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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

Green Car Congress

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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How Big Oil Stays on Top

Plugs and Cars

Almost every American who drives (and for better or worse that's most of us), must pay oil companies for the privilege. Today's NYTimes has a big story about one way oil and gas companies continue to steal from us. All the major oil companies have joined Kerr-McGee to try and derail Maxwell's suit, but it remains scheduled for January.

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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. Consider the venerable oil drilling donkey, which cycles once every 7 or 8 seconds. This, however, is a fallacy. Click to enlarge.

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

Green Car Congress

Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Details Behind the Conference.

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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. It’s really hard to put that out — it’s the last thing we want around an oil field,” Sierra said. Other investors include Chevron Corp.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. By “quickly,” I mean in 10 to 15 minutes while shopping or eating – not sitting at a Chevron station somewhere).