Alternative Energy Today

Since June 18th, we have been saying that the development of alternative energy sources and becoming not only energy independent but also becoming an oil exporting nation is a matter of national security.  On that day, we predicted that oil would be at $20 a barrel by 2020.
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Recent reports that Saudi Arabia is actively considering ways to diversify their economy to be less dependent on oil for revenues suggests that the leader of the OPEC cartel have realized that the civilized world has tired of being dependent on these oppressive, uncaring tyrants and basically valueless residents of the planet and have redoubled [...]

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Nissan Motor Company (Nasdaq: NSANY) recently previewed its latest all-electric plug-in car, an electrified version of the “Cube”, a popular model that Nissan sells in Japan, modified to carry three lithium ion batteries under the floor and an 80kW motor and inverter.  The news of this event was carried widely by many news sources but [...]

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Alternative energy proponents and the automotive world focused in on plug-in hybrids and pure electric cars in San Jose, Ca this week as Plug-In 2008, brought Detroit automakers together with utilities, component manufacturers and eco-tech entrepreneurs from around the world who are working on making plug-in electric cars a practical and commercial reality in the [...]

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Answering some questions as to who might be partially responsible for the skyrocketing oil prices and, in case someone hasn’t figured it out yet, revealing on whose side the OPEC countries stand, Abdalla Salem El-Badri, OPEC’s secretary general has declared that, despite the fact that Iran produces less than 5% of OPEC’s 87 million [...]

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You read it here first! Not only will oil be under $20 a barrel, the momentum in the war on terror, if we haven’t won by then, will have shifted heavily in favor of the “Good Guys” primarily because Muslim extremists will be starved for funds and no longer able to prosecute the war [...]

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Not to be outdone by General Motors’ (NYSE: GM) announcement in early June that they will begin production of their new plug-in car, the 150 mpg Chevy Volt with an anticipated production run of 10,000 vehicles for the 2010 model year, Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) have jumped into the race with [...]

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The first signs are emerging that Americans are finally ready to do something about their addiction to oil coupled with their staunch refusal to allow expansion of production. Believe it or not, America reached its peak oil production in 1970/71 at about 3.5 billion bbl’s per year. Aside from a minor rebound in the late [...]

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