The Anti "Green" Energy Resource

Crude Oil:

Give me a break - Oil Prices (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)
Maxine Waters (D) Threatens to Socialize the Oil Industry (Video) (2min)



- 74% of Americans support off-shore oil drilling in U.S. coastal waters (Zogby)
- 60% of Floridians support off-shore oil drilling in U.S. coastal waters (Source)
- 59% of Americans support oil drilling in ANWR (Zogby)

- 95% of the world's known oil and gas reserves are controlled by national oil companies (Forbes)
- There are over 1.3 Trillion barrels of proven oil reserves worldwide (EIA)
- Only 44% of U.S. oil imports come from OPEC (EIA)
- Only 16% of U.S. oil imports come from the Middle East (EIA)
- The largest supplier of oil to the U.S. is Canada (EIA)
- The second largest supplier of oil to the U.S. is Mexico (EIA)
- Only 0.005% of U.S. domestic oil production is exported (EIA)
- Only 1.5% of the United States electrical generation comes from oil (EIA) (48% Coal, 20% Natural Gas, 19% Nuclear)
- No new refineries have been built in the United States since 1976 (CEI)
- The U.S. uses 25% of the world's oil supply because it produces over 25% of the world's economy (World Bank)

Environmental Activists, Not Oil Companies, Blocking Domestic Drilling (FOX News)
For Now, Gasoline Is Our Only Cheap Fuel (Cato Institute)
Greens Thwart Gasoline Production (FOX News)
The Never-Ending Energy Conspiracy (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
The World’s Largest Oil and Gas Companies (IER)

ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge):
ANWR in the Pictures (Video) (3min)
ANWR Drilling Would Provide Quick Relief (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
ANWR Not the Frosty Paradise It's Cracked Up To Be (Townhall)
Alaska’s Gull Island Oil Fields Could Power U.S. for 200 Years (American Free Press)
Alaska Pipeline Doomsayings Revisited (Business & Media Institute)
Myths About Drilling in ANWR (FOX News)
The Truth About ANWR (Video) (7min)
The Truth About ANWR Drilling (Canada Free Press)

- ANWR: 19.6 million acres. Size of oil production area: 2,000 acres (about the size of an Airport) (Source)
- 10.4 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in ANWR (USGS)
- Original Prudhoe Bay estimate: 8 Billion barrels, Actual: 15 Billion barrels (to date)
- The Trans Alaska Pipeline was completed in only 2 years (APSC)
- The Trans Alaska Pipeline is currently operating at only 1/3 capacity (APSC)
- ANWR's 1002 area is only 55 miles away from The Trans Alaska Pipeline
- Majority of Americans, Alaskans and Kaktovik residents support energy production in ANWR (DOI)

FACT: The 0.01% of ANWR considered for oil production looks like this:


The Caribou And Alaskan Oil (PERC)

FACT: The Central Arctic Caribou Herd has grown from 3,000 to 32,000 since Prudhoe Bay production began


Bill O'Reilly:
The Foolish Factor (Cato Institute)
The O'Reilly Fiction (Human Events)
Neil Cavuto Schools Bill O'Reilly on Economics (Video) (6min)

Diesel:
Can Diesel Ever Become Fashionable In The U.S.? (BusinessWeek)
The Case for Diesel: Clean, Efficient, Fast Cars (Hybrids Beware!) (Popular Mechanics)
50-MPG: Volkswagen Jetta TDi Clean-Diesel (Popular Mechanics)
70-MPG: Volkswagen Polo Clean-Diesel (Popular Mechanics)
65-MPG: Ford's Fiesta ECOnetic (BusinessWeek)
99-MPG: Volkswagen Lupo TDi Diesel (The New York Times)
235-MPG: Volkswagen 1-litre Diesel Car (Popular Science)

Energy Independence:
5 Myths About Breaking Our Foreign Oil Habit (The Washington Post)
A Free Market Approach to Energy Security (PDF) (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Energy Independence: A Dry Hole? (The Wall Street Journal)
Energy Independence Equals Economic Incompetence (Energy Tribune)
Exxon chief dispels myth of energy independence in US (Taipei Times)
Obama Should Forget About Energy Independence (The Wall Street Journal)
Remember the Synthetic Fuels Corporation? (The Heritage Foundation)
The Idiocy of Energy Independence (John Stossel, ABC News)
The Illusion of U.S. Energy Independence: An Assessment of the Current State of Energy Use (PDF) (The Marshall Institute)
The Myth of Energy Independence (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil: Why We Shouldn’t Be Alarmed (Ivan Eland, M.B.A. Applied Economics, Ph.D. National Security Policy)

Environmental:
U.S.: Drilling won't hurt polar bears (USA Today)

Burning Now An Option To Clean Up Ocean Oil Spills Previously Thought Incombustible (Science Daily)
EPA Regulation Impedes Oil-spill Cleanups (The Heartland Institute)
No Trouble Removing Oil From Water (Science Daily)
Tripling The Efficiency Of A Mainstay Oil Spill Cleanup Technology (Science Daily)

Environmental Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technology (PDF) (U.S. Department of Energy)

Exxon:
Don't Beat Up Big Oil. It's Just Doing Its Job (The New York Times)
Evil Exxon (Cato Institute)
Exxon's Earnings: No Apology Necessary (Cato Institute)
Exxon Mobil Needs a Hug (Ben Stein, The New York Times)
Exxon Posts Record $32.36 Billion Tax Payment (iStockAnalyst)
Should Oil Executives Be Strung Up? (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

- The average amount of net profit an oil company makes on gasoline is 5 cents per gallon (Source)
- Exxon Mobil's total U.S. tax bill exceeded its U.S. revenues by $19 billion over the past five years (WSJ)

Free Market:
"Let the Market Solve the Energy Crisis" (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Market Forces Only Cure for Oil Prices (Cato Institute)

Jimmy Carter:
Wrong Then, Too (Cato Institute)

Leasing:
Environmental Activists, Not Oil Companies, Blocking Domestic Drilling (The Heritage Foundation)
Oil Leases on '68 Million Acres' No Guarantee of Oil, Experts Say (CNSNews)
The facts about non-producing federal leases (PDF) (API)
The 'Idle' Oil Field Fallacy (The Wall Street Journal)

- 2.3% of the Outer Continental Shelf is under lease (WSJ)
- 0.46% of the Outer Continental Shelf is producing oil (WSJ)
- Federal law stipulates that an oil company must sink a producing well within 10 years or lose the lease (WSJ)

"Unfortunately, not all the leases contain oil and natural gas, and even those that do, may not contain enough to make them commercially viable. In many cases, the so-called “idle” leases are not idle at all; they are under geologic evaluation or in some stage of pre-production development and could be an important source of domestic supply in the not so distant future. Collectively, companies spend billions of dollars to obtain leases, pay rental fees each year to continue to hold them, and then pay to conduct surveys and other exploratory activity before production even starts. If a company does not produce from a well within a specified period set out during the lease term (usually five or 10 years depending on the area), it relinquishes the lease back to the government and loses all the money it invested." - American Petroleum Institute

Myths:
All the crude oil produced in Alaska is sold and shipped to Japan (Snopes)
Consumers' buying only a few gallons of gas at a time will bring down the price of gasoline (Snopes)
Four refueling tips help consumers get the most from their gasoline dollar (Snopes)
Participating in a boycott of selected oil companies will lower gas prices (Snopes)
Participating in a one-day boycott of gasoline will help lower prices (Snopes)
Not Buying gas from Shell, Chevron, Texaco, Exxon and Mobile will cut off the funding of Terrorists (Snopes)
Signing a petition to President Bush will help lower gasoline prices (Snopes)

Offshore Drilling:
Not Even At $10 A Gallon? (Video) (2min)
'Snake Oil' - Debunking three 'truths' about offshore drilling (The Washington Post)
Cuba Drills for Oil 60 Miles Off U.S. Coast (NewsMax)
Cuba Plans Offshore Wells Banned in U.S. Waters (The New York Times)
China, Cuba reported in Gulf oil partnership (CNN Money)



- 86 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (MMS)
- Over 4000 oil and natural gas platforms operate in U.S. waters with an outstanding environmental record (API)
- Horizontal and directional drilling make it possible for a single well to produce oil from much bigger areas (EIA)
- Today's production footprints are only about one-fourth the size of those 30 years ago (EIA)
- Platforms use sophisticated high-pressure valves that close automatically to prevent oil spills (API)
- Automatic fail-safe devices are installed in wells below sea level, protecting sea beds and sea life (API)
- Only 1% of all oil in the sea comes from drilling (EIA)
- 63% of all oil in the sea comes from natural seeps (EIA)
- Twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez spill naturally seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year (NASA)

