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The WaPo has another nice editorial that's positive -- and with the right perspective -- on the Keystone XL pipeline:
CONGRESS IS BATTLING over whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, proposed for the heart of the coun...
Posted Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 7:28 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
What is driving the current surge in American petroleum production, how will it influence the nation’s energy landscape, what are the implications for our energy security, and what is the relationship between energy security and...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 8:53 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
Robert Samuelson has a column in today's WaPo that should be required reading for anyone with influence on US energy policy. He begins:
We should exorcise the politically convenient notion that high oil prices result from the...
Posted Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 7:32 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
There’s some bad news for Social Security this week, as its insolvency date has been pushed up by three years, according to the government’s yearly forecast. And, just as rising energy prices have cut into the economic recover...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 6:46 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Prices
Javier Blas, Commodities Editor at the Financial Times, ran an important article recently, noting that the US and Japan "have become increasingly vulnerable to high oil prices as producers in the Opec cartel import fewer...
Posted Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
In a great piece published yesterday on Forbes, Bob Lutz—General Motors’ former “Car Czar” and the creative force behind the Chevy Volt—with Frederick W. Smith—Founder and CEO of FedEx—along with former Marine Comman...
Posted Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 2:24 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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
Securing America’s Future Energy has released a new intelligence report detailing the surprising linkage between two pressing international economic and national security crises: Greece’s sovereign debt and Iran’s nuclear am...
Posted Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 at 2:45 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
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
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
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