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HOUSTON -- Something's got to give. Americans use electricity for everything from computers to can openers, and the country's voracious appetite for energy shows no signs of being sated.
Yet the American power industry is plagued with a trifecta of problems -- from high natural gas prices to a balkanized transmission grid and those problematic carbon dioxide emissions.
No clear-cu...
The Friends of Mead Public Library will offer special low prices on used books, magazines and related items on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The sale will be held at the Bookstore on the first floor of Mead Public Library. The Friends sell used books — those discarded by the library and also donated items — on an ongoing basis during regular library hours.
Proceeds benefi...
An international economic organisation says there is no threat of crash in the Irish housing market.
The OECD is to deliver a very positive report on the state of the Irish economy in the coming weeks.
The Paris-based think-tank says the housing market in Ireland is not a bubble waiting to burst. In fact, it expects house prices to increase by up to 8% a year for the next two years....
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- U.S. President George W. Bush's desire to cut U.S. dependence on Mideast oil shows a "misunderstanding" of global energy supply and the critical role of Saudi Arabia, the vice chairman of Chevron Corp. said.
Peter Robertson said the United States would be better off working for "interdependence" with oil producing countries rather than seeking to cut dependence.login or register to post comments | read more
WASHINGTON -- The Middle East, long recognized as a top oil producer, is taking on a new role as one of the world's fastest-growing regions for energy consumption.
The increased clip at which it burns petroleum -- twice its historical average and close to the growth rate of the Asia-Pacific region -- is contributing to tight oil supplies around the globe while demand continues to rise in...
HOUSTON -- Since hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed the Gulf Coast nearly five months ago, the region has lost more than 610 billion cubic feet of natural gas production.
That's about 3 percent of the nation's annual production and enough to power homes in eight Southern states, including Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi for one year, according to the American Gas Association.
Th...
WASHINGTON -- The United States is increasingly going overseas to meet its natural gas needs, setting in motion a significant shift with a familiar, if unpleasant, side effect for the world's largest energy consumer.
As America becomes a bigger player in the global natural-gas trade, its vulnerability to faraway production snags and price gyrations will rise, as will its dependence on en...
WASHINGTON — Record-high gasoline prices have dropped, yet there are fears that another surge is around the corner. Larger heating bills this winter are still socking it to American wallets.
Amid those anxieties, President Bush is making it "energy week" in his administration, and he and top Cabinet officials plan to crisscross the country to tout a package of energy initiatives hig...
Technically Wagyu beef in America, Kobe-style beef requires special raising and food-preparation techniques.
Terry Neuner, Westphalia, started raising the American Kobe a couple of years ago after experiencing its incomparable taste while in Japan.
"The taste is distinctive. The grade is higher and it should be comparatively more tender than regular cattle," Neuner said. "What's th...
No mumbling, no stumbling and only an appropriately injected amount of plain English hedging was most everyone's take on Ben Bernanke's initial public appearance as the new Federal Reserve chairman. The market liked what it saw and heard.
Bernanke said nothing particularly new other than to suggest the economy might surprise on the upside, which, of course, kept alive worries that inter...