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2007

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2007

• Malawi: Young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill, Electrifying a Nation - Wall Street Journal 12dec2007
• Ethanol Craze Cools As Doubts Multiply Claims for Environment, Energy Use Draw Fire - Wall Street Journal 28nov2007
• Why Economy Hasn't Tanked Despite $100 a Barrel Oil Prices - Investor's Business Daily 21nov2007
• Peak Oil: Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production - Wall Street Journal 19nov2007
  • Oil Prices and Responding to the Strange Lack of Response - Jan Lundberg / Culture Change Letter 18nov2007
• BP at UC Berkeley: It’s a Deal-Breaker - Editorial / The Daily Californian 16nov2007
• Oil, Gold and Euro Surge to Record Prices - The Telegraph (UK) 7nov2007
• Motorhead Messiah: Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him? - Fast Company 1nov2007
• Stock Prices Plunge: Dow Drops 370 Points - AP 1nov2007
• Price of Oil Climbing to $100 a Barrel Seen Not Too Far - Arab News 30oct2007
• Steep Decline in Oil Production Brings Risk of War and Unrest, Says New Study - The Guardian (UK) 22oct2007
• Nissan Races to Make Smaller, Cheaper Cars - Wall Street Journal 22oct2007
• Biofuel Demand Pushes Up Food Prices - International Monetary Fund (IMF) 17oct2007
• Solar's Upside: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Fortune 15oct2007
• Buffett's PetroChina Sale: Fiscal or Social Move? - Wall Street Journal 12oct2007
• Where Has All The Oil Gone? - Wall Street Journal 6oct2007
• Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price - New York Times 30sep2007
• The Dangers of the UC Berkeley-BP Research Deal on Biofuels - Open Letter to the Editor of California Magazine 26sep2007
• Hunt Oil Kurdish Deal: Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing - New York Times 13sep2007
• EPR Guerrilla Group Claims Pemex Pipeline Bombings in Central Mexico - Los Angeles Times 12sep2007
• Oil Touches $80 Milestone: Experts Note Storm Fears, Low Stockpiles - Chicago Tribune 13sep2007
• Hunt Oil Skirts Baghdad, Signs Deal With Kurds - Wall Street Journal 10sep2007
• Possible Energy Source: Burning Seawater: Hydrogen From Salt Water Can Be "Burned" By Radio Frequencies - AP 10sep2007
• Petrobras: How a Sleepy Oil Giant Became a World Player - Wall Street Journal 30aug2007
• German Regulator Roils Auto-Emissions Debate:  Low Tech Touted Over Alternative Fuels - Wall Street Journal 23aug2007
• Sudan Has Bigger Crisis Than Darfur: '05 Peace Pact Falling Apart - San Francisco Chronicle 12aug2007
• NYC Mayor Bloomberg Takes the Subway. . . By Way of S.U.V. - New York Times 1aug2007
• PEMEX: Mexican Company Predicts End of Oil - Prensa Latina (Cuba) 27jul2007
• Coal's Doubters Block New Wave Of Power Plants - Wall Street Journal 25jul2007
• Renewable Energy Could Rape Nature - New Scientist 25jul2007
• Japanese Quake Brings Safety Issue to Fore: Plant Standards in Focus After Radioactive Leak - Wall Street Journal 19jul2007
• Corn Biofuel Dangerously Oversold as Green Energy - New Scientist 18jul2007
• Nuclear Power Plant Delayed Reporting Radioactive Water Leaked Into Sea - New York Times 17jul2007
• Nuke Waste Drums Tipped in Japan Quake - AP 17jul2007
• New York’s Traffic Plan Stays Gridlocked for Now - Bloomberg News 17jul2007
• Fire at Nuclear Plant as Quake Jolts Japan - Reuters 16jul2007
• Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately - Bloomberg News 13jul2007
• Inside Messy Reality Of Cutting CO2 Output at AEP - Wall Street Journal 12jul2007
• China Oil Imports Up 11.2 Per Cent in First Half of Year - AP / Oil Week 11jul2007
• Drummond Charged it Paid Right-wing Paramilitary Gunmen to Kill Union Leaders in Colombia - Reuters 9jul2007
• Alternative Energy Hurt By a Windmill Shortage While Projects in U.S. Stall, Europe's Utilities Expand Their Reach - Wall Street Journal 9jul2007
• World Will Face Oil Crunch in Five Years - Financial Times (UK) 9jul2007
• Oil-Sand, Oil-Shale, and Coal-to-Oil Threatened by Global Warming - Christian Science Monitor 6jul2007
• Gazprom to Raise its Own Private Army to Protect Oil Installations - The Times (UK) 5jul2007
• Detroit's Fourth of July Dud: Jump in June Auto Sales Passes up the Motor City - MarketWatch 3jul2007
• An Alaskan Village Asks: What Happens When Oil is Too Expensive? - Wall Street Journal 9jun2007
• Uranium $200 a Pound Possible in Next 2 Years - Mineweb 6jun2007
• Fibrowatt: The Energy Challenge: From Turkey Waste, a New Fuel and a New Fight - New York Times 6jun2007
• Public Attitudes Toward America’s Energy Options: Insights for Nuclear Energy - MIT 1jun2007
• Kuwait Abandons Peg to Sliding US Dollar - Financial Times (UK) 21may2007

