STUFF

O, 1st - Iran wants to block Hormuz. Really.

2nd. Iraq bombs. O well, your peacekeepers have gone home. Oil bidding set back. What did we go into there to do? I don't remember, W, remind us. O yea, get Saddam. And the WMDs. We don't want the wake up call being a nuke explosion.

What is it with these people? Syria. Yemen. You name m. Nuts. They're frackin nuts. All they want to do is blow it up. Kill. Destroy. Of course, they're not all there in the muddle east. They've migrated. O well. So it is. On to energy.

In '11, ~$550B spent globally on oil/gas exploration/development/production: Barclays. Going up 10% in '12.

All the oil and gas pipelines crisscrossing the US enough to circle the planet >100x. 2.5M miles.

EPD and GEL announced another 149 mile pipeline in GOM.

UQM got another order from Electric Vehicles Intl for 100 more drive systems for UPS trux in Calif.

Chinese airlines refusing to go along with Euro aviation emissions charges.

Changing oil by manufacturers' recommendations could lower Calif motor oil demand 10M gal/y: state-financed survey. Just think about that. If you can't think about something else, just think about that.

"Oil and gas induced seismicity - word of the day? - has been dealt with successfully and is well understood": DOE website. Yea, well, who pays the damages?

Duke and Progress to submit 3rd merger proposal.

GA ethanol plant sold, costing taxayers millions. O hell yea.

Parasitic fly suspected in honey bee deaths. Get that fly.

$6.8B for utility energy efficiency programs last year.

Lowe's launched "Iris" - cloud-based home mgmt system from AlertMe (UK). Nationwide rollout in 2Q that will take a year. Zigbee or Z-wave connections. 15M peeps walk through Lowe's every week. They want to own home automation market.

Tesla batts warranted for up to 8 years and 100K to unlimited miles, depending on model.

Israeli scientists developed bioenzyme that can turn any kind of waste oil into biodiesel.

UAE to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags starting next year. Cited a camel crisis.

And so goes our world, pards.