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July, 2012
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The London Olympics are underway, and the games are an ideal venue to showcase a high density deployment of Electric Vehicles. BMW, which is providing around 4,000 total vehicles to make up the Olympic fleet, is providing 160 1-Se...
Posted Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 3:10 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
Recently oil prices reached above $107 and $90 for Brent and WTI references, respectively, due to increasing tensions in the Middle East. However, it is interesting to note that since 2009, upticks in the U.S. economy have usually...
Posted Thursday, July 26th, 2012 at 10:38 am | Filed in: Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
The big energy news this week is China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc)—not to be confused with China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation Limited (Sinopec) and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)—is acquiring C...
Posted Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 11:19 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply
As reported by the Wall Street Journal today, the past three week’s 18 percent rise in oil prices amid mixed economic news is really all about Iran. Market confidence in a diplomatic solution to the issue of Iran’s nuclear pro...
Posted Monday, July 23rd, 2012 at 12:37 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
This week, we took note of two very different accounts of the costs and benefits of hydraulic fracturing and domestic natural gas production. The first came from a special report on natural gas in the Economist magazine. The s...
Posted Thursday, July 19th, 2012 at 4:14 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas, Policy
If you think massive oil reserves protect a country from the whims of the global oil market, think again. Two articles this week, in the Financial Times, and the New York Times, underscore the energy woes of the planet’s two lar...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 11:52 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
In June plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) had another strong month when 3,318 of them were sold, bringing the total for the year to 17,530, a 161 percent increase over the 6,707 sold in the first half of 2011. This figure also repre...
Posted Monday, July 16th, 2012 at 8:42 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Gas Prices, Transportation
Last week, President Obama signed the new transportation bill into law, allocating roughly $105 billion through FY2014 into the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure. The bill keeps highway and transit spending roughly ...
Posted Friday, July 13th, 2012 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
Earlier this week, BP announced that it has decided to postpone an oil project on Alaska’s North Slope known as Liberty after concluding that it would be too expensive (over $1.5 billion) to pursue under their enhanced safety st...
Posted Thursday, July 12th, 2012 at 8:53 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence
Last night the Norwegian government stepped in and ended the two-week dispute over pensions between unions and major oil companies in the world’s fifth- largest oil exporter. Some offshore workers had been on strike since June 2...
Posted Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 at 3:22 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
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