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Obama Sets Ambitious Goal to Reduce US Oil Imports

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to show the public he understands the burden of rising gas prices, President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal of reducing U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, and vowed to break through the political gridlock that has stymied similar initiatives for decades. "Presidents and politicians of every...

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Opinion: Obama's Energy Plan Will Stall Growth

It's unfortunate for all Americans that instead of trying to bring our citizens together to find solutions to tomorrow's energy needs, President Barack Obama is expected in his proposed federal budget Monday to call for higher taxes on the oil industry -- and pretend that American consumers won't suffer as a result. Hold...

Reactions to the State of the Union: Loosening Oil's Stranglehold

Sitting in front of the television listening to the State of the Union, I'm hearing some great ideas, but the one that jumps out and makes my head snap up is the clean energy proposal. Having 80 percent of our energy be supplied by clean, renewable energy would help our country break our addiction to oil. This would create...

The Latest Buzz: Caffeinated Popcorn

(Nov. 24) -- Next time you find yourself dozing off in the middle of a boring movie at home, there's only one logical solution: stuff your face with popcorn -- caffeinated popcorn, to be precise. For the past several months, Amanda Fitch and her husband, Matthew, have been generating quite the buzz from a business they...

Energy News From the Web

05/29/12 California Energy Storage Startup Community Gets State... Source: AOL Energy Energy storage technologies - notorious for falling into the infamous financing "valley of death" - are set get a stronger bridge across the abyss from lab to market in California.
05/29/12 Technology Improving Geothermal Energy Economics Source: AOL Energy Geothermal energy technology is moving beyond volcanos, and popping up in unexpected spots like oilfields.
05/29/12 Cleanweb Acceleration Blocked by Regulators Stuck in... Source: AOL Energy Information technology is the most powerful tool to accelerate cleantech adoption, but is being blocked by energy regulation developed during the industrial revolution, a leading investor told a Silicon Valley conference last week. company LinkedIn and biofuels startup Solazyme , said: "Our entire regulatory regime is built for the industrial revolution and we have a different way of working today that requires a different code."
05/25/12 Chinese Recession: Real or Not? Source: AOL Energy Probably the best indication that the Chinese economy has entered a meaningful recession is the Chinese central government's urgency to reassure everyone it isn't so.
05/25/12 Iran Sanctions Could Benefit Oil Majors, Says Moody's Source: AOL Energy An Iranian war-boat fires a missile during the 'Velayat-90' navy exercises in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on December 30, 2011.

Background on Energy

In physics, energy () is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems.

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