Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The political gestures in the Senate June 10 toward putting a tax on oil company windfall profits and toward shifting oil company tax breaks to funding for New Energy (see Two Energy Bills, Including Windfal Tax, Stall in Senate) were nothing more than election-year political one-upsmanship. The outcome was predetermined […]

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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It is easy to understand why solar power deals like the just signed between eSolar and Southern California Edison are getting BIG BIG funding. Here’s how eSolar describesd its power plant: “…a low-impact, pre-fabricated form factor with advanced optics and computer software engineering [to meet] the demands of utilities of […]

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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Writing last week from WindPower 2008, the enormously successful wind energy industry annual convention and exhibition, NewEnergyNews compared what the current, growing wind industry boom is about to do for the U.S. economy to what the auto industry did for the country between 1920 and 1930:
“…the U.S. auto industry became […]

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Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Influential British MPs reportedly want all British adults to carry `carbon ration cards’ and to live their lives under a carbon cap. www.dailymail.co.uk
This isn’t the first time such an idea has been floated in the UK, but reportedly its backing by Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee could make it a reality.
It’s hard to see […]

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Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Investors take heed: rapidly rising power prices are going to put many big U.S. electric utilities “under profit pressure,” according to Michael Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association (NAEDA), which represents the state directors of the federal government’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
Wolfe, who is not a […]

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Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Until the American news media understands that what’s happening outside the U.S. is more important than what’s happening inside, U.S. investors will struggle to understand why oil prices are forecast to hit $150 and perhaps even $200 a barrel over the next several months.
Virtually all other American-based news organizations ignored recent reports that […]

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