Friday, September 29, 2006

Collateral Brand Damage

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I've been wondering how long it would take for the increasingly anti-American tone and actions of Venezuela's president to harm the ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

The $4 Floor

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Although it hasn't garnered the headlines that have accompanied the recent drop in gasoline prices, the decline in the natural gas marke...

Macroengineering

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In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a few scientists questioned whether it might be time to evaluate the long-term siting of Ne...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Reconciling Hydrogen Engines

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There's a lot of value in periodically reassessing your assumptions. It might not always change your mind, but occasionally you'll f...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Dueling Worldviews

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Tomorrow I'll be traveling to attend J.S. Herold's annual " Pacesetters Energy Conference ," at which I'm moderating a...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Chavez on the Loose

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If they didn't carry serious implications for our country, the antics of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez this week would have been...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

The Other Shoe

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We have reached a major milestone in our approach to climate change, with politicians of every stripe positioning themselves as leaders on t...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Freezing Carbon

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Yesterday afternoon, one of my readers alerted me to an interesting development on the climate change front. At a speech in New York on Mond...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Choosing a Legacy

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When Russia shook off seven decades of Communism in the 1990s, reactions in the West ranged from widespread optimism and hope to somber skep...
Monday, September 18, 2006

The Louder Message?

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Today's Washington Post includes an op-ed on energy policy by Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R, NY,) chair of the House Science Commi...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Studying Peak Oil

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As I've noted previously, Peak Oil has become a mainstream idea in a remarkably short period, no doubt helped along by high oil prices. ...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Mood Swings

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The steady drop in gasoline prices, week after week, must come as a great relief to most Americans, after a seven-month stretch in which the...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Climate Blues

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Still catching up on last week's news, there's another aspect of the recent Gulf Coast deep water oil discovery that's worth con...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

The Great Arbitrage

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Whenever I want to convey how big the global energy industry is, I compare it to the only other human endeavor on a similar scale, agricultu...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Five Years Later

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Within a few days after the attacks of 9/11/01, a small group of my colleagues in Texaco's long-range strategy group gathered to conside...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

Labor Day Week

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I'm taking advantage of the Labor Day holiday to spend some family time out west. Energy Outlook will be on vacation this week, resuming...
Friday, September 01, 2006

Seeing Corners

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After 12 months of bad news on the energy front, we've finally had a pretty good week. Ernesto, which seemed destined to turn into yet a...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Higher Alcohols

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After seeing another ad touting it in the Wall Street Journal, I finally Googled on " biobutanol ", a new alternative fuel being p...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Shifts vs. Shocks

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For several years I have been commenting on the transformation of Venezuela's oil industry from a highly professional, arms-length opera...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Globalization and Energy

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A recent article on the Fed Chairman's view of globalization in the Washington Post got me thinking about the relationship between globa...