Particularly damaging was an EPA rule finalized in February 2012 that created new emissions standards for coal- and oil-fired electric utilities.
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Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
Vehicles powered by natural gas save more gas dollars and crude oil imports than government-dictated plans for all-electric and hybrid vehicles.
New team sponsors in 2011 included General Electric, Venezuelan state-owned oil and gas company PDVSA, Indian automaker Tata Motors and Mexican telecom giant Telmex.
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Forty percent of that country's oil is burned in so-called stationary uses like electric plants, Littell says, which will be shifted to less expensive fuels if oil prices stay high.
Theres plenty of oil to smell at Regal-Beloit, a transmission and electric-motor company tucked away in Beloit, Wis.
Persistently high oil prices would clearly lead to substitution (electric cars, natural-gas-powered trucks) but the transition costs could be significant.
Investors have filed hundreds of water-related shareholder resolutions, filed primarily with oil and gas, electric power, and food and beverage companies.
In line with that, more than half of the total growth in oil demand will be in Asia, and two-thirds of the new electric power capacity.
Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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Houston-based Powell Industries (nasdaq: POWL - news - people ) makes switchboards and other kinds of electric-power distribution equipment for businesses including commuter rail systems, utilities, and oil and gas producers.
By the time she was 30, Al-Tunisi was modernizing the Abqaiq oil processing plant in part by replacing thousands of manually operated valves with electric ones.
There are five companies on the list that are particularly intriguing: American Electric Power (an electric utility), Exxon Mobil (integrated oil), Gap (apparel), Kimberly-Clark (consumer products) and NextEra Energy (renewable energy).
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) and U.K. oil company BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
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