Category: ‘ Energy Supply ’

 

Republican Presidential Primary Contenders and their Energy Policies

With the Republican primary election cycle in full swing, SAFE has published an Intelligence Report highlighting the details from each of the remaining six Republican participants’ energy platforms. A near consensus exists among...

Oil Volatility Could Make 2012 a Year to (Not Fondly) Remember

Global oil markets are changing in ways that have never been seen before, promising high prices and continued volatility next year that certainly will not help America’s energy security. Citigroup’s commodity research unit ear...

Energy over the weekend

Two big stories this weekend -- reporting on EPA regulations of utilities and maneuvering over the Keystone XL pipeline planned to bring oil sands-derived petroleum south from Canada into the United States.  They're related, as w...

Energy over the weekend

Normally, the big energy news over the weekend at this time of year would be the results of the United National Climate Conference to implement the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, since a large porti...

ExxonMobil: 45% EVs by 2040?

This week, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil released their 2012 energy outlook, The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040.  It’s an extensive document, projecting a 30 percent global increase in energy demand over the coming three dec...

Energy over the weekend

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...

Lugar to Keystone Pipeline’s rescue?

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...

The Bureau of Energy Resources: An Important Step

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...

Production, supply, and demand

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 ...

Oh Canada!

Deborah Solomon's WSJ piece on the Keystone XL pipeline planned to bring Canadian crude oil from oil sand formations to the US captures the debate well. Ms. Solomon's lead: "The White House has put itself squarely in the mid...
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