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News from the growing edge of the renewable energy revolution and commentary on the war between big oil and clean energy technology. Primary Format : Environment Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Phoenix State/Province : AZ User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Bill Baer Podcasts Methings.com listings of Bill Baer Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Exxon Stops Drilling After posting the largest corporate profit in the recorded history of mankind, Exxon has decided to halt drilling and development of existing oil leases - despite Sarah Palin's campaign to the contrary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website General Motors Kills 2 Electric Cars The car company that sued California rather than produce a zero-emission vehicle now find itself in the cross-hairs of President Obama and just 60 days from bankruptcy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of the Red and Into the Green What the world needs now is an energy tech revolution that will not only green our grids but grow our shriveled manufacturing base, which means new jobs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clean Coal Stays in Obama's Stimulus Package Despite an environmentally-friendly administration, clean coal got 3.4 billion dollars in the US 2009 stimulus bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oil Prices Down, Gas Prices Up Guess Exxon-Mobile doesn’t want a world recession to interfere with windfall profits for 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese Electrics Beat the U.S. With Chevrolet’s decision to power their hybrid electric car with batteries made in China, the globe’s greatest polluter may also become the world leader in zero-emission cars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Really Behind That Changing Price of Gasoline? The same investment bank that got billions in bailout money also used commodity trader techniques from Enron to hyper-inflate the price of oil last summer when supply was high and demand was actually diminishing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clean Coal: The New Weapon of Mass Delusion? You heard McCain talk about it, you heard Obama support it in the presidential campaign as well. Let’s be clear. There is no tested technology existing today to produce "clean coal". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Petrol Cheaper Than Ethanol? The corn-sourced distilled ethanol that is mixed with gasoline is now more expensive than plain old gasoline. Gasoline blenders have always used more ethanol than required because it was cheaper than gasoline. Not any more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are you driving 75% less? If not, then why is gasoline so cheap? Unless the world is using 75% less petroleum, it appears that the sky rocket in prices this summer was driven purely by speculation in the energy stock markets. If that’s so, what is the real cost of oil? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should US Tax Payers Bailout the Electric Car Killer? While the US Treasury and Congress debate whether to save the Big 3 carmakers, some wonder whether GM, the Detroit auto giant that killed their electric car 10 years ago, should be given a second chance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Company That Killed the Electric Car Brings It Back General Motors, after having re-introduced the electric car as the E-V1 then sending every one of those cars to the crusher, is now pretending it never happened. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloated Oil Prices Mysteriously Plummet The per barrel cost of oil has plummeted 50% from $140 per barrel to under $70 a barrel in less than 4 months; shocking consumers and oil producers alike. In a recent emergency meeting, OPEC ministers admitted that there really is no relation between demand and prices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloated Oil Prices Mysteriously Plummet The per barrel cost of oil has plummeted 50% from $140 per barrel to under $70 a barrel in less than 4 months; shocking consumers and oil producers alike. In a recent emergency meeting, OPEC ministers admitted that there really is no relation between demand and prices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Global Warming Dead? Many Republicans who already thought carbon cap and trade regulation was bad for the economy, now say that with the growing global economic crisis, American energy companies cannot afford to be green. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Global Warming Dead? Many Republicans who already thought carbon cap and trade regulation was bad for the economy, now say that with the growing global economic crisis, American energy companies cannot afford to be green. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Waves in California California's largest utility company PG&E has committed to the development of an ocean wave power plant off the shores of Humboldt County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Waves in California California's largest utility company PG&E has committed to the development of an ocean wave power plant off the shores of Humboldt County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hey, T. Boone, the WindWing is here While oilman T. Boone Pickens installs thousands of turbines on his massive wind farm in Texas, a small California company is unveiling an invention that may revolutionize wind power production. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Net-Zero in Santa Fe Santa Fe is emerging as the national leader in green building standards, in large part with the help of Santa Fe homebuilder Faren Dancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy Legislation at Last? Despite many efforts to pass an energy package, Congress adjourned for summer recess gridlocked and empty-handed. Partisan compromise is essential if we will ever see any real energy legislation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hey, T. Boone, the WindWing is here While oilman T. Boone Pickens installs thousands of turbines on his massive wind farm in Texas, a small California company is unveiling an invention that may revolutionize wind power production. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Net-Zero in Santa Fe Santa Fe is emerging as the national leader in green building standards, in large part with the help of Santa Fe homebuilder Faren Dancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy Legislation at Last? Despite many efforts to pass an energy package, Congress adjourned for summer recess gridlocked and empty-handed. Partisan compromise is essential if we will ever see any real energy legislation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Countdown to Energy Reform Join us in our weekly call to action as we contact our vacationing Senators every week until they reconvene in September. This week: send a letter to Senators Obama and McCain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Green Algae Help Save the World? Several US companies are harvesting an algae that can be converted to oil and refined into biodiesel. Amazingly, the algae can grow in waste water, where it feeds on carbon dioxide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Green Algae Help Save the World? Several US companies are harvesting an algae that can be converted to oil and refined into biodiesel. Amazingly, the algae can grow in waste water, where it feeds on carbon dioxide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning Oil Fields into Wind Farms An unlikely Texas oilman – none other than the legendary T. Boone Pickens -- has announced plans to build the biggest wind farm in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning Oil Fields into Wind Farms An unlikely Texas oilman – none other than the legendary T. Boone Pickens -- has announced plans to build the biggest wind farm in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Greening of Google The Google guys are making good on promises to invest millions of dollars in renewable energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Greening of Google The Google guys are making good on promises to invest millions of dollars in renewable energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Driving on Air India's largest automaker has just unveiled a zero-emission air-powered car, affectionately called the CityCAT. This impressive car is powered entirely from compressed air, and can reach speeds of 68 mph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Driving on Air India's largest automaker has just unveiled a zero-emission air-powered car, affectionately called the CityCAT. This impressive car is powered entirely from compressed air, and can reach speeds of 68 mph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tax Credit Tango The senate last week blocked a vote on the extension of renewable energy tax credits, which expire December 31. If Congress fails to extend the credits, most of theses renewable power projects are in danger of being abandoned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tax Credit Tango The senate last week blocked a vote on the extension of renewable energy tax credits, which expire December 31. If Congress fails to extend the credits, most of theses renewable power projects are in danger of being abandoned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Arizona Desert Goes Green In early 2009, a Spanish solar power company will break ground outside the little town of Gila Bend, southwest of Phoenix, to build what will be the world's largest solar power plant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Arizona Desert Goes Green In early 2009, a Spanish solar power company will break ground outside the little town of Gila Bend, southwest of Phoenix, to build what will be the world's largest solar power plant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why is Exxon in my Inbox? Wouldn’t the millions & millions of advertising dollars ExxonMobil spends greeting me at my Yahoo inbox be better spent on renewable fuel research? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why is Exxon in my Inbox? Wouldn’t the millions & millions of advertising dollars ExxonMobil spends greeting me at my Yahoo inbox be better spent on renewable fuel research? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Killed the Electric car? What is the problem America has with electric locomotion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Killed the Electric car? What is the problem America has with electric locomotion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Own an Oil Company? The American Petroleum Institute lobby would have us believe that it's the average American who gets hurt when oil is taxed or regulated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Own an Oil Company? The American Petroleum Institute lobby would have us believe that it's the average American who gets hurt when oil is taxed or regulated. 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