Half Of The Oil In The Ocean Bubbles Up Naturally From The Seafloor (NASA)
Most Oil in Santa Barbara Channel Is Natural Seepage (The Wall Street Journal)
Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Tons of Oil Seeps into the Gulf of Mexico Each Year (NASA)

FACT: 63% of oil in American waters comes from natural seeps


California’s Offshore Oil And Gas Platforms Serve As Marine Protected Areas (Science Daily)
Oil, Gas Seismic Work Not Affecting Gulf Sperm Whales, Study Shows (Science Daily)
Research Shows Little Effect From Arctic Offshore Oil Drilling; Study Reveals Thriving Oceanographic System (Science Daily)
Studies Show That Rockfish Thrive With Offshore Platforms As Their Home Base (Science Daily)

Oil Sands:
Analysis: Nuclear-powered oil sands (The Earth Times)
Oil sands cleanup (Financial Post, Canada)
Oil Sands: Energy Security Outweighs Environmental Harm, Report Says (The Wall Street Journal)
Oil sands still viable at $60 a barrel: Suncor (Financial Post, Canada)
Oil sands 'viable below $60 per barrel' (SRI Consulting)
Shell Says Oil Sands Expansion Would Remain Viable With $30 Oil (Bloomberg)
The sands of peace (Financial Post, Canada)
The Oil Sands Of Alberta (CBS News)
Yes, we can strike a balance on the oil sands (Financial Post, Canada)

Prices:
Blame Congress for High Oil Prices (Wall Street Journal)
Economics 101: The Price of Gas (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Global Warming Alarmists Like High Gas Prices (Business & Media Institute)
Going Green's No Good for Gas Prices (ABC News)
Only For Elites Could High Gas Be Good Thing (Victor Davis Hanson, Ph.D.)
Solving Pump Pain (Cato Institute)

- Gas Prices must be adjusted for inflation (EIA)
- The average amount of tax on gasoline in the United States is 49.4 cents per gallon (API)
- The average amount of tax on diesel in the United States is 56.4 cents per gallon (API)



- China is the world’s second-largest consumer of oil behind the United States (EIA)
- China's oil consumption is increasing nearly a half million barrels per day (EIA)

Price Gouging:
Myth: Price Gouging Is Bad (Video) (5min)
In Defense of Price Gougers (John R. Lott, Ph.D. Economics)

Gouge On: A defense of gas profiteering (National Review Online)
Let ’Em Gouge: A Defense of Price Gouging (National Review Online)
Myth: Price-Gouging Is Bad (John Stossel, ABC News)
Price Controls Create Man-Made Disasters (Art Carden, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Price Gouging in the Public Interest (Cato Institute)
Price Gouging Saves Lives (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
"Price Gouging" Is Essential and Humane (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
The Myth of "Price Gouging" (Capitalism Magazine)
The Myth of the Just Price (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
What Are Just Prices? (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

"Price Controls are like trying to cure a fever by adjusting the thermometer" - Cato Institute

Products Made from Oil:
A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)
Products Made From Oil

Refineries:
Behind high gas prices: The refinery crunch (CNN Money)
Hyperion says plans first US refinery since 1976 (Reuters)
Pain in the Gas: Refinery Troubles Push Gas Prices Higher (ABC News)
Refining the Battle Against High Gas Prices (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Refining: the Untold Story of the Oil Chain (BMI)

Regulation:
Candidates Fail Energy Independence Test (FOX News)
Repealing Ban on Use of Oil Sands, Shale Oil, Coal-to-Liquids (PDF) (U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee)
Repeal sought for ban on U.S. Govt. use of CTL, oil shale, tar sands-generated fuel (TSW)
U.S. law puts chill on Canadian oil sands (Sit News)

Reserves:
- 1.8 to 6 Trillion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Oil-Shale Reserves (DOE)
- 986 Billion barrels of oil are estimated using Coal-to-liquids (CTL) conversion of U.S. Coal Reserves (DOE)
- 173 to 315 Billion (1.7-2.5 Trillion potential) barrels of oil are estimated in the Oil Sands of Alberta, Canada (Alberta Department of Energy)
- 100 Billion barrels of heavy oil are estimated in the U.S. (DOE)
- 90 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the Arctic (USGS)
- 89 Billion barrels of immobile oil are estimated recoverable using CO2 injection in the U.S. (DOE)
- 86 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (MMS)
- 60 to 80 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in U.S. Tar Sands (DOE)
- 32 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in ANWR, NPRA and the Central North Slope in Alaska (USGS)
- 31.4 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the East Greenland Rift Basins Province (USGS)
- 7.3 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the West Greenland–East Canada Province (USGS)
- 4.3 Billion (167 Billion potential) barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana (USGS)
- 3.65 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation (USGS)
- 1.6 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Eastern Great Basin Province (USGS)
- 1.3 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Permian Basin Province (USGS)
- 1.1 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Powder River Basin Province (USGS)
- 990 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Portion of the Michigan Basin (USGS)
- 393 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. San Joaquin Basin Province of California (USGS)
- 214 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Illinois Basin (USGS)
- 172 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Yukon Flats of East-Central Alaska (USGS)
- 131 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Southwestern Wyoming Province (USGS)
- 109 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Montana Thrust Belt Province (USGS)
- 104 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Denver Basin Province (USGS)
- 98.5 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin Province (USGS)
- 94 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the U.S. Hanna, Laramie, Shirley Basins Province (USGS)

For Comparison:
- 260 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in Saudi Arabia (EIA)
- 80 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in Venezuela (EIA)

Reserve Speculation:
- 580 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in Russia's Arctic Ocean Shelf (Source)
- 400 Billion barrels of oil are estimated under the Arctic Ocean (Source)

BP Finds Giant Oil Field Deep in Gulf of Mexico (The New York Times)
Brazil reports massive oil discovery (WorldNetDaily)
Billions of gallons of oil in North Dakota, Montana (WorldNetDaily)
Finding New Oil In Long-exhausted Oil Wells (Science Daily)
Huge Oil Reservoir May Lie Under Northern Plains (FOX News)
Massive Canadian Oilfield Could Be Exploited Using New System (Science Daily)
Massive oil field found under Gulf (WorldNetDaily)
Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field (BBC)
Russia’s largest field is far from depleted (WorldNetDaily)
Saudi Arabia: 1.2 trillion barrels of oil or more (WorldNetDaily)
Tens Of Billions Of Additional Barrels Of Oil Remain To Be Tapped Miles Below Gulf Of Mexico, Cornell Geologist Says (Science Daily)
Thunder Horse in the Gulf (WorldNetDaily)
Ultra-low Cost Well Monitoring Could Save Thousands Of Marginal Oil Wells (Science Daily)

Shale Oil:
Shale Oil (Video) (5min)
America Needs A (Shale) Oil Change (Investor's Business Daily)
The Necessity of Oil Shale (Hawaii Reporter)



Speculators:
Speculators Aren’t Driving Up Oil Prices, Report Says (The New York Times)

"The report's key finding was that speculative investors more often changed their positions after prices had moved, not before. That suggests that these traders "are responding to new information - just as one would expect in an efficiently operating market," the report said."

Blaming Oil Speculators for High Gas Prices (Video) (4min)

6 Myths About Oil Speculators (U.S. News and World Report)
An Anti-Speculative Bubble (Townhall)
Bless the Speculators (John Stossel, ABC News)
Congress: The Real Speculators (Townhall)
Critics of oil speculators and short sellers are missing the point (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Don't blame the oil 'speculators' (Fortune Magazine)
Don’t blame the speculators (The Economist, UK)
Don’t Blame the Speculators (The American)
Greedy Speculators? (Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D. Business Economics, Cato Institute)
Hunting for oil villains (Fortune Magazine)
Just Speculating (Investor's Business Daily)
Let’s Shoot the Speculators! (Newsweek)
Oil Speculators Help Consumers at the Gas Pump (David Kreutzer, Ph.D. Economics, The Heritage Foundation)
Restricting Speculators Will Not Reduce Oil Prices (Craig Pirrong, Ph.D. Business Economics, The Wall Street Journal)
Scapegoating the Speculators (Cato Institute)
Scapegoating Speculators (Walter E. Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Speculators are not to blame for oil, says IEA (The Times, UK)
The oil speculator sideshow (Fortune Magazine)

