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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

Green Car Congress

Prices for light oil are set at $67 per barrel and natural gas prices fixed at $7.50 That means consumers are not reaping the benefits of cheap fuel. The Vaca Muerta has attracted companies from around the world, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and Gazprom. per million Btu (MMBtu).

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

Green Car Congress

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. Unfortunately, they don’t. Click to enlarge.

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How Big Oil Stays on Top

Plugs and Cars

Today's NYTimes has a big story about one way oil and gas companies continue to steal from us. The oil and gas companies spent liberally to protect their profits from the California proposal. 2,000,000 from Chevron on October 17. I guess they decided they were being cheap, so they ponied up another $2.5 Scary enough?

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

So we set out to show the industry what needed to be done so that the Flying Js, the Chevrons, the BPs of the world would understand that this needs to be built and that they had some support in doing so. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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Sodium batteries from Michigan to challenge lithium’s grip – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Their main raw input — sodium — is abundant and cheap. the largest oil and gas drilling company in the US, sees Natron batteries as a way to cut emissions by making their rigs more efficient. Other investors include Chevron Corp. Sodium-ion batteries offer benefits over their lithium-ion counterparts. and Amazon.com Inc.,

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electric grid is the most advanced energy-distribution network ever created and is constantly only a few feet away from us (far more ubiquitous than gas/ethanol/hydrogen stations). The first step was the hybrid, which proved to the world that electric power can reduce gas consumption.