Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Incredible Shrinking Energy Bill

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When legislation is introduced in the US Congress, most of the discussion typically concerns its specific provisions. Sometimes, as in the c...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

BP Shrinks by $16 Billion

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I've been going though BP's second-quarter earnings press release and results to get a better sense of the impact of the Gulf Coast ...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Pickens Plan, the Sequel

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How can you not love T. Boone Pickens? Here's someone who made his fortune in oil, and now he's advising us to switch major parts of...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

How Much Warmer?

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If the present global temperature trend continues for the remainder of the year, we're bound to hear a growing chorus of reports about 2...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Building a Market for Biofuels

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For the first time in many years I find myself in general agreement with one of the major ethanol trade associations on a key matter of ener...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Moratorium Follies

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This week Secretary of Interior Salazar reissued the administration's deepwater drilling moratorium, with a few new twists and a notion...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Small Nuclear Gets Real

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The quote of the day, as far as I'm concerned, comes from the head of Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy. " Bechtel doesn't g...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Whither Cap & Trade?

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Just a year ago it seemed a near-certainty that the US would eventually adopt some form of cap & trade mechanism for greenhouse gases (G...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Rejecting Reactive Energy Policy

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I see that BP now thinks it might be able to cap its leaking Macondo well this month, rather than sometime in August, barring a major hurric...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Putting Energy Security At Risk

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In catching up on a week's worth of news after my vacation, several stories caught my eye. The US Congress is apparently renewing its e...
Monday, June 28, 2010

The Energy Transition Is Already Underway

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Lately I've been struck by the number of new groups and proposals calling for America to begin the transition to cleaner energy. We eve...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Where's the Peak?

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I've been going through the International Energy Agency's new forecast for medium-term oil and natural gas markets, issued yesterday...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Revulsion vs. Hard Choices

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I don't know anyone who could gaze at the images of oil-slimed pelicans, gulls, and sea turtles and not feel revulsion and regret. Yet b...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Expand the Presidential Commission on Deepwater Horizon

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Amid the other news this week, including the President's address to the nation on the Gulf Coast oil disaster and his meeting with BP of...