STUFF .... ~298K hybrids sold this year so far in US. ~36K EVs .... NatGas comps have charged Americans $20B for gas leaked from aging pipelines from '00-'11: US senator's office .... Arctic ice close to record lows .... Study: rising seas threaten Wilmington, NC .... Siemens: Japan's clean/renewable energy output to nearly double by '30 .... Australia to raise emissions reduction target to 15% .... Green Plains Renewable E (GPRE) shutting down 9 ethanol plants until late Sept on tightened corn supply .... U Cal SD to test energy storage grid services .... Refinery strikes in Libya have curtailed exports near 1Mb/d .... US gasoline demand recently up near 10% over '12 .... Yemen's main oil pipeline blown up over weekend. Exports halted .... Loss or reuction of oil and NG exports from Algeria, Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, S Sudan really starting to add up .... Proved US oil reserves up 15% to 29B bls: EIA. NG reserves up almost 10%. (At 7Mb/d production - and rising - that's a little over 11 yrs of oil left.) .... US crude imports down 13% in May to 7.7Mb/d .... Apache made 7 oil/gas discoveries in west Egypt .... Eni made their biggest oil find in recent yrs offshore Congo. Est. 600M bls, 700BCF NG .... Brazil crude production up 3.3% in June over '12 to 2.1Mb/d ....OPEC nations' oil exports up over 9% in '12 to $1.26T .... Shell to pull out of oil activities in Niger delta due to oil thefts .... Greenbriar Capital (GEBRF) bought 80Mw Utah wind project .... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) to sell 5 projects - 49Mw - in Ontario for over $279M. Online next year .... Marubeni to pay up to 100M Euros for ~25% of Mainstream Renewable Power (Ireland) and 50% stake in GDF Suez subsid .... Enel Green Power setting $100M loan for Chile pipeline .... JA Solar (JASO) got $90M credit deal .... PGE bought rights to 267Mw Washington wind project .... BLM agreeing to re-eval potential air quality impacts of 34 Colo drilling projects in response to '11 Fed lawsuit .... Neb court upheld wind farm tax credit.