A Court case against Shell Oil Products alleges predatory conduct by the oil giant against a small New Jersey company, Wexco Industries. Allegations against Shell include fraud and misrepresentation.
By John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com
We recently published an article about how the management of Shell Oil Products in the USA had for a number of years turned […]

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By John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com
In a press release issued on 3 August 2007, David Pirret, Executive Vice President of Shell Lubricants claimed that “Shell Lubricants has some of the world’s most trusted brands”. He named Pennzoil, a well known and previously highly respected oil brand now owned by Shell, as being one of its “trusted” […]

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In what appears to be a concerted effort set into motion by mysterious dark forces pulling strings at the World Carfree Network headquarters in Prague, scores of high-powered luxury automobiles have been targeted for attack by environmentally aware nature freaks (freaks of nature?) in Berlin this year.

While the more roughneck anarchist climate thug inhabitants terrorizing […]

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By John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com
When the news media reports on rising high oil prices, militant attacks in Nigeria are inevitably cited as a factor e.g. the following extract is from a report in The Scotsman, Friday 13 July 2007: “The attacks have contributed to a drop in production of about 25 per cent, driving up […]

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In the past ten years every rehash of the Transformers franchise has suffered the same critical flaw: annoying human characters that get in the way of robots fighting.  Yes, this is my very simplistic view of the transformers universe and as you can tell I am a fan from way back in that simpler time […]

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A Reuters report today says that tires made by the Chinese company Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. may not meet US safety specifications and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is forcing a New Jersey importer to recall more than 450,000 tires.
The manufacturer denies allegations of defective manufacturing or changes in specifications, although several deaths have […]

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That’s right, I said fuel rationing, IN IRAN. The rationing restrictions, which took effect at midnight local time, are reported to limit private motorists to 100 liters of fuel each month. Given only two hours notice, Iranian motorists are experiencing long lines at filling stations.
At least one filling station in the western suburbs of Tehran […]

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Yesterday, the EPA announced that it is considering reducing the allowable concentration of ozone pollution (smog, not to be confused with smug), a known contributor to many respiratory problems.
For many metro areas, the news is roughly equivalent to trying to get blood out of a turnip. For example, none of the Northeast Ohio counties surrounding […]

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By Staff Writer Justice Sam Banjul.
Paid for And Commissioned by the
Freedom Newspaper.
Gambia’s collapse economy is taking its toll on the transportation industry. A major gas shortage  is making life difficult for travelers, local cab drivers and private vehicle owners. Thousands of travelers have been left stranded due to the gas shortage, the Freedom Newspaper can […]

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Well, here is an interesting turn of events. A fellow in North Carolina converted his auto to run on vegetable oil so that he could “make a statement” against our usage of fossil fuels.
Great, you say? Stick it to the oil companies, the Saudis the whole mess in the Mid East? And on top of […]

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MakeMagazine has articles about making biodiesel, and about using it in cars.
However, this week on their blog, they give warning to those using biodiesel that they could be fined by local and federal government regulators: for not paying fuel taxes.
Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
So […]

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Denver has recently announced a policy that plans to remove 500,000 cars from the road in an aggressive attempt to curb the effects of global warming. This follows on the heels of other plans nationwide to reduce emissions as well as commentary from elites who encourage the further increase in gas prices so fewer […]

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Well, here is an interesting turn of events. A fellow in North Carolina converted his auto to run on vegetable oil so that he could “make a statement” against our usage of fossil fuels.
Great, you say? Stick it to the oil companies, the Saudis the whole mess in the Mid East? And on top of […]

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There’s a lot of talk about ethanol, which is widely used in Brazil, and would be a boon for corn/maize farmers in the US midwest.
But here in the Philippines, we use a lot of diesel, and biodiesel seems to be the way to go, since we can make it from local plants like palm trees […]

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Everyone complains about how everyone else on the road can’t drive, but no one is willing to admit that they are the ones everyone is complaining about. Maybe the results of this year’s GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test will make people more willing to admit that they are not completely sure of the rules of the […]

