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The Census Bureau released March trade data today, and despite U.S. companies selling the most goods and services overseas in nearly two decades, a big jump in oil prices pushed the nation’s trade deficit to its highest level si...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 9:36 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Once again, the price of oil is making Americans nervous. In response, today, President Obama set a goal of reducing import oil by one third within 10 years. As Congress and the president face off over energy policy, we should...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 4:18 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
This week, Congress was once again unable to reach a compromise on a long-term budget, instead passing the sixth short-term continuing resolution (CR) of FY 2011, which will now fund the government through April 8. While lawmake...
Posted Friday, March 18th, 2011 at 2:15 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Gas Prices, Legislation
Dina Maron reports in this morning's ClimateWire that: "Ethanol is once again in the hot seat." We say, "good!"
One positive outcome of the current focus on our federal deficit and debt woes is that attention must be paid t...
Posted Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 8:06 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Policy, Renewables
Justin Lahart in today's WSJ: "Rising Oil Prices Raise the Specter of a Double Dip." Yep. A year ago, energy-minded folks were wondering whether spring would bring Middle East chaos caused by an Israeli preemptive strike on ...
Posted Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 6:50 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
The Census Bureau released December trade deficit data last week, and the picture on oil imports was not reassuring, as one might have expected. You can access the full report here. With oil prices averaging $89.15 per barrels...
Posted Saturday, February 19th, 2011 at 5:31 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
This morning's WSJ reports on rising oil prices and rising food prices, which leads us to question: are our policies serving our interests?
First oil prices, as reported by Jerry Dicolo:
"Crude futures settled at a fres...
Posted Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 7:48 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
If you boil the debate about energy policy down to its fundamental core, you can distill two opposing views of the world. The first says that the free market can and will solve all problems. The benefits and disadvantages of a...
Posted Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 2:22 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Oil Prices
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