Subsidies:
Fuel Subsidies Overseas Take a Toll on U.S. (The New York Times)
Global Oil Subsidies (Video) (3min)
"Big Oil" at the Public Trough? An Examination of Petroleum Subsidies (Cato Institute)

Taxes:
Abolish the Federal Gasoline Tax! (Cato Institute)
Don't Increase Federal Gasoline Taxes—Abolish Them (Cato Institute)

Windfall Profit Taxes:
A windfall tax will not solve our energy crisis (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Don't fall for a "windfall" profits tax (David Kreutzer, Ph.D. Economics)
Economic Amnesia: The Case against Oil Price Controls and Windfall Profit Taxes (Cato Institute)
Profits Do Not Cause High Prices (William L. Anderson, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Windfall Profit Nonsense: We Have An Energy Policy - It's Called The Free Market (John Stossel, 20/20)
Windfall Profits Tax Would Hardly Be Revenue Gusher (Cato Institute)


Peak Oil:

Myth: The World is Running Out of Oil (Video) (5min) (ABC News)

Oil: Never Cry Wolf—Why the Petroleum Age Is Far from over (Science, Vol. 304, No. 5674)

Despite Popular Belief, The World is Not Running Out of Oil, Scientist Says (University of Washington)
No Evidence of Precipitous Fall on Horizon for World Oil Production (Cambridge Energy Research Associates)

Endless oil (Financial Post, Canada)
It’s a myth that the world’s oil is running out (The Times, UK)
Myth: The World is Running Out of Oil (John Stossel, ABC News)
Oil, Oil Everywhere... (The Wall Street Journal)
Political Peak Oil (Reason)
The World Has Plenty of Oil (The Wall Street Journal)

Finding New Oil In Long-exhausted Oil Wells (Science Daily)
Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells (The New York Times)
'Smart Water' May Help Boost Production From Oil Wells By 60 Percent (Science Daily)

THE OIL RESERVE FALLACY

Aramco Chief Debunks Peak Oil (Energy Tribune)
Are We Running Out of Oil? (National Center For Policy Analysis)
Debunking Peak Oil (Financial Sense)
Despite Reality, Belief in Peak Oil Persists (DailyTech)
'Hubbert's Peak' is a failed theory (WorldNetDaily)
Not ‘Peak Oil,’ but Lots More Oil (Accuracy in Media)
Oil shortage is a myth, industry insider claims (The New Zealand Herald)
Peak Oil: An Idea Whose Time Is Up (Investor's Business Daily)
Peak Oil Again? (Reason)
Peak Oil Panic (Reason)
Peak Oil Panic: There's plenty of oil for everybody (The Weekly Standard)
Peak vs Deep Oil (Video) (8min) (CNBC)
Peak Oil, Revisited (Reason)
Plenty of oil left in the global tank (The Times, UK)
Saudi Arabia isn't running out of oil! (WorldNetDaily)
Shell exec says world not running out of oil (WorldNetDaily)
The end of the age of oil? (WorldNetDaily)
The Myth of "Peak Oil" (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
The Oil Shortage Myth (Kiplinger)
The 'Peak Oil' Myth: New Oil Is Plentiful (Seeking Alpha)
The recurring myth of Peak Oil (Aljazeera Magazine)
We will never run out of oil (WorldNetDaily)
World not running out of oil, say experts (The Times, UK)

- 1885, U.S. Geological Survey: "Little or no chance for oil in California."
- 1891, U.S. Geological Survey: "Little or no chance for oil in Kansas and Texas"
- 1914, U.S. Bureau of Mines: Total future production limit of 5.7 billion barrels of oil, at most a 10-year supply remaining.
- 1939, Department of the Interior: Oil reserves in the United States to be exhausted in 13 years.
- 1951, Department of the Interior, Oil and Gas Division: Oil reserves in the United States to be exhausted in 13 years.

Papers:
Crop Circles in the Desert: The Strange Controversy Over Saudi Oil Production (PDF) (Michael C. Lynch, President of Strategic Energy and Economic Research)
Energy Alarmism: The Myths That Make Americans Worry about Oil (PDF) (Cato Institute)
Politically Contrived Gasoline Shortage (PDF) (Craig S. Marxsen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Resource Exhaustibility: A Myth Refuted by Entrepreneurial Capital Maintenance (PDF) (John Brätland, Ph.D. Senior Economist, U.S. Department of the Interior)


Abiogenic Theory:
Easier to find oil (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Hydrocarbons in Deep Earth? (Carnegie Institution)
New Evidence Supports 19th-Century Idea On Formation Of Oil And Gas (American Chemical Society)

Doom-and-gloomers say we’re near tapped-out of oil, Rubbish (National Review Online)
Fuel's Paradise (Wired)
Gas and oil may exist in miles-deep wells (The Times, UK)
Petroleum From Decay? Maybe Not, Study Says (The New York Times)
Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel' (WorldNetDaily)
New data: Maybe oil isn't from dead dinos (WorldNetDaily)
Sustainable oil? (WorldNetDaily)

EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested):
Energy Efficiency of Strategic Unconventional Resources (PDF) (DOE)
Thermodynamics and Money (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

Failed Predictions:
The Many Wrong Predictions of Ken Deffeyes (Peak Oil Debunked)
1995 Peak Oil - 'Oil, the Dwindling Treasure' (National Geographic, 1974)

Gas:
No Peak Gas (Financial Post, Canada)

Thermal Depolymerization:
Thermal Depolymerization (Video) (7min)
Anything Into Oil at $80 a Barrel (Discover Magazine)

Continued:

Biofuels:

"There is no sound public policy reason for mandating the use of ethanol." - Hillary Clinton, 2002

Myth: Ethanol is Great (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)

- Ethanol (E85) reduces fuel economy by 30% compared to gasoline (DOE)
- Ethanol (E85) costs more than Gasoline (USA Today)
- Ethanol cannot be transported in existing pipelines (BusinessWeek)
- Ethanol would supply only 12% of U.S. motoring fuel even if every acre of corn were used (USA Today)
- Ethanol displaces only 2% of U.S. oil consumption (EIA)
- Ethanol fires are harder to put out (ABC News)

The Many Myths of Ethanol (John Stossel, ABC News)
Ethanol Is Not the Answer (The New York Sun)
Ethanol Makes Gasoline Costlier, Dirtier (Cato Institute)
Ethanol: Myths and Realities (BusinessWeek)
Fuel Ethanol Cannot Alleviate U.S. Dependence On Petroleum (Science Daily)
The Ethanol Myth (Consumer Reports)
Test results: E85 vs. gasoline (Consumer Reports)
The Ethanol Fallacy (Popular Mechanics)
The Problems With Ethanol (Video) (5min)

Brazil:
Brazil's Energy Plan Examined (Washington Times)
The Myth of Brazil’s Ethanol Success (Energy Tribune)
Brazil Ethanol Boom Belied by Diseased Lungs Among Cane Workers (Bloomberg)
'Slave' Labourers Freed in Brazil (BBC)
There Is No Ethanol Revolution in Brazil (LewRockwell)

- Ethanol from sugar cane produces 8 times more energy than from corn (Source)
- Ethanol supplies only 20% of the motor vehicle fuel in Brazil (Source)
- Brazil produced 5 million gallons of ethanol vs. 6.5 million by the U.S. in 2007 (Source)
- Brazil produced 2.3 million bbl/d of Oil vs. 308,000 bbl/d of Ethanol in 2006 (EIA)
- Brazil has 81 motor vehicles per 1000 people vs. 765 per 1000 people in the U.S. (Source)

Cellulose:
Cellulosic Ethanol - The Forest Killers (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
Crop Residue May Be Too Valuable To Harvest For Biofuels (Science Daily)
The Cellulosic Ethanol Mirage (Energy Tribune)
Wishful Thinking on Cellulosic Ethanol (Cato Institute)

Cost:
Cost of E85 fuel is higher than gasoline (USA Today)
E85 BTU Adjusted Price (AAA)
Ethanol E85 fuel loses cost-benefit test to diesel (USA Today)
Ethanol Plants No Panacea For Local Economies (Science Daily)

Energy:
Ethanol Energy Content (U.S Department of Energy)

Ethanol And Biodiesel From Crops Not Worth The Energy (Science Daily)
Global Limits Of Biomass Energy (Science Daily)
Study: Ethanol Production Consumes Six Units Of Energy To Produce Just One (Science Daily)
Study: Ethanol Won't Solve Energy Problems (USA Today)

