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Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Forget that General Motors says it will have to push hard to have a plug-in electric hybrid vehicle ready for market by 2010. Forget that Toyota is having trouble developing a lithium-ion battery for its plug-in models. The electric vehicle revolution will officially arrive in the United States in 2009, three years sooner than even advocates believed possible …

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com When it comes to blasting the Bush administration for not doing enough to fight global warming, nobody screams louder than German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But according to Reuters www.reuters.com her administration is fighting on behalf of big German car manufacturers that are opposed to the European Union’s new rules aimed at reducing carbon emissions from vehicles. Sounds an awful lot …

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Why are oil prices so high? One big reason is the increasing number of experts acknowledging what peak oil advocates have been screaming for months now – Russian oil production has peaked. Here’s a Bloomberg News story www.bloomberg.com quoting yet another Russian oil industry figure who believes the nation’s output can’t rise any higher. Hey, folks. Russia’s the world’s number …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog An important preliminary meeting in Paris of 16 major world economic powers responsible for 80% of world greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions to set goals and pick methods for the fight against global climate change ended April 18 with little of importance accomplished. NewEnergyNews readers might wonder why, considering how much of importance COULD be accomplished. …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog For the third week in a row, NewEnergyNews leads “Sunday World” with a story about a U.S. New Energy producer gearing up to produce overseas. China is going to incentivize solar installations. The U.S. Congress doesn’t seem inclined to. China is unimaginably energy hungry. China is a factor in coal, driving the argument about “clean” …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog That there are problems with ethanol, especially corn ethanol, will come as no surprise to NewEnergyNews readers. That the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has now shifted its financing strategies in response to the problems will come as good news, especially on the heels of last week’s news that the EU is considering doing the same. (See EXPERTS …

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com To protect their bottom lines, oil refiners are employing a strategy that could send an already weak U.S. economy into freefall this summer. To be sure, the U.S. summer could pass without serious incident. But the potential exists for things to get ugly. As has been widely reported, U.S. oil refinery utilization has been extremely low heading into …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog Chris Bellizzi ran his air conditioning more than he normally would, more than he needed to, in Summer 2007. Why? Because he didn’t want utility PG&E to profit from the free electricity his home solar installation was sending it. Bellizi: “If you owe them, you’ve got to send them a check…If they owe you, they’ll …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog After studying the subject of efficiency, U.S. News & World Report energy writer Marianne Lavelle came to the conclusion that efficiency remains a vital and unappreciated fraction in the New Energy equation. More disturbingly, it is the same vital and unappreciated fraction it has been for more than three decades. As Carl Pope pointed out at a …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog NewEnergyNews pop quiz -> What drives a powerful utility heavily invested in fossil fuels and a huge oil company to get into wind?Answer: Renewable Electricity Standards (RESs) Dominion and BP Alternative Energy are splitting costs and benefits of wind installations in Virginia and North Carolina because the wind is there and both states have RESs. The companies …