I was stranded in the Arizona desert in my broken-down truck wondering if I had made a big mistake: Our CNN.com biofuel road trip seemed doomed to fail.
A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Oil prices sank Friday, settling down more than $5 for the week, after two stronger-than-expected economic reports calmed nervous investors. Lingering concerns over a drop in demand also pressured prices lower.
Global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels, the government predicted Wednesday
Rising oil and gas prices have lawmakers and consumers scrambling for solutions, but it is unclear whether anything can be done to lower energy costs in the short term, experts say.
Oil prices dropped below $129 a barrel Tuesday, falling sharply on a growing sense that soaring gas and oil prices have cut demand for fuel during the normally busy summer driving season
With all the worry over fuel prices, you'd think drivers would do whatever they can not to waste gas. But look around and you'll see lots of them tooling around as if they owned their own tanker fleet. One of them might be you.
I was stranded in the Arizona desert in my broken-down truck wondering if I had made a big mistake: Our CNN.com biofuel road trip seemed doomed to fail.
A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
Oil prices sank Friday, settling down more than $5 for the week, after two stronger-than-expected economic reports calmed nervous investors. Lingering concerns over a drop in demand also pressured prices lower.
Global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels, the government predicted Wednesday
Rising oil and gas prices have lawmakers and consumers scrambling for solutions, but it is unclear whether anything can be done to lower energy costs in the short term, experts say.
Oil prices dropped below $129 a barrel Tuesday, falling sharply on a growing sense that soaring gas and oil prices have cut demand for fuel during the normally busy summer driving season
With all the worry over fuel prices, you'd think drivers would do whatever they can not to waste gas. But look around and you'll see lots of them tooling around as if they owned their own tanker fleet. One of them might be you.
The government said Friday that it would halt deliveries to the strategic oil reserves, and in quick response, oil prices retreated from a record high near $128 a barrel.
These days, you can't read a product label or menu without coming across the latest eco-friendly buzzword. Find out which ones impart real information and which should be lost in translation.
Thirty years ago, the last time the world faced an oil crisis, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) launched a program to analyze the potential algae had as a renewable fuel. It didn't take it long to realize algae was a godsend.
Movie with the girls. Ka-ching! An $8 focaccia sandwich for lunch. Ka-ching. The cat's blood-pressure medicine. Ka-ching! Late fees, insurance, utility bills. Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. Sure, you could save money -- if only you could stop spending it.
Coal is almost the perfect fuel. It's cheap and absurdly abundant -- especially in the United States, which has the world's larges reserves. There's just that tiny problem of massive climate-altering carbon dioxide emissions. Or is there?
Higher energy prices and a weak dollar are boosting the cost of everything from milk to heating your home to your annual family vacation. But you don't have to feel beaten down.
Dalat Nuclear Research Institute stands on a mountaintop in Vietnam's southern highlands. The nuclear reactor is not what most Vietnamese think of when they think of Dalat. The town, nestled in pine woods, is Vietnam's favorite honeymoon spot.
Labor Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are the most popular days to cook outside on the grill says the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Asssociation. Americans grill with a passion, the group notes, with eight out of 10 U.S. households owning a grill or smoker and half use it more than four times a month.
There is a remote valley in southeastern Idaho -- 890 square miles; desolate, dry and stunningly beautiful -- that is the place to go for atomic lore. It's the home of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where on December 20, 1951, scientists succeeded for the first time in converting nuclear power into electricity. They lit four 75-watt light bulbs. The next day they lit the whole lab.
U.S. average pump costs broke back through the $3 a gallon mark last week, the second increase in as many weeks as refinery outages and soaring crude oil costs took their toll, the government said Monday.
Gasoline prices, already above $3 a gallon in some states, could charge higher this summer and hit $4 a gallon in some locations, according to one industry expert.
Americans taking to the road now that the weather's getting warmer can expect to pay about 25 cents more for a gallon of gasoline this summer, the government said Tuesday.
Finally there's some good news about your energy bill. It won't be as expensive as you may think, according to the Energy Department. Costs are expected to increase only slightly, making your air conditioning bills a bit less painful.
Oil drilling companies are upset that the Bush administration has proposed killing funding for oil and natural gas exploration research and development programs at the Department of Energy, an industry lobbyist said Monday.
Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman announced Thursday that the Department of Energy has approved two requests for a loan of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
Three energy-industry groups issued a warning to U.S. consumers Thursday, saying they foresee higher fuel prices and home heating bills ahead this winter.
Tony Rogers is a member of the rosebud Sioux tribe who lives on the tribe's South Dakota reservation. He doesn't have an engineering degree, hasn't worked for a power station, and has never investe...
The federal government said Thursday it plans to loan out a limited amount of crude oil from the nation's strategic reserve in a bid to offset shortages caused by Hurricane Ivan.
An investigation of security violations is under way at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, including the latest reports of employees sending classified information over a non-secure e-mail system, a lab spokesman said Monday.
United States gasoline prices hit a record high for the third week in a row, rising 0.6 cents over the last week to $1.786 a gallon, the government said Monday.
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Law enforcement agencies will have greater access to cutting-edge military technology as the Defense Department, other agencies, and various government contractors turn over some of their previousl...
Back in the early '70s, OPEC's oil shocks made energy conservation all the rage. But now, President Clinton's proposed $22-billion-a-year BTU energy tax -- virtually certain to pass Congress -- has...
Mom could probably outstrip these hot rods in her station wagon. But 20,000 spectators would have booed her -- and her dirty wheels -- off the track at the first annual Solar and Electric 500 auto ...
-- Make a solid offense part of your defensive investment strategy by planning for the markets' eventual upswing. For stocks, seek high-yielding utilities and high-quality blue chips with P/Es belo...
When oil prices spiked in 1973 and again in '79, well-meaning consumers by the thousands: -- Raced to weatherproof their houses -- and overdid it, sealing in carbon monoxide and other noxious fumes...
If reactor phobia faded, only one serious roadblock would bar a new round of nuclear expansion: the lack of a burial site for the 1,700 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel that accumulates annual...
-- BRUCE E. LAZIER, 39, financial analyst for Prescott Ball & Turben, after Texaco's settlement of $1.25 billion in Energy Department claims: ''Every time you turn over a rock there, another $1 bil...
Not since Central States Electric of Richmond, Virginia, went into receivership in 1942 has a major U.S. utility gone bankrupt. Several power companies are vying for the honor of being next. The Gr...
A group of 26 newspapers in 17 cities -- including New York's Daily News and the Boston Herald -- will slash rates for some national advertisers an average of 35% in an 18-month test arranged by Yo...
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