Environmental:
Bioenergy Could Do More Harm Than Good (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)
Biofuel Plantations On Tropical Forestlands Are Bad For The Climate And Biodiversity, Study Finds (World Wildlife Fund)
Biofuels And Biodiversity Don't Mix, Ecologists Warn (Science Daily)
Biofuels Boom Could Fuel Rainforest Destruction, Researcher Warns (Stanford University)
Biofuels Could Do More Harm Than Good, UN Report Warns (National Geographic)
Biofuels Could Hasten Climate Change (Conservation Biology Journal)
Carbon Mitigation by Biofuels or by Saving and Restoring Forests? (Science)
Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops will worsen global warming (University of Minnesota)
Diverse Landscapes Are Better: Policymakers Urged To Think Broadly About Biofuel Crops (Michigan State University)
Ethanol comes with environmental impact, despite green image (USA Today)
Ethanol Fuels Fire Concerns (ABC News)
Ethanol Production Could Be Eco-Disaster, Brazil's Critics Say (National Geographic)
Ethanol Production Could Jeopardize Soil Productivity (American Society of Agronomy)
Ethanol Vehicles Pose Significant Risk To Health, New Study Finds (Stanford University)
Green fuels will save the earth - or not (Reuters)
Indonesia's palm oil boom takes environmental toll (Breitbart)
Is Biofuel Policy Harming European Biodiversity? (European Forest Institute)
Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt rain forests (Reuters)
Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil or Petrol (The Times, UK)
Some Biofuels Are Worse Environmentally Than Fossil Fuels, Analysis Shows (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
Some Biofuels Might Do More Harm Than Good To The Environment, Study Finds (University of Washington)
Some Biofuels Risk Biodiversity And Could End Up Harming Environment (Science Daily)
Study: Ethanol May Add to Global Warming (USA Today)
The cost of the biofuel boom on Indonesia's forests (The Guardian, UK)
The Environmental Costs of Ethanol (National Center For Policy Abalysis)
Unregulated Biofuel Crops Pose Invasive Pest Risk (University of Hawaii Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit)
U.S. Rush To Produce Corn-based Ethanol Will Worsen 'Dead Zone' In Gulf Of Mexico, Study Says (University of British Columbia)

Food:
Ethanol Fuel From Corn Faulted As "Unsustainable Subsidized Food Burning" In Analysis By Cornell Scientist (Science Daily)
Ethanol, Corn To Weigh Heavily On Future Of Livestock Industry (Science Daily)
Ethanol Demand Threatens Food Prices (MIT Technology Review)
Battling Ethanol-Propelled Food Prices (MIT Technology Review)
Biofuel Brews up Higher German Beer Prices (MSNBC)
Biofuel Demand Makes Food Expensive (BBC)
Biofuels Could Lead to Mass Hunger Deaths: U.N. Envoy (Reuters)
Biofuels 'crime against humanity' (BBC)
Cattle Fed Byproducts Of Ethanol Production Harbor Dangerous E. Coli Bacteria (Science Daily)
Corn to Blame for Rising Food Prices (ABC News)
Demand for ethanol driving up meat prices (USA Today)
Ethanol Being Blamed for Global Food Riots (Business & Media Institute)
Ethanol fuels food price frenzy (Financial Post, Canda)
Ethanol Mandates Could Drive Up Food Prices, Enviros Say (CNSNews)
Ethanol Production, Worldwide Demand Sends Prices for Dairy Goods Soaring (MSNBC)
Germany's Cheap Beer Tradition Under Threat From Biofuels (Deutsche Welle)
IMF Warns About Impact of Biofuels on Food Prices (Forbes)
How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor (The New York Times)
Mexicans Torch Tequila Fields for Ethanol Boom Corn (Reuters)
Milk Prices Soar as Government Backs Ethanol (The Daily Green)
More Ethanol, Less Sugar (The New York Times)
Think Tank Warns Biofuel Will Lead to Rocketing Food Prices (Vnunet, UK)
U.N.: Food prices could offset biofuels benefits (USA Today)
Will Demand for Ethanol Raise Food Prices? The Government Says Yes (FOX News)

Water:
Alternative Fuels May Drain Dwindling Water Supplies (American Chemical Society)
Bioenergy Makes Heavy Demands On Scarce Water Supplies (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Bioethanol's Impact On Water Supply Three Times Higher Than Once Thought (American Chemical Society)
Ethanol Production May Put Pinch on Water Resources (FOX News)
Ethanol Production Threatens Plains States With Water Scarcity (Environmental News Service)
Ethanol's Water Shortage (The Wall Street Journal)
Increase In Ethanol Production From Corn Could Significantly Harm Water Quality (The National Academies)
More corn for biofuels would hurt water (Purdue University)
Water Constraints Rain on Ethanol Zeal (USA Today)

Subsidies:
Biofuels: At What Cost? (Global Subsidies Initiative)

- Total Subsidies for Ethanol Between $6.3 and $8.7 Billion Per Year ($1.42-$1.87 Per Gallon)
- Total Subsidies for Biodiesel Between $1.7 and $2.3 Billion Per Year ($1.69-$2.15 Per Gallon)

Ethanol Keeps ADM Drunk On Tax Dollars (Cato Institute)
Germany Ends Biofuel Subsidies (Energy Publisher)
OECD Warns Against Biofuels Subsidies (Financial Times, UK)
Push Ethanol Off the Dole (Cato Institute)
The Ethanol Subsidy is Worse Than You Can Imagine (Slate Magazine)
U.S. Biofuels Subsidies: Not for Farmers, but for Europeans (The Wall Street Journal)

Biodiesel:

- Biodiesel reduces fuel economy by 10% compared to diesel
- Biodiesel can gel up in low temperatures

Biodiesel Energy Content (U.S Department of Energy)

Biodiesel Won't Drive Down Global Warming (Science Daily)
Orang-utans Home Destroyed for Biodiesel (The Daily Telegraph, UK)

Biodiesel fuel woes close Bloomington schools (Star Tribune)
- Minnesota Boosts Biodiesel Initiative from 2 to 20 %]Minnesota Boosts Biodiesel Initiative from 2 to 20% (Renewable Energy World)
Cold Snap Raises Issues When Biodiesel Gels Up (USA Today)
Cold Snap Stops Green (Biodiesel) Bus Service (BBC)
Trucking Companies Report Engine Problems After Switching to Biodiesel (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Biofuels:
Biofuel Blending Is Often Inaccurate, Study Shows (Science Daily)
Biofuels: An Advisable Strategy? (Science Daily)
Economists Find Current Biofuel Potential In Oregon May Be Costly And Limited (Science Daily)
Nations That Sow Food Crops For Biofuels May Reap Less Than Previously Thought (Science Daily)
Top Scientist Says Biofuels Are Scam (The Times, UK)

Alternative Fuels Comparison Chart (PDF) (Popular Mechanics)

Coal:

- 49% of U.S. electrical generation comes from coal (EIA) (22% Natural Gas, 19% Nuclear, 6% Hydroelectric, 2.5% from "Renewables" and 1.5% from Oil)
- The United States has 268 billion tons of coal reserves - a 240 year supply (NMA)
- Coal is the cheapest way to generate electricity (the levelized cost of a kilowatt hour is 3.53 cents for coal, 5.47 cents for gas, 5.94 cents for nuclear)
- Coal Power plants being built today emit 90 percent less pollutants (SO2, NOx, Particulates, mercury) than the plants they replaced from the 1970s. (NMA)
- Emissions from coal-based electricity generation have decreased overall by nearly 40 percent since the 1970s while coal use has tripled. (NMA)
- U.S. coal operations have reclaimed more than 2.2. million acres of mined land over the past 25 years. (NMA)
- U.S. coal mining directly employs nearly 120,000 people. (NMA)

Clean Power From Waste Coal (Science Daily)
Coal Gasification Could Fuel Clean Coal: Myths, Challenges And Opportunities (Science Daily)
Coal-to-diesel Breakthrough Could Drastically Cut Oil Imports (Science Daily)
New Process Promises To Reduce Costs Of A Clean-coal Technology (Science Daily)
New System Uses Coal Mine Waste To Generate Clean Power (Science Daily)
Squeezing More Synthetic Fuel From Abundant Supplies Of Coal (Science Daily)
Ultra-clean Coal (Science Daily)


Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs):

Are We Trading Energy Conservation for Toxic Air Emissions? (Yale University)

Efficient lighting equals higher heat bills: study (CBC News)

