{"id":463,"date":"2007-11-09T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2007-11-09T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T12:59:00","slug":"high-oil-prices-mean-clean-energy-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/high-oil-prices-mean-clean-energy-is.html","title":{"rendered":"High Oil Prices Mean Clean Energy is Competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>. See the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">complete list of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High Oil Prices Mean Clean Energy is Competitive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The high oil prices should not only prompt a reduction in usage, but they will encourage the use of renewable energy, the price of which is now falling relative to fossil fuels, experts feel.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago greens were always told that a switch to sustainable energies was a pipe dream with oil trading at just $10-$15 a barrel. Well, now it is trading at ten times that!<\/p>\n<p>Biofuels &#8211; often a direct alternative to petrol or diesel &#8211; are now selling for about $40-70 a barrel so are clearly already competitive, says Dan Lewis, research director at the Economic Research Council and founder of website altenergyinvestor.org.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scenta.co.uk\/Nature\/1708845\/now-its-a-new-game-and-clean-energy-is-no-longer--a-dream.htm\">this report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style='color:red'>Nature <span style='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/oil\/or\/or.html\">gave us<\/a><\/span> oil from algae; perhaps <span style='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/story\/story.html\">we should try<\/a><\/span> Nature&#8217;s way again<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\">Oilgae<\/a><\/b>; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">List of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/algae\/oil\/biod\/research\/os\/algos.html\">algOS &#8211; Biodiesel from Algae Open Source<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Oilgae<\/b> has a focus on biodiesel production from algae while also discussing alternative energy in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. High Oil Prices Mean Clean Energy is Competitive The high oil prices should not only prompt a reduction in usage, but they will encourage the use of renewable energy, the price of which is now falling relative to fossil fuels, experts feel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}