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Oil Prices ’
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The Census Bureau released March trade data today, and despite U.S. companies selling the most goods and services overseas in nearly two decades, a big jump in oil prices pushed the nation’s trade deficit to its highest level si...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 9:36 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
With so much talk of oil company profits, price speculation etc. it seems reasonable to ask just what components do make up the retail price of gasoline. Here is a very quick note on trends, adapted from the Energy Information A...
Posted Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 7:03 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Once again, the price of oil is making Americans nervous. In response, today, President Obama set a goal of reducing import oil by one third within 10 years. As Congress and the president face off over energy policy, we should...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 4:18 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Over seventy percent of U.S. oil consumption is attributable to the transportation sector. Any effective solution to U.S. oil dependence is going to (in fact must) arise in this sector. Many options exist, from simply improvin...
Posted Monday, March 14th, 2011 at 5:48 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
Amidst the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and rising oil and gasoline prices, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) today released “Oil Shock: Options for Policymakers,” a paper examining the causes and effects of oil p...
Posted Friday, March 11th, 2011 at 12:12 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, Oil Prices, Policy
As oil and gasoline prices are once again on the rise, it is suggested commonly in policymaking circles that if we produce more oil, or use less oil, the price will fall. That is after all a basic economic principle. Its appli...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 at 2:22 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
A lot of recent oil news has focused on the price increases attributable to instability across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Protests and revolution have occurred in several nations and Libya now appears to be descend...
Posted Monday, March 7th, 2011 at 9:40 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Prices
As oil prices have moved sharply higher in recent weeks, questions have arisen as to whether or not the higher prices will affect our economy. Here, here, and here. A frequently heard response is that because our economy is le...
Posted Friday, March 4th, 2011 at 3:02 pm | Filed in: Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Justin Lahart in today's WSJ: "Rising Oil Prices Raise the Specter of a Double Dip." Yep. A year ago, energy-minded folks were wondering whether spring would bring Middle East chaos caused by an Israeli preemptive strike on ...
Posted Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 6:50 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
The Census Bureau released December trade deficit data last week, and the picture on oil imports was not reassuring, as one might have expected. You can access the full report here. With oil prices averaging $89.15 per barrels...
Posted Saturday, February 19th, 2011 at 5:31 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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