Coal 2023: analysis and forecast to 2026
Latest IEA market report sees lower demand to 2026, based on current policies, but stronger actions are needed to drive a steeper decline towards meeting international climate goals. After reaching an
Fuel Pricing
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Big cities, SUVs may've to shell out more for fuel
Panel Moots Mkt Price For Petrol, Diesel By '10 Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI
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Now Green Means Business
For any company with a supply chain, if they want to continue being profitable, they have to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Can This Planet Be Saved?
Recently the Web site The Politico asked Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, why she was blocking attempts to tack offshore drilling amendments onto appropriations bills. "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet,' she replied. I'm glad to hear it. But I'm still worried about the planet's prospects. ... Most criticism of John McCain's decision to follow the Bush administration's lead and embrace offshore drilling as the answer to high gas prices has focused on the accusation that it's junk economics
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Price hike hits premium fuels
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi August 2, 2008, 5:54 IST Oil firms see 20% dip in sales since the June 4 increase. The government's decision to raise fuel prices in June has scuttled the oil companies' plans to reduce their losses from retail fuel sales as consumers are buying less of premium fuels, which is more expensive than normal fuels.
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High rate slows car sales
Chennai, Aug. 1: Rising interest rates, fuel prices, inflation and the shaky quarterly results finally seem to be catching on the resilient auto industry. The passenger vehicle segment, which has been weathering the market forces for the last few months, registered a subdued growth in sales during July.
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RIL sees $1-billion loss on gas sales to RNRL
Bs Reporter / Mumbai August 01, 2008, 0:50 IST Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Industries (RIL) will lose around $1 billion (Rs 4,300 crore) a year if it sells gas to the Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) at the agreed price of $2.34 per million British thermal unit (mBtu).
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People's green car
Delhi is a city so crazy about cars that it puts some 270,000 new ones on its streets each year. In Lajpat Nagar you will find hardcore worshippers of combustion engines. There are families that own two and three cars with a scooter and a motorcycle thrown in for good measure. It is here that the Reva, the world's most popular electric car, has finally made a full-fledged debut in its flamboyant colours. The Reva has at least a thousand takers in London and is getting noticed and picked up in other environmentally conscious cities of Europe where it has been test marketed.
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Skimming the cream
Norway can realize a substantial reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in the fi shing fleet through changes to the current subsidy regime for fuel and emissions for fishing vessels.
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Malaysian auto sales to fall due to higher fuel prices
Malaysia's vehicle sales are expected to dip 16.5 per cent in the second half of the year due to higher fuel costs and rising inflation, the Malaysian Automotive Association said Wednesday. The industry body said the bulk of the drop in auto sales will come from a 28 per cent reduction in the volume of commercial vehicles sold, while sales of passenger vehicles are expected to slide by 0.5 per cent.
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Texas to Tel Aviv
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN What would happen if you cross-bred J. R. Ewing of "Dallas' and Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club? You'd get T. Boone Pickens. What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You'd get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green billionaire Texas oilman now obsessed with wind power, and Shai Agassi, the Jewish Henry Ford now obsessed with making Israel the world's leader in electric cars?