Thursday, February 24, 2011

Are Strategic Inventories Adequate to Handle Another Oil Crisis?

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In a thought-provoking op-ed , Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations has provided a very timely reminder of the role that the str...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Libya's Ripples for Energy Markets

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The unrest that began in Tunisia and Egypt has now destabilized a country that exports important quantities of petroleum, and the oil market...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Is High-Speed Rail Worth Its Cost?

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The editors of the Washington Post have expressed serious reservations concerning the administration's plans for investing up to $53 bil...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cutting the Federal Budget Wisely

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This week the administration issued its third budget since taking office in January 2009. In a year otherwise focused on belt-tightening, th...
Monday, February 14, 2011

The "Water-Food-Energy Nexus"

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A summary of annual risk forecasts in a Linked-In group led me to a very interesting presentation on global risks from the World Economic Fo...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Food vs. Fuel, Redux

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Today's Washington Post includes a noteworthy opinion piece from Tim Searchinger of Princeton University concerning the impact of expand...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

EV Rebates vs. Tax Credits

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Having recently taken a hard look at the cost/benefit of the proposed expansion of federal electric vehicle tax credits up to $19 billion, i...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Storing Wind Power in Gasoline

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I just read an intriguing article by the inventor of a scheme for using the energy in off-peak wind power to recycle waste CO2 into hydrocar...
Friday, February 04, 2011

Renewable Energy and Egyptian Unrest

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It's hard to watch the current turmoil in Egypt and not wonder what it means for us, particularly with regard to energy. Although Egypt...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Do Light Bulbs Matter?

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The edition of USA Today delivered to my hotel room yesterday morning included an interesting point / counterpoint concerning legislation t...
Friday, January 28, 2011

What Does $19 Billion Buy?

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I see in the Washington Post that two members of Michigan's Congressional delegation have proposed more than doubling the current federa...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Sputnik State of the Union

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Energy didn't feature as prominently in last night's State of the Union Address as it has in some years, including last year's s...
Monday, January 24, 2011

The Regulatory-Ethanol Complex

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The US Environmental Protection Agency has a problem, and that problem is ethanol. Last Friday the EPA expanded its previous waiver on ethan...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Fueling the World's Growth

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Several articles led me to what is apparently BP's first-ever public long-term energy forecast, " BP Energy Outlook 2030 ", wh...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Displacing More Oil from Power Generation

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Increasing the US contribution of wind and solar power, geothermal energy, and even nuclear power would have virtually no effect on our oil ...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Commodity Cycles and Renewable Energy Costs

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It's an article of faith for many that the costs of renewable energy sources will continue to decline, even while the costs of many othe...