Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Energy

Ethanol’s Growing List of Enemies

By Jason Varone | Mar 22, 2007 | 3 Comments

Businessweek reports on an unlikely group of allies united againt the ethanol craze: The ethanol movement is sprouting a vocal crop of critics. While politicians including President George W. Bush and farmers across the Midwest hope that the U.S. can win its energy independence by turning corn into fuel, Hitch and an unlikely assortment of […]

Why Is Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production Down?

By Aaron Donovan | Mar 14, 2007 | 11 Comments

We still have three years and nine and a half months to learn who will win the bet between energy investment banker Matthew R. Simmons and New York Times columnist John Tierney over whether oil prices would be above or below $200 a barrel in 2010. Tierney bet "below" because he believes that over the long term, the prices […]

“People Act as Though the Hybrid Could Solve All Our Problems”

By Jason Varone | Mar 8, 2007 | 4 Comments

In a lengthy interview with Spiegel, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn defends his company’s environmental record: SPIEGEL: Isn’t it embarrassing that German carmakers are not achieving the climate protection goals they have set for themselves? Winterkorn: No, because reaching these goals isn’t entirely up to us. The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon […]

Ethanol: Feed a Person for a Year or Fill Up an SUV?

By Jason Varone | Mar 7, 2007 | 7 Comments

Robert Bryce of Counterpunch comments on what he calls the ethanol scam: Lester Brown, the president of the Earth Policy Institute wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece that the amount of grain needed to make enough ethanol to fill a 25-gallon SUV tank "would feed one person for a full year. If the United […]

The Greening of the Times

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 7, 2007 | No Comments

Today’s New York Times has an entire section on "The Business of Being Green" (Times Select), which includes articles on economies of scale in alternative energy, carbon-offset shopping, the possibly endangered practice of truck idling, Danish wind farms, and environmental litigation. The left-leaning Guardian of London has long made green stories a staple of its […]

CO2 from Shipping Twice as Much as Airlines

By Jason Varone | Mar 6, 2007 | 13 Comments

The Guardian reports: Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are double those of aviation and increasing at an alarming rate which will have a serious impact on global warming, according to research by the industry and European academics. Separate studies suggest that maritime carbon dioxide emissions are not only higher than previously thought, but could rise […]

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