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Oil prices are slipping to levels not seen in years. It’s bad for oil companies, but it has to be good for consumers, right?
Well, yes, though, it’s more complicated than that. That’s because almost all of us with retirement accounts are invested in oil and gas companies.
How many pieces of candy corn would it take to charge a cell phone for a day’s use? The answer to this question can help us put our everyday energy use into perspective.
Along comes an 81 quintillion ton chunk of basalt rock with the gall to – quite literally – cast a shadow on solar panels.
To help make sense of the jarring ugliness of real-world data, it’s helpful to look at long-term trends, where meaning emerges from the chaos.
Oil production hinges on one big assumption: Companies extracting oil can make money. When does that stop being true?
In states like North Dakota and Wyoming, falling oil prices have big implications, for both industry and state budgets.
How low do oil prices have to drop before companies will stop drilling new wells? In North Dakota, that answer varies wildly.
Answering our latest IE Question, Jordan Wirfs-Brock tells us everything we always wanted to know about ducks, bell curves, and platypuses.
In 2013, 11 oil and gas workers in North Dakota died from a job-related injury, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Texas had 50 reported oil and gas worker fatalities in 2013, the most of any state. But Texas has roughly ten times more oil and gas workers than North Dakota. Nationwide, 112 oil and gas workers died in 2013, down from 142 the year before. The oil and gas industry, amid safety improvements, is still six times more dangerous than the average American job.
Watts Bar actually is what it sounds like: a watering hole for light bulbs. It’s a nuclear reactor. And not just any nuclear reactor. When it begins operating next year, it’ll be the first new commercial reactor in the U.S. in nearly 20 years.
