Thursday, March 29, 2007

Spring Break

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Energy Outlook will be on Spring Break until Monday, April 9. In the meantime, in lieu of the usual re-runs, here are some links to recent a...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Too Many Branches

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A comment on a posting earlier this week got me thinking about why solving our energy problems looks deceptively simple, when it's actua...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Fill 'Er Up

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The Washington Post reports that when the auto industry CEOs met with President Bush yesterday, they pleaded for alternative fuel infrastruc...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Ratcheting Up Another Notch

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Last week's increase in crude oil prices seems to have had more to do with the fundamentals of supply and demand , than a change in perc...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Who's Right?

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Digital video recorders are wonderful. I was able to record former Vice President Gore's appearances before the House Energy and Commerc...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Questioning Ethanol

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In the space of a few years, ethanol has become the de -facto fuel of the future, but without the kind of extensive public debate that shoul...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Climate Change Tornado Chart

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In his column in today's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson considers some of the implications from last week's MIT Coal Study presen...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Gasoline Island

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Yesterday’s posting grew too long to include a relevant current example of the side-effects of California’s environmentally-driven de-indust...
Monday, March 19, 2007

The Green Coast

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Sunday's Washington Post reported on a decision by the Premier of British Columbia (BC) to back down on plans to build two coal-fired po...
Friday, March 16, 2007

The China Dilemma

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Between working on my taxes, I've been thinking about one of the issues raised at Wednesday's presentation on MIT's future coal ...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Oh Give Me A Home (for Carbon)

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Yesterday I attended the rollout of MIT's new study on the future of coal at the offices of Resources for the Future in D.C. The study...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Telling the Story

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Last week I was invited to participate in a conference call interviewing John Felmy, the Chief Economist of the American Petroleum Institute...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Resource Nationalism

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Every now and again you run across an article that presents such a topsy - turvy view of reality, so compellingly, that you just have to no...
Monday, March 12, 2007

What Savings?

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It's probably too early to tell whether we've escaped any serious glitches from the early switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST.) It ...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Trade Missions

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In the last week two powerful executives have taken important trips to meet with officials in nations that could supply the US with addition...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Joining Forces on Biofuels

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Last month BP made headlines with its announcement of a major biofuels research alliance with the Universities of California and Illinois, a...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Incentive Math

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Many people are excited about the fuel-saving potential of "plug-in" hybrid vehicles (PHEVs.) Once they can be produced in large n...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Multiple Choice Process

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This morning's email included a link to a Business Week article about a slate of new, non-traditional ethanol projects, including severa...
Monday, March 05, 2007

A Green Future

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Sunday's Washington Post Outlook section featured several articles prompted by last week's TXU deal, including an interesting commen...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Emissions Guilt

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Yesterday's Wall Street Journal included an article on the growing business of selling greenhouse gas emission offsets to consumers and ...