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Global energy demand is expected to soar 44 percent over the next two decades with most of the demand coming from developing countries such as China and Russia, the U.S. government’s top energy forecasting agency said on Wednesday.

The worldwide economic downturn has hit energy consumption, but an expected recovery next year could respark demand and [...]

Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Ali al-Naimi is talking up $150 barrels of oil, because it’s only a matter of time before the price comes back to earth, writes Liam Denning in Heard On The Street.

The price of oil based on the build up of inventories should be much lower. That would slaughter OPEC’s revenue on [...]

More than half of the 15 trillion gallons of sewage Americans flush annually is processed into sludge that gets spread on farmland, lawns, and home vegetable gardens. In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization. But sludge-based as fertilizer can contain anything that goes down the [...]

Reduced spending on energy threatens to slow the economic rebound, trigger a surge in prices and hurt future prosperity, the Group of Eight industrialized nations said at the close of their meeting in Rome.
“The current financial and economic crisis must not delay investments and programmed energy projects which are essential to economic recovery and sustainable [...]

Just last summer, oil was surging toward $150 a barrel and gas prices were hitting $4 a gallon. The recession brought those prices crashing down, and today it may seem like high oil prices are one of the few economic problems that we don’t have to worry about.

But Canadian economist Jeff Rubin says what we [...]

By Paul Krugman

In a way, it was easy to take stands during the Bush years: the Bushies and their allies in Congress were so determined to move the nation in the wrong direction that one could, with a clear conscience, oppose all the administration’s initiatives.

Now, however, a somewhat uneasy coalition of progressives and centrists rules [...]

It’s not just erratic gas prices and a bad economy that’s hurting automakers. It may be that Americans are changing.

By Nate Silver

This is surely one of the signs of the apocalypse: Americans aren’t driving as much as they used to.
In January, according to statistics compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, Americans drove a collective 222 [...]

Electronic devices and appliances that use electricity even when they’re idle may be costing you hundreds of dollars a year, experts say.

Are vampires sucking the life out of your household energy budget?

Almost every household has at least one electricity vampire that sucks up power and costs you money.

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For a global reserve currency to work, it must be backed by a resource we want people to use less, like carbon

By Mark Braund

A paper written ahead of the recent G20 summit by Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the Chinese central bank, caused quite a stir. Zhou called for the establishment of a global reserve currency, [...]