Category: ‘ Economic Security ’

 

EIA releases reserves report

The Energy Information Administration released its latest assessment of domestic U.S. crude oil and natural gas reserves today, and the data appear to lend continued support to a bullish outlook for natural gas.  The report, enti...

China and Rare Earths: Beginning to Feel Like the Russian/Ukrainan Relationship Regarding Natural Gas

Boeing recently contracted to deploy remote sensing technology to confirm rare earth mining claims held by U.S. Rare Earths, Inc. in Idaho and Montana, and to help search for new deposits.  In doing so, US Rare Earths is moving o...

Energy security and industrial policy

Interesting pair of articles this morning in E&E (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/09/16/4/) and the WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507173.html?hpid=topnews) about the glob...

Updating the economic costs of U.S. oil dependence

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...

Why Rare Earths Are Not Like Oil

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. ...

Sorry, not very stimulating

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...

What we absolutely, positively, need

So the WSJ runs a nice piece on EVs, complete with plaudits and pics of FedEx trucks.  Could we blog about anything else today? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405191875066292.html In a nice play on ...

Energy, Security and Rare Earths

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...

Market Failure or Government Failure?

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...

It’s not the Oil Imports, It’s Just the Oil!

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...
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