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SP on June 23, 2008 - 7:06am

HSV boss pours cold water on hybrids The Age

Holden Special Vehicles boss Tom Walkinshaw claims most hybrids are less-efficient than petrol engines.

Japan to promote solar power for households: Nikkei Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government will come up with measures on Tuesday to promote the household use of solar power systems by introducing subsidies and tax breaks from next year, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday.

WA gas crisis to last six months ABC

The company at the centre of Western Australia's gas crisis, Apache Energy, says it will not start limited production from its Varanus Island facility for eight weeks, and full production will take up to six months.

Oil summit step in the right direction: Rudd. The Age

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has hailed an oil summit a step in the right direction, but the opposition says his government is "all blow and no torch" on petrol prices.

Fuel prices hit 4WD sales The Age

Sales of four-wheel-drive vehicles suffered their biggest monthly fall in almost two years as crude oil prices hit a record, new figures show.

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Big Gav on June 23, 2008 - 7:19am

The Walkinshaw article is odd - I wonder how he justifies the idea that hybrids (presumably he isn't talking about plug in hybrids) could be less efficient than regular petrol engines.

He is right about diesel tax rates and biofuels though.

I've got a few more solar articles, including the one you quoted, up here :

http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/06/solar-snippets.html

Also an update on Iraqi oil :

http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/06/oil-giants-back-in-iraq.html

While you're probably all sick of me going on about Iraqi oil by now, I still feel the need to track what is going on from time to time. The IHT reports that while the Iraqi parliament may have successfully stalled the oil law that the US wanted to foist onto them, handing over all the "undiscovered" oil to the western majors, they have still failed to stop them having a lot of oil fields handed over via no bid contracts - the now traditional way for Bush administration cronies to loot and pillage whomever they feel like - be it Iraqi citizens or US taxpayers. This last great reserve of cheap to extract oil (security bills aside) seems to be the great white hope of energy ministers meeting in Saudi Arabia in the hope of pushing oil prices back down.

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SP on June 23, 2008 - 9:38am

Not sure if these have been covered here before but Radio National had a few interesting broadcasts recently.

Ocean acidification Bush Telegraph

The era of peak phosphorus is coming Bush Telegraph

Tackling that target (part one) Big Ideas

Tackling that target (part two) Big Ideas

Banking on gas Background Briefing

RE Walkinshaw, it's probably a case of my "solution" is better than your "solution" so please buy mine...
I think Kunstler (or was it Jay Hanson?) once quipped, buying a hybrid is like buying a 'low tar' cigarette.

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