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Opinion: Oil Megaprojects Won’t Stay On The Shelf For Long

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One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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Federal Judge rules California Low Carbon Fuel Standard violates Commerce Clause of US Constitution

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The Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Paragraph 2) establishes the Constitution, Federal Statutes, and treaties as “the supreme Law of the Land”, mandating that state judges be bound by them, even if state constitutions or laws conflict. Supremacy and Commerce clauses.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., In particular, Prentice seeks to shield Alberta’s emissions-intensive oil sands operations from the effects of emission reductions. Britain will do so, the rest of Europe will do so and I believe America will do so as well.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

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In America, Defenders have typically been weekend playthings for boomers with fond memories of. Farther down the line are somewhat newer Defender body panels waiting to be refurbished, hand-sanded, and then covered with Ferrari-quality. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “Tesla Inside.”.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. John Addison publishes the Clean Fleet Report with archives of over 60 articles and reports about electric vehicles, V2G, biofuels, fleet success and more. 12:47 PM joe said.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. " The feds arent convinced. It is 12 years later.

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