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A bipartisan group of former U.S. ambassadors joined forces today to officially launch the Diplomatic Council on Energy Security (DCES)—a project of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE). The members of t...
Posted Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 9:33 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Many papers report today that North Dakota is now the second leading state in terms of oil production, having passed Alaska and now trailing only Texas.
The WSJ puts it this way:
North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the ...
Posted Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 7:00 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
What is driving the current surge in American petroleum production, how will it influence the nation’s energy landscape, what are the implications for our energy security, and what is the relationship between energy security and...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 8:53 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
There’s some bad news for Social Security this week, as its insolvency date has been pushed up by three years, according to the government’s yearly forecast. And, just as rising energy prices have cut into the economic recover...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 6:46 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Prices
The Financial Times has great coverage this week of the situation in Iran. Commodities editor Javier Blas reported on Tuesday that Iranian sanctions are working—maybe even a little too well. The original goal of the sanctions wa...
Posted Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, National Security, Oil
Securing America’s Future Energy has released a new intelligence report detailing the surprising linkage between two pressing international economic and national security crises: Greece’s sovereign debt and Iran’s nuclear am...
Posted Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 at 2:45 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
Michael Birnbaum and Anthony Faiola's piece in this morning's WaPo, "Solar industry faces subsidy cuts in Europe," is well worth a read, particularly for the comment of David Baldock, identified as executive director for the Ins...
Posted Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 8:59 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Policy, Renewables
20 days. Check.
Yes, national average gasoline prices have increased for the past 20 days in a row. Today, they reached $3.70 for Regular—the “cheapest” option (accessed February 27, 2012).
This is not new—prices...
Posted Monday, February 27th, 2012 at 12:03 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Economic Security, Energy Demand, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence
"Rising oil prices are emerging once again as a threat to the U.S. economic recovery just as it appears to be gaining momentum." That's the lead sentence in today's front page WSJ article, "Oil Price Rise Imperils Budding Recove...
Posted Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 7:33 am | Filed in: Economic Security, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Last month, we discussed the growth of the trade deficit in November 2011, due in large part to petroleum imports, stating, “One of the “upsides” of the financial crisis was decreased oil consumption, which led to a narrowed...
Posted Friday, February 10th, 2012 at 1:17 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
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