The political events in the Middle East and North Africa are raising global oil prices and causing economies to wobble. The easy and inexpensively extracted oil has been exploited, and what sources remain, like tar sands, consume ever more energy, water, and money for extraction. Oil, as one of the primary fossil fuels in our [...]
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill now polluting fragile wetlands of several states is an environmental and economic disaster. This is the downside of an addiction to oil, and it should serve as a potent reminder of the strategic value that electric vehicles will have to eliminating significant sources of carbon emissions and that crap [...]