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April, 2010
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Political observers may not be able to look ahead even a few weeks to gauge whether energy legislation stands a chance of being enacted this year, but you know the future is now when underwater robots are helping with the Gulf oil...
Posted Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 11:09 am | Filed in: Electrification, Gas Prices, Legislation
43 years after Andy Williams recorded the song whose first line is excerpted above -- and 10 years after the NIMBY battle over the Cape Cod wind farm began, the Administration yesterday approved America's first off-shore wind farm...
Posted Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 6:49 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity
Almost seven months ago, this writer asked if Great Britain had received oil in exchange for releasing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the man found guilty in connection to the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotla...
Posted Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 5:43 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
Some weeks ago, this blog reported on the link between Greece’s economic crisis and world oil markets. Yesterday, a senior German banker told Bloomberg News that “The situation in Greece has an indirect impact on the oil marke...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 at 6:55 am | Filed in: Oil Prices
While we may learn more later today, it seem that the prospects of Congress passing climate change legislation, probably a long shot to begin with, have become even dimmer. With what appears to be Senator’s Graham’s withdr...
Posted Monday, April 26th, 2010 at 8:45 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Weekly Political Roundup – Walking the Walk
As oil prices continue their uptick heading into the heaviest driving season, the long anticipated Kerry-Graham-Lieberman energy-climate legislation is set to be unveiled on Monday....
Posted Friday, April 23rd, 2010 at 7:22 am | Filed in: Legislation
Hard-core representatives of organized environmental interest groups (aka "enviros") like to believe that the challenge of global climate change merits action on its own, with no consideration for political deals or trade-offs. ...
Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, National Security
A series of eruptions from the Eyjafjallajökull (pronunciation) volcano in Iceland, and the resulting plume of ash, has grounded air travel across Europe since April 15th. In the past 24 hours, airspace in several European coun...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 8:13 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity
An exhaustive study of 17 years’ worth of data on the use of productive farmland came to the following conclusion, according to one of the Michigan State University researchers:
"It's 36 percent more efficient to grow grain f...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 8:06 am | Filed in: Alternatives
Don't miss Jim Woolsey's piece in the WSJ today. (http://online.wsj.com/ -- subscription required). For those who haven't been following the energy security/oil addiction debate, Woolsey -- former Director of the CIA under Pr...
Posted Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 8:32 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
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