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We find it worth clarifying the widely stated, yet mistaken assertion that by shifting to electric vehicles and clean energy we are simply substituting one kind of foreign dependency with another—oil for rare earth elements.
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Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Economics, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Multiple media cover the release today of recommendations from an impressive group of CEOs -- the American Energy Innovation Council (www.americanenergyinnovation.org). Like the CEO and retired military-led Securing America's Fu...
Posted Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Nuclear, Oil Dependence, Renewables, Solar, Wind
While we may learn more later today, it seem that the prospects of Congress passing climate change legislation, probably a long shot to begin with, have become even dimmer. With what appears to be Senator’s Graham’s withdr...
Posted Monday, April 26th, 2010 at 8:45 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Hard-core representatives of organized environmental interest groups (aka "enviros") like to believe that the challenge of global climate change merits action on its own, with no consideration for political deals or trade-offs. ...
Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, National Security
Don't miss Jim Woolsey's piece in the WSJ today. (http://online.wsj.com/ -- subscription required). For those who haven't been following the energy security/oil addiction debate, Woolsey -- former Director of the CIA under Pr...
Posted Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 8:32 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Today (April 6) at 9 AM EST, the official Chinese government news outlet Xinhua released an article entitled “Iran not to talk with major powers over its nuclear program.” These not-to-be-held talks are with the five permanent...
Posted Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 9:29 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
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 of this week’s energy news seemed to be unsurprising continuations of stories we have been following for some time. E&E’s Greenwire (subscription required) reported yesterday that Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and ...
Posted Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 8:10 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Legislation, National Security
