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January, 2012
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Sunday's NYT had a thoughtful piece on the latest revision by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of their estimates about the U.S. natural gas resource base.
As Ian Urbina reported:
The agency estimated that there...
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 7:00 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Natural Gas, Policy
As January comes to a close, President Obama has unofficially kicked off his reelection campaign with the State of the Union Address, and Congress is back in full swing Has the time has come for some real progress on energy policy...
Posted Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 12:39 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Policy
Tuesday night in President Obama’s third State of the Union Address, energy once again took a front seat. The speech included provisions to please both sides of the aisle: continuing to increase offshore drilling, expanded clean...
Posted Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 3:43 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
We're betting that five years from now, the 2011-12 rough patch GM hit with the Volt with be viewed as just that, a rough patch and nothing more. It'd be surprising if a game-changing new product introduction went off without a ...
Posted Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 7:23 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification
Today, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) released a new report, Congestion in America: A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security. The report emphasizes the crucial interaction between transportation policy and the challe...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
Two articles in the Sunday NYT bookended the concept of intervening in energy markets to advance public policy goals or correct market failures. One, entitled "Lobbyist Helps a Project He Financed in Congress," will be more Soly...
Posted Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 7:02 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Energy Demand, Legislation, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
It isn't often that we get to cheer a lead editorial in the WaPo, but today is such a day, as yesterday President Obama did the completely expected and denied the permit -- after the State Department's EIS had found the project sh...
Posted Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 10:14 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness recently released their report addressing comprehensive strategy recommendations to improve the job market. The report is comprised of a three pronged strategy, “Invest in th...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 3:16 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Legislation, Policy
As our oil supply continues to be threatened over Iran’s war games in the Strait of Hormuz (read SAFE’s Intelligence Report here). This week, much of the news coverage has focused on European Union deliberations over sanctions...
Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 1:38 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil, Oil Prices
Multiple WSJ articles this morning with implications for natural gas -- and one in Bloomberg worth paying attention to.
First, in "Glut Hits Natural-Gas Prices," the WSJ reports:
U.S. energy companies are pumping so much na...
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 9:03 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas
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