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Shares of Occidental Petroleum opened higher on Monday (although off their highs from overnight) after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway revealed over the weekend that it…
One day after we reported that Germany had warned against a ban on energy imports from Russia, quoting Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck who said "I would…
It may not be the spin-off that Wall Street was hoping for, but Ford is slated to announce that it is going to undergo a…
Europe may have trouble replenishing its natural gas storage facilities by next winter as storage levels are at decade lows. Russia, which supplies one-third of…
OPEC+ producers are likely to maintain the current policy of 400k BPD monthly hikes, according to sources. However, the upcoming meeting will be more complex…
Switzerland's historic neutrality is no longer: moments ago Reuters reported that the Swiss government had joined the EU in adopting sanctions on Russia, freezing assets…
As oil prices continue to rocket, now further helped along by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still fighting tooth and nail to…
It looks as though living the alternative energy EV dream is coming with higher costs...at least, that's what's being reported on the ground in Munich. …
Conflict in Ukraine continues to send European energy prices higher Thursday morning. Dutch TTF Gas Futures are up a staggering 60%, the most since 2005,…
Nickel prices soared to the highest level in more than a decade amid skyrocketing demand for electric cars, as the Ukraine crisis added to supply…
Supplies of diesel and heating oil in the United States have dwindled as refiners are having trouble replenishing the domestic fuel supply this winter, which…
In a bid to avert a war over Ukraine, and with energy security high on the agenda, French President Emmanuel Macron is in Moscow on…
The Brits aren't the only European nation to find itself on the verge of a full-blown energy crisis. On Thursday, French natural gas pipeline operator…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing Friday for the Winter Olympics, where as expected he had a warm meeting, among a series of expected…
Ferrari NV announced that soaring commodity prices would begin affecting the prices of its new supercars. The average cost for an Italian supercar, made by…
Despite some countries embracing nuclear power as the obvious solution to the green energy problem that it is over the last 12 months, Europe is…
Ford has announced today it plans to spend as much as $20 billion to accelerate its shift to electric vehicles. The company's newest reorganization efforts are…
This was supposed to be the year that things “got back to normal”, but here we are at the end of January and things have…
A hybrid car-airplane known as “AirCar” has been issued a certificate of airworthiness by the Slovakian civil aviation authority, potentially paving the way for the…
Geopolitical tensions are soaring over Ukraine between Russia and the U.S. and its European allies. On Sunday, the U.S. ordered family members of the Kyiv…