Posts Tagged ‘gas prices’

• Jon Huntsman slams Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann on climate change and gas prices

  A few days ago I wrote about Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, the three front-runners in the Republican primary, and just where they stand politically when it comes to our climate and environment. As one can imagine their …

• Michael C. Ruppert: Peak Oil and the end of the human race is perhaps just a few years away

  Energy Bulletin has an interesting interview with Michael C. Ruppert, author of “A Presidential Energy Policy: Twenty-five Points Addressing the Siamese Twins of Energy and Money”, about peak oil and the end of cheap oil. “Peak Oil is not just …

• Gore: The whole auto industry needs to be transformed

  Photo credit: World Resources Institute Staff Al Gore talked about the failing auto industry in USA, “clean coal” and the environmental work being done in China in a recent interview with Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. In the interview Gore said that …

• Obama on 60 Minutes: “We go from shock to trance and that has to be broken”

  In his first interview since the election Barack Obama talked with 60 Minutes about the economy, energy and about the failing auto industry in USA. In the interview Obama said that “the challenges that we’re confronting are enormous” and many, …

• A Picture is Worth… Why Offshore Drilling Won’t Help

  The image below shows why offshore drilling won’t help to lower energy or gas prices in USA. The data comes from the US Energy Information Administration. The EIA doesn’t expect any oil production from offshore drilling until around the year …

• Obama responds to McCain: “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant”

  The Republican presidential contender John McCain yesterday tried to make fun of Barack Obama at a biker rally with his hard-core voters saying Obama’s new energy plan was all about inflating your tires. At the biker rally John McCain said …

• Offshore drilling is not the answer to high gas prices

  There have been a lot of discussions about the high gas prices in USA the past months and what exactly should be done to curb this trend. Some politicians, like McCain, Bush, and Gingrich, are taking advantage of the situation …

• Teamsters reject drilling in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge

  The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest labor unions in USA, has announced that they no longer support President Bush’s platform for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. During a summit in California on “good jobs …

• Republican doubts there is any wildlife in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge

  This is not a joke, I promise. The House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said in an press conference yesterday that he don’t think there is any wildlife in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge (ANWR). “We’re going to look at …

• Positive changes in light of increased gas prices in the USA

  Imagine for a second that oil prices in the USA today were at the same levels as those in Europe, and have been from the start. And yes. That means gasoline for $8 per gallon. How would the world look …