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Gas Prices ’
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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
As Senator Boxer and the Environment and Public Works committee (sans its Republican members, who have boycotted the session) mark up the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, an influential new report describes the impact of carbon pri...
Posted Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Environment, Gas Prices
Oil prices may have fallen yesterday, after weeks of steadily creeping upwards to $80 per barrel. Yet some experts believe that during 2010 they will make a serious comeback as economic growth and oil demand rebound from the reces...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Are American motorists ready for something new? Some signs suggest yes.
American drivers used to be loyal to a brand – in 1986, nearly 80% of new car owners bought the brand their household previously owned. Families would re...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 8:08 am | Filed in: Electrification, Gas Prices, Transportation
The role for natural gas is sure to be an issue in the fall debate over energy policy, as discussed in a recent New York Times article. We thought it would be worth a few minutes to figure out how efficient it is to use natura...
Posted Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 5:12 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Natural Gas
Perhaps the most important energy development of the week had to do with healthcare. What? Yeah, reports that the healthcare debate on the Hill is being postponed has a major bearing on energy, because when the topic du jour i...
Posted Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 9:12 am | Filed in: Electrification, Environment, Gas Prices, Legislation, Natural Gas
When President Obama increased fuel economy standards, there was little mention of the unavoidable loss in gasoline tax revenues. Fuel taxes on gasoline and diesel account for 90 percent of income for the Highway Trust Fund ...
Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Legislation, Transportation
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