil supplies to Canada. The higher extraction costs for heavy oil and bitumen is outweighed by relatively lower exploration costs. It’s hard not to find oil in the three oil sands areas in northern Alberta that collectively hold about 14 percent of the world’s known oil reserves, roughly equivalent to those in Saudi Arabia, the world’s No. 1 producer.(9/16/2008)
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Oil prices plummeted Tuesday, falling briefly below $92 a barrel and reflecting market fears that the U.S. credit crisis which brought down brokerage giant Lehman Brothers will drag on global economic growth and restrain demand for crude. OPEC's production cut of 520,000 barrels a day earlier this month has failed to stem the decline. The 13-nation group said oil demand in the U.S. fell by 800,000 barrels a day last month due to the slow economy and high retail prices.(9/16/2008)
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Russia must stake its claim to a slice of the Arctic's vast resources, the secretary of Russia's Security Council said on Friday at an unprecedented session of the council held on a desolate Arctic island. Russia, the world's biggest country, says a whole swathe of the Arctic seabed should belong to it because the area is really an extension of the Siberian continental shelf. The Arctic must become Russia's main strategic resource base, Russian news agencies quoted Patrushev as saying. The Council usually meets only in Moscow.(9/13/2008)
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The oil price rebounded this morning after Opec announced a surprise cut in production in an attempt to halt the recent decline in the cost of a barrel of crude. Having fallen by almost 30% in the last two months to the fringes of the symbolic $100 mark, US crude jumped by over a dollar to $103.30 this morning.(9/11/2008)
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Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $US50 billion ($A61.69 billion) in US government loans this month that would pay to modernise plants and help struggling US carmakers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.(9/8/2008)
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It always pays to look at both sides of every issue and even check into the history of certain issues. Joe Biden has always been one of those DNC Democrats in the Senate who seems to think Washington, DC owns Alaska, not the citizens of Alaska. He has also been actively engaged in blocking many attempts to develop US oil and natural gas supplies to give Americans independence from foreign oil. Biden is NOT a friend of America.(9/8/2008)
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said the nation's highway trust fund will run out of money this month, which means that federal payments to states for construction projects could be cut. Yesterday, Peters asked Congress to come up with an $8 billion infusion for the trust, a federal account used to help pay for highway and bridge projects.(9/6/2008)
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The Bush administration is poised to withdraw an agreement with Russia on nuclear trade as punishment for Russia's military action last month against U.S. ally Georgia, a State Department source said Friday.(9/6/2008)
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Nations that supply nuclear material and technology overcame fierce obstacles Saturday and approved a landmark U.S. plan to engage in atomic trade with India - a deal that reverses more than three decades of American policy.(9/5/2008)
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The oil market is starting to suffer from oversupply, the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman said on Friday, days before a key OPEC meeting on crude output levels.(9/5/2008)
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In his last call, he asked me to make his technology public. So, here below is a description of his technology. Would people please pass it on and would as many people, in a tribute to a man who has probably been killed by mercenaries hired by the oil industry, and make sure that prototypes are developed.(9/5/2008)
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Vladimir Putin has warned Europe that Russia's energy reserves will flow to the Far East if the continent's leaders seek to punish his country for invading Georgia.(9/2/2008)
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Oil prices fell below $106 a barrel Tuesday in Asia - $10 below its close Friday before the Labor Day weekend - as investors shifted their focus to slowing global demand after worries about Hurricane Gustav subsided.(9/2/2008)
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Yesterday, a highly placed source in Moscow was reported as saying the Kremlin intends to turn off the oil export pipeline to the EU on Monday, so great is Russian ire about the rhetoric in Brussels and warships in the Black Sea. If this is true, we are entering a whole new ball game in what has come to be called energy security. Even if the report proves false, the west should be on red alert about energy export weaponry.(8/30/2008)
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Battered by high gasoline prices and weakened earnings, the Big Three auto makers and their suppliers are now seeking significantly more help from Washington in the form of government-backed loans than the $25 billion they had previously been authorized to receive. Various reports have suggested the domestic auto industry now seeks between $40 billion and $50 billion. The auto maker's would like to have a funded plan in place by the end of 2008.(8/23/2008)
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World oil prices dropped near 110 dollars on Tuesday as traders expressed relief after Tropical Storm Fay avoided oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. The market was also dragged down by worries that weaker US oil demand could spread to Europe and Japan, analysts said.(8/19/2008)
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Oil demand in Western countries is set for its biggest fall in 25 years as the global economic slowdown intensifies and consumers respond to high prices.(8/16/2008)
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A leading energy analyst is telling clients these days to prepare for crude oil to retreat back below $65 per barrel over the next three years.(8/15/2008)
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A Georgia company looking to solve America's energy problem has finally teamed up with the federal government, hoping to make millions of barrels of oil every day from virtually anything that grows out of the Earth.(8/13/2008)
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Lindsey Williams expounds the coming oil discoveries and their related impact on the world with Alex Jones, Bob Chapman and Dr. Stanley Monteith.(8/12/2008)
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A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will embark on an Arctic voyage this week to determine the extent of the continental shelf north of Alaska and map the ocean floor, data that could be used for oil and natural gas exploration.(8/12/2008)
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U.S. oil demand during the first half of 2008 fell by an average 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) compared with the same period a year ago, the biggest volume decline in 26 years, the Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday. (8/12/2008)
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As energy prices continue to soar, today U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA-01) called for the creation of a Department of Justice Oil and Gas Market Fraud Task Force to examine fraud and manipulation of oil and gas markets. The President’s InteragencyCorporate Fraud Task Force should investigate allegations of oil and gas market fraud and corporate corruption, coordinating enforcement activities among several federal agencies. (8/9/2008)