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The Associated Press imagines itself a “news” organization. Ordinarily, “news” does not convey opinion, but only facts… at least that’s the ideal. That being the general understanding of what comprises news, it is interesting when we at Newsbusters find odd bits of opinion encased inside any particular AP “news” story. But, it is really odd […]

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When Daimler proposed to Chrysler back in 1998, it was inconceivable to him that their unbridled passion could ever fizzle out or that their steamy dream team would ever break up as it now has with this messy divorce, filled with mutual mixed negative emotions and the occasional intricately planned murder plan (he was that close […]

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“I cannot sell you that car,” the man said firmly in thickly accented English. He was short, wearing an imaculate white coat like a doctor’s, with fierce blue eyes and  close-clipped reddish hair 
Bill and I looked at the rusted VW van with the faded advertising for a brand of Scotch whisky painted on the side. Our investigations […]

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Drängeln means to jostle, push or press. Or in this particular case, it means to urge speed at a high speed in a car on an autobahn, usually bumper to bumper, honking and/or with your headlights flashing. Lebensraum means habitat. And though illegal, most real men Drängler (and they are always men, I mean real […]

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Evidently, while visiting the White House to give the President of the United States a full demo of Ford’s new hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid, Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s fast action prevented Dick Cheney from becoming our 44th President. As Bush, extension cord in hand, stepped to the hydrogen port at the rear of the vehicle […]

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Ruling on its first case involving global warming and climate change, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court held that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases do qualify as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

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On Monday President Bush met with automakers and praised ethanol and biodiesel, while trying to drum up support for his energy plan. He called on automakers to double their production of flex fuel vehicles.

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An ever more cantankerous US Congress is getting a little tired of the White House dragging its feet in setting new fuel economy standards:
Several senators said the White House plan fails to aggressively push automakers to improve the number of miles a car can get on a single gallon of gasoline. They noted that standards […]

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Bush’s Hearts-&-Minds tour of South America is feeding our brewing ethanol-mania. Corn-based ethanol seems like a great solution, especially for us — anyone who’s driven across Michigan in July knows that we grow a lot of corn. But we need to stop and give corn-based ethanol a good look, because it cannot replace […]

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You may not be aware of this, but Germany is a country that has lots of rules and regulations (put your understatement link here). There are bans, restrictions, limitations, restraints, curbs, controls, interdictions, prohibitions and Verbote (as in verboten) wherever you care to look. Should looking be allowed in the area you are doing the […]

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Ever since GM announced their new Chevy Volt concept car at this year’s Auto Show, rumors have persisted that the concept was PR-motivated vaporware. Not so, says GM Vice Chairmen Bob Lutz. In this open letter he directly addresses the two major stumbling blocks to the Volt’s production: acquiring workable lithium-ion technology […]

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Clearly paying no heed to German EU industry commissioner Verheugen’s warning about hysterischer Aktionismus (hysterical, unexamined action or activity) in matters concerning climate protection, and caught red-handed helping Germany cheat on the CO2 emission targets set for it at Kyoto, a group of mad (as in angry) and panicked German scientists has been caught pumping […]

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David Schussler
The current (fear induced) trend in thinking regarding global warming has spurred some creative entrepreneurial minds to new levels of ruse and deceit on our unsuspecting and trusting souls worldwide. Seduced by too little information, much of the world is railing against industry and private use of carbon based fuels in an attempt to […]

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Would you buy a car whose prototype once turned soggy when left out in the rain? Yeah, I agree. I would, too. But unfortunately you can’t buy the East German Trabant (Satellite) anymore. Not new, anyway. They haven’t been built since 1991 for some strange reason. Und das ist gut so (and that’s a good thing).

But […]

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For those following Chrysler’s agonizingly slow belly flop, you’ll recall that in the last week they’ve announced more white-collar and hourly cuts (Feb 12), that Daimler has decided to spin them off (Feb 14), and that GM has held secret talks with Daimler-Chrysler regarding a possible takeover (Feb 16)
Now, February 19, according to the Detroit […]

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