In France, workers at refineries and gasoline depots voted to keep their strikes going.

Despite a government order for some of them to return to work to get fuel supplies flowing, striking French oil refinery employees voted on Wednesday to maintain blockades now in their third week.

A strike for higher wages has shut down six of France's seven fuel refineries, causing...

German farmer seeking to get VW to stop selling gasoline and diesel vehicles

Environmentalists celebrated a minor legal victory on Friday after a German court announced it will continue hearing a farmer's lawsuit attempting to compel Volkswagen to stop selling cars with internal combustion engines.

Climate change, according to Ulf Allhoff-Cramer, is affectin...

The Real Reason Why Oil And Gasoline Prices Are Increasing

There are various theories as to why oil and gasoline prices have risen so dramatically. Some viewpoints are founded on facts, while others just repeat media-skewed sound bites. Where is the truth to be found? Oil and gas pricing is a complicated problem. What is the source of such exorbitant pri...

When petrol stations in Washington run out, plan on paying $10 per gallon

According to a report, gas stations in Washington state are changing their price boards to handle double digits in anticipation of fuel costs potentially hitting $10 per gallon.

According to the Post Millennial, the move comes after several petrol stations in the Evergreen State ran out...

The Escalating Prices of Fuel Prove to Have Adverse Effects on Governments with Upcoming Elections

The rise in gasoline prices is increasing inflation, and governments and central banks are getting headaches because of this, globally. There are elections coming up in many countries and they severely oppose the idea.

While an excellent example of the effect of the rising fuel prices o...

Japan is considering releasing oil reserves

The Japanese government has already begun preparations to release part of its oil reserves, to counter rising oil prices. This action has been taken in response to the request made by the U.S. government.

Highlights

• Japanese government prepares to rele...

Hydrogen Fuel-Powered and Electric vehicle manufacturers to receive incentives worth $3.5 Billion

Highlights

• Indian government is planning to give $3.5 billion in order to boost clean technology vehicles
• Tata Motors is the largest company selling electric cars in Indi

Under a revised scheme the Indian government is planning to gi...

CHINA’S GASOLINE EXPORTS ROSE IN JAN-FEB 2021 BY 30.1 PERCENT

Highlights –

• China’s gasoline exports rose in Jan-Feb 2021 by 30.1 percent.
• In Jan-Feb gasoline shipments were 3.54 million tonnes.
• In the reporting month, diesel exports fell by 0.9% to 3.44 million tonnes.
• As of Fri...

JAPAN GOVT. REPORTS A 1.0 PERCENT DROP IN THE DEC. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX

Highlights –

• Japan govt. reports a 1.0 percent drop in the Dec. consumer price index.
• In 2020, the core CPI dipped 0.2 percent on average.
• In December, electricity bills fell 7.9 percent and gas bills at 9.5 percent.
• Accomm...

INDIA PLANS 20% ETHANOL-BLENDING WITH GASOLINE

HIGHLIGHTS

• India is planning to achieve 20% ethanol-blending with gasoline.
• The government wants to achieve the target by 2025.
• The new plan is meant to reduce India‘s dependence on imported oil.

India is planning to...

RENAULT AIMING FOR POLE POSITION WITH ELECTRIC MODELS

In the world’s largest automobile market vis a vis China, Renault has taken a deliberate stance of phasing out its gasoline models and throwing its might behind Light Commercial vehicles and electric cars.

The car maker Renault announced on Tuesday that it would sell its 50 % stak...

JAPANESE ANIMATION FIRM IN FLAMES TAKING 34 LIVES

• The arson attack still figures as one of the worst mass killings in Japan and that shook the nation in last so many years.
• The fire snuffed out the lives of all the 34 victims in a very gruesome fashion offering no chance of escape

The fire below was billowing...

SUVs, GASOLINE CARS SALES RISE IN 2019 IN KOREAN AUTO MARKET

Highlights:

• Nearly 1.8 million vehicles were registered in South Korea in 2019.
• Sales of the sedan have seen a slump of 8.2 percent as compared to a year before.
• Sales of SUVs have surged by 7.2 percent on-year.

Sports Uti...

Protests in Iran against the increase in fuel prices are a sign of further turmoil.

Even among the hard-liners in Iran, there seems to be recognition of one fact after widespread protests, violence and a crackdown on security forces following the spike in government price of gas.

As Iran strives to crush the US sanctions as a result of the unilateral withdrawal of Amer...

Agreement signed between EGA and DUGAS

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) – together owned with the aid of Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala and investment agency of Dubai – has signed a settlement with Dubai natural gas agency (DUGAS), a part of Emirates national oil agency (ENOC), to generate and supply energy for DUGA’s com...

Petrochemical Diversification

The government of Alberta is going ahead with the petrochemical diversification software.

This system supports privately funded huge-scale tasks by offering royalty credit to corporations that construct facilities to show ethane, methane and propane feedstocks into merchandise consistin...