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This summer, both Congress and the electricity industry must face, head on, their respective roles in cases of severe weather situations. This coming Thursday, the Senate will meet to discuss the federal role in such disasters. ...
Posted Monday, July 25th, 2011 at 2:07 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Renewables
The U.S. military is the single largest industrial consumer of oil in the world. On an annual basis, it consumes approximately 125 million barrels of oil. The vast majority of U.S. aircraft, tanks and vehicles run on petroleum...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Policy, Renewables
The 73-27 vote on an amendment to end ethanol subsidies last Thursday in the Senate highlights a bipartisan statement on the urgency to reduce the national debt. This vote comes just two days after a failed vote to repeal subsid...
Posted Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 8:47 am | Filed in: Policy, Renewables, Transportation
With Earth Day coming up later this week, it is interesting to ponder where we are heading on energy and the environment. So often at odds with each other worldwide, the challenge of achieving affordable, clean, and secure energ...
Posted Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 at 6:30 am | Filed in: Electricity, Renewables
With natural gas hovering around $4 per MMBtu, it's an interesting time to be proposing a feed-in tariff for offshore wind energy. But that's exactly what's happening in Maryland, and this morning's WaPo has an interesting piec...
Posted Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 9:05 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Renewables
Dina Maron reports in this morning's ClimateWire that: "Ethanol is once again in the hot seat." We say, "good!"
One positive outcome of the current focus on our federal deficit and debt woes is that attention must be paid t...
Posted Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 8:06 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Policy, Renewables
Some remember the crafty strategy President Clinton and his advisers ran on during the 1996 re-election campaign, when the Gingrich revolution had taken the House in '94 and proceeded down a path of budget cuts and a government sh...
Posted Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 8:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Renewables
Everyone would love to think the answer to this question is a very definitive “no,” period. But... there is no doubt that renewable energy in the United States is struggling to build any kind of platform for substantial grow...
Posted Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 8:18 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Renewables
This morning's WSJ reports on rising oil prices and rising food prices, which leads us to question: are our policies serving our interests?
First oil prices, as reported by Jerry Dicolo:
"Crude futures settled at a fres...
Posted Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 7:48 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
With the Financial Times’ excellent Energy Source Blog on break for the Christmas period (one of many, we are not singling them out!), here at EPIC we are doing our best to keep you up to date with the energy stories closing out...
Posted Monday, December 27th, 2010 at 8:31 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Demand, Policy, Renewables
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