Gasoline

West Coast Gas Prices Higher Than Other Regions

Colin Fogarty — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:52:25 +0000

Gas prices nationwide have been dropping but not in the Northwest. In fact, this Memorial Day weekend, the region's gas prices are among the highest in the nation.

Gas in Washington and Oregon is selling above $4.20 per gallon. It's cheaper in Idaho. But all three states are well above the national average of $3.68 per gallon. The U.S Department of Energy says oil supplies on the West Coast are the lowest they've been since the 1999. Several California oil refineries are offline. And Washington's Cherry Point BP refinery hasn't fully recovered from a fire there in February. Denton Cinquegrana is an editor at the Oil Price Information Service. He says the Northwest just doesn't have the supply routes that other parts of the country have.

Quake Lessons From Japan: Pay Attention To Energy Resiliency

Tom Banse — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:53:58 +0000

BELLINGHAM -- Sunday marks the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The tsunami destruction and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown garner the most attention. There was another cause of suffering in Japan's quake zone. In some places, you couldn't get gasoline for weeks to fuel cars and generators. The Pacific Northwest is prone to the same kind of earthquake. Correspondent Tom Banse reports emergency planners say this region's fuel supply lines are vulnerable.

Flying The Leaded Skies: Lead A Concern At Northwest Airports

John Ryan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:14:53 +0000

BOEING FIELD, Wash. -- Lead paint was banned in the United States in the 1970s. Leaded gasoline was slowly phased out over the next 20 years. Those efforts drove one of the great public-health improvements of the past century. The amount of lead found in human bloodstreams has dropped by more than 90 percent.

Regional Landfill To Convert Garbage To Mileage

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Starting next year, some of the trash you toss out may end up in gas tanks instead of buried at a large regional landfill in eastern Oregon.

At REI Is 'Carbon Neutral' A Smokescreen?

John Ryan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:58:00 +0000

What do Nike, R-E-I, the Vancouver Olympics, and the Washington State government have in common? They've all promised to eliminate their impact on the climate by going 'carbon-neutral'. R-E-I aims to have zero output of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide by the year 2020. But since REI set the zero-impact goal, its emissions have been heading rapidly in the opposite direction.

At REI Is 'Carbon Neutral' A Smokescreen?

John Ryan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:58:00 +0000