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Berrylium oxide producer stocks under $1. I know. I'll be checking it out too.

World Bank and Chinese think tank saying China has to transition to free enterprise or face economic crisis. State-owned comps ~40% of GDP.

NG going for ~ $15/b of oil equivalent. avg b 5.8mbtu. market will move to natgas.

3M putting nanoparticles into C fiber to strengthen/cheapen NG compressed tanks. Maybe not LNG. Maybe CNG. For trux and such. And H tanks. EPA approval may take the rest of the year.

Hurt by cheap NG, VA coal producer seeing regulatory "train wreck " ahead.

Calif/Quebec sioree planning to hike emissions trading.

Monsanto scientist says chances to mitigate climate change "dim".

Despite drought relief, TX rice crop may be cooked.

Arguments on GHG regs in court this week.

TransCan set to build OK to GOM pipeline.

Supreme Court declined to intervene in Asian carp dispute. And NY seeks review of roadless rule. And the Court unanimously opposed Montana's supreme court decision to require an energy provider to pay back rent for use of riverbeds.

Obama admin promoting small nuke reactors to replace coal plants. Well, that should be a headline. But will it be?

$1T needed for US drinking water pipelines in next 25 years.

Japan's tsunami debris headed for Pacific gyre while record of sea otters are dying along US pacific coast.

Insects could wipe out AZ's citrus crop.

Brent crude calculated in Euro's have reached new high. Surpassed '08 peak. Production fall of ~750kb/d from S. Sudan, Yemen, Syria. And Libya output still 600kb/d under normal. While Japan is using oil to replace nuke power. ~300kb/d.

Impeachment of Ahmadinijad. May be coming. How about executing Aljahiri or whatever that fracker's name is?

India ready to surpass China as world's biggest thermal coal importer.

Petrobras 3rd oil spill offshore in less than a month.

Libya plans to export ~1.2mb/d in Feb, up from 970kb/d in Jan.

Tanker carrying 600kb of disputed Sudanese oil arrived in Japanese port.

Shell Oil says Nigeria losses ~150kb/d from theft.

Chevron's Kazackistan (who was Stan?) venture to spend $6-8B to sustain output.

Pumping halted on Columbia's 2nd-longest pipeline after several bombings.

CoolPlanetBiofuels says 4kgal of gas/acre biomass with miscanthus.

S. Korea interested in Gazprom NG pipeline. And Japan intersted in LNG plant with Gazprom.

Sauds reduced oil production/exports in Dec. And oil prices up now. Huh.

$14M new govt R&D funding for $2.28/gal algae biofuels.

Cost of producing biofuel enzymes higher than assumed.

Brazil set up $38B ethanol subsidy program to stimulate expansion.

USDA projects largest US corn planting since 1944. 94M acres. 4th consecutive year of increase.