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Today, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) released a new report, Congestion in America: A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security. The report emphasizes the crucial interaction between transportation policy and the challe...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
Two articles in the Sunday NYT bookended the concept of intervening in energy markets to advance public policy goals or correct market failures. One, entitled "Lobbyist Helps a Project He Financed in Congress," will be more Soly...
Posted Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 7:02 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Energy Demand, Legislation, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
As our oil supply continues to be threatened over Iran’s war games in the Strait of Hormuz (read SAFE’s Intelligence Report here). This week, much of the news coverage has focused on European Union deliberations over sanctions...
Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 1:38 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil, Oil Prices
Last month, this blog discussed the beginnings of a potentially severe oil crisis, as Iran began running drills to close the Strait of Hormuz. In the weeks since, the situation has steadily escalated, and this morning the Wall S...
Posted Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 3:41 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Global oil markets are changing in ways that have never been seen before, promising high prices and continued volatility next year that certainly will not help America’s energy security. Citigroup’s commodity research unit ear...
Posted Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 7:51 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
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
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s promise of $2 per gallon gasoline under a Bachmann presidency rose more than a few brows. First, Bachmann’s remark that Obama’s presidency began with a $1.79 ...
Posted Monday, August 22nd, 2011 at 11:41 am | Filed in: Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Today's WSJ has an interesting piece entitled "As Oil Spiked, Many Traded." Reporters Ianthe Jeanne Dugan and Liam Pleven described a "world of oil investors" reaching "far beyond Wall Street in recent years as foreign pension...
Posted Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at 11:14 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Oil, Oil Prices, Uncategorized
Yesterday, the S&P Index dropped 6.7 percent, and by 12:15 p.m. today, it was up 2.7 percent. The entire market has been in a state of extreme instability, and oil prices are no exception. Crude futures closed at $81.31 yest...
Posted Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 12:50 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Prices
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