• Electricity Crisis Hobbles an India Eager to Ascend - New York Times 21may2007

• Ethanol: Corn Prices Rising, Pigs Switch To Fatty Snacks On the Menus - Wall Street Journal 21may2007

• Coal Man: Killjoy-in-chief at the global warming love-fest - Wall Street Journal 19may2007

• Peak Oil and the Inflation Lie: US Government, Wall Street Hide Energy Shortage and Crisis with Deceptive Indicator - Global Research 19may2007

• Despite Gas Prices, Inflation Eases in April - AP 16may2007
• Higher Ozone Levels from Renewable Fuels - Environmental Science & Technology 16may2007
• Ethanol: Farmers Head to Fields to Plant Corn, Lots of It - New York Times 31mar2007
• Congress Urged to Ease Pain of Gas Prices - AP 16may2007
• BP Chief, Lord John Browne: Scandal, Crises Hasten Exit For British Icon  - Wall Street Journal 2may2007
• U.C. Berkeley: BP Project Impractical, Dangerous, Critics Charge -  Berkeley Daily Planet 1may2007
• Ethanol Worse Than Gasoline: Study Warns of Health Risk from Ethanol - San Francisco Chronicle 18apr2007
  • Ethanol: New research predicts that E85 vehicle emissions could cause just as many deaths as gasoline, or more. Science News 18apr2007
• Ethanol Push Adds to Forces Lifting Food Costs - Wall Street Journal 16apr2007
• Solar Capitalism? Consume Like There's No Tomorrow - Don Fitz 14apr2007
• Overall Inflation Eases: Gas Prices Up - AP 11may2007
• U.C./B.P - An Unholy Alliance? - Sacramento Bee 8apr2007
• Big Oil's Vendetta Against the Electric Car - The Independent (UK) 5apr2007
• End of Oil Heralds Climate Pain - BBC 29mar2007
• The Hydrogen Economy – Energy and Economic Black Hole - Culture Change 28mar2007
• UC Berkeley Professor and Former Cabinet Officer Robert Reich Warns of UC-BP Deal’s Consequences - Berkeley Daily Planet 13mar2007
• Biofuels Boom Raises Tough Questions - AP 10mar2007
• Ghawar Is Dead! - CommonDreams.org 7mar2007
• UC Berkeley: GMO Research Dominates BP-UC Partnership - Berkeley Daily Planet 6mar2007
• Biodiesel Moves Almost Into Mainstream in Bay Area - San Francisco Chronicle 22feb2007
• Is It Time for a New Tax on Energy? Economists Want Alternatives – But Not Bush Proposals -  Wall Street Journal 8feb2007
• Crude Oil: Uncertainty about Future Oil Supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production: GAO-07-283: 14feb2007
• ExxonMobil Offered Scientists Cash to Dispute Climate Study - The Guardian (UK) 2feb2007
• The New Gold Rush: How Farmers are Set to Fuel America's Future: Rush to grow corn for ethanol - The Guardian 26jan2007