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The WaPo has been right so often on energy security lately that we were beginning to doubt it -- or ourselves. All's right with the world today, though, as the Post ran a misguided editorial praising a so-called "clean energy st...
Posted Monday, May 21st, 2012 at 11:24 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Demand, Legislation, Policy, Renewables, Uncategorized
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
Earlier this week, Bill O’Keefe of the Marshall Institute took SAFE to task for our policy approach to dealing with the national security and economic consequences of American oil dependence. In a lengthy blog entry prompted b...
Posted Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
Moises Naim had a powerful piece in the FT exploring the conundrum that is the decline of Pemex, PDVSA and YPF -- the state-owned oil companies in hydrocarbon-rich Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina.
Naim notes that "during a per...
Posted Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Policy
Bloomberg's editorial writers display their characteristic common sense today, this time on the topic of energy security and the right-sizing of federal incentives, aka subsidies.
They wrote: "Few areas of American governance...
Posted Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 11:04 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
Daniel Gilbert and Russell Gold reported Saturday in the WSJ on some more good news in the world of US shale gas:
The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in T...
Posted Monday, April 2nd, 2012 at 11:05 am | Filed in: Environment, Natural Gas, Policy, Uncategorized
Does cheap natural gas represent an unalloyed good for American energy security and economic health? Or is it an easy quick fix, lulling us into a false sense of security that will prove damaging down the road? Those are the q...
Posted Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 6:47 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas, Policy, Renewables
Michael Birnbaum and Anthony Faiola's piece in this morning's WaPo, "Solar industry faces subsidy cuts in Europe," is well worth a read, particularly for the comment of David Baldock, identified as executive director for the Ins...
Posted Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 8:59 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Policy, Renewables
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
General John Handy of the Energy Security Leadership Council's compelling OpEd in today's Charlotte Post Observer:
Five truths we must face about energy
With President Obama in North Carolina today to discuss energy, there a...
Posted Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at 7:47 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
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