Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… Jeremy Smith | 1st October 2005 News Oil Petrol Fuel Cars Energy Future Oil Fuel … arrived at the gates of Shell’s Stanlow petrol refinery near Ellesmere Port in … litres of fuel destined for hundreds of petrol stations around the country went …
Tackling climate change will have lots of knock-on benefits, but one we probably haven't considered is what it will do to car-related injuries. Dan Box meets a man who has...
… as Ian sees them, turn chemical energy (from petrol) into kinetic energy (from movement) … taxes on that fuel instead? By making petrol more expensive, this may have the same … are more of us and less of it. This makes petrol more expensive. Once again, like …
Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or corrosive? Either way, in a few weeks Denmark is going to be up to its eyes in corporate lobbyists...
… Do with it what you will... War, strife and petrol pumps Today sees the release of the … price rises for basic food crops and at the petrol pump – some of which is going to hit …
As US troops pulled out of Iraq last week the bidding for the country's oil fields began. Big Oil makes for epic (tragic) drama says Dan Box
… Energy Oil Iraq Bp There Will Be Blood Iraq Petrol Company danboxcomment.jpg As US troops … Oil Company, helped set up the Iraq Petrol Company, which controlled oil …
Days into the 2017 pollution limits on the Brixton Road in Lambeth, South London, has already breached EU pollution limits for NO2 for the entire year. Meanwhile UK sales of diesel cars - one of the main causes of NO2 pollution - reached record levels in 2016, reflecting the government's failure to tackle the problem in spite of numerous court orders.
… engines operate at higher temperatures than petrol engines causing nitrogen and oxygen in …
Despite strong public support for wind and solar power in an official survey published today, the UK's likely failure to meet its EU renewable energy target, and an impending legal challenge, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd today told MPs she would not be reversing recent cuts, writes Oliver Tickell.
… by renewable heat, and by more biofuels in petrol and diesel: "It's my aim we should meet …
A letter from Energy Secretary Amber Rudd leaked to The Ecologist shows that she misled Parliament by promising the UK was 'on course' to deliver on its renewable energy targets - when in fact there is a delivery shortfall in 2020 of almost 25%. Her plan to fill the gap relies on more biofuels, buying in green power and 'credits' from abroad - everything but wind and solar.
… allowed for by fuel standards in regular petrol and diesel in just a few years, and it … idea to increase the volume of biofuels in petrol and diesel has rightly been shot out of …
The charity SolarAid has just celebrated 1.5 million small solar lighting installations in Africa, writes Paul Brown - an important milestone on its mission to get solar lighting into all of Africa's homes by 2020, and see out dangerous, polluting kerosene lamps.
… company, is now selling solar lights at its petrol stations. Leggett believes that the …
Amber Rudd's speech today exposes her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It reveals the increasingly certain failure to meet EU renewable energy targets, proposes a new tax on wind and solar generation, and leaves the country facing the real prospect of lights going out in the next decade. The one hard policy? To maximise oil and gas recovery.
… it into doubling the proportion of biofuel in petrol and diesel to 10% help meet the EU …