Category: ‘ Oil Prices ’

 

To release or not to release, that is the question

Various news agencies are reporting that the Obama Administration will soon announce a release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  As James Herron wrote in today's WSJ, this may be coordinated with the UK and the International...

Fundamentals of gasoline price disparities

Those who decry the state of journalism in the 21st century should take a look at the March 10 NYT piece by Jeff Sommer -- a strong, substantive and balanced account of the market forces (and policies) that account for regional di...

Transferring wealth and sliding back into recession

Liam Denning's punny headling -- "Oil Gives Economy Both Barrels" leads a "Heard on the Street" piece that deserves reading in today's WSJ.   We never tire of pointing out the slow motion train wreck we're in due to our economic...

Rising gas prices, rising rhetoric — no real action

Clifford Kraus in today's NYT:  "Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon."  While this piece is well done, it sadly focuses on the political fallout of rising gasoline prices rather than the policy implications of same.  ...

Rising gasoline prices — the answer is obvious

In Tom Fowler's WSJ piece this morning, we hear again the lesson that short term fixes can't bring down oil and gasoline prices,  "that the global economy and geopolitics, not the U.S. industry or economy, are driving" them.  Th...

Here we go again – the price of energy insecurity

"Rising oil prices are emerging once again as a threat to the U.S. economic recovery just as it appears to be gaining momentum."  That's the lead sentence in today's front page WSJ article, "Oil Price Rise Imperils Budding Recove...

Falling U.S. Gasoline Demand Not a Happy Valentine for Consumers

U.S. gasoline demand in 2011 trended well below its recent history and may fall farther this year as fuel prices threaten to surpass record highs last reached in 2008. While SAFE wishes some of the credit for this falling gasoline...

SAFE Releases New Transportation Report: Congestion in America

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...

How and how not to intervene in energy markets

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...

Trade deficit widens beyond expectations on oil imports

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...
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