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U.S. gasoline demand in 2011 trended well below its recent history and may fall farther this year as fuel prices threaten to surpass record highs last reached in 2008. While SAFE wishes some of the credit for this falling gasoline...
Posted Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 12:37 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Demand, Oil Prices
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
This week, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil released their 2012 energy outlook, The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040. It’s an extensive document, projecting a 30 percent global increase in energy demand over the coming three dec...
Posted Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 1:29 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Demand, Energy Supply
The WaPo really misses the mark today in an unfortunate front-pager. In "Obama's green-car push struggles to pass 'go,'" the Post quotes "analysts" as believing that "the risk is rising that taxpayers in many cases will not se...
Posted Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at 10:53 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Electrification
What’s good news for Detroit automakers but bad news for our energy security? The Wall Street Journal reports today that the SUV is making a comeback, on gas prices which have remained below the $4 per gallon price level which...
Posted Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 1:52 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Demand, Energy Security
If you missed Saturday's WSJ, you missed a lot of energy news:
1. Ana Campoy and Stephanie Simon reported on a dispute in Oklahoma over a wind farm that may interfere with oil production. The Osage Nation owns the mineral r...
Posted Monday, November 28th, 2011 at 7:03 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence
Talk about an unanticipated benefit! Today's WaPo reports that
People who invest in hybrid cars are significantly less likely to be injured in an accident because their heavy batteries make the vehicles safer than tradition...
Posted Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 5:09 am | Filed in: Automotive, Economic Security, Electrification, National Security, Oil
This week, ten New England and Mid-Atlantic States announced the formation of a regional network to promote electric vehicles (EVs). The Northeast Electric Vehicle Network aims to enhance plug-in infrastructure in order to exped...
Posted Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
The costs and benefits of car ownership are difficult to weigh for many urban dwellers. Insurance, maintenance, increasingly high fuel prices, and the price of the vehicle itself are sometimes prohibitively expensive for the inf...
Posted Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 12:53 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
Strategies for reducing oil dependence range dramatically in ambition, scope, and effectiveness. When considering the most urgent among them, parking policy reform does not usually spring immediately to mind, but this does not m...
Posted Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 at 9:43 am | Filed in: Automotive, Policy, Transportation
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