Monday, March 31, 2008

Real Trade-offs

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In systems with as many complex inter-connections as our national and global energy networks, every decision about new capacity entails diff...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Ethanol Synergies and Subsidies

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Many Americans have the mistaken idea that oil companies don't like ethanol. Perhaps this derives from the general lack of enthusiasm of...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Yukos II?

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The Russian government's recent moves against TNK-BP , the main Russian joint venture of BP, echo the early stages of its 2004 battle to...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Full Disclosure on Fuel Taxes

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A pair of opinion pieces in yesterday's New York Times addressed the merits of taxing energy from entirely different perspectives. But w...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Malthus and Renewable Energy

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The Limits to Growth are back, yet another 1970s concept making a comeback. A front-page article in today's Wall Street Journal highlig...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Friendly Fire

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When it first came to light that an obscure provision of the 2007 Energy Bill would bar imports of synthetic oil that entailed higher emissi...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Crisis Management

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I wanted to offer a few more thoughts after yesterday's lengthy posting about the nature of the energy crisis in which we find ourselves...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

A Complex Energy Crisis

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A year ago, it was possible to debate both sides of the question, "Are we in an energy crisis?" with roughly equal vigor. There we...
Monday, March 17, 2008

The Road Not Taken

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This week marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. With the outcome of November's US presidential election hinging at l...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Climate Policy Guidebook

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Now that the debate in the US has largely moved beyond the existence of climate change and on to its potential solutions, there's a grea...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Diesel Blues

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Except for truckers and the few Americans who own diesel automobiles, most of us pay little attention to the price of diesel fuel at the pum...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Bursting Bubbles

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The possibility of an oil price bubble has been discussed since at least 2005 , when oil was trading in the $50s and $60s per barrel. At the...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Limiting CO2 from Oil Sands

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For a decade Canada's expanding oil sands production has been on a collision course with the country's commitment to reduce greenhou...
Monday, March 10, 2008

The Path to Zero

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An article in today’s Washington Post reported on new scientific research suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases must be reduced to ...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Weak Dollar Fallout

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Wednesday evening I was interviewed by a news radio station in Kingston, Jamaica. Unfortunately, it took place by telephone, rather than on ...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

When Electrons Beat Molecules

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Yesterday I nearly missed a very significant piece of news--a signpost of the future, if you will--because it was buried in the B section of...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The Future of Gas

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Not many years ago, natural gas was widely regarded as the fuel of the future. Its use was growing at a much faster rate than for oil, and i...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

A Stall Point for Oil?

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It's been a long time since the oil markets offered much good news, particularly on the supply side. Since the end of 2002, a litany of ...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Misleading Statistics

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In its editorial on the pending energy tax bill, today's New York Times repeats a frequently-heard, but dangerously misleading pair of s...