Britian's manufacturing and transport sectors will become obsolete unless we find an alternative to oil, a major conference was told in Yorkshire.Some of Yorkshire's leading designers and environmentalists attended Sheffield in a post-oil world which analysed how Britain might look

European non-ferrous metals producers may move to countries where environmental legislation is less strict unless the impact of forthcoming measures is reduced, an industry spokesman said on Thursday.Javier Targhetta, president of Eurometaux, said the industry was concerned over high and

Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them big benefits THOMAS MALTHUS first published his "Essay on the Principle of Population", in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing

Retail gasoline prices chugged higher Friday to a new peak for the year, forcing consumers to dig deeper into already-thin wallets to pay for fuel.At the same time, natural gas prices also were moving up again and have now climbed

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Danny Clark of the Giants says he gets a lot of long looks from curious motorists when he drives his Smart car between Manhattan and the team’s practice complex in New Jersey.But the glances turn to

Climate-change legislation that doesn't add up.There's much debate about the efficacy of controlling pollutants with economic incentives, also known as cap-and-trade. Its advocates dress it up with a lot of moral indignation. Cap-and-trade would not achieve its goals—and it would

The Chinese Communist Party announced further export restrictions of a vital group of commodities. Without access to these commodities, the Japanese automobile industry would come to a screeching halt. Why?Toyota's hottest selling car — and quite frankly, its future —

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, posted third-quarter net profit more than double year-earlier levels, beating out rivals Cnooc Ltd. and PetroChina Co. Sinopec said it expects its net profit for 2009 to rise at least 50% from a

The five biggest publicly-traded Western oil companies rolled out a batch of sharply lower third-quarter earnings reports this week, but their shares shrugged off production, acquisition and refining updates, tracking instead the ups and downs of the broader stock market

For Saudi Arabia, it is a philosophical issue that the black gold pouring out of its deserts should be treated as a tangible, physical commodity - not the paper plaything of traders on Wall Street hedging against the weak dollar.