You know you have seen the ads on TV and in print for BP-Beyond Petroleum. It’s a catchy name, for sure, but it’s not really want it means. It actually means British Petroleum, as that’s what they are – an oil company. In fact, they are the third largest one! I have often [...]
Dear EarthTalk: If you have an electric or plug-in hybrid car, you’re paying for electricity rather than gasoline all or most of the time. How does that cost compare to a gas-powered car’s cost-per-mile? And since the electricity may be generated from some other polluting source, does it really work out to be better for [...]
Let me state for the record that I have been against the development of biofuels for a long time. I think it is just the taking of one kind of burning fuel and replacing it with another, and in the mean time nothing changes. We are still extracting something from the earth, lighting [...]
