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The Oil Drum | Updated Corn Ethanol Economics

tags:
ethanol, economics, biofuels, corn, oil, prices

This by Ropbert Rapier, who is generally pretty sharp, and helpful in trying to understand what the heck is happening in the ethanol market

Green Car Congress: Study Concludes That Reducing US Transportation Oil Consumption and GHG Will Require a Package of Policies

tags:
biofuels, globalwarming, transportation, oil

Couldn't agree more with the headline and the study apparently points out that renewable fuel policies need to look at the lifecycle GHG emissions.

Map of the world with countries scaled by their oil reserves

tags:
oil, maps, energy

A picture/map can say a thousand words.

The Oil Drum | Tar Sands: The Oil Junkie's Last Fix, Part 2

tags:
tarsands, theoildrum, oil, water, globalwarming, canada

This is the second part in a great 2 part article on tar sands. It's a good and substantive discussion of the economic, energy and environmental impacts of this crazy source of oil. Hats off to author Chris Nelder.

The Oil Drum | Mythbusters: Ethanol and Foreign Oil Displacement

tags:
ethanol, corn, oil, biofuels

More from Robert Rapier on ethanol. This is part of a FAQ he's putting together. It provides some good discussion of important issues but also wanders into ideology at points.

The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: August 5, 2007

tags:
energy, oil, news

Just a general shout-out to the DrumBeat. It's a consistently useful summary of energy and especially related news.

The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » New toy: Energy clock v1.0

tags:
energy, coal, oil, naturalgas, co2, globalwarming

This is addictive! Description from the blog: it’s a Windows application that displays the US and world consumption of coal, oil, and natural gas, and emission of CO2, in real time, for the current day as well as the current year.

sustainablog: Washington Looking at Higher CAFE, Other Fuel Efficiency Measures

tags:
politics, oil, NRDC, S2025, gasoline

U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices

tags:
gasoline, oil, economics, energy

TomPaine.com - From Gas Crisis To Cure

tags:
oil, security, savings, Lovaas, Luft, gas, prices

Set America Free

tags:
oil, savings, security, politics

Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene
Senior Policy Analyst
New York City
I work on clean energy technologies and policy that will advance them -- energy efficiency...
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