Annotated Bibliography-Richard Lockridge

Baker, David R. "Big Oil Cautious About Clean-Energy Spending." San Francisco

Chronicle 9 Feb. 2007: C1. This article is an excellent source because it provides excellent evidence that big oil companies are cautious about spending money on alternative energy sources. It offers direct quotations from ranking members of large oil corporations. The article also provides important spending figures not only of oil companies, but also the United States government, on alternative energy research and development versus other expenditures and company profits. The article also cites some branches of companies that have been created supposedly specifically for alternative energy research. This article should help conclude the real desires of oil companies based on spending in different areas.

Carson, Iian. Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. New York: Twelve.

2007. This book will be very helpful in providing a scope of all the problems associated with big oil and alternative energy. Although all the information won't be helpful to me because it's too wide in scope for my specific topic, there is much valuable information contained in the book dealing specifically with my topic. It's a great source of information on the American people's perception of oil companies and the energy crisis we are in. It will also provide a look into Washington and relate oil companies to politics, something that could definitely add a spark to my paper. This could be my most important source for general information.

Company Dossier: LexisNexis Academic. Corporation Spending Reports.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/api/version1/sf?sfi=AC02NBCmpDosSrch&shr=t&secondRedirectIndicator=true The LexisNexis Academic website has a business directory that provides all business activity for the past several years. This is a critical source for my paper as I try to pinpoint how much money is spent on alternative energy by big oil companies when compared to other aspects of their budget. This provides excellent information on annual earnings, spending, income, top executives, stock reports, and many other valuable fields. I will use this website to compare all of the major oil companies with major car manufacturers who already have alternative source vehicles ready to hit the road. This source should provide excellent factual numbers and statistics.

Fischer, Perry A. "The Hydrogen Economy." World Oil. 226.3 (2005):  7.

This source is good because it discusses hydrogen a serious alternative energy, and not just for vehicles. It lays a foundation of the basic benefits of using hydrogen instead of fossil fuels like petroleum, and also lists some of the problems with using hydrogen (some of the same reasons oil companies list when asked why they don't invest in hydrogen immediately). Although there is less emphasis placed on cars in this article, there are interesting facts on hydrogen and using it to power fuel cells. This article gives good background information for the uses of hydrogen and how it could be the best alternative for the world economy of the future.

Nocera, Joe. "At Exxon's Can't Miss M3eeting." New York Times 31 May. 2008:

C8. The author of this article went to Exxon's annual meeting to report the state of the company, the past years numbers, and concerns that was held in the spring. This source will be extremely helpful since it discusses GIRLS NAME, granddaughter to founder of Exxon, opinions on how Exxon should be thinking about investment in alternative energy. It then goes on to talk about how these statements were opposed and the focus of Exxon should remain on oil.  The article also contains Exxon's record-breaking numbers from last year. This source will be very helpful in showing the focus of oil companies.

Simanatis, David. "A Fuel Cell Car In Our Driveway." Road and Track Oct. 2008: 150.

This source is helpful because it lays the foundation that car manufacturers have spent significant amounts of money on research and development to produce alternative source vehicles, in this case hydrogen fuel cell cars. The article also discusses the process of filling up at hydrogen filling stations, the cost of the stations, and the fact that the lack of filling stations is the main reasons these cars can't be widely distributed today. This articles is also helpful because it was written by the same author that writes a technology related article every month, and could provide a good interview opportunity.