FedEx CEO: use of foreign oil threatens US economy

FedEx Corp. Chief Executive Fred Smith said Monday that U.S. reliance on foreign oil is the biggest threat to the nation's economy after terrorism.

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari told the European Parliament that Iran was looking for closer energy ties with the EU.

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Since the internet loves lists, here are our best-to-worst energy options if we want to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce air pollution, according to Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z Jacobson: 1) Wind power, 2)  …

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The George W Bush administration's answer to the attacks of 11 September 2001 was to launch a global "war on terror". Two weeks after 9/11, Paul Rogers began to track that war in a weekly openDemocracy column.

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The brawl between BP and the Russians will enter a new phase on September 25. With billions at stake, what will it be like and how will the West react?

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The possibility that access to energy resources may become an object of large-scale armed struggle is one of the most alarming prospects facing the current world system.

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Imagine for a minute, just a minute, that someone running for president was able to actually tell the truth, the real truth, to the American people about what would be the best — I mean really the best — energy policy for the long-term economic health and security of our coun …

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While worries about $100-per-barrel oil tend to grab the headlines, the uninterrupted delivery of clean-burning natural gas from politically stable countries into the United States, Europe and Asia should be the focus of Western energy security.

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Cole analyses US energy strategy and the Turkish incursion into Iraq and the price spike it produced the other day

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Toyota: Just another car manufacturer

Over the past few days, we have been awakened to the fact that Toyota is not the green company that we have been led to think it was: it has sided with the Detroit carmakers in pushing for a watered-down version [WaPo] of the fuel-efficiency bill that has been passed in the Senat …

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The two multinational climate change meetings scheduled for this week offer a stark contrast for addressing the issue of global warming. The Kyoto Protocol is proving to be a failure.

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A Comprehensive view of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal: India's mindset holds the key

Some of the aspects associated with the Indo-US nuclear deal are being overlooked by both the concerned parties i.e. the scientists & the politicians (mainly the Left parties). The deal can be seen in favor as well as against the national interest.

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Race for 'New Energy': US, Russia go North Pole, China off to the Moon

The thirst of energy has made the 'biggies' to go to the ends of the world & out of it. Russia has put claims over the North Pole & its unexplored natural reserves, so has Canada which recently sent a ship to the North Pole to make its presence felt.

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We must stop burning our future

Oil & gas aren't our future but the way we use them will certainly play a major role in determining our future. Our over dependence on oil & gas as fuels could ultimately play a catastrophic part in decline of the peace around the world.

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Ethanol is now a focus of Congressional action. Is it really the long term answer to our energy problems? This New York Times article gives a good perspective of the current scope of ethanol support on Capitol Hill.

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Many Americans have lost confidence in their country's "energy security" over the past several years. Because the United States is a net oil importer, and a substantial one at that, concerns about energy security naturally raise foreign policy questions.

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While politicians and Big Agriculture insist on casting the need for ethanol in terms of national security, the larger issue is a moral one: are we going to use our precious farmland to grow food, or use it to make motor fuel?

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What would happen if pigs could fly? Bacon would go up. The old schoolboy joke springs to mind when one starts to think about some of the bizarre ramifications of global warming. To recast the joke: what would happen if global temperatures rose?

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Panic that Europe might be caught in the energy web of a Russian spider is nothing new. At the height of the Cold War, the construction of Soviet oil and gas pipelines to Europe alarmed America's Central Intelligence Agency.

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At their annual gathering each summer, the leaders of the rich world promise to fix some pressing global problem -- and usually fail to deliver. This month's Group of Eight summit in Russia takes statecraft to a whole new level.

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Nuclear energy is one path to braking the oil habit

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