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Today’s New York Times has coverage of the current situation in Iran: OPEC reports indicate that Iran’s production fell 12 percent in the first three months of the year, and is likely to continue to fall in the coming months, ...
Posted Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 12:34 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
Event Summary
A bipartisan group of former U.S. ambassadors joined forces today to officially launch the Diplomatic Council on Energy Security (DCES)—a project of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE). The members of t...
Posted Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 9:33 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Many papers report today that North Dakota is now the second leading state in terms of oil production, having passed Alaska and now trailing only Texas.
The WSJ puts it this way:
North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the ...
Posted Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 7:00 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
The WaPo has another nice editorial that's positive -- and with the right perspective -- on the Keystone XL pipeline:
CONGRESS IS BATTLING over whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, proposed for the heart of the coun...
Posted Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 7:28 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
What is driving the current surge in American petroleum production, how will it influence the nation’s energy landscape, what are the implications for our energy security, and what is the relationship between energy security and...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 8:53 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
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
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released the public version of its April Monthly Oil Market Report (OMR) yesterday, and the report is loaded with interesting nuggets of data illuminating current trends in the global oil mark...
Posted Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 7:01 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence
Earlier this week, Bill O’Keefe of the Marshall Institute took SAFE to task for our policy approach to dealing with the national security and economic consequences of American oil dependence. In a lengthy blog entry prompted b...
Posted Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
Javier Blas, Commodities Editor at the Financial Times, ran an important article recently, noting that the US and Japan "have become increasingly vulnerable to high oil prices as producers in the Opec cartel import fewer...
Posted Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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