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The year 2009 was generally one of reduced economic activity—and therefore reduced demand for oil—in the United States. Total oil consumption averaged just 18.7 million barrels per day (mbd) according to the BP Statistical R...
Posted Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 1:40 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Economics, Oil Dependence
We find it worth clarifying the widely stated, yet mistaken assertion that by shifting to electric vehicles and clean energy we are simply substituting one kind of foreign dependency with another—oil for rare earth elements.
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Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Economics, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
We often blog in this space about the collision between environmental laws passed in the 1970s and the energy security requirements of the 21st century. And advocates often point to energy efficiency as the "silver bullet" in bo...
Posted Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 10:31 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security
Rare earth elements (REE) are a collection of seventeen chemically similar metallic elements (scandium, yttrium and the fifteen lanthanides), forming the largest chemically coherent group in the periodic table. Due to their versat...
Posted Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 1:30 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security
The notion of having the government intervene to spark growth in new industries has received a lot of attention lately, particularly in Congressional debates around whether or not to support the development and deployment of el...
Posted Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 6:20 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Economics, Legislation
The distinction between domestically produced and imported oil has been a subject of considerable debate and confusion. From an energy security standpoint, a common argument goes that increased production of oil in the United St...
Posted Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
An unfortunate decision that should remind us all how the implementation of policy and regulations can imperil our energy security is reported this morning in the Energy Daily (http://www.theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/EPA-Rej...
Posted Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 8:25 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Security
