…respondents in a Public Agenda (2009) survey could not identify a fossil fuel. Nearly one third could not identify a renewable energy source and incorrectly believed that solar energy contributes…

…it comes to microprocessors, which control everything from an engine’s fuel mix to the car’s global positioning system.About one in every five microprocessors is made in Japan, and many are…

…conservative politicians, and freshwater economists are fond of referring to financial capital as the “fuel” of the real economy. But if anything, labor, sales, innovation, or maybe natural resources constitute…

…viable as a fuel without being subsidized forever. This story in Business Week makes a point I hadn’t even considered: Pushed into it by the corn growers’ and ethanol refiners’…

…flooded the fuel. The engine will not rev as high, will not produce as much power, and just like high altitudes where the air is thinner, it will not have…

…magnified whenever Israel stops supplying electricity or ceases flows of fuel into the region. I contrast that with the situation in Israel after its independence. While Israel now receives a…

…fuel we will use is directly related to our land use decisions and development patterns, much of which have been organized around the principle of cheap gasoline. Barack Obama believes…

…than 5,000 megawatts in 1995 to 39,000 megawatts in 2003—an increase of nearly eight-fold. The fossil fuel with the highest growth rate—natural gas—grew at just over 2% annually during the…

…bet on the future price of oil. Companies doing this kind of hedging include gasoline refiners, airlines, shipping companies, and others that spend a lot on fuel or petroleum. Often…

…uses approximately 27 gallons of petroleum-based fuels. With some 160,000 American troops in Iraq, that amounts to 4.37 million gallons in daily oil usage, including gasoline for vans and light…