Category: ‘ National Security ’

 

SAFE Releases New Transportation Report: Congestion in America

Today, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) released a new report, Congestion in America: A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security. The report emphasizes the crucial interaction between transportation policy and the challe...

Strait of Hormuz Tensions May Become Commonplace in 2012

The recent increase in tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz has at its root the world’s unhappy relationship with crude oil being shipped through the Persian Gulf. The recent threats by the Islamic Republ...

Petroleum Geopolitics in Dire Straits: Update

Last month, this blog discussed the beginnings of a potentially severe oil crisis, as Iran began running drills to close the Strait of Hormuz.  In the weeks since, the situation has steadily escalated, and this morning the Wall S...

Petroleum Geopolitics in Dire Straits

Yesterday, oil prices spiked by as much as 3.6 percent on rumors that the Strait of Hormuz had been  blockaded to maritime shipments. The Iranian Foreign Ministry has reported that the strategic waterway remains open, yet there a...

Energy over the weekend

Normally, the big energy news over the weekend at this time of year would be the results of the United National Climate Conference to implement the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, since a large porti...

Energy over the weekend

If you missed Saturday's WSJ, you missed a lot of energy news: 1.  Ana Campoy and Stephanie Simon reported on a dispute in Oklahoma over a wind farm that may interfere with oil production.  The Osage Nation owns the mineral r...

A new meaning for energy security

Talk about an unanticipated benefit!  Today's WaPo reports that  People who invest in hybrid cars are significantly less likely to be injured in an accident because their heavy batteries make the vehicles safer than tradition...

Energy over the weekend

Solyndra continues to dominate the news.  Saturday's WaPo front pager by Joe Stephens and Carol Leonnig: On Friday, the release of a new round of White House documents added more details, whosing concerns among senior advisers...

The real scandal: Foreign policy with one hand tied behind our backs

The drip-drip "scandal" of Solyndra makes another appearance today, with the "revelation" that the major funder of the project, Obama donor and Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser, exchanged emails with his own staff about conversatio...

Oh Canada!

Deborah Solomon's WSJ piece on the Keystone XL pipeline planned to bring Canadian crude oil from oil sand formations to the US captures the debate well. Ms. Solomon's lead: "The White House has put itself squarely in the mid...
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