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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 won...
Posted Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 10:37 am | Filed in: Electrification, Nuclear, Oil Dependence
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...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 9:28 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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 ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Renewables
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...
Posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 8:36 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence
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...
Posted Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 5:57 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence
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...
Posted Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 8:20 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
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...
Posted Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
Between January 2007 and August 2008 gasoline prices rose more than $2 per gallon. Much discussion was had over the woes of $4 gas. Yet according to a report released this month by the Environmental Protection Agency, real world a...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
This morning's Environment & Energy Daily has a nice piece on the current gridlock over transportation reauthorization (http://eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/11/19/1/). Despite a major bridge collapse in Minnesota more than two ye...
Posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Transportation
