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Robert Samuelson has a column in today's WaPo that should be required reading for anyone with influence on US energy policy. He begins:
We should exorcise the politically convenient notion that high oil prices result from the...
Posted Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 7:32 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
This week, there is plenty to watch in global oil markets.
A Tuesday OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, “The End of the Saudi Oil Reserve Margin,” by Cambridge professor and author Jim Krane illustrates how Saudi Arabia’s s...
Posted Friday, April 6th, 2012 at 1:16 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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
Liam Denning's punny headling -- "Oil Gives Economy Both Barrels" leads a "Heard on the Street" piece that deserves reading in today's WSJ. We never tire of pointing out the slow motion train wreck we're in due to our economic...
Posted Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 11:27 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Clifford Kraus in today's NYT: "Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon." While this piece is well done, it sadly focuses on the political fallout of rising gasoline prices rather than the policy implications of same. ...
Posted Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 7:42 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
20 days. Check.
Yes, national average gasoline prices have increased for the past 20 days in a row. Today, they reached $3.70 for Regular—the “cheapest” option (accessed February 27, 2012).
This is not new—prices...
Posted Monday, February 27th, 2012 at 12:03 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Economic Security, Energy Demand, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence
Less you forget it’s an election year, yesterday President Obama spoke regarding his energy strategy in a time of rising gas prices. The speech was widely billed as a defense against recent Republican attacks on this quintessent...
Posted Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 11:20 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
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
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