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Plenty of blame to go around in the GOM

Stephen Power and Ben Casselman have a nice piece in this morning's WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576064122843672118.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop) on the impending report from the Reilly-G...

Posted Thursday, January 6th, 2011 at 7:39 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence

Economics finally pushing countries to abandon fuel subsidies

Bolivia announced at the start of the week that it has ended fuel subsidies on gasoline and diesel. The price of gasoline rose from the equivalent of $1.97 per gallon to $3.42 per gallon (up 74 percent) and the price of diesel r...

Posted Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 at 6:55 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil Prices, Policy

A WSJ trilogy with a happy (maybe) ending

Several pieces in today's WSJ worth reading. Front page story is "Oil Back at $90 as Growth Gains Pace." Inside is " EPA to Speed Up New Greenhouse-Gas Rules." And back in the B Section we find "Clean-Tech Entrepeneurs Eye ...

Posted Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 11:39 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence

Critical ARPA-E program surviving narrowly, so far

As Congress continues to barely fulfill its key constitutional duty to appropriate funds for the operation of the government, a continuing resolution (CR) that passed the House yesterday at least holds out some hope that one of ...

Posted Thursday, December 9th, 2010 at 8:17 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation

Not so fast on the dash to gas

We're writing today from the front lines of the unconventional gas wars -- or at least a key skirmish in that war. Here in northeast Pennsylvania, where the archery and firearm hunting bear harvest is featured news on the sports...

Posted Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am | Filed in: Electricity, Electrification, Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas, Policy

Administration reverses policy on proposed offshore drilling

The Obama Administration announced today that it was reversing the policy proposals made back in March to consider areas in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coastline for oil and natural gas drilling leases in its...

Posted Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 at 4:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Policy

Political Roundup

This week, energy news was dominated by the Obama Administration’s announcement of the lifting of its moratorium on offshore drilling six weeks earlier than expected. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in the NY Times, stated t...

Posted Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 8:34 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Legislation, Oil Dependence

More Wind Power Progress: Largest Offshore Farm Opens in England

Last Thursday, the world’s largest offshore wind farm opened off the south coast of England. Seven miles off the coast in the North Sea, stand 100 turbines built by Vattenfall (a Swedish company). At their peak, they can pro...

Posted Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 10:13 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Renewables

Energy security and industrial policy

Interesting pair of articles this morning in E&E (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/09/16/4/) and the WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507173.html?hpid=topnews) about the glob...

Posted Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 10:21 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Supply

And the pendulum swings

One of the clear lessons from the BP/Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil disaster is that too much deregulation (or more accurately too little oversight) can have monumentally bad consequences. Stephen Power in today's WSJ (htt...

Posted Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 2:25 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence

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