All Posts Tagged With: "Fuels"

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For ExxonMobil and Shell: Oil is King. Long Live Oil.

GM posts a 15.5 billion dollar loss, while ExxonMobil, and Shell clean up.
I’m not surprised. All promulgate the same position: Oil is King.
Only for GM, oil loyalty spells disaster. Not thinking about fuel efficient and alternative energy vehicles will sink them. In Darwinian terms: another dinosaur gone extinct.
ExxonMobil and Shell, as […]

1Aug2008 | User ImageLisa | 1 comment | Continued
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Cash for Clunkers - A Great Idea

Alan Blinder of the New York Times is proposing a new eco-friendly stimulus package called Cash for Clunkers. He describes it as “the best stimulus idea you’ve never heard of.”
I agree. The plan in a nutshell:
“Cash for Clunkers is a generic name for a variety of programs under which the government buys up […]

27Jul2008 | User ImageLisa | 7 comments | Continued
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When Fuel Prices Go Up, America Slows Down

The face-paced life of many Americans has a new ball and chain: fuel.
It costs too much. Whether it really is because there’s not enough of it, or the oil companies are cashing in because of the perception that there’s not enough of it, we’re all feeling the pinch.
High fuel costs make everything cost […]

26Jun2008 | User ImageLisa | 2 comments | Continued
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Fuel Prices Getting You Down? Share the Pain

I’m lucky. I have a twenty mile commute. But my spouse drives into Boston, for a whopping 90 miles round trip. During rush hour. If I had to drive that every day, I’d want someone to take me out behind the woodshed and shoot me. But somehow, my spouse perseveres. […]

10Apr2008 | User ImageLisa | 0 comments | Continued
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ExxonMobil: Part of a $123 Billion Dollar Embarassment

(This post has been corrected based on input in a comment from “Billy”)
With the “top five” leading the way($117 billion) , oil companies posted a record $123 billion dollars in profit last year. ExxonMobil recently announced its highest profit ever- $40.6 billion dollars. The other four companies are Shell Oil($27.5 billion), BP […]

4Apr2008 | User ImageLisa | 16 comments | Continued
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How Big is the Biofuel Footprint?

The jury is still out on whether or not biofuels are a better alternative to oil. A variety of recent studies suggest a much larger carbon footprint than initially thought.
Though biofuels burn cleaner, when you take into account the clearing of natural vegetation required to grow the corn (ethanol), or palm trees (palm oil), […]

24Mar2008 | User ImageLisa | 0 comments | Continued