Posts Tagged ‘global oil’

2009 Suzuki SX4 getting nav system as standard equipment

Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Click image to enlargeIntegrated nav systems are cash cows for the automakers. We've discussed this here before. While you can run to the local Target and buy a perfectly useful portable unit for around two-hundred bucks, clicking the nav checkbox on a car or truck's option sheet will probably run ......

Toyota outsells GM globally in Q1

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Both General Motors and Toyota have released their global sales figures for the first quarter of 2008, and for those who like to keep tabs on which automaker is the biggest in the world when it comes to sales, we have new news. The last time we convened for this discussion, both GM and Toyota were i......

BREAKING! BP shuts down pipeline, gas prices on the way up

Saturday, June 24th, 2006
An already fragile U.S. oil supply was dealt a severe blow on Sunday, when BP Plc commenced shutting down the biggest oilfield in the U.S., Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, which produces 400,000 barrels a day.The shutdown was driven by discoveries of severe corrosion in oil pipelines servicing the BP oilfield......