Category: ‘ Oil Dependence ’

 

Oil Companies Offer an Alternative to Cap-and-Trade

In a very good article, E&E Daily News reported today that a group of senators are considering a proposal from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP America to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than a cap-and-trade system.Â...

Making Drivers Happy

A recent Newsweek article about Toyota’s recalls discussed Toyota’s history in the United States.  In describing the history of its sales growth in the 1980s, the article noted that Toyota's campaign of campy advertisements,...

Weekly Political Roundup — The Week’s Other Noteworthy Speech

In the second most interesting speech of the week (sorry, couldn’t resist), NRG president and CEO David Crane said “nuclear loan guarantees like the one the administration conditionally awarded Southern Company this week wonâ€...

Oil Price Volatility: Just Follow the News

If ever one wonders just why the price of oil can change so rapidly and by so much, a quick look at the day’s news is probably enough to find a large number of possible answers.  Medium- to long-term demand and supply projectio...

Boosting biofuels; bothering enviros

Steven Mufson has a good piece in today's WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303804.html?sub=AR) that nicely summarizes the policy debate on mandates for increased biofuels use in the tr...

SOTU keeps energy/climate legislation alive(?)

The great Washington pastime of reading between the lines of the President's State of the Union address is in full swing.  If the POTUS had last night said "I support the Waxman-Markey bill and ask the Senate to pass it" -- that ...

Scrutiny for security?

This morning's NYT runs a piece entitled Interior Chief Vows Scrutiny of Oil and Gas Leases (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/business/energy-environment/07lease.html?ref=energy-environment) that deserves attention from those wh...

Elections matter; new VA Governor seeks offshore gas and oil production

This morning's WaPo reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902874.html?hpid=sec-business) on a Christmas Eve-eve letter that Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell sent to U.S. Interior S...

Putin’s New Year’s Gift to Russia

As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ceremonially filled the first oil tanker to leave the new eastern port of Kozmino, bound for Hong Kong, he said “It’s a great present to Russia for the New Year.” Indeed. The termi...

Political Unrest Scaring Away Investment

For many parts of the world, 2009 has been a year of decline.  We need 2010 to be a year of recovery and renewal.  This process starts with sound investment strategies for long-term growth.  In the case of oil, the outlook is g...