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Benoit Faucon has a distressing piece in today's WSJ, reporting that "India increased its imports of Iran's oil to become its largest customer last month, partly offsetting a cut in Chinese purchases, as sanctions failed to signif...
Posted Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 7:10 am | Filed in: Economic Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
Sunday's NYT had a thoughtful piece on the latest revision by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of their estimates about the U.S. natural gas resource base.
As Ian Urbina reported:
The agency estimated that there...
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 7:00 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Natural Gas, Policy
As our oil supply continues to be threatened over Iran’s war games in the Strait of Hormuz (read SAFE’s Intelligence Report here). This week, much of the news coverage has focused on European Union deliberations over sanctions...
Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 1:38 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil, Oil Prices
As 2011 comes to a close—and with oil market uncertainty and risk seemingly rising in 2012—it’s worth taking note of the fact that spending on fuel prices soared to record highs in 2011. This article from UPI cites data fr...
Posted Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 11:37 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Gas Prices
Normally, the big energy news over the weekend at this time of year would be the results of the United National Climate Conference to implement the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, since a large porti...
Posted Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 5:14 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Renewables, Uncategorized
A fascinating article in today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the United States is slated to become a net exporter of petroleum fuels, for the first time in 62 years since the post World War II economic boom. Although this...
Posted Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
The weekend WSJ had a great piece by Liam Denning, "Fueling a Sneak Attack on Crude-Oil Prices." Denning contrasted the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 15-ton bomb designed to blow up underground bunkers containing, hypotheti...
Posted Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 6:08 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, 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
Solyndra continues to dominate the news. Saturday's WaPo front pager by Joe Stephens and Carol Leonnig:
On Friday, the release of a new round of White House documents added more details, whosing concerns among senior advisers...
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 7:23 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
In Iowa yesterday, some of the GOP presidential hopefuls laid down their energy strategies. Voters can go cross-eyed trying to spot differences between the candidates on this issue—they are almost universally aligned on cuttin...
Posted Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 12:42 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Policy
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