Vada Energy blog

This weekend while I was sitting around and watching the news on television, I witnessed a few heated debates going on about the idea of raising the taxes on gasoline. This reminded me of a similar article that was previously written here on TheEnergyState.com in which one of our readers expressed their opinions on what [...]

How is clean energy technology faring amid the countervailing forces of Obama stimulus and economic meltdown? Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, my colleagues at Clean Edge, and I have just issued the 2009 report on clean energy trends — our seventh annual — and you won’t be surprised to learn that there’s both good news [...]

The average price of a gallon of gas has jumped about 17 cents in the past month. The main factor in the price hike is a cut in refiners’ supply.

The price of oil this morning is $72 a barrel — half of what it was three months ago. Ashley Milne-Tyte looks into some factors influencing oil markets, including the disappearance of some speculators.Scott Jagow: No price is dropping faster than oil. Consider this: In July, the price of oil was $147 a barrel. This [...]