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Oil Prices ’
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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...
Posted Monday, March 12th, 2012 at 7:38 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Prices, Policy
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...
Posted Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 11:27 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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. ...
Posted Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 7:42 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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...
Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 7:50 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
"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...
Posted Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 7:33 am | Filed in: Economic Security, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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...
Posted Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 12:37 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Demand, Oil Prices
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
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