1 broken bulb pushes contamination to 300 times EPA limits (WorldNetDaily)
Consumers in dark over risks of new light bulbs (WorldNetDaily)
Do New Bulbs Save Energy if They Don't Work? (The New York Times)
Light bulb ban will increase CO2 (WorldNetDaily)
Light Bulb Lunacy (FOX News)
Light bulb ban will increase CO2 (WorldNetDaily)
New light bulbs can poison you (WorldNetDaily)
Recycling options lag the compact fluorescent push (USA Today)
The Dangers of Those Energy-Saving Light Bulbs (Business & Media Institute)
The energy-saving light bulbs that could leave you red-faced... from UV radiation (The Daily Mail, UK)
Too Little, Too Late - Media Discover Mercury in Fluorescent Bulbs (Business & Media Institute)

Light bulb faulted in Whitehorse house fire (CBC News)


Compressed Natural Gas (CNG):

- Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) reduces fuel economy by 65% compared to gasoline (DOE)
- Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) reduces the vehicle driving range in half
- Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel tanks are larger than a gasoline tank taking up trunk space
- Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel tanks are dangerously explosive (Seattle Fire Department)



1 killed, 20 hurt as CNG cylinder of microbus explodes (The Daily Star, India)
3 killed in gas cylinder blast (Bangladesh News)
12 injured in CNG-gas cylinder explosion in Comilla, Bangladesh (United News of Bangladesh)
13 hurt as gas cylinder explodes (The Daily Star, India)
Accidental blast rocks Shell station in Pakistan (Reuters)
- 2 CNG plant explosion victims die (Dawn, Pakistan)
CNG-run microbus explodes (The Daily Star, India)
Four children killed as CNG kit of car explodes (Khaleej Times, UAE)
One killed, three injured in CNG cylinder blast (The Indian Express, India)
Passenger natural gas tank explosion injures 3 in northern Iran (IranMania)
Six hurt in explosion at natural gas fueling station in Corona, California (The Press-Enterprise)
Six killed as car crash leads to cylinder blast (Dawn, Pakistan)
Three killed in car cylinder explosion (Dawn, Pakistan)
Two killed in CNG cylinder explosion (Dawn, Pakistan)


Electric Cars:

- Electric cars take hours to charge
- Electric cars have limited range
- Electric car's batteries have a short lifespan
- Electric car's batteries are expensive to replace
- Electric cars are quiet and a danger to pedestrians

Thirsty Hybrid And Electric Cars Could Triple Demands On Scarce Water Resources (American Chemical Society)

Electric cars may not be solution to all world problems (The Register)
Electric Cars: They Need Gas (Forbes)
Getting real: The high cost of electric cars (CNN Money)
Plug-in Cars Could Actually Increase Air Pollution (USA Today)
Plug-in Cars Could Drain U.S. Water Supply, Researcher Says (Popular Mechanics)
That Blissfully Quiet Electric Car Might Just Kill You (Wired)
The 100-Year-Old Electric Car (Popular Mechanics)
The Buyers Have Spoken: Forget Electric Cars (Car and Driver)


Chevy Volt:
Chevy Volt (Batteries Not Included) (The New York Times)

GM EV1:
GM's EV1 -- Who Killed Common Sense? (Edmunds)
Who Ignored the Facts About the Electric Car? (GM)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (TCS Daily)
Who Killed the Electric Car? Nobody! (Watts Up With That?)

Tesla:
32 hours needed to charge Tesla (Edmunds)
Rescue Me: Tesla Seeks $400M in DOE Loans (Earth2Tech)
Schwarzenegger Wants to Terminate His Tesla Roadster (Valleywag)
Stalled Tesla Roadster in venture capital's epicenter (Valleywag)
Tesla's alternative energy: the tow truck (Valleywag)


Energy Efficiency:



The Efficiency Paradox (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
The Virtue Of Waste (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

CAFE Standards: (Fuel Economy)
A Crashing Failure: The Stupid Tragedy of CAFE (National Review)
Don't Drink the CAFE Kool-Aid (Robert W. Crandall, Ph.D. Economics)
Don't Raise CAFE Standards (Cato Institute)
Obama’s New Car Standards Would Kill More Americans Than the Iraq War! (FOX News)
Take CAFE Off The Policy Menu (Gary M. Galles, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Why the Government's CAFE Standards for Fuel Efficiency Should Be Repealed, not Increased (The Heritage Foundation)

America's New Fuel Economy Cartel (PDF) (Bruce Yandle, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics)
CAFE Changes, By the Numbers (PDF) (Andrew N. Kleit, Ph.D. Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics)
Death by the Gallon (PDF) (USA Today)
Do Consumers Value Fuel Economy? (PDF) (Molly Espey, Ph.D. Professor of Applied Economics & Statistics)
Six Reasons Not To Raise CAFE Standards (PDF) (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Stale CAFE (PDF) (Paul Godek, Ph.D. Economics)

CAFE is Bad for Your Health (The Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2005)
Not So Grande CAFE (The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2006)
CAFE Break (The Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2007)
CAFE Oh Nay, Standard Has Hurt (The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2008)
Small Cars Are Dangerous Cars (The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2009)
Light Cars Are Dangerous Cars (The Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2009)

Myths:
7 Energy Efficiency Myths Debunked (Popular Mechanics)
7 More Fuel-Sipping Myths Debunked (Popular Mechanics)
Conservation Wastes Energy (The Wall Street Journal)
Debunking a Mileage Myth: Can You Really "Pump Up" Your Fuel Economy? (Popular Mechanics)
Gas Savers: Do they really help? (Consumer Reports)
Gas Savers: Myths and Secrets (ABC News)
Looking For A Miracle: We Test Automotive 'Fuel Savers' (Popular Mechanics)
Miracle Carburetor = False (Snopes)
Myth: Energy Efficiency (Manhattan Institute)
The 100 MPG Carburetor Myth (The Fish Carburetor Book)
The Myth of Ever Increasing Fuel Economy (The American Thinker)

The most fuel-efficient Cars (Consumer Reports)
The most fuel-efficient SUVs (Consumer Reports)


Free Energy:

MythBusters: Free Energy = Busted (Video) (41min)

News Media Scammed by 'Free Energy' Hoax (Slashdot)
The perpetual myth of free energy (BBC)


Hybrids:

"When you just use the argument of fuel efficiency, the purchase of a hybrid car is not justified"
- Kazuo Okamoto, Head of Research and Development at Toyota

Dear Valued Hybrid Customer... (The Wall Street Journal)
Prius Follies, Take Two (The Wall Street Journal)
Hybrid Cars Are Harder To Hear: May Pose Greater Risks For Pedestrians (Science Daily)
Hybrids: Don't buy the hype (CNN Money)
Hybrid hype, and miscellaneous ramblings (Brock Yates, Car and Driver)
The Futility of Hybrid Cars (FOX News)

Cost:
Battery Replacement Can Be Very Expensive (Consumer Affairs)
Do Hybrids Make Financial Sense Yet? (Edmunds)

Hybrid cars and the vanishing tax credit (Consumer Reports)
Hybrid issues, and a rising star at Indy (Brock Yates, Car and Driver)

Most Hybrids Not The Solution to High Gas Prices (NADA Guides)
Savings at Pump Don't Offset Higher Purchase Price (Consumer Affairs)
The costly secrets of hybrid cars (MSN Money)

Environmental:
Hybrid Cars May Require Hundreds Of New Power Plants To Be Built, If Owners Charge Up During Peak Hours (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Hybrid Electric Vehicles Not As Green As They Are Painted, Analysts Contend (International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management)
Hybrid Vehicle Rebates Produce Scant Environmental Benefits, High Cost (University of British Columbia)
Thirsty Hybrid And Electric Cars Could Triple Demands On Scarce Water Resources (Environmental Science & Technology)

As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms (Reuters)
Eco-friendly claims for ‘hybrid’ cars dismissed as gimmickry (The Times, UK)
Hybrid batteries spark waste fears (The Australian)
Hybrid Vehicle Owners Report Adverse Health Effects (Heartland Institute)
Lexus Hybrid Ad Banned For Misleading Environmental Claims (Environmental Leader)
Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage (The Recorder)
Toyota rapped by advertising watchdog for saying its ecocar is greener than it really is (Daily Mail, UK)
Toyota 'Zero Emissions' Ad Ruled 'Misleading' (Environmental Leader)

Do Hybrid Cars Reduce Air Pollution? (PDF) (Kay H. Jones Ph.D.)

