Guess who'll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it's Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly 'real' Americans were taken? Or perhaps its actors and models, who posed for the photos?

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VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid
The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many

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Greenopia has updated their guide to the greenest oil companies--though it may seem like it, it's not entirely an oxymoron--and BP is still on top.

A remote indiginious indian camp found abandoned after developers entered their region in Peru. Photo via Agencia Andina

In the 1960s and 70s, there was an oil boom in Peru.

The Ebba Maersk, cruising at half speed. Photo via Svenning B. Jensen

Until two years ago, the Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk had been sending its cargo ships across the seas at full throttle, vying to get supplies to their destination as fast as possible--and every other shipping company was doing the same. It seemed at the time the most efficient way of doing business.

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Drill, baby, sigh. Well, Obama evidently wasn't kidding about making bipartisan compromises in his energy policy. According to a breaking report from Reuters, the US Interior Department has just "issued the final leasing terms" for almost 37 million offshore acres in the Gulf of Mexico.

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I have a challenge for you: try to come up with a company that better exe

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We've heard this one before; Obama threatening to sever subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. He called for ending the subsidies during his SOTU, and was doing so even before that.

photo: Robert Gale via flickr.

Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it has a signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian biofuel company Cosan that would create a $12 billion joint venture for the production and distribution of sugarcane-based ethanol.

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The US Supreme Court decision handed down earlier this week determined that corporations should be treated as individuals--and should face no restrictions on spending to support political candidates.