In California, 71.5 million gallons of phantom hot fuel will get sold in California during the summer and 21.9 million gallons will get delivered by Arizona pumps. Alaska gains some gallons.
A Congressional report says that U.S. motorists will pay $1.4 billion extra over the summer months for gasoline that expands at high temperatures. Steve Everly at the Kansas City Star has been digging into the issue.
Who was the chair of the committee? Sometimes presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. I wish this were in the hands of someone with a bigger and more respected microphone. This is important stuff.
(Editor's note: the IEA comes out with forecasts for energy use in the near term and several decades out. The group's chief economist, Fatih Birol is a great interview, but the data is always scary.)
Interestingly, A.G. Edwards writes: "OPEC Sec. Gen. el Badri suggested the cartel may cut its production investment in response to Western biofuels investments. Though OPEC has voiced its skepticism with regard to biofuels, this is the most direct threat made by the producer group."
I would say that is a threat. And a real one. And what you would expect from an industry with a monopoly on a finite dirty product. If we want alternatives, they are going to make us PAY THROUGH THE NOSE for their existing product while we scale.
Persian Gulf investors, meanwhile, have already begun to sink money into alternative energy concepts such as solar thermal.
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