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April, 2009
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Recently, the concept of providing trade-in vouchers for older cars that consumers can use only if they purchase new, more fuel-efficient vehicles has gained currency. These "cash-for-clunkers" proposals--two in the House of R...
Posted Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 9:29 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Oil Dependence, Transportation
If you haven’t already, spend some time reviewing the Energy Information Administration’s recently updated Annual Energy Outlook 2009. The revised modeling runs incorporate the effects of the current recession as well as the e...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 10:55 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply
The costs of scaling alternative renewables and the related complexities of climate change legislation are obstructing efforts to pass a comprehensive energy measure through Congress this year. In the words of the April 27th Pol...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pm | Filed in: Energy Security
At the end of this week, the prospects for various energy and climate proposals on Capitol Hill seem, if anything, less clear than they were seven days ago.
First comes what may be indications that cap and trade may not be a ...
Posted Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Legislation
Perhaps it's fitting that as a Nevada lawyer, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff is willing to gamble that the U.S. won't need new baseload power generation from nuclear or coal ("We may not need any, ever," reported Greenwire http://...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Renewables
Whether a debate in Congress this year over policies regarding offshore natural gas and oil exploration and production is ultimately effective at increasing our energy security may depend on whether amendments to a little-n...
Posted Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 5:54 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
Conventional wisdom can be dangerous. As humans, we are constantly seeking explanations to changes in our environment. But the fact that everybody “knows” something is occasionally simply indicative of the fact that a ...
Posted Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pm | Filed in: Oil Prices
Further confirming that the 2007-08 oil shock was a trigger, catalyst or multiplier for the U.S. recession is the work of UC San Diego Professor James Hamilton, reported in this morning's Financial Times and found on the web at ...
Posted Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 9:49 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Gas Prices, Oil Prices
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