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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...
Posted Monday, November 28th, 2011 at 7:03 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence
The biggest news in politics this week is the collapse of the Supercommittee’s debt negotiations. The committee, composed equally of Democrats and Republicans from both chambers, has worked for months in pursuit of a bipartis...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 3:30 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation, Oil Dependence
The weekend WSJ had a great piece by Liam Denning, "Fueling a Sneak Attack on Crude-Oil Prices." Denning contrasted the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 15-ton bomb designed to blow up underground bunkers containing, hypotheti...
Posted Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 6:08 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Oil Dependence
Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar wrote an Op-Ed in Politico about how the United States is increasing domestic oil production. His piece included some interesting data points regarding oil and gas production ...
Posted Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Uncategorized
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...
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 7:23 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
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...
Posted Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 4:08 am | Filed in: Alternatives, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
AP reports (says Saturday's WSJ) that China will phase out incandescent light bulbs -- banning imports and sales of 100-watt and higher bulbs in October 2012, followed by bans on 60-watt and 15-watt in 2014 and 2016, respectively....
Posted Sunday, November 6th, 2011 at 5:21 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
This week, The Hill reported that House Republicans are planning to introduce a bill to use oil drilling revenues for infrastructure developments. Speaker of the House John Boehner has described the bill as the “opposite of st...
Posted Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 12:36 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
There's a very nice piece in this morning's WaPo by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, entitled, "Private secctor hesitates in financing clean-tech firms":
"As federal stimulus dollars for investment in renewable energy begin t...
Posted Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 5:12 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Energy Demand, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence, Policy
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