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  • Jane Fonda To Tour In Antiwar, Vegetable Oil-Fueled Bus
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Actress and activist Jane Fonda said she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.
    Fonda said her antiwar tour in March will use a bus that runs on "vegetable oil." She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.
    Fonda was speaking Saturday in Santa Fe, N.M., where she was promoting her book, "My Life So Far." The actress released the book in April, which among other things gave her side of the story in regard (…)

  • Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze.
    The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country’s natural gas industry, hydroelectric projects, electric utilities, and oil pipelines and has played a critical role in the deregulation of (…)

  • Chávez explains the fundamentals of Petrocaribe
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    – Venezuela has greater oil reserves than any Middle Eastern nation To contribute $50 million initially for Petrocaribe to immediately begin functioning
    BY JOAQUIN RIVERY TUR Granma daily special correspondent
    PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela, June 29 ­ President Hugo Chávez explained during the 1st Energy Summit of Caribbean Heads of State and Government that the Venezuelans had designed a plan for Petrocaribe, according to which oil supplies would be directed toward three points: Cuba (…)

  • When US Indulges In Blackmail
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When US Indulges In Blackmail Tony Nwosu June 09, 2005 A few days ago, the Joint Development Authority (JDA) released the winners of latest licensing round of oil blocs in the Joint Development (Economic) Zone (JDZ) owned by Nigeria and Sao Tome and Principe, on behalf of the two countries. The JDA administers the economic zone in the Gulf of Guinea, said to be very rich in oil deposits. At the end of the exercise, many Nigerian companies were successful in the various consortia that won (…)

  • REPORT: Stung By High Gas Prices, Uncle Sam Buys Minivans To Replace Army Humvees
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REPORT: Stung By High Gas Prices, Uncle Sam Buys Minivans To Replace Army Humvees
    05-23-2005
    WINDSOR, Canada - The U.S. Armed Forces have ordered 19,000 minivans and 5,000 Pacificas from the Chrysler Group for use as light-duty vehicles in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, displacing less fuel-efficient Humvees, according to the Windsor Star.
    The switch to the gas-powered school-carpool mainstays is designed to reduce fuel consumption and (…)

  • YOUR PIPELINEISTAN TOUR GUIDE
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Devil went down to Georgia just to Ogle his Stream of Gold; Patriot threw a hand grenade but the Damned thing didn’t explode.
    On May 25, 2005, Pipelineistan declared its independence as a Nation/State and a supreme law unto itself. Only 44 meters (144.4 feet) wide by 1,767 kilometers (1,098 miles) in length, the life’s blood of Pipelineistan flows through only one vein 126 cm (49.6 inches, or 4.1 feet) in diameter.
    This serpent writhes from the Caspian Sea through the Caucasus and (…)

  • Bush Urges Development of Alternative Fuels-Needs ideas for reducing gas prices
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush today hailed biodiesel as "one of our nation’s most promising alternative fuel sources" as he stepped up pressure on a divided Senate to pass his energy bill.
    He said the energy measure would reverse America’s fast-growing dependence on foreign oil. But he conceded, as he has in the past, that there was little he could do in the short term to drive down gasoline prices.
    "I wish I could just wave a magic wand and lower the price at the pump," he said in a speech here. (…)

  • BP Faces Huge Fines Related To Unreported Oil Spills in Alaska; Is ANWR Next?
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    While the hacks working for mainstream news organizations were busy chasing the story about the Runaway Bride late last month, a real scandal was just beginning to unfold as Congress inched closer to approving a controversial measure to open up a couple thousand acres of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
    It was then, unbeknownst to the federal lawmakers who debated the merits of drilling in ANWR, that the Alaska Department of Environmental (…)

  • Italy sent troops to Iraq to secure oil deal: report
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ROME - Italian troops were sent to Iraq to secure oil deals worth 300 billion dollars, and not just for post-war humanitarian purposes, an Italian television report by RAI claimed on Friday.
    The 20-minute report, broadcast by RAI News 24, the all-news channel of the Italian state-owned network, is based on interviews and official government documents.
    In it, the Silvio Berlusconi administration is accused of picking the Nasiriyah area to safeguard a 1997 deal signed by Italy’s (…)

  • BIODIESEL INFORMATION / chapter 1
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chapter 1: Getting Biodiesel BIODIESEL INFORMATION / Introduction
    First solution
    This one has often been seen on TV and on the web: you can buy some kitchen oil and feed your car with it. It works perfectly, there’s less pollution, and it costs you around 0,80 euro a liter in some low cost shops. But there are 2 problems:
    - Let’s imagine you choose to drive using 50% of vegetal oil and the rest of diesel. Each time you want to fill up your car, you have to buy 20 bottles of oil, and (…)