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Ryan Tracy/WSJ was among the reporters covering the Obama Admininstration's announcements yesterday on offshore oil and gas production:
With higher gasoline prices holding steady, the Obama administration on Wednesday took st...
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 2:29 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Benoit Faucon reports in today's WSJ that France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy is up for reelection, "said it is in talks with the International Energy Agency about tapping emergency oil stockpiles, joining the U.S. and U.K. ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 7:12 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
Does cheap natural gas represent an unalloyed good for American energy security and economic health? Or is it an easy quick fix, lulling us into a false sense of security that will prove damaging down the road? Those are the q...
Posted Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 6:47 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas, Policy, Renewables
It's always useful, if depressing, to have the facts of the oil market set out in the mainstream media. In today's case, Steven Mufson of the WaPo has a piece about our friends in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeking to help calm...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 10:23 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Uncategorized
Those who decry the state of journalism in the 21st century should take a look at the March 10 NYT piece by Jeff Sommer -- a strong, substantive and balanced account of the market forces (and policies) that account for regional di...
Posted Monday, March 12th, 2012 at 7:38 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Prices, Policy
In Tom Fowler's WSJ piece this morning, we hear again the lesson that short term fixes can't bring down oil and gasoline prices, "that the global economy and geopolitics, not the U.S. industry or economy, are driving" them. Th...
Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 7:50 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
It isn't often that we get to cheer a lead editorial in the WaPo, but today is such a day, as yesterday President Obama did the completely expected and denied the permit -- after the State Department's EIS had found the project sh...
Posted Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 10:14 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
The recent increase in tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz has at its root the world’s unhappy relationship with crude oil being shipped through the Persian Gulf. The recent threats by the Islamic Republ...
Posted Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 11:31 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security
The WaPo was a little too cute yesterday in its third-place editorial, "Extracting natural gas: How to counter the adverse side effects of a clean-energy source." The first two lines will no doubt be quoted in public hearing...
Posted Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 5:30 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas, Policy
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