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Back in the day when there was bipartisanship, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Congress enacted, and President George W. Bush signed into law, the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Before "all of the above" became a mantra, ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 6:41 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence
A well meaning concept is being applied in the Senate Energy Committee in a way that will unreasonably block robust bipartisan energy security measures. The idea is facially attractive: any new program moving through the commi...
Posted Thursday, July 7th, 2011 at 5:35 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Legislation
If we need any further proof that America’s oil dependence keeps us beholden to outside players, we can look to comments made by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal earlier this week. Voicing what can be interpreted as the...
Posted Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 10:02 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Oil Prices
DOE's innovative energy technology loan guarantee program represents, in the mind of many, the most cost-effective form of taxpayer support for technology deployment. Championed by the bipartisan duo of New Mexican Senators -- P...
Posted Thursday, April 21st, 2011 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Legislation, Policy
Coverage of the POTUS speech yesterday included the clean energy angle in ClimateWire, courtesy of Evan Lehmann. Lehmann quotes the Obama line that gave hope to clean energy technology advocates:
"I will not sacrifice the...
Posted Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 7:22 am | Filed in: Alternatives
Today, with gas prices climbing and turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East showing no signs of abatement, policy makers should be focused like a laser beam on energy security, oil and gasoline prices, domestic production, etc...
Posted Thursday, April 7th, 2011 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security
On Friday, President Obama announced efforts to reduce petroleum consumption in trucks and other fleet vehicles. The White House released another fact sheet linking this initiative with the President’s speech earlier last week...
Posted Monday, April 4th, 2011 at 5:33 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Policy
While they may not be in the same league as fusion in terms of being permanently just decades away from making a strong contribution to the US energy mix, renewables are not making the gains forecast by proponents -- and with nat...
Posted Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 8:30 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities
With natural gas hovering around $4 per MMBtu, it's an interesting time to be proposing a feed-in tariff for offshore wind energy. But that's exactly what's happening in Maryland, and this morning's WaPo has an interesting piec...
Posted Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 9:05 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Renewables
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