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Political observers may not be able to look ahead even a few weeks to gauge whether energy legislation stands a chance of being enacted this year, but you know the future is now when underwater robots are helping with the Gulf oil...
Posted Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 11:09 am | Filed in: Electrification, Gas Prices, Legislation
Gas taxes.
Oh . . . . the trouble we get into when we talk about raising gas taxes.
So I am not going to suggest that we increase gas taxes, even though thoughtful people on the left (here) and right (here, here) have st...
Posted Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 10:26 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
What would be a game changer in the energy debate? A brand-new technology? Maybe, but unrealistic. A sudden discovery of new supplies of some crucial fuel? Less of a game changer, and still unrealistic. How about somethi...
Posted Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:58 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Gas Prices
This site blogged yesterday about OPEC's decision to fix prices at $80 per barrel of oil. This morning's WaPo piece by Steven Mufson ("OPEC will hold oil prices, production steady -- for now" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...
Posted Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 6:19 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil Dependence
Much is being made of the prospect of new Senate energy and climate legislation that reportedly will walk away from cap and trade in favor of a new, more politically appealing approach. (A good example is a Greenwire article tha...
Posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am | Filed in: Environment, Gas Prices
Since the 1950s, when M. King Hubbert correctly predicted a 1970s peak in U.S. oil production, the “peak oil” debate has roiled industry and policy groups as different stakeholders try to prove that either we are rapidly runni...
Posted Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 6:43 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Gas Prices
Between January 2007 and August 2008 gasoline prices rose more than $2 per gallon. Much discussion was had over the woes of $4 gas. Yet according to a report released this month by the Environmental Protection Agency, real world a...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
This morning's Environment & Energy Daily has a nice piece on the current gridlock over transportation reauthorization (http://eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/11/19/1/). Despite a major bridge collapse in Minnesota more than two ye...
Posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Transportation
