Energy, food costs push up US consumer spending
Groceries Wikimedia Commons AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US consumer spending rose in February, outpacing income growth, as Americans faced higher costs for energy and food,…
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Doomsday Machine: Why Nuclear Will Never Be the Answer
Hope Creek Nuclear Plant/AFP image Andrew McKillop 21st Century Wire What the atomic energy lobby calls The Nuclear Renaissance is advance warning of uncontrolled and…
Gas to Hit $5 Per Gallon Before Summer
Kurt Nimmo Infowars Oil industry experts warn that the price for a gallon of gas will reach $5 before summer. They blame the unfolding conflict…
US launches review of nuclear plant safety
The Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station (L, dome) and cooling tower (R) in New Jersey © AFP/File Stan Honda AFP “Examining all the available information…
Wind, solar becoming cost competitive: Chu
© AFP/File Johannes Eisele AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Clean sources of energy such as wind and solar will be no more expensive than oil and…
A global energy war looms
Jeremy Warner Telegraph Here’s an alarming chart to ponder (click to enlarge). HSBC has calculated what would happen to energy consumption by 2050 given plausible…
World energy crunch as nuclear and oil both go wrong
The existential crisis for the world’s nuclear industry could hardly have come at a worse moment. The epicentre of the world’s oil supply is disturbingly…
US still wants to expand nuclear energy: Chu
Steven Chu defended the US nuclear industry, which provides about 20 percent of America’s power © AFP Brendan Smialowski AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United…
Bizarre Dark Energy Theory Gets Boost From New Measurements
Dark Matter and Energy/Wiki Commons Yahoo/Space New measurements of the expansion rate of the universe lend new support for the theory of dark energy that…
US lawmakers mull nuclear moratorium after quake
Japan Earthquake © AFP Kazuhiro Nogi AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan at reactors damaged by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami…
US could tap oil stockpiles as prices rise: Obama
© AFP/File Robyn Beck AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Friday said he had “tee-ed up” moves to tap emergency US oil stockpiles,…
Former OPEC Official to Obama: Tap Oil Reserves
AFP File image Amy Harder National Journal HOUSTON — A former top OPEC executive said on Monday that President Obama should tap into the Strategic…
Gas up 33 cents — second biggest two-week jump ever
Private Lundberg survey says average cost of a gallon of regular nationwide is $3.51 AFP image Reuters/MSNBC NEW YORK — Gasoline prices in the United…
Oil price shock; you ain’t seen nothing yet
Wiki Commons Jeremy Warner Telegraph The most common cause of a spiking oil price is supply shock. We may be seeing just such a phenonenon…