This is not a letter from ExxonMobil, BP, or any other large corporation.
This is a letter from the small businesses that drill America’s oil and natural gas.
They want to be part of the Obama’s energy plan. They want the facts as they know them to be out there and included in the [...]

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In Reuters and other places, I am sure the discussion is all about how lower oil prices area a sign of a weakening US economy.
And it may be that.
But it also proves the important environmental point that the best way to save the world is to buy less. I would rather that it did not [...]

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The major problem with most renewable fuel sources is the simple reality that they are derived from materials of finite supply (such as food stocks). While it may be true that more corn, palm, or even sugar cane can be planted to offset fuel consumption, many analysts agree that the smartest of all biofuels [...]

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We often talk of the near-limitless potential of creating fuel from such unlikely sources as say an old tire or perhaps a mountain of wood chips. Each time I research these topics; I’m reminded of the old saying that yesterday’s science fiction oft becoming tomorrow’s science.
As one might expect, however, there are some pretty [...]

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Pop quiz: Which company can lay claim to the title as the world’s largest producer of Geothermal Energy? Times up- If you guessed oil giant Chevron, you’re right.
Chevron is in fact the world’s largest producer of geothermal energy, a renewable resource that generates near inexhaustible power while producing virtually no greenhouse gas emissions.
In Indonesia, [...]

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