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NEWS ABOUT: Energy crisis

Energy crisis stories: 7 news summaries

 Greenies Dim 
 Bright Lights 
 in Big City 

Big city's bright lights must dim, many say

Nov 2, 08 12:54 PM CST
(Newser) - A dimmer switch looms over Manhattan's bright nighttime skyline, as concerns over conservation and energy costs have prompted skyscraper owners to abandon the practice of blazing all lights at all hours. New York scores a 9 out of 9 on a light pollution scale, and legislators are considering official incentives... More »

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conservation • New York City • electricity • Energy crisis • skyline • light pollution

OPINION

Pickens' 'Energy Plan' Lacking
in Actual Detail

Talk may be cheap, but oilman spending $58M to push empty rhetoric

Aug 6, 08 11:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - T. Boone Pickens has plenty of ideas about making the US less dependent on oil, and he has plenty of reasons why. But broad generalizations about using wind power to generate electricity and natural gas to power cars doesn’t offer enough “how-to-get-it-done” detail to make it an actual... More »

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Persian Gulf • natural gas • Energy crisis • T. Boone Pickens • foreign oil

 Obama: Time
 to Tap Oil
 Reserves 

Democrat flips policy position, cites crisis

Aug 4, 08 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama called for a release of some of the strategic petroleum reserve today, dubbing the current energy crisis “one of the most dangerous and urgent threats this nation has ever faced.” Campaigning in Michigan, Obama outlined his energy plan, which he says will create 5 million “... More »

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Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • gas prices • Energy crisis • strategic petroleum reserve

OPINION

Bush is Botching $4.11,
Just Like He Did 9/11

Drilling will only worsen America's addiction

Jul 20, 08 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - If a "crisis is a terrible thing to waste," then George Bush's reactions to 9/11 and the $4.11 average gas cost make him a doubly terrible leader, writes Tom Friedman in the New York Times. Instead of using rising gas costs to spur the nation to energy... More »

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addiction • Thomas Friedman • Energy crisis • foreign oil • oil drilling • George W. Bush • offshore oil

 Fuel Crisis a Boon 
 for Rickshaw 
 Business 

Banned in some areas, the throwback vehicle attempts a comeback

Jun 28, 08 5:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - New Delhi had fallen out of love with rickshaws. Here, as in many modernizing Asian capitals, the bicycle-drawn cabs are seen as embarrassing, street-clogging third-world throwbacks. They’ve even been banned from the city’s older, walled section—but with gas at $7 a gallon, rickshaw peddlers are touting their... More »

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environment • India • South Asia • Energy crisis • rickshaw

Future Sunny for Solar Power

Tech leap will enable replacement of fossil fuels in 20 years: panel

Feb 20, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Don’t sweat the energy crisis, say scientist Ray Kurzweil and Google co-founder Larry Page, who predict that within 20 years we’ll be getting 100% of our energy from the sun, based on current solar technology and growth trends. Kurzweil’s fortune-telling record is pretty good: He foresaw the... More »

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Google • Larry Page • solar power • solar cells • predicting the future • solar panel • Energy crisis • Ray Kurzweil

$100 a Barrel Oil Triggers Crisis

New energy shock caused by runaway demand

Nov 9, 07 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - The planet is headed for the third major energy crisis in a generation, but this one may be more serious and last longer than the others, the Times reports. Energy crises in the '70s and '80s were triggered by interruptions in supply from the Middle East. This time around, the... More »

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China • India • solar energy • oil price • Energy crisis • Royal Dutch Shell • $100 a barrel oil • oil crisis

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