Larry Burns on General Motors’ ideas for the next generation of automobiles, which include cars giving power back to the grid. We can talk all we want about how firms like GM have failed in the past couple decades, but they’re right at that point where they can really make a difference and it would [...]

Yesterday they cut off their natural gas supply to the Ukraine. Completely. That also means the supply to numerous European countries has been severely diminished. From AP: The Russia-Ukraine natural gas dispute hit Europe with the force of a winter storm Tuesday, cutting or limiting supplies to nearly a dozen nations. Tens of thousands of [...]

Well, yes and no, but it’s refreshing to see that Krauthammer wants to employ some price controls for gasoline. And that’s the bigger story in all of this…that a hard core fiscal conservative sees the need for a more reliable price for gas so the new generation of hybrids will be desirable in the market [...]

I’m glad to see we learned our lesson… From CNN: After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America’s taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn’t happened since February. Meanwhile the forecast [...]

Massive energy speculation mixed with much lower demand is driving the price down, down, down for the foreseeable future. From AP: A report by the Commerce Department showed that sales of new homes fell in November to the slowest pace in nearly 18 years, while new home prices dropped by the biggest amount in eight [...]

Steven Chu is the pick and his background is beyond impressive. From Wash Post: President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next energy secretary, and he has picked veteran regulators from diverse backgrounds to fill three other key jobs on his [...]

Remember folks, these are loans and we could actually make money on the deal…the same way we did last time when we helped a car company out and mandated they increase their CAFE standards. From NY Times: WASHINGTON — Faced with staggering new unemployment figures, Democratic Congressional leaders said on Friday that they were ready [...]

Christopher Beam of Slate talks about the recent seismic shift in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Out: Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the tough, cantankerous eminence grise of the House Democratic caucus (he’s 82), who was so deferential to Detroit as chairman of the House energy and commerce committee that Lee Iacocca once said [...]

Yesterday, the Democratic House Caucus removed the House’s longest serving member, John Dingell of Michigan, from the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee. He was replaced by Henry Waxman of California. In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal explains what this means for the Democrats. Of significance, Dingell represents Detroit and has been an [...]

As always, the entire thing. Today’s was particularly good, with T. Boone Pickens making an appearance. Thoughts?

Hey, this is Danielle Ivory from the American News Project, with our first report on the Obama transition. Here’s a first look at Jay Inslee, who appears on the shortlists for Prez-Elect Obama’s Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Energy..

Repubs are hammering Obama on his coal comments and falsely accusing the San Francisco Chronicle of burying the interview even though they’ve had it available on their website since the interview took place. In fact, here’s the complete video of the interview… Republicans claim this is damning stuff. Well, then I think it’s important to [...]

Today two pieces of audio (from the same interview) have popped up about Obama explaining how energy prices would go up under his cap and trade system. First, Obama explains why energy prices would go up in the short term, but ultimately go down in the long term. Let’s face it, there’s really nothing new [...]

“We’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” – Sarah Palin quoted in the latest New Yorker Now, I don’t know about you, but “share in the wealth” certainly sounds exactly like “spreading the [...]

Looks like Palin mentioning ethanol subsidies in Iowa a couple days ago wasn’t a sign of her going “rogue.” In any event, here’s more from Politico: “On the subject of ethanol, my friends, I will open every market in the world to the best products in the world, and that’s the American agricultural farmer and [...]

In Iowa today she said she supported ethanol. Now, for anybody who knows about McCain’s opinions on ethanol subsidies, this is a BIG no no. In fact, he’s so famously against ethanol subsidies that he never even bothered running in Iowa this election cycle and instead focused on New Hampshire. And I think we’re all [...]

This is interesting, and could be something you could do in addition to watching the debate tomorrow night. The topic? What else? Energy independence. T. Boone Pickens, 50-year oil and gas industry leader, will host what hopes to be the largest online rally of Americans concerned about their energy future during Tuesday night’s second Presidential [...]

As purse strings tighten and consumption plummets, the market runs screaming. Reuters has more… Oil dropped $6 to below $88 a barrel on Monday on expectations the growing financial crisis will further slow already faltering global fuel demand. Crude prices have plummeted from a peak over $147 a barrel set on July 11 as high [...]

With Americans defaulting left and right on their McMansions, a new trend is emerging. NBC investigates… So, could you live in a house that small? I think I could live in the second one but certainly not the first. That house was ridiculous. Regardless, I love this “Think Small” trend. Smaller homes, smaller cars and [...]

And given that they use so much energy they have to have entire power plants built just for their data centers, it makes sense that they’re thinking of ways to go green From PC World: The search giant unveiled a US$4.4 trillion plan Wednesday to reduce the U.S.’s dependency on fossil fuels and embrace alternative [...]