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CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation

December 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The United States is now a net exporter of petroleum products.  Simply put, the United States exports more post refinery products than it imports. (E.g., it exports more diesel and gasoline, for example, than imported of these types of products.) This is real news, after all this reverses a net import refinery product balance of […]

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Tags: Energy · oil · truthiness

Looking at the real cost of a gallon of gas …

June 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment

How should we understand the cost of a gallon of gasoline? This is a very serious question with a myriad of layers and implications. The price of gasoline, at the pump, is the most prominent indicator of energy costs for a very large share of humanity. Whether driving a car or taking a bus or […]

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Tags: Energy · oil

Why We Fight (rail edition)

May 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on Why We Fight (rail edition)

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Tags: Energy · oil · rail

bin Laden Hated This Car

May 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Former CIA Director and advisor to John McCain during the 2008 campaign James Woolsey   bubbles with enthusiasm when speaking of his car: a modified Prius which is a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) able to run on electricity from his roof-top solar and on gasoline for an equivalent of about 100 miles per gallon. “We’re […]

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Tags: Energy · oil · PHEV · transportation

Carpe Diem! Killed bin Laden? Now kill oil …

May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment

In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush had a moment to change history and turn America(ns) toward a more prosperous and secure future. Rather than seizing the day to announce a plan to end America’s oil addiction and ‘turn oil into salt’, President Bush called on Americans to go out and shop while […]

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Tags: Energy · government energy policy · oil · politics

Oil Addiction is a Political Choice, not a Necessity

April 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Oil Addiction is a Political Choice, not a Necessity

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. We can tell that an energy policy is not aimed at ending our nation’s oil addiction in time when the speech presenting it follows up: The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · Obama Administration · oil · rail

Drill, Baby, Drill: THE answer to Libyan oil disruption

February 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments

Globally, humanity faces many serious challenges that relate to resource challenges. Writ large there is a calculation: # of people * resource use per capita = demand on resources.  Very simply, that last (the “demand”) is overwhelming natural resources: we are overfishing, tropical forests are disappearing, top soil disappears in dust storms, acquifer water is […]

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Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · government energy policy · oil · peak oil

Peak Oil (wiki)Leaking Into The Public Discussion

February 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment

As per Guardian reporting, U.S. diplomats in Saudi Arabia have picked up very serious information over the years calling into question Saudi abilities to increase oil production in line with what energy agencies (such as IEA and EIA) have predicting they could accomplish to meet growing world demand in the coming years,  whether the Saudis […]

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Tags: Energy · government energy policy · oil · peak oil

“There is nothing silly about these strings of oil …”

June 29th, 2010 · Comments Off on “There is nothing silly about these strings of oil …”

The catastrophic damage already having occurred and to occur due to Deepwater Horizon is beyond the comprehension and imagination of all but a few. And, for far too many, this is occurring out of sight, out of mind, as we go along our daily lives, get caught up in watching world cup soccer and going […]

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Tags: BP · deepwater horizon · Energy · environmental · oil · OilApocalypse · oilpocalyse · pollution

Seeking tools to express outrage and a call for justice: “Prosecute BP”

June 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

To look at images of the oil sheen across the Gulf, oil covered wildlife, the gushing oil from the damaged well, the faces of devastated residents along the coast should overwhelm all of us emotionally.  Words fail even as those images overwhelm. In the face of this catastrophic damage, we seek the paths to express […]

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Tags: BP · deepwater horizon · Energy · oil · OilApocalypse · oilpocalyse · political symbols · pollution