{"id":169741,"date":"2010-01-12T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2010\/01\/12\/green-ink-shallow-gas-electric-cars-and-the-future-of-yucca-mountain\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:25:02","slug":"green-ink-shallow-gas-electric-cars-and-the-future-of-yucca-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/169741","title":{"rendered":"Green Ink: Shallow Gas, Electric Cars, and the Future of Yucca Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/it_welcome-mat-paper10042004145302.gif\" alt=\"paper\" \/ align=\"left\"\/>Crude oil futures fell toward $81 a barrel amid forecasts of warmer weather in the U.S., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601207&#038;sid=aGGght465.IE\">Bloomberg reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704081704574652873360651140.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_markets\">Chevron warns<\/a> on fourth-quarter earnings due to a weak refining environment that couldn\u0092t offset higher oil prices, in the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>Natural gas finds a new, shallow-water frontier: McMoRan\u0092s potentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/energy\/6810361.html\">huge shallow-water find<\/a> in the Gulf of Mexico raises hopes of abundant, low-cost supplies, in the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>More scorecards on President Obama\u0092s first year in office. Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress figures the president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-11-obama-seizes-the-energy-opportunity\/\">went 10-for-10<\/a> on the think thank\u0092s clean-energy prescriptions, at Grist.<\/p>\n<p>California is studying ways to return money from climate-change plans <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126325739326825569.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_news\">to consumers<\/a>, through rebates or tax cuts elsewhere, in the WSJ. California\u0092s approach represents another way of <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/greenspace\/2010\/01\/cap-and-trade-california.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29\">buying support<\/a> for oft-controversial climate plans, in Greenspace.<\/p>\n<p>Electric cars stole the show at the opening of the Detroit Auto Show, even if they and their hybrid cousins are still terribly niche. GM warns of teething pains, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/automobiles\/autoshow\/12electric.html?ref=business\">in the NYT<\/a>:\u0094\u0092It\u0092s going to take us three generations of range-extended electric vehicles to get any anywhere near reasonable costs,\u0092 said Thomas Stephens, G.M.\u0092s vice chairman for product development.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>GM\u0092s Bob Lutz also warns that first-generation batteries will be <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703652104574652510848223526.html\">very fickle things<\/a>, especially in winter, in the WSJ. More on all the new models <a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2010\/01\/11\/detroit-auto-show-day-1-plug-ins-hybrids-protesters-oh-my\/\">at Earth2Tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela\u0092s teetering economy could take another hit from power shortages, brought about as low rainfall cripples key hydroelectric plants. Who\u0092s to blame\u0097El Nino or La Corrupcion?, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/c3088c34-feda-11de-a677-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1\">in the FT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u0092s official\u0097China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iUix-FRiXbLQhdojlrIlvefqaHzA\">scraps the restriction<\/a> on foreign parts in turbines used for wind farms, potentially opening up the world\u0092s fastest-growing market to more foreign investment, in AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, what ever happened to that blue-ribbon panel meant to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2010\/01\/11\/11greenwire-yucca-haunts-admins-lagging-efforts-on-nuclear-24943.html\">an answer to Yucca Mountain<\/a>? It has yet to be formed, leaving the nuclear industry to struggle still with the waste question, in Greenwire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/c6hf-Jec6S0bJqi3ZCZ7Pg9ckxU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/c6hf-Jec6S0bJqi3ZCZ7Pg9ckxU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/c6hf-Jec6S0bJqi3ZCZ7Pg9ckxU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/c6hf-Jec6S0bJqi3ZCZ7Pg9ckxU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?a=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?a=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?i=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?a=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?i=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?a=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?i=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?a=gQl6XR0eBGI:OYYmXrf4v6w:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/environmentalcapital\/feed\/~4\/gQl6XR0eBGI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil futures fell toward $81 a barrel amid forecasts of warmer weather in the U.S., Bloomberg reports. Chevron warns on fourth-quarter earnings due to a weak refining environment that couldn\u0092t offset higher oil prices, in the WSJ. Natural gas finds a new, shallow-water frontier: McMoRan\u0092s potentially huge shallow-water find in the Gulf of Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}