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When will the madness end? Gasoline could be around $4.50 per gallon for the national average and certainly will be later this summer when refineries turn their attention to producing #2 home heating oil for the winter. Oil executives were in front of Congress this week to answer questions about why oil has unprecedentedly skyrocketed. [...]

Category: Alternative Energy, Big Oil, Biofuels, Fuel Prices, Home Heating Oil, Middle East Oil, Oil Prices | 2 Comments | Tags: #2 home heating oil, alternate energy supplies, biodiesel, oil executives, oil fields, oil sand fields, President Bush, Saudi Arabia, shale fields

Biofuels aren’t new. We’ve been using them for years. Oil, coal, whale blubber, yep, blubber. Anything that started out as a living thing which we then turn to fuel is a biofuel. The term has become "sexy" in the energy business because it gets people to open their eyes and listen. The question is what [...]

Category: Alternative Energy, Biofuels, Renewable Energy | 3 Comments | Tags: algae, alternate biofuels, biobutane, biodiesel, bioethanol, jatropha tree, oil, whale blubber