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It was reported yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency of Pennsylvania had fined Chesapeake Energy Corporation approximately $1.1 million for contaminating well water ($900,000) and causing a tank fire ($188,000) durin...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 at 6:38 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas
Last week, ARC Financial Corporation published its Energy Charts report, with an interesting section about how political unrest and military action in countries often leads to long-term declines in their oil production. Using ex...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 8:55 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
Over seventy percent of U.S. oil consumption is attributable to the transportation sector. Any effective solution to U.S. oil dependence is going to (in fact must) arise in this sector. Many options exist, from simply improvin...
Posted Monday, March 14th, 2011 at 5:48 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
As oil and gasoline prices are once again on the rise, it is suggested commonly in policymaking circles that if we produce more oil, or use less oil, the price will fall. That is after all a basic economic principle. Its appli...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 at 2:22 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
A lot of recent oil news has focused on the price increases attributable to instability across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Protests and revolution have occurred in several nations and Libya now appears to be descend...
Posted Monday, March 7th, 2011 at 9:40 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
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...
Posted Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 8:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Renewables
Amid increasing tensions in Egypt giving oil prices a push over the past week, the $100-per-barrel threshold was finally broken for the first time in more than two years yesterday. The Suez Canal1 and the SUMED pipeline2 linking...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 9:19 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
George Will’s upcoming column—you can see an advance copy here—mentions the Electrification Coalition, in this case in the context of legislation to support electric vehicles proposed by Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Sander Levin...
Posted Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 1:37 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Supply, National Security
Everyone would love to think the answer to this question is a very definitive “no,” period. But... there is no doubt that renewable energy in the United States is struggling to build any kind of platform for substantial grow...
Posted Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 8:18 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Renewables
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