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An important piece by Matt Day in the weekend WSJ: King Coal's Throne Under Threat that focuses on the impact of pending EPA rules limiting emissions of conventional pollutants. Day notes that
power plants are already ratch...
Posted Monday, December 5th, 2011 at 6:21 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Renewables
What’s good news for Detroit automakers but bad news for our energy security? The Wall Street Journal reports today that the SUV is making a comeback, on gas prices which have remained below the $4 per gallon price level which...
Posted Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 1:52 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Demand, Energy Security
As this space reported yesterday, the US is now a refined petroleum product exporter -- but we're still importing most of our crude oil. That's why today's introduction of legislation on the Keystone XL pipeline is so importa...
Posted Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 7:41 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Legislation, Oil
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
If you missed Saturday's WSJ, you missed a lot of energy news:
1. Ana Campoy and Stephanie Simon reported on a dispute in Oklahoma over a wind farm that may interfere with oil production. The Osage Nation owns the mineral r...
Posted Monday, November 28th, 2011 at 7:03 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence
Today, the State Department opened the Bureau of Energy Resources, in recognition of the growing importance of energy security on our foreign policy and national defense. The Wall Street Journal writes:
The new Bureau of Ener...
Posted Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Policy
Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar wrote an Op-Ed in Politico about how the United States is increasing domestic oil production. His piece included some interesting data points regarding oil and gas production ...
Posted Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Uncategorized
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
AP reports (says Saturday's WSJ) that China will phase out incandescent light bulbs -- banning imports and sales of 100-watt and higher bulbs in October 2012, followed by bans on 60-watt and 15-watt in 2014 and 2016, respectively....
Posted Sunday, November 6th, 2011 at 5:21 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
This week, The Hill reported that House Republicans are planning to introduce a bill to use oil drilling revenues for infrastructure developments. Speaker of the House John Boehner has described the bill as the “opposite of st...
Posted Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 12:36 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
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