Energy Outlook
Posted 5 days ago
If rising oil prices truly constitute an oil shock capable of destabilizing the economy, and if climate change poses a threat not just to the weather, but to our security, then it is fair to say that
Posted 1 week ago
Over the course of the last year, speculation has become a primary focus of concerns about the rapid increase in oil prices. For a Congress under intense pressure from constituents to address energy p
Posted 1 week ago
Last week I had a very interesting meeting with Mr. Norman Johnson, Director of External Affairs for the North American division of Robert Bosch GmbH, the massive German electronics and auto parts sup
Posted 1 week ago
The cover of this week's issue of The Economist is devoted to the future of energy, and to the proposition that large-scale change is closer than you think. The magazine includes a 14-page special r
Posted 2 weeks ago
For several years I have been intrigued by the possibility of a grand compromise on energy and the environment, so I was pleased to see this idea resurface in Steven Pearlstein's column in today's W
Posted 2 weeks ago
The combination of the current presidential campaign and the high price of energy is prompting a long-overdue national debate on the relative contributions of the various energy options available to u
Posted 2 weeks ago
The ongoing debate about the growing connections between food and energy has focused mainly on the influence on food prices of high energy prices and the diversion of crops into biofuel production. We
Posted 3 weeks ago
An article in today's Financial Times provides key insights for anyone trying to understand how oil prices reached their current heights, and where they might go from here. This requires more than jus
Posted 3 weeks ago
As I was watching a bit of the Senate debate on the latest energy legislation on C-SPAN, I couldn't help noticing how dysfunctional this process has become. This bill was assembled like Frankenstein's
Posted 3 weeks ago
A heat wave is hardly the ideal time for one's home/office air conditioning to break down--an unspoken risk of telecommuting, I suppose--but it's given me an opportunity to catch up on a raft of artic
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