Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Schumer goes after oil industry...

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Senator calls for refinery probe... Homer : [ gulps ] I suppose you want to probe me. Well, might as well get it over with. US senator C...

Eight Democratic senators propose oil windfall tax

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That's the Houston Chronicle headline from April 27. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said: "Oil companies have been ripping us off ov...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Venezuela Nationalizes Foreign Oil Rigs

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"These companies demand millions for the use of these machines. Faced with this situation, we have decided to nationalize this equipme...
Monday, May 14, 2007

The Simpsons on Biofuels, Politics and P.R. Spin

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Grandpa Simpson on CAFE Standards: Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric syste...

Inside the Silicon Valley cleantech investor brain

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inside greentech (what's with the e.e. cummings no caps thing? It's as silly as the period rather than the hyphen/dash in phone numb...

Uranium Futures

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Not with a bang but a whimper. Current open interest, 16. Here's the Nymex contract current session . Friday's settlement was $138.0...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

Great Men

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Hi mom. Happy Mother's Day. This year none of your boys are serving in harms way, but a lot of other mom's kids are. I hope they hav...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Power plan dooms world's poor

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This is something we will have to be very aware of as we negotiate our way forward. Some of my friends on the right use the soundbite "...

Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals

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Weekend reading from MIT . From the abstract: "Initial period prices for the first group of proposals, in carbon dioxide equivalents, a...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Pity Planktos' P.R. People

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A little alliteration to start the day. I have a confession to make. I have a morbid fascination with this kind of deal. A company incorpora...
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

How to Stay Current in a Fast Changing World

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Information Arbitrage has five bullet points that anyone in any business can use to either stay current in their field and/or avoid getting...

U.N.: Biofuels Could Devastate Environment

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CBS has a Dervish of a headline (spin, spin, spin; they're spinning so fast I can't seem to link it). Here's the story from the ...

Rupert Murdoch launches effort to green News Corp...

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"... but also a vow to weave climate messaging into the content and programming of News Corp.'s many holdings." Grist has an ...

Intelligent Cars As Fuel-Efficient As Hybrids

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This is as much about infrastructure as vehicles but this quote caught my eye: "If simple and effective sensor networks can be installe...

Ethanol sector slapped on bad VeraSun earnings

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From Inside Greentech : "Partly blaming high corn prices, prominent American ethanol maker VeraSun Energy (NYSE: VSE ) dramatically m...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

The Brainstorm From Hell

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That's how Grist is headlining " The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change bonanza " With quotes like this the head seem...

TransUranic Express

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I thought I'd have a Googlewhack with that one. Nope, 50,000 hits. Throw a quote mark in and I get down to one hit but that's cheati...

Farm subsidies, EXPOSED!

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Okay, I'll stop doing that. I was at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online searchable database last night and absorbed some 1800's newspap...

Darkest secrets, EXPOSED!

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“Do you have a moment for the environment, sir?” “No,” I barked as I evaded her, “I don’t!” ...is it possible that all this marketing is ch...
Monday, May 7, 2007

North Korea endorses IPCC, goes Solar

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They didn't really endorse the IPCC; That has a hint of Onion in it. So did this issue of The Economist from Feb. 13, 2003 Projecting gr...