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April, 2010
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Oil prices are still rising. And, quite rightly, people everywhere are still talking about what is responsible for it, whether it is justified by fundamentals, and what effect it is having.
Here are a couple of additional tho...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 at 10:52 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Senators Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Lieberman (I-CT), are apparently trying to introduce climate change legislation by Earth Day (April 22). There is, obviously, plenty of debate about how to use the revenues from a ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 12:10 pm | Filed in: Legislation
Gas taxes.
Oh . . . . the trouble we get into when we talk about raising gas taxes.
So I am not going to suggest that we increase gas taxes, even though thoughtful people on the left (here) and right (here, here) have st...
Posted Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 10:26 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
On Saturday night Seth Myers, sporting his usual grin and dishing out his weekly dose of rapid-fire news satire on the Weekend Update portion of SNL, offered a brief plug (if you will) to electric vehicles: “FedEx announced this...
Posted Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 10:00 am | Filed in: Electrification, Environment
What would be a game changer in the energy debate? A brand-new technology? Maybe, but unrealistic. A sudden discovery of new supplies of some crucial fuel? Less of a game changer, and still unrealistic. How about somethi...
Posted Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:58 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Gas Prices
This morning's ClimateWire (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/04/08/8/;subscription required) reports on a study released today by the Electrification Coalition (a partner organization of Securing America's Future Energy) co...
Posted Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at 6:26 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Today (April 6) at 9 AM EST, the official Chinese government news outlet Xinhua released an article entitled “Iran not to talk with major powers over its nuclear program.” These not-to-be-held talks are with the five permanent...
Posted Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 9:29 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Last week President Obama announced that gas development while he will not open up the Pacific Coast and some areas off of Alaska to drilling, he would move forward in some areas in the Atlantic and the southwest corner of the Eas...
Posted Monday, April 5th, 2010 at 9:01 pm | Filed in: Legislation
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you know that President Obama made an announcement on offshore oil and gas development on Wednesday. There’s been a lot of coverage about the announcement—almost al...
Posted Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
It finally appears as if winter is turning to spring in Washington, and as if healthcare’s season is turning to energy’s moment in the sun. More specifically, hope springs eternal that the days when climate eclipsed energy sec...
Posted Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 8:23 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Legislation, Oil Prices
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