Category: ‘ Energy Security ’

 

Understanding oil subsidies

Tune in today for a reasoned and constructive examination of the impact of oil subsidies on the US deficit, economy and energy security as the Senate Finance Committee conducts a hearing featuring the CEOs of the five majors.  NO...

Political Roundup

This week on Capitol Hill, lawmakers finally wrapped up the long debate over the budget for the rest of FY2011.  But with gasoline prices likely to remain near $4 a gallon through 2011 and the summer driving season approaching, i...

Barking up the wrong tree

Today, with gas prices climbing and turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East showing no signs of abatement, policy makers should be focused like a laser beam on energy security, oil and gasoline prices, domestic production, etc...

President Obama announces Clean Fleets Partnership

On Friday, President Obama announced efforts to reduce petroleum consumption in trucks and other fleet vehicles.  The White House released another fact sheet linking this initiative with the President’s speech earlier last week...

Production, efficiency, and electrification crucial to energy security

To accompany the President’s speech today, the White House released a fact sheet entitled ‘America’s Energy Security’.  It makes many of the right points, and the proposals could help mitigate the threats posed by oil dep...

SAFE Issue Brief: Oil Shock: Options for Policymakers

Amidst the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and rising oil and gasoline prices, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) today released “Oil Shock: Options for Policymakers,” a paper examining the causes and effects of oil p...

Political Roundup

News of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa continued to dominate headlines this week and fears of rising oil and gas prices were realized here in the United States as oil jumped above $100 a barrel.  This is certainly not...

Here we go again — an oily recession?

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 ...

POTUS energy innovation agenda – does it matter?

Some remember the crafty strategy President Clinton and his advisers ran on during the 1996 re-election campaign, when the Gingrich revolution had taken the House in '94 and proceeded down a path of budget cuts and a government sh...

Artificial oil demand inflation

Great blog today by James Herron in the WSJ on the topic of subsidies and global demand for oil.   http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/02/10/oil-demand-growth-vulnerable-to-subsidy-cuts/?KEYWORDS=energy Herron first points out...
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