MPG:
EPA Lowers Prius Mileage Estimate (Consumer Affairs)
New versus old EPA mpg (Consumer Reports)

The great mileage rip-off (Daily Mail, UK)

Performance:
Prius Shuts Down in the Snow (Consumer Affairs)
Prius Stalls in Snow (Consumer Affairs)
Toyota Prius proves a gas guzzler in a race with the BMW 520d (The Times, UK)

Recalls:
Ford Recalls 6,000 Escape Hybrid SUVs (The Los Angeles Times)
Honda Recalls 45,335 Civic Hybrid Sedans (Forbes)
Toyota Recalls 160,000 Prius Hybrids (CBS News)
Toyota Recalls 1 Million Prius Hybrids (Motor Trend)


Hydrogen:

Hydrogen Energy Content (U.S Department of Energy)

Hydrogen - Hydrogen-fueled Cars Not Best Way To Cut Pollution, Greenhouse Gases And Oil Dependency (Science Daily)
Hydrogen - Lubrication Oil Pollutes, Even In Hydrogen-fueled Vehicles (Science Daily)
Hydrogen - MIT Study: Hydrogen Car No Environmental Panacea (Science Daily)


Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG): (LP Gas or Autogas)

- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) reduces fuel economy by 33% compared to gasoline (DOE)
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) provides 6% less power than gasoline
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) provides less lubricity than gasoline
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) requires a 35% greater storage volume than gasoline
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is comprised of propane, butane or a combination of the two

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Energy Content (U.S Department of Energy)

Methanol (M85):

- Methanol (M85) reduces fuel economy by 47% compared to gasoline (DOE)
- Methanol is a colorless liquid (this requires fuels to be dyed)
- Methanol has inadequate vapor pressure for cold-starting, particularly in low ambient temperatures
- Methanol burns with a flame that is nearly invisible in direct sunlight (this is a safety concern as fires could start and go unnoticed)
- Methanol provides less lubricity than gasoline (this increases wear on various engine fuel system components)
- Methanol is extremely poisonous and prolonged exposure can cause blindness or death
- Indycar switched to Methanol in the 1970s because it was less explosive than Gasoline (Source)

Methanol Energy Content (U.S Department of Energy)

Nuclear:

- France Generates 80% of it's Electricity from Nuclear Power (BBC)
- Lithuania Generates 70% of it's Electricity from Nuclear Power (World Nuclear Association)
- Belgium Generates 54% of it's Electricity from Nuclear Power (World Nuclear Association)
- Sweden Generates 50% of it's Electricity from Nuclear Power (World Nuclear Association)
- 104 Commercial Nuclear Reactors are operating in the United States (EIA)
- 103 Military Nuclear Reactors are operating in the U.S. Navy (World Nuclear Association)
- The U.S. Navy has over 5500 reactor years of accident-free experience (World Nuclear Association)
- 95% of the material in a spent fuel rod can be recycled for energy and medical isotopes (WSJ)
- 67% Favor Building New Nuclear Power Plants in U.S. (Zogby)
- China plans to build 30 more Nuclear Reactors (USA Today)
- England plans to build 8 more Nuclear Reactors (Daily Telegraph, UK)
- India plans to build 4 more Nuclear Reactors (RIA Novosti)
- Italy plans to build new Nuclear Reactors (The New York Times)
- Modern Nuclear Reactors can be built in 3-years and last 60-years (Westinghouse)
- There is plenty of Uranium resources to sustain the growth of Nuclear Power (Nuclear Energy Agency)
- There is enough Uranium to last over 2500 years using fast breeder reactor technology (IAEA)
- Nuclear Power admits ZERO Carbon emissions

Bullshit! - Nukes (Video) (28min)
Myth: Nuclear Energy is Dangerous (Video) (5min)

Going Nuclear - A Green Makes the Case (Patrick Moore, Ph.D. Ecology, Greenpeace Co-Founder)
Greens Against Nuclear Energy: Fighting the Nuclear Renaissance (PDF) (Capital Research Center)
Greenpeace is wrong - we must consider nuclear power (Patrick Moore, Ph.D. Ecology, Greenpeace Co-Founder)
Love Uranium (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

Former 'No Nukes' Protester: Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power (Wired)
Let's Have Some Love for Nuclear Power (The Wall Street Journal)
Nuclear option 'must be examined' (BBC)
Why greens must learn to love nuclear power (Mark Lynas, New Statesman)

Chernobyl:
Chernobyl and Communism’s Revenge (Intellectual Conservative)
Chernobyl fallout not as bad as first feared (The Times, UK)
Chernobyl life 'back to normal' within a decade (Environmental Data Interactive, UK)
Chernobyl Incident Had Fewer Long-Term Health Impacts Than Expected (Natural Environment Research Council.)
Chernobyl toll may be less than feared (USA Today)
Danger from radiation is exaggerated, say scientists (The Times, UK)
No Detectable Health Risk Is Found Outside Chernobyl Vicinity (The New York Times)
The Myths of Chernobyl (Australasian Radiation Protection Society)
The Truth About Chernobyl Is Told (Zbigniew Jaworowski, Central Laboratory for Radilogical Protection)
Tourists flock to the dead zone of Chernobyl (Daily Telegraph, UK)
UN Report says 56 killed so far due to Chernobyl nuclear accident (CBC News)
UNSCEAR on the Health Effects from Chornobyl (Zbigniew Jaworowski, Central Laboratory for Radilogical Protection)

Myths:
Dispelling Myths About Nuclear Energy (Heritage Foundation)
Dispelling the Myths About Nuclear Power (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Ten myths about nuclear power (Spiked, UK)

Nuclear Winter:
Climate of Fear: From Nuclear Winter to Global Warming (The American Thinker)
Is nuclear war survivable? (WorldNetDaily)
Nuclear Winter Theorists Pull Back (The New York Times)
The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts (Nuclear War Survival Skills)
The Melting of 'Nuclear Winter' (Russell Seitz, The National Interest, 1986)

Reserves:
Abundant uranium reserves make nuclear viable long-term option (Mining Weekly)
Global Nuclear Expansion Based on Plentiful Uranium Supply (Environment News Service)
Global Uranium Resources to Meet Projected Demand (International Atomic Energy Agency)
Uranium resources: plenty to sustain growth of nuclear power (Nuclear Energy Administration)
Uranium resources sufficient to meet projected nuclear energy requirements long into the future (Nuclear Energy Administration)
World has 200 Years of Uranium Reserves - Germany (Reuters)

China: Nuclear body says uranium reserves sufficent for power developmen (China Daily)
India has 113,000 tonnes of uranium reserves (The Economic Times, India)
Russian uranium reserves up 275% since 2006 (RIA Novosti)
Russia: Uranium Reserves Top One Million Tons (The St. Petersburg Times, Russia)

Safety:
Is Atomic Radiation as Dangerous as We Thought? (Spiegel Online, Germany)
Nuclear power safe, says expert (The Advertiser, Australia)
Nuclear Safety Paranoia (The Washington Post)
Safe, Secure And Inexpensive Power From Newest Genearations Of Nuclear Reactors (Science Daily)

Three Mile Island:
No Apparent Increase In Cancer Deaths Among Three Mile Island Residents (University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
No Significant Rise In Cancer Deaths In 3-Mile Island Residents Over 20 Years (University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Three Mile Island--failure of science or spin? (MIT)
Three Mile Island reactor gets environment OK (Reuters)

United States:
A History of America’s Nuclear Power Experience (Jay H. Lehr, Ph.D. Environmental Science)
A History of America’s Nuclear Power Experience: Part Two (Jay H. Lehr, Ph.D. Environmental Science)
A History of America’s Nuclear Power Experience: Part Three (Jay H. Lehr, Ph.D. Environmental Science)

Waste Disposal:
Nuclear Energy is Safe, Clean and Recyclable (Video) (3min)
Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Can’t Oui? (FOX News)
The Myth of Nuclear 'Waste' (PDF) (21st Century Science and Technology)
We Need to Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel And Can Do It Safely, at Reasonable Cost (PDF) (Clinton Bastin, Retired Nuclear Scientist, Atomic Energy Commission, Department of Energy)

Deactivating Radioactive Waste In Hundreds, Not Millions, Of Years (Science Daily)
Radioactive Waste Recycling No Longer A Pain In The Ash (Science Daily)

Worldwide:
Italy switches back to nuclear as soaring fuel bills bite (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Nuclear Energy: Expansion Across the Map (Hawaii Reporter)
Nuclear Energy: What We Can Learn From Other Nations (Heritage Foundation)
Nuclear Makes A Worldwide Comeback (Spiegel Online, Germany)
Nuclear Power's Comeback in Germany (Business Week)
Nuclear power will save the world, UN scientists claim (Daily Mail, UK)

Pickens Plan:

"There are no turbines on my ranch, because I think they are ugly." - T. Boone Pickens, 2008

