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Opinion: How Much Longer Can OPEC Hold Out?

Green Car Congress

OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) has been the most talked about international organization among investors, analysts and international political lobbies in the last few months. As per its state run oil company PDVSA, the country loses about $700 million a year with every $1 drop in the international oil price.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week launched the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the current edition of its annual flagship publication assessing the threats and opportunities facing the global energy system out to 2035. But the average oil price remains high, approaching $120/barrel (in year-2010 dollars) in 2035.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. That’s not cheap, except by U.S.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. Most of us are waiting to be able to plug into a 120v line like I do when my tractor battery needs a “refill&#. Oil is the alternative.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar.

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