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Oil Prices on the Rise Again

Green Energy Consumers

If you’ve been following the economic news, you know that inflation has generally subsided and employment has been strong. But in recent weeks, we have seen a rise in oil prices. Nationally, gasoline prices have risen almost a penny per day for the last month. What’s going on?

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Oil price tumbles after OPEC releases 2015 forecast

Green Car Congress

US backlogs of gasoline and distillates also were up, according to the API. Almost all the news flow points to a weaker market,” said one oil analyst , Carsten Fritsch of Commerzbank in Frankfurt. “We In fact this year’s price plunge hasn’t hurt just the weaker OPEC members. Market Background Oil' million barrels.

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Opinion: Consumers winning with low oil prices, for now

Green Car Congress

Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of June 30, 2015 from a lofty national average just under $3.70, tumbling almost every subsequent week before bottoming and bouncing from $2.02 by Thomas Miller for Oilprice.com. Bernard Weinstein, Ph.D.,

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Era Of Cheap, Subsidized Gasoline To End In United Arab Emirates

Green Car Reports

Global oil prices have remained fairly low for most of this year, which should be good news for people in most of the industrialized world. But that's not the case in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The continued slump in prices has prodded the seven-state federation to make a somewhat radical change in policy.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

Even though memories of the gas lines and fuel rationing of 1979 were still vivid by 1987, oil prices crashed hard during the middle 1980s, hitting bottom in 1986. The original Honda Insight beat it, but it needed a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain plus a lot of cutting-edge aerodynamic and weight-reduction tricks to pull it off.

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A Look at EV Charging Pricing Policy and Why It Matters

EV Connect

For many drivers there is a basic understanding of how traditional gasoline pricing functions: Oil prices based on availability and proximity in large part dictate how much a driver will pay at the pump. The good news for site hosts: EV Connect has the tools to reduce operational costs through pricing strategies.

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Toyota Plug In

Plug In Partners

.); New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman; Jon Wellinghoff, commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and CEOs and top executives from Ford, General Motors, Federal Express, and Southern California Edison. Event Summary Oil prices are at record highs. You can help that real change come.

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