Blogposts tagged 'Alternative Fuels'

Tar sands investment and 'oil at any cost' threaten BP's future profitability

Posted by jossc - 3 February 2009 at 3:40pm - 2 Comments

Alberta, Canada - contaminated water from tar sands oil production fills a 2 km wide 'tailings' pool

Alberta, Canada - contaminated water from tar sands oil production fills a 2 km wide 'tailings' pool © Greenpeace

Last month our Emerald Paintbrush award presented to BP highlighted how far the company, which previously styled itself as going 'beyond petroleum', has moved back to its traditional profit source at the expense of its alternative energy division, and most likely its long-term profitability.

Investors may have been patting themselves on the back yesterday as BP posted record profits for 2008, but they should be wary - a quick trawl through the figures reveals major flaws in the company's long term investment strategy. Massive profits during the first half of the year (when oil prices reached over $100 per barrel) were undermined by a collapse in the final quarter, when prices fell back to around $40 per barrel.

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Over a barrel

Publication date:  5 April, 2007
This report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy studies scenarios in which practical and realistic steps are taken to curtail oil use in transport. A range of scenarios is examined on a 20-30 year timescale. The authors calculate that with simple transport efficiency measures Britain's dependence on foreign oil can be restricted from an eight-fold increase to a two-fold increase. Oil use could be reduced by developing:
  • Vehicles that are more fuel-efficient
  • The use of alternative transport fuels
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Article tagged as: alternative fuels, congestion charge, fuel efficiency, oil, peace, public transport, reports, transport, VED

Greenpeace guerrilla garages

Posted by bex - 3 November 2001 at 9:00am - 0 Comments

London garage: sign

London garage: sign

Greenpeace has given away thousands of litres of free green fuel to motorists today at refurbished 'guerrilla garages' across the country.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, guerilla garages, oil, road transport, transport

Fuel prices background brief

Publication date:  30 September, 2000

The risk to our climate

  • The majority of the world's carbon pollution comes from oil products like petrol and diesel. We can avoid a runaway greenhouse effect but only if we break our addiction to fossil fuels and make the transition to an economy run on renewable energy and hydrogen.
  • Fossil fuel use is already changing our climate. The arctic ice cap has already thinned from 10ft to 6ft in the last 20 years as a result of warmer seas. Scientists predict that the entire polar ice cap could disappear every summer within the next 50 years....
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Article tagged as: alternative fuels, climate change, impacts, oil, reports, transport

Greenpeace and the fuel convoy, day 3

Posted by bex - 13 November 2000 at 9:00am - 2 Comments

Greenpeace challenges fuel blockaders and argues the case for maintaining current levels of fuel tax

Greenpeace challenges fuel blockaders and argues the case for maintaining current levels of fuel tax

Sunday

Before the convoy departed at around noon some of the Greenpeace team took their two natural gas powered vehicles to one of only 20 gas refueling points in Britain in near by Walsall.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, transport

Greenpeace and the fuel convoy, Day 2

Posted by bex - 13 November 2000 at 9:00am - 0 Comments
Traffic jam

Traffic jam

Saturday morning. The fuel convoy and the Greenpeace team at Ferrybridge services near Leeds.

Ironically the convoy had parked up next to a fleet of army trucks who are on route to help with the clean up of local towns and villages after the recent flooding.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, climate change, road transport, transport

Bio-diesel - green fuel we can use today

Posted by bex - 10 November 2000 at 9:00am - 0 Comments

Bio-diesel: green fuel we can use today

Bio-diesel: green fuel we can use today

Take some rapeseed, sunflower or soya oil, or recycle some used cooking oil, refine, mix with a diesel engine and voila! A non-toxic, biodegradable green fuel that can be used in any diesel engine.

Although the plant-based fuel is not pollution-free, it is significantly cleaner than its petro equivalent and causes just half the damage to the climate. Its widely used in the US, Germany and France, so why isn't the UK enjoying the environmental, economic and health benefits too?

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, road transport, transport

Greenpeace in the driving seat

Posted by bex - 10 November 2000 at 9:00am - 0 Comments

Fuel convoy: Newcastle tractors

On the first day of the fuel protests Greenpeace volunteers met face to face with the protestors before their convoy set off for London, They explained to them the link between cheap petrol and diesel and increased flooding.

As the truckers and farmers gathered for their increasingly unpopular protest the Greenpeace activists told them that Greenpeace was completely opposed to any reductions in tax on oil based fuels. They made it clear that Gordon Brown's pledge to reduce tax on low sulphur fuels was not green but a recipe for runaway climate change since it would increase the use of oil based fuels.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, road transport, transport

Oil can't fuel the future

Publication date:  9 November, 2000

The case for green fuels in the UK

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Article tagged as: alternative fuels, climate change, oil, reports, road transport, transport

Bio-diesel- green fuel we can use today

Publication date:  11 November, 2000

Bio-diesel is the name for fuel made from vegetable oils. It is made either directly from crops such as rapeseed, sunflower and soya, or by recycling cooking oil.

Bio-diesel is not zero emission, but the environmental impact of bio-diesel is much lower than that of petroleum-based diesel. The impact on global climate change of bio-diesel is half that of petro-diesel. Bio-diesel produces virtually no emissions of sulphur or hydrocarbons. Emissions of air pollutants such as carbon monoxide and particulates are also significantly reduced.

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