Friday, July 31, 2009

"Over a Barrel" - Part I

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I finally caught up with last Friday's broadcast of an ABC News special entitled, " Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil ." The ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Speculation and Physical Oil Prices

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The story above the fold on the front page of this morning's Wall St. Journal suggested that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (C...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Cooler Cars in California

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I was just perusing the month-old press release for the new regulation from California's Air Resources Board requiring car makers and au...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Big Algae?

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In spare moments during the last week I've been mulling over the implications of ExxonMobil's announcement of a very large investme...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

How Much Per Gallon?

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A book I recently received from a publisher makes an interesting contrast with last Friday's posting on how many cars our current oil p...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Going Farther on Oil

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As I was perusing my UC Davis alumni magazine last night I ran across a short article mentioning a new book from a professor, Dan Sperling, ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Apollo, Forty Years Later

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I couldn't let the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing pass by without comment, and not just because of what that event meant to ...
Monday, July 13, 2009

The Wrong Flex-Fuel

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An article in today's Wall St. Journal highlighted another of the more obscure provisions of the mammoth climate bill recently passed by...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Biodiesel from Sugar Cane

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I was intrigued by a story in yesterday's MIT Technology Today concerning a company that is applying biotechnology to convert Brazilian ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Speculation Witch Hunt?

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This morning's financial press was riveted by the prospect of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) imposing tough new regulat...
Monday, July 06, 2009

The Forgotten Renewable

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An editorial in the New York Times last week highlighted a topic I've been meaning to comment on for some time, the gradual demise of ou...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

An Energy Bill for the Other 92%

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Now that the Waxman-Markey Bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 --all 1428 pages of it--has been narrowly passed by the ...
Monday, June 29, 2009

The Gasoline Stimulus

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US gasoline prices have attracted a fair amount of attention recently, as they climbed from a national average of just over $2.00 per gallon...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Cap and Trade

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How much of an unappetizing jumble can you put into a dog's breakfast, before the dog refuses to eat it? That is the question that the a...