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January, 2010
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The State of the Union on Wednesday was not the only public sign of a possible shift on energy and climate legislation. Even before the president appeared to back gently away from cap and trade legislation (as discussed in yeste...
Posted Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation
The great Washington pastime of reading between the lines of the President's State of the Union address is in full swing. If the POTUS had last night said "I support the Waxman-Markey bill and ask the Senate to pass it" -- that ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Renewables
The Financial Times reported yesterday that Kazakhstan is threatening to extract higher taxes from western oil majors. Contracts on the country’s three largest oil projects (led by ChevronTexaco, BG/Eni and Eni respectively) w...
Posted Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 8:05 am | Filed in: Energy Supply
A SAFE Intelligence Report published this month (not yet publicly available) discusses the issue of energy infrastructure cyber security – in other words, the vulnerability of our nation’s electricity, oil, and gas facilities ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 7:56 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security
Republican Scott Brown’s upset Senate win in the quintessential Blue State of Massachusetts has Democrats fretting about the state of their stalled agenda and now-hemorrhaging majority. Energy security hawk, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D...
Posted Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 12:43 pm | Filed in: Legislation
Reuters is reporting comments from the number two leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer (D-MD), that breathe new life into the on-going debate about whether to pass economy-boosting energy security legislation t...
Posted Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Environment
In two recent posts (“Is Oil Overvalued?” and “Oil Prices: Speculation vs. Fundamentals”), we have highlighted the always volatile issue of crude oil prices. The first post asked why despite a global recession and health...
Posted Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 7:27 am | Filed in: Oil Prices
Last week this blog pointed out the current oil price conundrum – extremely high spare capacity of upwards of 4 million barrels per day (mmbd) coinciding with high oil prices. Speculation or rebounding demand?
At yesterday’...
Posted Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 8:22 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
Today's FT has an nice little blog by Kate MacKenzie entitled "Carbon emissions reduction without cap-and-trade" about various thinking on the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Let's expand on -- and maybe clarify -- ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Environment
This morning WTI crude traded at above $80 per barrel. A year ago they traded closer to $40 per barrel. The OECD oil demand projection is set to fall by 4.3% (-2.0 mb/d) year-on-year in 2009 and remain flat in 2010. Notably,...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 6:02 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
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