Archive for
November, 2009
15 entries in this archive. Displaying 1-10 of 15
Last December, an ice storm in the northeastern United States caused damage to utility poles and wires, and left as many as one million people without electrical power. With temperatures below freezing and officials warning that...
Posted Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:42 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Electricity, National Security
Demand for oil resources is rising. By 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects that world demand for petroleum will increase by 21.2 million barrels per day, or roughly 25 percent compared to 2007 levels. Of this g...
Posted Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 4:37 am | Filed in: Energy Security
Liberating Iraq from the politically repressive and economically backwards regime of Saddam Hussein ought at this point to at least have liberated a few of the 40 billion barrels of oil known to be lying just underneath Kurdistan....
Posted Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 11:16 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply
There was a common thread in today’s crop of politics-of-cap-and-trade stories. First, E&E (http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/11/20/1/) reports that the default position for Republican candidates, even in squishier regions,...
Posted Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
This morning's Environment & Energy Daily has a nice piece on the current gridlock over transportation reauthorization (http://eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/11/19/1/). Despite a major bridge collapse in Minnesota more than two ye...
Posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Earlier today, President Obama and President Hu Jintao announced the launch of a U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative. As part of the initiative, the countries will: 1) explore development of joint product and testing stand...
Posted Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 9:59 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
On Monday morning at 10:00 a.m., business leaders representing the entire value chain of an electrified transportation system will hold a press conference in Washington, D.C. to announce the formation of the Electrification Coalit...
Posted Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 10:11 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
It’s been a relatively quiet week when it comes to the energy debate on Capitol Hill, and the question now is whether it may stay that way for the rest of the year—or longer.
Copenhagen is coming up fast, but now that the a...
Posted Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 7:44 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
'Tis the season for finalizing Federal agency budgets in exchanges between the various Departments and the Office of Management and Budget, which means it's also the season for strategic leaks of budget documents by fo...
Posted Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 5:31 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Nuclear, Uncategorized
