Venezuela’s oil workers will be suspected of conspiring against President Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution if they do not join socialist workplace groups in the OPEC nation, the oil minister said on Tuesday.
DUBAI: The economy of the UAE is likely to contract one per cent this year, led by a decline in its oil sector as it implements Opec production cuts, Samba Financial Group said yesterday.
Here come the new Camaro, the hybrid Silverado and a line of what GM hopes will be sexy new vehicles that will sell like hotcakes
Bonny Doon company wants people to go electric “About the most disgusting thing in the world,” Mike Brown says conversationally, “is to be parked in traffic, and have one of those Dodge Ram trucks with a huge exhaust pipe sticking in your window. Most of them don’t even have enough class to use biodiesel.” see full story…
Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens may have postponed his plans to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, but he’s come closer to accomplishing another goal: Pickens visited the nation’s capitol last week to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , Senator Orrin Hatch , and Senator Robert Menendez introduce a bipartisan bill designed to bring natural gas vehicles to the mainstream …
Bruce County’s warden wants municipalities to be higher on the list when it comes to consultation about wind farms. Bill Goetz said his municipality of South Bruce hasn’t been approached about plans for a six-turbine wind farm near Formosa.
MORE than 300 wind turbines will be scattered throughout the Surf Coast and Colac landscape as the region looks set to become the state’s wind farm hub.
THE Central Highlands could soon be home to the state’s biggest wind farm but the endangered wedge- tailed eagle may stop the multimillion-dollar development before it begins.
Just last week, we reported that the Brammo Enertia officially went on sale at a Best Buy store in Portland , but the Zero S Electric Motorcycle –also for urban commuters–wasn’t going to be left out. The electric street bike is officially available as well. We took it for a quasi test drive. Unlike our recent Enertia drive , where we got to go out for a full ride, we merely took a spin around …
Like many city dwellers I live in a flat. So the option of trailing an electric cable out of the window to my Smart Car several floors below is hardly viable.
