Monday, October 31, 2005

Trouble Closer to Home

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While it has become fashionable to worry about the future reliability of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves (see Friday's posting ) we migh...
Friday, October 28, 2005

Saudi Oil Conspiracy!

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My regular readers may be surprised by the tabloid-style title of today's posting. They ought to be equally surprised and dismayed by a ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Storm Signals

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2005 has been an extraordinary year for natural disasters and unusual weather, and there are still two months remaining. People of many pers...

Future Cars 2005

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I love car shows. That's partly because I fell in love with cars as a teenager, but also because car shows give you more hints than you...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

A Balanced Tax?

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As gas prices retreat from the highs triggered by the two hurricanes, I expect to hear more suggestions along the lines of yesterday's N...
Monday, October 24, 2005

Looking East

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BP made news recently with a set of announcements concerning some big investments in India and China. They will apparently invest several bi...
Friday, October 21, 2005

Are We Ready?

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For more than 20 years, it's been nearly an article of faith that no new nuclear power plant would be built in this country. Last year, ...
Thursday, October 20, 2005

Tackling Demand

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With the US energy industry beginning what promises to be a long recovery from the Katrina/Rita double-whammy, it's worth reminding ours...
Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Energy Policy vs. Energy Plans

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Some interesting comments on yesterday's posting got me thinking about what optimism and pessimism mean in the context of increasing the...
Tuesday, October 18, 2005

The Contrarian View

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One of the consultants I used to work with liked to remind workshop attendees of a psychological phenomenon called "availability bias....
Monday, October 17, 2005

Two Double-A Cells at a Time

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I received several comments on last week's post relating to energy density , mostly disputing my suggestion that low-density sources suc...
Friday, October 14, 2005

Petroleum Bomb

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I'm at a conference, so today's posting will be brief. Former Secretary of State George Schultz and former CIA Director James Woolse...
Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Hurricane Scenario

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A train ride to D.C. provided an opportunity to catch up on my large backlog of articles, including this one from the New York Times (which ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Where the Lunch Bill Gets Paid

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One of the repeated themes of this blog is the tradeoffs inherent in our decisions about energy consumption and supply policies--tradeoffs w...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Highly Focused Wind

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Wind power is one of the most competitive alternative energy technologies, but it suffers from two important drawbacks: The air currents pow...
Monday, October 10, 2005

Bubble, Bubble?

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I must lead a sheltered life, since the first suggestion I've seen that anyone thinks oil prices and the stock prices of oil companies m...
Friday, October 07, 2005

Shooting the Messenger

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Congress is rushing to respond to some of the energy shortcomings exposed by the hurricanes. Here's a good article at Econbrowser on HR ...
Thursday, October 06, 2005

Europe's Shift to Diesel Fuel

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As we ponder how to improve our fuel economy in light of $3.00 gasoline, the first thing that comes to mind for many is the hybrid, with a p...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Nuclear Waste, Or Is It?

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Late last year I commented on the delays affecting approval of the proposed nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. After ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Market Imperfections

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This post started out as a response to a comment, but after I'd written several paragraphs, I realized it should stand on its own. A rea...