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Supply gap could mean oil hits $200 a barrel By Russell Hotten Last Updated: 10:40pm BST 07/08/2008 Only a collapse in the global demand for oil can save economies from a supply crisis and crude prices reaching more than $200 a barrel, according to a report out today. (8/9/2008)
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"Crude oil is the real currency of the world," said Lindsey Williams at a gathering of the Midwest Concerned Citizens group in Kansas City on July 22. But Americans will never hear about huge oil and gas reserves in the United States, which, if ever tapped, would bring today's fuel prices at least as low as $1.50 per gallon and make America more energy independent.(8/8/2008)
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Iraq said on Friday it was resuming exploration of its immense oil reserves after a break of nearly 20 years due to crippling UN sanctions, saying it hopes to double its proven deposits of crude.(8/8/2008)
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Crude prices continued their dizzying spiral down on Friday, shedding nearly four dollars to trade below 114 dollars a barrel as the US currency strengthened amid concerns about energy demand, dealers said. (8/8/2008)
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Reading these tea leaves, if you are a hedge-fund manager who has spent the past year smugly amassing "oil up" positions in sophisticated financial instruments, you will certainly be trying to get out of them now: hence the sheer speed of the recent falls. (8/8/2008)
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Rep. Roy Blunt asked House Democrats on Thursday to join Republicans in urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to reconvene the House and hold votes on proposals aimed at increasing domestic oil production. House Republicans have been pressuring Pelosi to call lawmakers back into session since the House recessed Aug. 1 and allow votes on bills that would lift the ban in coastal waters that are now off-limits to drilling (8/8/2008)
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Air fares are expected to rise dramatically after it emerged that 60m seats will be cut in the run-up to Christmas. (8/7/2008)
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American Airlines plans to eliminate 86 arrivals and departures at the airport per week in November, Delta plans to eliminate 68, United plans to cut 266 flights, and those big airlines' regional affiliates also plan to eliminate more than 1,200 weekly commuter flights at the airport.(8/5/2008)
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"When the cat's away, the mice will play," said a statement from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration curiously chose the first day Congress is out of session for one month to announce a two-year extension of the unpopular cross-border trucking program." (8/5/2008)
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What looks like intraparty tension on the surface is part of an intentional strategy in which Pelosi takes the heat on energy policy, while behind the scenes she’s encouraging vulnerable Democrats to express their independence if it helps them politically(8/5/2008)
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U.S. drivers found more relief at the pump as the national price for gasoline dropped to its lowest level in 11 weeks, the government said on Monday. (8/4/2008)
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Iran has warned it is ready to shut down the shipping lanes of the Gulf as it boasted of a new missile system designed to "prolong" war at sea.(8/4/2008)
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Lundin Petroleum AB announces that its Morskaya-1 exploration well in the Lagansky block, situated in the northern Caspian Sea has encountered a major oil accumulation in the Aptian and Neocomian sandstone reservoirs.(7/3/2008)
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In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine. (8/2/2008)
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The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years, the U.S. Geological Survey said. (8/1/2008)
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Incredible discussion of recent conversation with elite insider about the near-term impact of oil policy on the US economy and the world. Says he was told oil would drop to $50 per barrel.(7/31/2008)
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Crude oil futures fell below $125 a barrel for the first time in seven weeks after a U.S. government report showed that fuel stockpiles increased as consumption tumbled to the lowest in more than a year. (7/23/2008)
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Iran is about giant untapped oil fields. Zionists want to control the world's oil supply. Israel will arrange a massive False Flag terror attack, such as a nuke in a city like Des Moines, or a missile attack on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. We will hit Iran with nukes, the world economy will collapse, and in a few years, the Zionists will 'come to our rescue'.(7/20/2008)
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Lindsey Williams talks about his first hand knowledge of Alaskan oil reserves larger than any on earth. And he talks about how the oil companies and U.S. government won't send it through the pipeline for U.S. citizens to use. This Video was taken on December 08, 2005.(7/18/2008)
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George Bush has today lifted a presidential ban on oil drilling off American coastlines that was first signed by his father – a symbolic move aimed at pressuring Congress into lifting its own similar ban. (7/17/2008)
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The purpose of this essay is to highlight petroleum inventory issues likely to cause shortages this fall. Several events can create instant, grave shortages. Following is an incomplete list of known risks. There are still more unknown risks of unknown magnitude. As explained below, gas lines will be accompanied by a price jump of about $1.50 per gallon, even if crude oil does not increase in price. (7/16/2008)
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Oil at $135? That was just the opening skirmish in the “peak oil” wars. The latest smart money? $200 oil in 2010, with gasoline at $7 a gallon. And that is going to turn Americans into car-shunning Europeans once and for all—poor Americans, at least. That’s the latest gloomy forecast from Jeff Rubin at Canadian brokerage CIBC World Markets, who just a few months ago figured $200 oil would be a thing of the distant future—like 2012. (7/8/2008)
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BERLIN (AFP) — International Energy Agency chief Nobuo Tanaka has predicted that world oil markets will remain tight until 2013, according to an interview with the German economic daily Handelsblatt.(7/8/2008)
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On September 22, 2009, in his first address to the United Nations as Commander-in- Chief, President Obama addresses the pressing issue of climate change. The one-day UN summit brought together delegations from 90 nations. This reveals he likely intends to sign the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty in December that will drastically increase the power of the rising global government.(10/19/2009)
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When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.(9/22/2009)
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OPEC again revised down its estimate for world crude demand on Wednesday, saying a devasting contraction in consumption would keep prices under pressure in the months ahead.

In the coming months, the market is expected to remain under pressure from uncertainties in the economic outlook, demand deterioration and the substantial overhang in supply, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wrote in its latest monthly report.(4/15/2009)
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