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July, 2009
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Today, July 15, 2009, marks the 30th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter's infamous "crisis of confidence" Oval Office address. The speech is more commonly referred to as the "malaise speech," although Carter never used that wor...
Posted Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 3:16 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security
On July 7, the CFTC (US Commodities and Futures Trade Commission) put forward a proposal to limit speculative trading of oil and natural gas. Specifically, the CFTC proposed to: 1) impose limits on trading and positions an...
Posted Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 2:37 pm | Filed in: Oil Prices
With growing interest in wind, it occurred to us that it would be interesting to know how much space a wind farm would need to generate the same output as a conventional power plant.
Many nuclear power plants in the United States...
Posted Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 8:51 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Renewables
“We'll be in until Christmas.”
-Senator Barbara Boxer
Not a phrase anyone who toils in Washington would ever want to hear, but not one that comes as a shock this year. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) vocalized what many have...
Posted Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 7:48 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation
Some international law professors introduce the topic to their students this way: "The thing to remember about international law is that there is none." There are few better examples of this than the annual leaders' retreat kn...
Posted Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 8:03 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil Dependence
Reformed oil man T. Boone Pickens joined Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) at a press conference on Capitol Hill today to announce the introduction of the NAT GAS Act. A summary of the bill ...
Posted Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Natural Gas
When President Obama increased fuel economy standards, there was little mention of the unavoidable loss in gasoline tax revenues. Fuel taxes on gasoline and diesel account for 90 percent of income for the Highway Trust Fund ...
Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Legislation, Transportation
There is no doubt that the government sometimes needs to push industry to adopt new standards that it might not otherwise adopt for the public good. Efficiency standards are, perhaps, one of the best examples of such regulat...
Posted Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 10:59 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Environment, Legislation
This week’s Medium-Term Oil Market Report (MTOMR) by the International Energy Agency (IEA) offered yet another contribution to the heated debate on peak oil demand. In its lower GDP scenario, IEA essentially flat lines glo...
Posted Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 11:02 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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