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October, 2009
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Right up until today, it looked like things had settled down a little in the energy debate on the Senate side. EPW was holding their hearings, a partisan bill would be reported out in order to have something to take to Copenhage...
Posted Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 8:20 am | Filed in: Legislation
Today the NYT's editors not suprisingly praise Chesapeake's decision not to exercise rights under a lease to produce natural gas within the area containing New York City's watershed (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29t...
Posted Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 6:08 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
Fisker Automotive announced yesterday that it will build the Nina sedan at the former General Motors (GM) plant in Delaware. With help from the $528 million government loan, this represents another step towards renewing and reen...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 8:16 am | Filed in: Electrification
Oil prices may have fallen yesterday, after weeks of steadily creeping upwards to $80 per barrel. Yet some experts believe that during 2010 they will make a serious comeback as economic growth and oil demand rebound from the reces...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Today’s weekly roundup is more of a roadmap on how the Senate climate bill is going to play out in the upcoming weeks. As we have noted here before, the Senate legislative calendar is quickly compacting, and Copenhagen starts in...
Posted Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm | Filed in: Legislation
Don't miss today's WaPo front page piece on how a retired bat-lover is holding up a wind energy project in poor, rural -- and windy - West Virginia. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR200910210128...
Posted Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 am | Filed in: Environment
Are American motorists ready for something new? Some signs suggest yes.
American drivers used to be loyal to a brand – in 1986, nearly 80% of new car owners bought the brand their household previously owned. Families would re...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 8:08 am | Filed in: Electrification, Gas Prices, Transportation
According to the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2009, new gasoline-powered cars get approximately 30 miles per gallon in fuel efficiency (Table 59). Depending on the size of the vehicle (compact, mid-size etc.) the capacity of th...
Posted Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 6:48 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Transportation
After a largely discouraging first 9 months of the year, this was the kind of week energy security proponents needed. With Copenhagen on the horizon and the prospect of an unproductive year staring them in the face, leading Democr...
Posted Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 10:13 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation
Today's WAPO headline (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101404054.html?hpid=topnews) delivers the grim news: "Cap-and-trade Would Slow Economy, CBO Chief Says."
The article paraphrases CBO...
Posted Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 7:18 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment
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