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Oil Dependence ’
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This week, there is plenty to watch in global oil markets.
A Tuesday OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, “The End of the Saudi Oil Reserve Margin,” by Cambridge professor and author Jim Krane illustrates how Saudi Arabia’s s...
Posted Friday, April 6th, 2012 at 1:16 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Bloomberg's editorial writers display their characteristic common sense today, this time on the topic of energy security and the right-sizing of federal incentives, aka subsidies.
They wrote: "Few areas of American governance...
Posted Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 11:04 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
For the ninth time in two years, Congress passed a stopgap extension of the transportation and infrastructure bill yesterday. The measure gives it 90 days to reformulate the legislation and hopefully by the next deadline there wil...
Posted Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 1:19 pm | Filed in: Legislation, Oil, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Ryan Tracy/WSJ was among the reporters covering the Obama Admininstration's announcements yesterday on offshore oil and gas production:
With higher gasoline prices holding steady, the Obama administration on Wednesday took st...
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 2:29 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Benoit Faucon reports in today's WSJ that France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy is up for reelection, "said it is in talks with the International Energy Agency about tapping emergency oil stockpiles, joining the U.S. and U.K. ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 7:12 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
It's always useful, if depressing, to have the facts of the oil market set out in the mainstream media. In today's case, Steven Mufson of the WaPo has a piece about our friends in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeking to help calm...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 10:23 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Uncategorized
This week, the Senate passed their version of the transportation and infrastructure reauthorization bill by a very bipartisan 74-22 vote. Now, the watching eyes will turn to Speaker of the House John Boehner to see if he will foll...
Posted Friday, March 16th, 2012 at 2:20 pm | Filed in: Legislation, Oil Dependence, Transportation
This week, there was some good news for reducing our national oil dependence and improving our energy security. President Barack Obama announced his plan for the United States to advance the mainstream adoption of electric vehicle...
Posted Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 12:12 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
Big news yesterday in the Senate: It worked as intended by reaching a unanimous consent agreement that allows for a finite set of amendments to be considered on the pending reauthorization of federal surface transportation progr...
Posted Thursday, March 8th, 2012 at 7:22 am | Filed in: Legislation, Oil Dependence, Transportation, Uncategorized
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