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"Freedom Fuels was created with the goal of educating as many people as possible on the obstacles created by the petroleum industry for developing cheaper, more energy efficient fuels, " said Martin O'Brien, director of Freedom Fuels. " quality video targeted toward a global community of engaged fans."

IRAQ: Oil workers Defend Public Ownership: .. The US-led invasion of Iraq had as its central aim the installation of a pro-US Iraqi regime that would give international legitimacy to the takeover of Iraq's ...

Oil Industry Unions Join in Nigeria's Strike: .. by Carrie Giardino Two major oil industry labor unions have joined a general strike in Nigeria to protest rising fuel prices.If you would like to receive late breaking news on stocks covered by ...

Sierra Club To Run Ads Thanking Senators For Protecting Arctic Refuge: .. Washington, DC: The Sierra Club tomorrow will launch radio ads in seven states, thanking Senators who voted to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling and urging them to ...

IRAQ: USAID Provides Adviser to Iraq Government on Oil Law: .. LONDON -- U.S. aid agency USAID is providing an adviser to the Iraqi government, through consultancy BearingPoint Inc. (BE), to help draft a critical petroleum law, a spokesman ...

Offshore Oil Rig Jobs and Employment: .. If you are interested in entering the oil industry then you need to be sure you have got what it takes to apply for these positions. There are a few aspects that need to be taken into consideration ...

USA: Chevron-Texaco Merger Criticized: .. Chevron has just agreed to acquire Texaco for $36 billion. This follows the BP-Amoco and Exxon-Mobil mergers. The following analysts are available for comments: WENONAH HAUTER, ...

Energy Companies Weigh Their Possible Future In Iraq: .. Though Iraq's future is hazy, energy companies have begun to weigh the roles they might play in the revival of the country's huge but dilapidated oil industry. According to a report by Deutsche ...

Big Oil Pushing For Way To Keep Us Dependent: .. It is disappointing to see that in this new millennium, when people are increasingly more health conscious and environmentally aware, the big oil industry continues to push policies that keep us ...

World Oil Prices Ease After Hitting Record Highs: .. by voanews World oil prices eased below $55 a barrel in Monday's trading after Norway's government took steps to solve a labor dispute in that nation's oil industry.If you would like to receive ...

USA: Time to Cap Big Oil's Profit Gusher: .. The startling concentration of economic power that has resulted from the U.S. merger wave of the last several years is going to require new levels of government intervention in the ...

Securing Oil Fields Essential To Shaping Post-Saddam Iraq: .. If getting Saddam Hussein is the top priority in a war with Iraq, protecting the country's oil fields is not far behind. A U.S. task force is conferring with energy experts, industry executives ...

Industry Opposes Fuel Goal: .. An oil industry group is urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reject a state agency's recommendation to cut gasoline and diesel use 15% by 2020. The California Energy Commission, citing ...

China's Oil Imports from Sudan Draw Controversy: .. By Stephanie Ho Oil industry experts say they believe China is in a quandary about recent international criticism of Sudan over the crisis in Darfur. Visit our AXcess News Forum and add your ...

Sierra Club Praises Senators Corzine and Torricelli for Protecting Arctic Refuge: .. PRINCETON The New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club praised Senators Corzine and Toricelli for providing a big victory to Americans and the environment by rejecting a proposal to drill for oil ...

US: Democrats Say White House again Cozy with Big Oil: .. WASHINGTON Democrats said Wednesday that the resignation of a former official on the White House Council on Environmental Quality to join ...

Senate Scores Great Victory By Protecting Arctic Refuge: .. Washington, D.C. -- In a big victory for America's environment, 54 Senators today rejected a proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Senate Democratic leadership ...

Big Oil Steps Aside In Battle Over Arctic: .. George W. Bush first proposed drilling for oil in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2000, after oil industry experts helped his presidential campaign develop an ...

Will No Site Be Off-Limits?: .. Last Wednesday, 51 U.S. senators started the clock ticking for the devastation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But they also started the clock ticking for every other special place that ...

Venezuela: The Fight to Regain Position in Oil Market: .. CARACAS-- Venezuela's state oil monopoly, PDVSA, one of the biggest companies in the Southern Hemisphere, is facing the challenge of holding onto its status as one of the world's leading oil ...

Analysis: MTBE Mess Bogs Down Energy Bill: .. For many Americans and their lawyers nothing says "deep pockets" like "big oil," which is why a furious war of words over the gasoline additive MTBE is being waged in Washington in the final ...

Ethanol Was Knocked Out By Liability Over MTBE: .. Midwest corn and soybean farmers have lost again to the oil industry and its money and power in the nation's capital. An energy bill that would have required doubling the use of grain-based ...

IRAQ: The U.S. Had Secret Plans for Oil: .. The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed. ...

Offshore Oil Pollution Comes Mostly As Runoff, Study Says: .. Most oil pollution in North American coastal waters comes not from leaking tankers or oil rigs, but rather from countless oil-streaked streets, sputtering lawn mowers and other dispersed sources ...

GAO Report Faults Alaska Oil Cleanup Plans: .. Cleaning up the massive web of roads, drilling pads, production facilities and pipelines on Alaska's North Slope could cost $2.7 billion to $6 billion, but oil companies have put up only a ...

