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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
Early last month, we wondered whether crude oil could reach $100 per barrel by Christmas. That day (November 9), the spot price for WTI was $87.04 per barrel. A month before, it just over $82 per barrel, and a month before tha...
Posted Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 7:32 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Maybe, according to Shokri Ghanem, Chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation. He was preceded by Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi who appeared to revise his stance on a “right range” at $70 to $90 (late last year...
Posted Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 9:13 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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
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