Brim Financial continues to evolve its credit cards rewards program with the launch of its new Brim eShop
Canadian-based fintech company, Brim Financial, may be one of the younger players on the financial services scene, but the company sees that as an asset. They are already rapidly accruing a successful track record More...
Gavin Newsom outraged over California’s high gas prices, says oil companies are ‘price fixing’
California Governor Gavin Newsom wants his citizens to be outraged over high gas prices, threatening to sue oil companies, requesting on Monday that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra investigate possible More...
What Drives the Price of Oil? Industry Expert Alexandro Rovirosa Explains
As CEO of Roma Energy Holdings, Alexandro Rovirosa frequently manages client responses to volatile oil prices. While the law of supply and demand (low supply means high demands which in turn means higher prices More...
The Climate Change Levy (CCL) explained
The Climate Change Levy is an environmental tax most energy users in the UK pay on their consumption of fuel. Domestic customers are exempt, along with the transport industry, which is why you might be unaware the More...
Natural Gas: An Alternative to Diesel for the American Trucking Industry
Reducing Emissions by Making the Switch Natural gas is an abundant resource available throughout the United States. This hydrocarbon gas mixture, is mostly composed of methane that is taken from natural rock found More...
Global Warming roundup: The questions after the IPCC report
After the IPCC report, global warming critics continue to ask the same questions, attacking the science of projecting temperature and weather decades, even centuries into the future. Anthony Watts writes: “…it’s More...
What Does Your Car Say About Your Political Views?
Did you know that the car you drive may tell people what your political views are? This is not the case because you have bumper-stickers plastered all over, either. Your vehicle says a lot about you, and so does More...
Five Things Likely to Get More Expensive in 2018
Today’s economy is a global economy. No longer to countries run independently from one another; markets are networked and connected like never before. A poor wheat crop in the U.S. can cause hunger and price hikes More...
5 Steps on the Path to Proper Engine Maintenance
Today’s automobile engines are marvels of technology, continually refined over more than a century. As such they have very little in common with the straight 6 in your grandfather’s ‘69 Dodge Dart and it’s More...
Petroleum Fuels America
Where would the USA be without petroleum? Ever since it was discovered, petroleum has been responsible for keeping the economy chugging along, thanks to petroleum distribution companies like Petroleum Wholesale. More...
Global Oil Execs Predict Steady Rise in Crude Prices during Balance of 2016
During a recent speech at the Economic Club of Washington D.C., BP chief executive Bob Dudley echoed the sentiments of other global oil leaders, predicting that the crude oil prices which have been sitting at historic More...
New Data Generates Robust Petroleum Rally
On Wednesday April 6, the Energy Information Administration released its estimate of petroleum inventories and to the surprise of most in the market, they reported a large draw of crude oil. The draw cannot be completely More...
Oregon’s new gas tax: charge by the mile, punish fuel efficiency and track citizens
Oregon is rolling out the first-in-the-nation program aimed to charge car owners not for the fuel they use, but rather for the miles they drive. The test is set to begin July 1 as volunteers (up to 5,000) can register More...
When Business and Government Collide: Taming Your Energy Bills and Tariffs
For those that are unaware, the Climate Change Levy is a tax that businesses pay on the conventional energy that they use. Renewable energy does not attract the tax. The government hopes that with the tax making More...
Goldman Sachs: Lower oil prices to cause loss of $1 trillion, many projects ‘unprofitable’
The global oil industry will face a loss of $1 trillion as producers will be forced to cancel a number of key projects if oil prices stay below $60, says Goldman Sachs. Tuesday’s Brent crude trading at $59.9 More...
President Obama cornered on Keystone Pipeline, Dem Mary Landrieu calls for vote
Democrats may still be reeling from the midterm election results and now President Obama will face immediate pressure to move ahead on the Keystone Pipeline. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu sees the writing on the More...
Gas prices soaring, plenty of blame to go around
Drivers are seeing a 30 cent increase in gas prices over the last week. September 2010 photo/Daniel Christensen A gas refinery explosion in Toledo a few days ago, a spike in crude oil price and a slowdown on production More...
‘Sex for gas’ ad hits Craigslist in the wake of Hurricane Sandy GRAPHIC
Housing, food, water and now gas shortages are a major concern on the East Coast in Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath, some are hoping gas-thirsty residents will go to extreme lengths to get their hands on some More...
Labor Day gas prices may be at an all-time high for holiday travelers
Bloomberg reported that the effects of Hurricane Isaac and a deadly refinery blast at a Venezuela refinery have helped push gasoline prices upward in recent days. “We expect the national average price of gasoline More...