Powell Says US Not After Iraqi Oil: .. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell insisted Wednesday that the United States has no plans to claim Iraq's oil fields or use its petroleum revenue to recoup the cost of a possible war. Powell, ...

Don't Drill In The Arctic: .. Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas exploration and development continues to be one of the top priorities of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the oil ...

NIGERIA: Shell told to pay $1.5 bln damages: .. A Nigerian court said on Friday Royal Dutch Shell should pay $1.5 billion (861 billion pounds) in damages for pollution in oil-producing Bayelsa state, the latest instalment in a long-running ...

U.S.: Lawmakers Eager to Grill Oil Executives: .. Oil industry executives summoned to Capitol Hill are expected to receive a grilling Wednesday perhaps unlike any they have faced before over their record profits at a time of high oil ...

Oil Security Chief Killed in Kirkuk Ambush: .. By Alisha Ryu In a further blow to Iraq's efforts to revitalize its oil industry, gunmen ambushed and killed the security chief for a state-run oil company in Kirkuk Wednesday.Visit our AXcess ...

Statement of Carl Pope Regarding Court Ruling $5B Exxon Valdez Award Excessive: .. SAN FRANCISCO- The United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned today a $5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corporation in the worst oil spill in U.S. ...

Arctic Drilling Vote Expected This Week!: .. After an Easter recess, the Senate gets back to work this week. Topping the Senate agenda will be continuing debate of the Energy Bill (S.517). We anticipate an amendment to open the coastal ...

Canadian Dollar Hits 28-year High, Ontario's McGuinty Frets: .. By Peter Shout (SP) Toronto - The Canadian dollar rose to 90 cents against the US dollar Tuesday, reaching a 28-year high for the Loonie and increasing the buying power for the ...

Russia Delays Any Decision On Oil Cuts: .. Russia surprised world oil markets today by rebuffing OPEC's demands to cut oil output for 2002, postponing a decision until next month. In the meantime, Russian oil executives offered to trim ...

Critics Call FTC Report on Price Gouging Too Limited: .. By Staff (AXcess News) Washington - Consumer groups voiced criticism of a Federal Trade Commission report released today on oil industry price gouging as too limited and called on ...

Alaskans Pin Hopes On Drilling in Refuge: .. It's tax day for most Americans, but here in Alaska, nobody is writing a check to the state. There is no state income tax. To the contrary, Alaska sent a $1,850.28 check in October to every man, ...

Carol Browner: Polluters Should Have To Pay: .. In 1980, after Love Canal entered the public's consciousness, Congress made an important commitment to Americans who found themselves living on toxic dump sites, exposed to deadly carcinogens ...

USA: City Sues Big Oil for Millions Over Polluted Drinking Water: .. SANTA MONICA -- The California beach city of Santa Monica is suing 18 oil companies for damages that could exceed $200 million, claiming that the firms polluted drinking water wells with the ...

Governor To Offer Leases Off ANWR: .. Environmentalists and the U.S. Senate have kept the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge closed to drilling, so Alaska is inviting the oil industry into the sea, Gov. Frank Murkowski announced ...

Iraq Is A Strategic Issue For Oil Giants, Too: .. Even though Iraq has the world's second-largest oil reserves, after Saudi Arabia, oil companies do not expect to reap the benefits quickly if Saddam Hussein is ousted. Those companies, of ...

A Popular Idea: Give Oil Money To The People Rather Than The Despots: .. Few Iraqis have heard of the "resource curse," the scholarly term for the economic and political miseries of countries with abundant natural resources. But in Tayeran Square, where hundreds of ...

Mixed Verdict Offered On Alaska Oil Drilling: .. The National Academies of Science and Engineering yesterday delivered a mixed verdict on the cumulative effects of oil and gas exploration on Alaska's North Slope, crediting the oil industry and ...

Iraq: US begins secret talks to secure Iraq's oilfields for fear that wells will be torched if regim: .. The US military has drawn up detailed plans to secure and protect Iraq's oilfields to prevent a repeat of 1991 when President Saddam set Kuwait's wells ablaze. The US state department and ...

Coal, mainly in power stations, covers about one quarter of our energy needs, but its use has declined since we have used more oil. Coal is the least efficient, unhealthiest and most environmentally damaging fossil fuel. New, there is probably about five times as much coal as oil. Oil Petroleum (derived from oil) provides around 40% of the world’s energy needs, mainly for cars. The US consumes around a quarter of all oil and generates a similar proportion of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Despite mineral oil's association with petroleum and the hype that it is bad for skin, keep in mind that petroleum is a natural ingredient derived from the earth and that once it becomes mineral oil, it has no resemblance to the original petroleum. grade mineral oil and petrolatum are considered the safest, most nonirritating moisturizing ingredients ever found ( Cosmetics & Toiletries, January 2001, page 79; and Cosmetic Dermatology, September 2000, pages 44 6).

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Regarding the Feb. 5 article, "Kicking into hydrogen gear'': I have known about the use of alternative fuels for some time now, cell technology and the status of their development from the article. Cars can be built to run off just about anything, but the greedy oil industry is willing to sacrifice our planet' being to fill its already bulging pockets.

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