Energy Files
2005

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• Shell Nigeria Pipeline Still Blazing - Reuters (plus others) 21dec2005

• Calpine Files for Bankruptcy After Gas Costs Surge -  Bloomberg News (plus others) 20dec2005

• Gerhard Schroeder's Sellout to Gazprom - Editorial / Washington Post 13dec2005

• Biodiesel Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth -  Guardian (UK) 6dec2005

• Arctic Ocean: A 'Great Pipeline Race' in Canada Two Plans to Send Natural Gas to U.S. - Washington Post 5dec2005

• Russian Oil May Enlarge U.S. Strategic Reserves - RIA Novasti (Russia) 28nov2005

• Russia Gives Green Light To Siberia-Pacific Pipeline - Agence France-Presse 28nov2005

• Russian Energy Supplies And Asian Demand - UPI 26nov2005

• CITGO: Venezuela's Chávez Sends Heating Oil to Poor in MA, RI and NY - Christian Science Monitor 25nov2005

• CITGO: Behind Scenes, Unlikely Allies Spurred Oil Deal Delahunt-Chávez Accord to be Announced Today -  Boston Globe 22nov2005

• GM to Cut 30,000 Jobs by 2008, Expects $7 Billion in Savings - GM Press Release & Wall Street Journal 21nov2005

• CITGO to Start Distribution of Discounted Heating Oil To USA's Poor - Venezuelanalysis 18nov2005

• Pentagon's Fuel Deal Is Lesson in Risks of Graft-Prone Regions -  New York Times 15nov2005

• Burgan Field: Kuwait's Biggest Oil Field Starts to Run Out of Oil - AME Info FZ LLC (United Arab Emirates) plus Bloomberg article 12nov2005

• Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films - SPX 24oct05

• Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., flamboyant Texan: Oilman Indicted Over Kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Regime -  New York Times 22oct2005

• Wholesale Prices Increase by 1.9% On Energy Costs: Biggest Monthly Increase in 15 Years in September - Wall Street Journal 19oct2005

• US Winter Heating Bills Won't Be as High as Feared: Significant Increases Still Expected -  Reuters 12oct2005

• Hybrid Fuel Economy: Why You're Not Getting The MPG (miles per gallon) You Expect: Hybrids Fair Worst - Consumer Reports 1oct2005

• U.S. Releases Oil From Stockpile To Ease Crunch - Wall Street Journal 1sep2005

• The Last Refuge: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Caribou Migration, Drilling Plan Symbolic of Battle Between Oil and Environment - San Francisco Chronicle 28aug2005

• The Big Dodge: Bush Fuel-Efficiency Standards Send Wrong Message - Editorial / The North Jersey Record 25aug2005

• Oil Prices Creep Higher, Test $68 Mark - AP 25aug2005

• America's Energy Rut - Editorial / Hartford Courant 21aug2005

• Fuel Prices Damp Wal-Mart Profit; Outlook Is Pared -  Wall Street Journal 17aug2005

• Families Finally Feeling the Pinch: Experts ask how high the price can rise before economy tanks - San Francisco Chronicle 14aug2005

• SAFETEA-LU: Bush Signs $286.4 Billion Highway Bill -  AP 10aug2005

• Bush Sings Energy Bill: Fueling Corporations/Depleting Native Lands - Democracy Now 9aug2005

• Oil Price Hits New High as US Shuts Saudi Embassy  - Ireland On-Line / BT 8aug2005

• Chevron Paid Nigerian Troops After Alleged Killing - San Francisco Chronicle 4aug2005

• Oil and Gas Development: Increased Permitting Activity Has Lessened BLM’s Ability to Meet Its Environmental Protection Responsibilities - GAO-05-418 17jun2005

• Buffett's Return to Big Acquisitions -  Wall Street Journal 24may2005

• Asia: In The Pipeline: Moscow and Beijing, Asia's Roaring Economies -  Le Monde diplomatique 1may2005

• Energy Costs Fan Inflation - Dow Jones Newswires 18may2005

• Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge -  Earth Policy Institute 9may2005

• Duke Energy to Buy Cinergy For About $9 Billion in Stock - Wall Street Journal 9may2005

• Oil: Caveat Empty -  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1may2005

• Bush's Energy Agenda Fast Facts - Fox News 27apr2005 

• BP Posts Strong Earnings Boosted by High Oil Prices -  Wall Street Journal 26apr2005

• Will Oil Strike $380 a Barrel by 2015? - Aljazeera 21apr2005

• Earth To Humankind: Back Off - Say good-bye to your car, computer, everything. We are burning up the planet too fast to hang on -  SF Chronicle 13apr2005

• Comments on 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil - Paul Palmer, Chemist 9apr2005
• ChevronTexaco to Purchase Unocal for $16.4 Billion - Bloomberg 4apr2005
• As Fuel Costs Skyrocket, Many Businesses are Struggling - San Francisco Chronicle 3apr2005
• The Great Phase Transition: The Post-oil Era - Jorge Figueiredo (English & Portuguese) / Centre for Research on Globalization (Canada) 3apr2005
• Rising Gas Prices, Job Worries Hurt Consumer Outlook -  Wall Street Journal 30mar2005
• The Long Emergency: What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? -  The Rolling Stone 24mar2005
• LNG on US-Flag Ships: Resolution of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association - NMEBA (AFL-CIO) 22mar2005
• Berkeley Halts Use of Pure Biodiesel Fuel, Citing Build-Up of Bacteria Mold -  Berkeley Daily Planet 18mar2005
• Oil Price May Top $60 or More If Supplies Are Disrupted And Demand Fails to Cool -  Wall Street Journal 4mar2005
• Wind farms? You may as well take a knife to a Constable: The Menaced Landscape:  -  The Guardian (UK) 26feb2005
• Japanese Vow to Protect Gas Field from China - Herald and Weekly Times (Australia) 26jan2005
• At a Crucial Oil Juncture, a Russian Calls on China -  NY Times 12jan05
• As The World Burns - From The Wilderness 1jan05