Wednesday, March 31, 2004

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The Dismal Segment Just as economics is the "dismal science", petroleum refining is the dismal segment of the oil business. I st...
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

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High Tech Power Grid Aside from providing a sharp non-US perspective on things, the Economist puts out a good series of periodic reports on...
Monday, March 29, 2004

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Orphan Cars In the 1980s and early 1990s, consumers had to worry about buying computers that would turn into "orphans" when their...
Friday, March 26, 2004

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Frontier Outpost This week the Wall St. Journal Online carried an interview with Amory Lovins, the guru and founder of the Rocky Mountain I...
Thursday, March 25, 2004

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Record Gasoline Prices? A recent article on gasoline prices included a surprising historical graph (you'll have to scroll down a bit to...
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

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Smart Cars Anyone who has traveled to Europe in the last several years has probably noticed the tiny Smart cars driving--and easily parking...
Tuesday, March 23, 2004

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OPEC Waffles Last month OPEC ministers decided to reduce oil production in the second quarter, even though the market is currently at histo...
Monday, March 22, 2004

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Numerators and Denominators An article in yesterday's New York Times, quoted opponents of oil and gas drilling in Montana's Front R...
Thursday, March 18, 2004

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Making Lemonade A recent article on the prospect for further tightening of the global market for metallurgical coke, the carbon source for ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

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Reaping the Wind It seems appropriate to follow a discussion of solar energy with one on wind power, since they share many characteristics,...
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

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Solar Moves Mainstream Last week General Electric announced it was buying the assets of the bankrupt solar power manufacturer, AstroPower ....
Monday, March 15, 2004

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Oil Reserves vs. Strategy The Wall St. Journal has done an excellent job of covering the reserves problems at Shell without resorting to se...
Friday, March 12, 2004

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Nuclear Genie Nuclear proliferation has been in the news a lot lately, between concerns about North Korea's weapons program and the eve...
Thursday, March 11, 2004

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Unintended Environmental Damage This fascinating article by a former Greenpeace activist details some of the unintentional fallout of conce...
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

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Proven Oil Reserves? The ongoing shakeup at Royal Dutch/Shell over the recent restatement of their oil reserves is beginning to acquire the...
Tuesday, March 09, 2004

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Venezuelan Politics This short but insightful article from the Financial Times covers another electoral process that Americans should be wa...
Monday, March 08, 2004

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Image vs. Environment The NY Times carried an amusing post-Academy Awards article over the weekend, contrasting the stars who drove Hummers...
Friday, March 05, 2004

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Cheap Oil? A friend forwarded a recent article in Business Week that suggests the era of cheap oil is over, due to a combination of increas...
Wednesday, March 03, 2004

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China Big The People's Republic of China recently passed a significant milestone: it now imports more crude oil than any country other ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2004

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Fire or Ice? Two recent articles in the New York Times highlight growing concerns about the possible consequences of climate change, genera...