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October, 2010
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This week, most national media outlets had their cameras focused solely on the elections next Tuesday. With all this attention, it may have been easy to miss the Obama Administration’s announcement of higher fuel efficiency st...
Posted Friday, October 29th, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Transportation
Owen Fletcher and Zhang Yajun report in today's WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101027-725899.html) that a "consensus is forming" in the Chinese government to " to take fully electric cars as the main strategic directi...
Posted Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at 8:16 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security, Oil Dependence
Today's Energy Daily (www.theenergydaily.com, subscription required) puts an election-year spin on DOE's decision this week (http://www.energy.gov/news/9711.htm) to issue a $350 million conditional loan guarantee "to develop the ...
Posted Thursday, October 21st, 2010 at 6:40 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Renewables
Today, the Wall Street Journal had a poll (in WSJ Asia online) asking “What’s the highest barrier for electric cars?” A total of 186 votes were cast. 37 percent of voters said that range was the largest barrier. 22 per...
Posted Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 at 7:03 am | Filed in: Electrification
This week, energy news was dominated by the Obama Administration’s announcement of the lifting of its moratorium on offshore drilling six weeks earlier than expected. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in the NY Times, stated t...
Posted Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 8:34 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Legislation, Oil Dependence
Interesting headlines today on the Administration's decision to partially increase the allowable blend of ethanol in gasoline from 10% to 15% (for vehicles model year 2007 and later). They point up the differences between the ve...
Posted Thursday, October 14th, 2010 at 1:18 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security
The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told reporters today that half of the world’s oil supplies could come from offshore production by 2015. Not necessarily a surprising statistic—approximately one...
Posted Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 7:40 am | Filed in: Oil Prices
With congressional elections less than a month away, candidates spent this week solidifying their energy stances to voters.
House Minority Leader John Boehner continued his offensive against cap and trade. In Greenwire he sta...
Posted Friday, October 8th, 2010 at 1:42 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation
For those familiar with the state of state Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), recent news out of Indiana is disturbing, but perhaps not shocking.
As reported by The Energy Daily (www.theenergydaily.com, subscription required),...
Posted Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 8:55 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities
Congress adjourned this week without a vote on energy policy, and as Senators head home for elections, most in Washington are left wondering, what’s next?
Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on his new, slimmed-down ...
Posted Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 9:14 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Legislation
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