The House, voting 232-187, yesterday approved a bill to end a 25-year-old moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling. The vote came even after the White House surprised the bill’s supporters by estimating that the measure’s royalty terms would divert “several hundred billion dollars” away from the…
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Google Inc., typically tight-lipped about the technology behind its data centers, builds its own servers to save costs and because standard products don’t exactly meet its needs.
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Federal investigators said yesterday that traders at a BP PLC unit cornered the U.S. propane market in the winter of 2004 to illegally manipulate prices, driving up heating costs for rural consumers.
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Congress passed a 1,700-page energy bill last year and has since introduced hundreds of additional energy bills. Unfortunately, most of these measures will not bring down oil and natural gas prices. In contrast, the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 (DOER Act, H.R. 4761), would expand domestic offshore oil and natural gas production and […]

Renewable energy technologies, including fuel derived from household garbage are becoming renewable energy sources.
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Solar power does not require steep subsidies to be able to push aside environment-polluting fossil fuels.
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On sale now, for a limited time only: shares of a company whose secretive chairman is a former KGB member who steers clear of foreigners; whose crown jewel was, in effect, expropriated from another company; and whose future hinges on the power of Russian politicians scheduled to leave office in two…
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Here’s a guide to alternative-fuel vehicles if you’re convinced gas prices will stay high and you’re willing to buy a new car.
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Used to be, buying a small car meant getting the runt of a good automaker’s litter or dealing with a manufacturer that had little regard for quality, reliability or even solvency. Either way, you were likely to drive off the lot in a rickety ride that would only hold itself together until, naturally, the warranty […]

Fuel efficient vehicle travels 3,145 miles on one gallon of gasoline.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp., a Houston-based oil and natural gas producer, yesterday unveiled a plan to pay $21 billion in cash to buy two rival companies and create the nation’s largest independent oil and gas company.
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If it weren’t for a small but loyal group of customers, Channara Keam would stop selling premium gasoline at his College Park station. Sales of the high-octane fuel are down almost 25 percent over the past year, he said, and it no longer produces the kind of profit margins that dwarf those of…
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High gas prices may stay up because foreign factors determine how much we pay a BP economist says.
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Two new nuclear power units in Texas will be part of a giant alternative energy plan to construct more power plants across the country during the next decade.
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IMPERIAL, Neb. — Just outside this town in the middle of the great American prairie, 37 miles from the nearest traffic light, stands a huge pile of cornstalks and leaves. It looks like a 35-foot mountain of yard trash, yet black cables snake into the pile, attached to sensors that monitor…
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