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Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?

"Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...

Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-20

The next oil crisis: is your state immune or addicted?

You want a planned commune? or Liberty?"The political issues these rankings bring to mind? Sprawl and zoning, or lack thereof. Government regulation of housing and development. Lack of urban concentration of population. Mass transit or not. Trains. Buses. Bicycles. Sidewalks, which have become a sign of downscale housing in some...

Tags: oil company

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?administrationya u need a new job since you continue to work writing stupid stuff and implying the wrong info "Palin administration" But i understand whom you work for is nothing more then liars.GET A REAL JOB - EARN honest moneyIke Relief Tack...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, job, Democratic leadership, Palin, tax, oil company

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Oil Company Fuels Business Application Availability With Virtualization Solution

INA is a Croatian oil company. Its IT staff did not have efficient tools for testing and upgrading software, which slowed deployment to the production environment. Staff also had problems accessing information from an aging file server. INA deployed Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and automated its test environment to ensure...

Tags: Oil Company, Virtualization, Business Application, File Server, INA, File Servers, Storage Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows

Case studies 2008-09-01

And your point would be?

A website called The Point ("Make Something Happen") provides a framework in which you can raise support for a cause. The cause may be as grand as getting an oil company to lower gas prices or as humble as persuading the local Starbucks to install recycling containers. by Ed Gottsman

Tags: Oil Company, Cause, Action, Point, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-08-23

Virtualized Environment at Irish Oil Company Uses 30 Per Cent Less Power

Oil company Maxol wanted to future proof an existing Microsoft environment. They needed to build an architecture that would reduce power consumption and lower carbon emissions. It was important to consolidate the existing servers, improve business continuity, and support the rollout of new software in the coming year. Working with...

Tags: Oil Company, Dell Computer Corp., Environment, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-08-01

Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?

Yes, American gasoline prices have risen more than 30% in a year. Yes, consumption is now down in the U.S., year to year. Just under 4%. So maybe nobody ever said there was a one-to-one ratio. Bet if gasoline gets to $5 per gallon, consumption will...

Tags: Oil Company, Alternative Energy, Gasoline, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-10

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

Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubedFusionYes, the sad thing is that the only technology that could solve the energy question forever is getting little attention. In the past few years, the entire world (US, Europe, Japan,...) came up with a mere $15 billion total...

Tags: Investment, OIL PRICES, Nuclear-Fusion, Big Oil, Big Day, Future Profits Seems Well-lubed, oil company, profit margin

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Venom and oil

Venom and oilAre you sure about the $16B in New Taxes?I haven't seen the wording of the proposed bill that has little chance of passing anyway but an earlier version called for the suspension of special Tax Breaks that oil producers were granted back in the mid-80's. The reason I'm...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, oil company

Discussion threads 2007-08-05

Study: Tech, not spec, fueled U.S. housing boom

Study: Tech, not spec, fueled U.S. housing boomhas the fed lost it?the problem I have with the fed's study is that the median income is $40,000 here and, indeed, it is about that amount in many places.additionally, real wages are down.I'll be staying an an apartment, thank you!I save about...

Tags: Benefits, Operational accounting, salary, oil company, globalization

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

Mudslinging over California's clean-fuel initiative

Mudslinging over California's clean-fuel initiativeTypical politics, aka SOS DD !All we need to bring the price of crude oil products back to reality is an EXCESS PROFIT TAX like the U.S. oil industry had years ago when the scumbag oil companies were bleeding the economy dry.This is very simple to...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Benefits, oil company, tax

Discussion threads 2006-08-24

Shell calls food-crop biofuels 'morally inappropriate'

Shell calls food-crop biofuels 'morally inappropriate'AssWhat do you think powers the machines and industry that grows the food and builds the homes and makes the clothes?The oil companies have done more to provide food for the hungry and clothes for the naked and homes for the homeless than all your...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, oil company, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2006-07-06

D: Vinod Khosla thinks outside the barrel

During an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D conference, Vinod Khosla extolled the virtues of ethanol as a replacement for oil. The venture capitalist is investing in biofuels and has a proposal—if Wal-Mart would stock ethanol for $1.99 per gallon for the next ten years, he would guarantee...

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Blog posts 2006-06-01

Photos: 1,000 miles per gallon or bust

An oil company sponsoring an event to reduce fuel consumption? The Shell Eco-marathon's been around for 50 years.

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Image galleries 2006-05-25

Off topic: Record oil company profits and gas prices

ExxonMobil's third quarter profit surged nearly 75 percent to $9.92 billion, based on skyrocketing oil and natural-gas prices. It's the largest quarterly profit in history for a U.S. company. And we thought Google was a hot company. Royal Dutch Shell third quarter profit grew 67 percent to $9.39 billion, riding...

Tags: Dan Farber, Exxon Mobil Corp., oil company

Blog posts 2005-10-27

Clinton calls for energy revolution

Clinton calls for energy revolutionOilIs one of the best energy sources around. It's compact, high-yield, easily transportable and easily refined and used. The only thing better is nuclear fission, though I'll lay good money that Ms. Clinton is not advocating that in her energy policy. It will be some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEC, oil company, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2005-10-25

Report: High oil prices may mean lower chip sales

Report: High oil prices may mean lower chip salesThat is a big - DUH !Higher oil prices mean higher prices across the board with lower sales.WHY are oil prices higher?!And before everyone jumps on me (ooh! sounds kinky!) read over some of this:http://www.rense.com/general67/PRICE.HTMhttp://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_business&Number=293951168#Post293951168Oh, and in case you're still dumb enough...

Tags: Sales strategy, chip, OPEC, oil company, oil, tanker, sales

Discussion threads 2005-09-08

Firm claims fuel cell breakthrough

Firm claims fuel cell breakthroughThis is interestingand also would be great, except one small problem... oil companies will do all they can to quell this from making it mainstream.Go here for some terrorEven the scientists that work for oil companies know this. Like every addict, we have to bottom out....

Tags: Fuel cells, Telecom & Utilities, fuel cell, Exxon Mobil Corp., oil company, solar energy

Discussion threads 2005-05-19

Multinational Oil Company Upgrades Operating System, Boosts Security and Productivity

Repsol YPF, one of the top 10 private oil companies in the world, is planning to open its two new corporate offices in Madrid and Buenos Aires at the beginning of 2008. Accordingly, the company is working to ensure it is taking advantage of the newest technology and preparing to...

Tags: Oil Company, Security, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Benefits, Software, Human Resources

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