Archive for
August, 2009
19 entries in this archive. Displaying 11-19 of 19
This Sunday marks the season 3 premiere of the AMC hit, Mad Men, a show about a New York-based ad firm in the early 60s. In anticipation of this Sunday's deadline, my wife and I have been feasting on the season 2 DVDs this week. L...
Posted Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 8:59 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Legislation, Oil Dependence
Yesterday, the IEA also took particular notice of electric vehicles (EVs), and showed skepticism on two fronts: the potential of CO2 reduction and viability of commercialization. The IEA's concerns about cost were nothing ne...
Posted Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 9:18 am | Filed in: Electrification
As we all know, last year’s high oil prices and the ensuing recession led to a pretty substantial fall-off in oil demand, both globally and in the U.S. According to today’s weekly data release from EIA, U.S. oil demand is trai...
Posted Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 12:21 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand
Tracing the EV movement
We’ve been covering news on electric vehicles for some time, but were curious to see how these stories have progressed over the last 100 years. We did a search on “electric vehicle” using Google ...
Posted Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 8:01 am | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
Just because it's August doesn't mean that nothing is happening in the world of energy policy and politics. On the contrary, you can often find activity in the energy world-as long as you know where to look.
First, the Senate...
Posted Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Legislation, Transportation
A couple of interesting pieces on China and energy technology in recent days. First, today's Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0a173a8-81d8-11de-9c5e-00144feabdc0.html) reports that: "Beijing hinted on Wednesday at roo...
Posted Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 9:00 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security
There is a lot going on in the energy world today, but we took note of two particularly relevant developments.
First, the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change released a report entitled "Energy Security: A national challe...
Posted Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am | Filed in: Energy Supply
Volatility in oil prices is once again in the limelight, as Brent crude rose to a 2009 high of $73.87 per barrel yesterday. Today, the Financial Times reported on an interview with International Energy Agency (IEA) chief economi...
Posted Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
Congress may pass an energy and climate bill this fall. Or just an energy bill. Or just the natural gas vehicles bill that Senator Reid supported within the past few weeks. Or maybe nothing.
There is no doubt, however, t...
Posted Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security
«Previous Post Next Post»
Financial Times