The Wind Cries 'Bailout!' (FOX News)
Is T. Boone Pickens 'Swiftboating' America? (FOX News)
Pickens Gives New Meaning to ‘Self-Government’ (FOX News)
Pickens' Natural-Gas Nonsense (FOX News)
Picking on the Pickens Plan? (FOX News)

Windmills for Suckers: Pickens’ Genocidal Plan (PDF) (Executive Intelligence Review)

Blowing Hot Air Up Our Shorts (Paul Driessen, Townhall)
Boone Doggle (The Wall Street Journal)
No Subsidies for Pickens Plan (Cato Institute)
Pelosi And The Big Wind Boone-Doggle (Investors Business Daily)
- Pelosi Investment Shows Unlikely Energy Alliance (The Wall Street Journal)
Pickens' Hot Air (Cato Institute)
Pickens' Plan to Rig the Market (Cato Institute)
Pickens profits show why PTC should not be extended (National Wind Watch)
Pickens would OK Gore as 'energy czar' (UPI)
Picking on Pickens (National Wind Watch)
Pitfalls in the Pickens Plan (Institute for Energy Research)
Slim Pickens (Financial Post, Canada)
Slim Pickins From T. Boone Pickens (Investors Business Daily)
T. Boone Pickens' 'clean' secret (Los Angeles Times)
T. Boone Pickens wants your water (The Examiner)
T. Boone hard-wired for subsidies (National Post, Canada)
T. Boone is Getting on the Gravy Train (Hawaii Reporter)
Windmill farms: Just a bunch of hot air (WorldNetDaily)


Recycling:

Bullshit! - Recycling (Video) (29min)

Recycling is Garbage (The New York Times)
Recycling Rubbish - Eight great myths about waste disposal (Property and Environment Research Center)

- Every community recycling program in America today costs more than the revenue it generates (Source)
- The market for most products manufactured from recycled materials is largely supported by government subsidies or government programs requiring recycled content in certain products (Source)
- The value of recycled materials on the open market has declined dramatically in recent years, and in many cases there is no market at all (Source)
- Manufacturing paper, glass, and plastic from recycled materials uses appreciably more energy and water and produces as much or more air pollution as manufacturing from raw materials (Source)
- We are not running out of or will we ever run out of any of the resources we recycle (Source)
- We are not cutting down “endangered forests” today to make paper. We plant far more trees than we harvest each year. Wood is in ample supply (Source)
- U.S. Forest land area increased from 747 million acres in 1997 to 749 in 2002 (U.S. Forest Service)
- Since the 1950s, timber growth has consistently exceeded harvest (U.S. Forest Service)
- We are not running out of landfill space. All the garbage we will generate in the next 10 centuries will require less than 35 square miles to a height of only 300 feet (Source)
- Landfills are no longer a threat to the environment or public health. State-of-the-art landfills, with redundant clay and plastic liners and leachate collection systems, have now replaced all of our previously unsafe dumps (Source)
- Landfills can be excellent neighbors, contributing wonderful parklands and golf courses to our communities (Source)

It's OK to Throw it Away: Tell Your Kids (Roy E. Cordato, Ph.D. Economics)
Mandatory Recycling Wastes Resources, Harms Environment (The Heartland Institute)
Our Widespread Faith In Recycling Is Misplaced (Cato Institute)
Recycling 'could be adding to global warming' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Recycling is a waste of time (The Times, UK)
Recycling is Not the Answer (Cato Institute)
Recycling: It's a bad idea in New York (The Heartland Institute)
Recycling 'Like Throwing Money Away' (The Heartland Institute)
Recycling: Your Time Can Be Better Spent! (Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Ground Water Hydrology)
The Big City; Rethinking The Rites Of Recycling (The New York Times)
The Recycling Myth (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Time to recycle recycling? (The Washington Times)
UF Study Points To Garbage, Recycling Trucks As Source Of Litter (Science Daily)

Papers
Government And Recycling Are We Promoting Waste (PDF) (Cato Institute)
Wasting Resources to Reduce Waste: Recycling in New Jersey (Cato Institute)

Landfills
Developing Golf Courses on Landfills, Strip-Mines and Other Unusual Locations (The National Golf Foundation)
Golf course opens on decontaminated Jersey landfill (ESPN)
Landfills Are Safe (Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Ground Water Hydrology)

Plastic Bags
Barack Obama caught with plastic bags (InTheFray Magazine)
Plastic Bag Fears Based on Misquoted Study (Bonner R. Cohen Ph.D.)
Plastic bag threat to sea life 'exaggerated' (News.com.au)
Plastic Bags Evil? Think Again, Some Scientists Say (FOX News)
Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain (The Times, UK)
The whole truth about plastic bags (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Top 10 Myths About Plastic Grocery Bags (PDF) (Progressive Bag Alliance)

Combustion Of Waste May Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Science Daily)


Renewable Energy:

"It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it." - Robert Bryce, Managing Editor, Energy Tribune

A quick guide to alternative energy (Reason)
Let's Get Real About Renewable Energy (The Wall Street Journal)
Renewables Aren't the Answer (Robert J. Michaels, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)

Climate change experts 'lose faith' in renewable technology (The Guardian, UK)
Consumers start feeling higher costs of clean fuel (USA Today)
Cost Works Against Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources in Time of Recession (The New York Times)
Greens versus Energy (George Reisman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics)
Renewable energy projects will devour huge amounts of land, warns researcher (The Guardian, UK)
Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment (Rockefeller University)
The Case against Government Support for Alternative Energy (Cato Institute)
The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption in the Nation’s Energy Supply (U.S. Energy Information Administration)



Alternative Energy in the Dock (PDF) (Cato Institute)
Neither Renewable Nor Reliable (PDF) (Regulation)
Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not "Green" (Robert L. Bradley, Jr. Ph.D. Political Economy, CEO Institute for Energy Research)
The Case against Government Intervention in Energy Markets (PDF) (Richard L. Gordon, Ph.D. Economics, MIT)


Solar:

- Solar Power is the most expensive way to generate electricity (the levelized cost of a kilowatt hour is 35-50 cents for solar unsubsidized) (Source)
- Commonly Available Solar Panels Are Only 12% Efficient (Source)

Cloudy Outlook For Solar Panels: Costs Substantially Eclipse Benefits (University of California, Berkeley)
Expert Foresees 10 More Years Of Research & Development To Make Solar Energy Competitive (American Chemical Society)

110 Years to Pay for Those Denver Solar Panels? (Reason)
Obama's Solar Dreaming: Power at 7x the Cost (Reason)
Solar energy's darker side stirs concern (The Los Angeles Times)
Solar panels 'take 100 years to pay back installation costs' (The Independent, UK)
Solar Power: Not the Brightest Idea (The New American)
Solar Power Problems Part 1 - Solar Power Presents Many Hurdles to Consumers (The Heartland Institute)
Solar Power Problems Part 2 - Home Solar Power Fails Due to Practical Difficulties (The Heartland Institute)
Solar Power Problems Part 3 - Inefficiencies Deter Widespread Use of Solar Power (The Heartland Institute)
Solar-Powered Welfare (Cato Institute)
The False Promises of Solar Energy (Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
The Problems With Solar Power (Worcester Business Journal)

Solar Meets Polar as Winter Curbs Clean Energy (The New York Times)

Closure of solar plant casts cloud over industry (The Sydney Morning Herald)
JA Solar cuts forecast, sees solar "panic" (Reuters)


SUVs:

"Millions of Americans purchase sport-utility vehicles because they find their utility of value. These vehicles are purchased not by witless, conspicuous-consumption status slaves but rather, for the most part, by rational adults."
- Brock Yates, Car and Driver

- Since the mid-1970s, the fuel economy of SUVs and light trucks has improved by nearly 60%. (Source)
- Today’s SUVs are 50% more efficient than cars were a generation ago. (Source)
- The emissions from a new midsize SUV are cleaner than those of the average passenger car built just three years ago. (Source)
- All the cars and light trucks in the U.S. make up only about 2% of all man-made greenhouse gases worldwide. (Source)

[url=http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv24n1/coate.pdf]The Truth About
Light Trucks[/url] (PDF) (Regulation, 2001)


Water Powered Car:

The great "run your car on water" scam (Aardvark Daily)
The Truth About Water-Powered Cars (Popular Mechanics)

Stanley Meyers:
Debunking Stanley Meyer's claims (Aardvark Daily)
No free lunch (David Brynn Hibbert, Ph.D. Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia)
The car that ran on water (The Columbus Dispatch)


Wind:



