Category: ‘ Oil Dependence ’

 

National Summit on Energy Security: Moving Forward

While there are still many changes to make to reduce America’s dependence on oil, this past week’s National Summit on Energy Security certainly was a step in the right direction. Tuesday night’s Congressional Reception and W...

Energy Security: A Clear Case for Bipartisanship

Solving America’s dependence on petroleum remains an unsolved ambition; since the 1970s, every American president has called attention to the implications of foreign oil reliance.  However, with each passing administration, pol...

DOE Loan Guarantee Program – shooting ourselves in the foot

Back in the day when there was bipartisanship, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Congress enacted, and President George W. Bush signed into law, the Energy Policy Act of 2005.  Before "all of the above" became a mantra, ...

National Summit on Energy Security Opening Day

A snapshot of U.S. energy dependence: Americans account for more than 20% of global oil demand, with the transportation sector, on its own, consuming more oil than any other nation in the world.  A glance at our lack of energy se...

Two Days of Energy Security

The countdown is almost over:  tomorrow, policymakers, industry leaders and business executives will gather to discuss the intensifying threats posed by our nation’s oil dependence, and consider solutions that will strengthen o...

Energy security meets Facebook

In a "first for the Senate, and a first for Facebook," Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member on the Foreign Relations Committee, will announce introduction of his Practical Energy Plan exclusively on Facebook this morning at ...

Wouldn’t it be nice — what energy security means

Today's Wall Street Journal has a interesting piece by Angus McDowall that points up the challenges facing Saudi Arabia as it navigates through the geopolitcs of oil and seeks to maintain economic health.  As opposed to US , Chin...

Announcing the National Summit on Energy Security

As readers of EPIC know, the issue of energy security is not taken lightly. Short of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists, energy security is the top threat facing the nation. SAFE’s team of policy and legislativ...

Waiting for OPEC: A fool’s errand

Last month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) called on oil producing nations to boost their petroleum output in order to protect the global economy and stabilize volatile gas prices.  So it is no surprise that the focus this...

The critical path on energy

This morning Jeffrey Ball has a good piece in the WSJ that should be grounds for hope on the critical path item on US energy security.  We've written in the past about the criticality of natural gas to future US electricity price...
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