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- How artificial is the crude Oil price? Have we passed peak Oil?
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...
- Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- How artificial is the crude Oil price? Have we passed peak Oil?
- Here's a map that purports to show how much oil there is in North America and that the supply far exceeds the demand. This website argues greed is driving the high oil price, not shortage. Wait a minute, isn't greed the heart and soul of a free makret...
- Tags: Oil, Petroleum, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable
- Courtesy Gordon Murray & Mohr Davidow. I recently blogged about one VC's efforts in cleantech as it relates to finding renewable replacements for petrochemicals and coal-based products. That same company, Mohr Davidow, has invested in an auto design firm. Why? Because Gordon...
- Tags: Oil, Duck, Clean Technology, Fossil Fuel, Jadoo, Oil Pit, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?Editing.There are many spelling errors and a missing link at the bottom of this article.Oil is messyThis is story is why China will become an even bigger superpower.Everything with them is a business transaction. They don't...
- Tags: own tar baby, tar baby, investment, duck, dead duck, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Texas Oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher Oil prices
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices$5.00/gal!The Arabs will not stop until we are paying $5! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comMake Them Sick; Then Sell Them The MedicineIt seems suspicious that a "texas oilman" who has control of oil, and therefore is a beneficiary of high oil prices would want...
- Tags: Gas Prices, oil, environmentalist
- Discussion threads 2008-04-27
- Texas Oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher Oil prices
- T. Boone Pickens has made a little money in the oil business. According to Forbes in 2007 Pickens was one of the 117th richest people in America, worth about $3 bills, in as in billions. That's only about one-fourth of what he reportedly intends to invest in wind...
- Tags: Oil, Texas, T. Boone Pickens, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Forget gold prices, or $100 Oil--it's a coal day in hell
- Forget gold prices, or $100 oil--it's a coal day in hellWhat's all this..."We are used to heavy duty crude prices" crap?We are HARDLY used to it. The artificially inflated crude prices are driving this country into one hell of a recession, and worse yet, is driving up inflation as...
- Tags: Nothing, coal, coal day, crude price, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Alternative energy? BIG investment, as we've been predicting. Teensy compared to Big Oil
- Four major components of the alternative energy industry are expanding rapidly. They continue to garner ever more investment. A new market study shows major year-to-year investment growth for biofuels, wind power, solar photovoltaics, and fuel cells. A study by Clean Edge shows the sector's investment cachet and...
- Tags: Oil Company, Asset, Alternative Energy, Oil, Exxon Mobil Corp., Investment, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubed
- The price of crude is cruising, and it's not on cruise control, it's on blast-off. A record high on Tuesday and perhaps another one today. Not only is the Federal Reserve priming the pump, they threw gas on the flames. Not to be outdone, China's decided...
- Tags: China, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- It's cool to be crude
- MONDAY UPDATE Gold and oil prices climbing higher to begin the week. Shock and awe prevail in the markets. As the dollar continues to drop in comparative value under the U.S.'s alleged "strong dollar" policies, many commdities like gold, platinum and oil are...
- Tags: Oil, Dollar, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Exxon v. Venezuela and you're the loser in this battle
- Exxon v. Venezuela and you're the loser in this battleIs this ZDNET or Meet the Press?I thought that ZDNET was about computers and technology. Are you folks so lazy that you need to report on oil and politics?I can read this crap on CNN or Fox, I don't need...
- Tags: oil, Hugo, Exxon Mobil Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- So where do we get our Oil?
- Here are the figures from the Department of Energy for the top six oil importers to the U.S. November, 2007, a typical month. CANADA 1,919 SAUDI ARABIA 1,530 MEXICO...
- Tags: Oil, Ocean, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Black Oil, white bears and the color of money
- Map of polar bear populations, courtesy USGS and IFAW. [Click image to enlarge.] The auction's over and the feds may rake in nearly three billion dollars for leases on land nobody will ever see. Land in the new oil and gas leases is far...
- Tags: Oil, Bear, Government, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Oil Drilling Company Improves Software Delivery With Terminal Services
- Although Crosco manages eight sites worldwide that are network-connected, many of the company's employees work in remote or offshore locations. As a result, software distribution was both costly and time-consuming. A companywide upgrade of client software would incur significant travel expenses and could take up to three months to complete....
- Tags: Software, Oil, Microsoft Corp., Terminal Services, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Oil-eating microbes produce green energy
- It is estimated that oil sands -- or bituminous sands -- represent two thirds of the world's oil reserves. Still, it's expensive and difficult to extract oil from these sands. Even with today's crude oil prices, the industry is still looking for cheaper ways to produce energy from the so-called...
- Tags: Oil, Carbon Dioxide, University Of Calgary, Hydrogen, Energy, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Next week: Oil and troubled waters
- There are two international events next week that pertain to energy markets and the future of green tech. First, the OPEC oil cartel meeting will make a short-term determination that will affect oil prices. The OPEC meeting is Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, and already it's sending crude oil...
- Tags: OPEC, Oil, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- The effect of exchange rates on out-sourcing
- As you have probably noticed the U.S. dollar has recently moved down against other major currencies in near lock step with the upward frenzy in crude oil prices. Sometime in the future there will be PhD dissertations written about the strategic implications, causes, and international consequences of this, but for...
- Tags: U.S., Oil, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-11-22
- More Oil from old wells and more electricity from the wind
- Crude prices have fallen from their record levels. Apparently the wise folk on Wall Street now think Turkey will not attack ther Kurdish area of Iraq. Still, crude prices are in the $85 range and many renewable energy prodeucers think they can compete as long as oil is...
- Tags: Turbine, Oil, General Electric Co., Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Not enough Oil, nor water
- Not enough oil, nor waterBut wait, they said that.....global warming is causing more and stronger hurricanes. Thats what the green freaks have been telling us. But now we hear "but they’re regretful that some of those big hurricanes didn’t come along this year and dump a a lot...
- Tags: oil, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
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