- Wind Power is Expensive (Energy Tribune)
- Wind Power is Unreliable (Reuters)
- Wind Power represents only 0.3% of all energy consumed in the United States (EIA)
- Wind Farms are Eyesores (Daily Mail, UK)
- Wind Farms affect Weather Patterns (The New York Times)
- Wind Farms interfere with Radar (BBC)
- Wind Farms produce Noise Pollution (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
- Wind Farms Kill Bats (University of Calgary)
- Wind Farms Kill Birds (USA Today)
- Wind Turbines are Dangerous (The New York Times)
- Wind Turbines shut off in low (-8 mph) and high (+50 mph) winds (GE)

Obama’s Stumble: Wind Power (Energy Tribune)
Windmills for Suckers (PDF) (Executive Intelligence Review)
Why Windmills Can’t Fly: The Non-Science of Wind Energy (PDF) (21st Century Science and Technology)
Wind Power Exposed: The Renewable Energy Source is Expensive, Unreliable and Won’t Save Natural Gas (Energy Tribune)

Loss of Wind Causes Texas Power Grid Emergency (Reuters)
Texas Wind Power: The Numbers Versus the Hype (Energy Tribune)
When the wind doesn't blow (BBC)
Wind energy supply dips during cold snap (The Daily Telegraph, UK)

Out of Control - Wind Power Insanity in the UK (Video) (9min)

Energy Answer is Not 'Blowing in the Wind' (The Heartland Institute)
Homeowners living near windfarms see property values plummet (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Hot Air and Wind (Cato Institute)
Gordon Brown puffs the great wind scam (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Greenpeace Opposes Wind Farm Plan (BBC)
More Failures of Wind Energy (Hawaii Reporter)
Overblown: The Real Cost of Wind Power (Energy Tribune)
Poverty fears over wind power (BBC)
Problems With Wind Power (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Report blows hole in wind power plan (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Switch to windpower could add £6 billion a year to fuel bills (The Times, UK)
The True Cost of Electricity from Wind Power And Windmill "Availability" Factors (Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Urban wind turbines 'may be waste of time' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
US gets ready to blow its economy away (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
When the wind stops - the other side of the wind turbine argument (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Energy: Unreliable, Heavily Subsidized (Hawaii Reporter)
Wind Energy Will Not Reduce US Oil Dependence (Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind Farm Claims Are So Much Hot Air (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Farms: Blowing money on a fantasy (Daily Mail, UK)
Wind Farms fail to deliver value for money, report claims (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Farms, hot air and spin (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Farms may not be the answer (The Times, UK)
Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests (The New York Times)
Wind Farms may pose risk to shipping (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Farms: One of the great deceptions of our time (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Jammers (The Wall Street Journal)
Wind Power: Economic insanity of the Government's renewable energy strategy (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Power: Red Not Green (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Wind power targets unrealistic, say critics (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Power will push up household electricity bills (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Turbines are 'unreliable and will cost each home £4,000' claims think-tank (Daily Mail, UK)
Windmills: Bigger waste than eHealth (National Post, Canada)
Why wind turbines could cause mid-winter black-outs (Daily Mail, UK)
Why Wind Won't Work (Executive Intelligence Review)

Bats:
Researchers Alarmed by Bat Deaths From Wind Turbines (The Washington Post)
Study shows hundreds of dead birds, bats at wind turbines (International Herald Tribune)
Why Wind Turbines Can Mean Death For Bats (Science Daily)

Birds:
Altamont Pass Settlement Fails to Reduce Bird Kills (The Heartland Institute)
Coastal wind farm would destroy bird haven say protesters (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Eagles Killed By Wind Farm Blades (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Enviro Group Sues Wind Farm to Stop Bird Deaths (The Heartland Institute)
Rare Bird Killed By Wide Turbine (BBC)
Sea Eagles Being Killed by Wind Turbines (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Turbine Expansion Said to Threaten Birds (FOX News)
Wind Farm 'Hits Eagle Numbers' (BBC)
Wind Farms May Threaten Whooping Cranes (Associated Press)
Wind Farm Threat to Bird Species (BBC)
Wind Turbines Hazardous to Birds, Bats (UPI)
Wind Turbines Taking Toll on Birds of Prey (USA Today)
Windmills slaughter endangered birds (The Modesto Bee)

Denmark:
Wind power is a complete disaster (Financial Post, Canada)

"Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."

The myth of the Danish green energy 'miracle' (National Post, Canada)
Wind Energy: The Case for Denmark (PDF) (CEPOS)
Wind Lobby All Spun Up about Danish Case Study (IER)

Environmental:
Catch the Wind, Change the Weather (The New York Times)
Offshore wind power could alter ocean currents (MSNBC)

Eyesore:
Blow Back Over 'Eyesore' Wind Farms (ABC News)
The shocking picture that shows how a wind farm has disfigured one of Britain's loveliest landscapes (Daily Mail, UK)
Wind Farm? Not Off My Back Porch (ABC News)
Wind Farms Worst Eyesore in UK (BBC)

Noise:
Are wind farm turbines making people sick? Some say yes (The Kansas City Star)
Family says wind farm noise made them sick (Fort Frances Times Online)
Flicker noise from turbines a worry for Montreathmont plans (Brechin Advertiser, UK)
Reports of wind farm health problems growing (CTV)
Wind Farm Noise 'Harms Health' (Yorkshire Post, UK)
Wind Farms 'Make People Sick Who Live Up to A Mile Away' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind turbine noise suspected of killing 400 goats (Reuters)
Wind Turbine Syndrome (Nina Pierpont, Ph.D. Population Biology, M.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Wind turbines 'are ruining our quality of life' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind Turbines Could Be Making Some People Sick in Japan (TreeHugger)

Radar:
Wind Farm Blow to Radar Systems (BBC)
Wind Farm Fears For Ships' Radar (BBC)
Wind Farms 'A Threat to National Security' (The Times, UK)
Wind Farms Disrupt Radar Images (BBC)
Wind Farms 'Grounded By Air Safety Fears' (The Times, UK)
Wind Farms Threat to MoD Radar (The Press Association)
Windmill Projects Stilled For Now (USA Today)

Unsafe:
The Dangers of Wind Power (The New York Times)
Danish Wind Turbine Rips Itself Apart (Video Close-up )
Danish Wind Turbine Rips Itself Apart (Video Wide-angle)
- Danish Climate Minister Demands Explanation for Violent Wind Turbine Collapse (The Jutland Post, Denmark)

242-foot Wind Turbine Snaps in Half, Killing a Worker at Top, Oregon (The Oregonian)
Big Chunk of Turbine Blade Shears Off (West Morning News, UK)
Blazing Turbine Falls Into Field, UK (BBC)
Danger Claim As Turbine Blade Snaps Off, UK (Berwickshire News)
Fire Damages Wind Turbine Near Garner, Iowa (Globe Gazette)
Ice shards rain down from turbine (BBC)
Man Dies After 100ft Turbine Fall, UK (BBC)
Spinning to destruction (The Guardian)
Two Giant Vestas Wind Turbines Collapse, UK (off-grid)
Unexpected Shrapnel From A Wind Turbine, UK (Habitat21)
Wind Farm Fears As Blade Snaps, UK (The Times, UK)
Wind Farm Fire Caused Blackout, Australia (NEWS.com.au)
Wind Turbine Catches Fire: Mount Storm, West Virginia (West Virginia Firefighters)
Wind Turbine Falls Near Weatherford, Oklahoma (The Oklahoman)
Wind Turbine on Fire, California (Video)
Wind Turbine on Fire (Video)

Reports:
The Cost of Generating Electricity (PDF) (The Royal Academy of Engineering)

Videos:
Lackawanna NY Wind Turbine Gear Failure (Video) (2min)
Living Next Door to a Wind Farm, Australia[/b] (Video) (10min)
Wind Farms - Not In My Back Yard (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)

New Jersey:

- 51% Nuclear, 29% Natural Gas, 16% Coal, 1.3% Renewables and 0.7% Petroleum (EIA)

- The Atlantic City Wind Farm received a $1.7 Million tax payer funded grant from the NJ BPU (Source)

NJ Wind FAQ

Q. Why should I pay extra?
A. Wind energy costs more to produce than conventional energy.

Q. Will my current electricity bill be affected by my New Jersey Wind purchase?
A. Yes, by signing up for this product, your electric bill will increase.


United States of America:

U.S. Energy Consumption vs. Real GDP (IER)
U.S. Energy Consumption by Source (IER)
U.S. Energy Consumption by Sector (IER)

Websites:

American Energy Alliance
Energy Tribune
Institute For Energy Research
MasterResource
The Wall Street Journal: Energy