http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/opinion/22friedman.html

"Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.”"

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http://www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com/rea/news/story?id=52825&src=rss

"GE Energy Financial Services has released a study estimating that the federal production tax credit (PTC) for wind power that is set to expire December 31, 2008 more than pays for itself through tax revenues from the projects' income, vendors' profits and individual workers' wages."

 

http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/1099481.html


"Progress Energy asked state regulators Friday to approve a whopper of a rate increase. The Raleigh electric utility wants to raise rates by 16.2 percent to pay for the soaring cost of fuel needed to operate power plants. It is the company's largest request for fuel costs in at least a quarter-century. The company is being hit by the same runup in worldwide energy costs that is driving up the cost of gasoline, diesel and natural gas. The Progress Energy rate increase would raise the typical monthly residential bill from about $97 to nearly $113 for a household that uses 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/business/worldbusiness/07energy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

"The International Energy Agency said investments of at least $45 trillion might be needed over the next 50 years to prevent shortages and greenhouse gas emissions from slowing growth."

 

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/floating-offshore-wind-turbines/

"Norwegian company StatoilHydro is working on a 2.3 megawatt floating wind turbine that will be attached to the top of ?Spar-buoy? and moored to the seabed by three anchor points. It is hoped that the 80 meter diameter, 65 meter high Siemens turbine will have lower deep-water installation costs when compared to traditional wind [...]"