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Today’s New York Times has coverage of the current situation in Iran: OPEC reports indicate that Iran’s production fell 12 percent in the first three months of the year, and is likely to continue to fall in the coming months, ...
Posted Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 12:34 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
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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
The WaPo has another nice editorial that's positive -- and with the right perspective -- on the Keystone XL pipeline:
CONGRESS IS BATTLING over whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, proposed for the heart of the coun...
Posted Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 7:28 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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
Moises Naim had a powerful piece in the FT exploring the conundrum that is the decline of Pemex, PDVSA and YPF -- the state-owned oil companies in hydrocarbon-rich Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina.
Naim notes that "during a per...
Posted Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Policy
Javier Blas, Commodities Editor at the Financial Times, ran an important article recently, noting that the US and Japan "have become increasingly vulnerable to high oil prices as producers in the Opec cartel import fewer...
Posted Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
In a great piece published yesterday on Forbes, Bob Lutz—General Motors’ former “Car Czar” and the creative force behind the Chevy Volt—with Frederick W. Smith—Founder and CEO of FedEx—along with former Marine Comman...
Posted Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 2:24 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Strange editorial in today's WaPo on natural gas and global warming. The Post poses the question: "Will natural gas hinder the fight against global warming?"
The clear answer is yes, unless leakage rates from natural gas ...
Posted Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 7:09 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Natural Gas
Bloomberg's editorial writers display their characteristic common sense today, this time on the topic of energy security and the right-sizing of federal incentives, aka subsidies.
They wrote: "Few areas of American governance...
Posted Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 11:04 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
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
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