The Renewable Energy Blog

Last week oil futures jumped over $100 a barrel twice; one seemingly legitimately, the other by manipulation. If it’s that easy to manipulate oil future prices, what regulations are in place to deter this? It makes for interesting thought. What would it take for oil companies to enlist help from oil trading brokers to drive [...]

Category: Big Oil, Gasoline Prices, Home Heating Oil | 2 Comments | Tags: Big Oil, Gasoline Prices, Home Heating Oil, kerosene, oil distillates, propane

Boy, the last couple of years energy prices have left me reeling. I dusted off my wood burning stove and invested in a couple of electric space heaters. See, my home has 3 heating zones: Main, Bedroom and Basement.  The basement is set at 45 to keep the pipes from freezing. Can’t change that too [...]

Category: Burning Wood, Save Energy | 2 Comments | Tags: Big Oil, energy savings, wood stove