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Where Gas is Already $10 per Gallon

May 9, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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I've just returned from a business trip to Norway. One of the first things I noticed upon my arrival there, on the way into town from the airport, was the price of gasoline. Since Norway still uses its own currency rather than the Euro--lucky them--I had to look up the exchange rate before I could calculate that 15.40 Norwegian Kroner per liter equated to a penny or two under $10 per gallon. [read more]

US Natural Gas Price Nears $10 per Barrel Equivalence

April 30, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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While the average pump price of gasoline has held the attention of most Americans for much of this year, the price trend for natural gas has been equally dramatic in the opposite direction. Gasoline prices flirted with the psychologically important $4 per gallon mark for several weeks before receding to around $3.82 today. ... [read more]

Finger-Pointing Continues on Gas Prices

April 18, 2012 by Peter Lehner
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Big Oil's supporters in Congress have yet to come up with a credible plan to help get America out of the gas price crunch. Their latest effort, the Gasoline Regulations Act, is no exception. The bill merely uses gas prices as a cover to sneak through fundamental changes in longstanding clean air protections.  The bill seeks to... [read more]

Experts Warn Speculation Is Helping Drive Up Oil Prices

April 12, 2012 by Joseph Romm
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There are growing indications that Wall Street speculators are driving up the price of crude and Americans are paying for their profits at the pump.“Americans overpaid $10 billion dollars for gas at the pump in the last month alone,” said Gene Guilford, president of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association, speaking at a... [read more]

Is the oil industry underestimating it's profits?

April 11, 2012 by Simon Mui
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Our updated estimate shows that 23 cents of every dollar you spent on gasoline in February went to the oil industry’s after-tax profits. [read more]

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'A Substantial Failure' Of Energy Education

March 23, 2012 by Jesse Parent
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It is a curious thing when a mindset develops. Thoughts, data interpretation, reactions, and behaviors become solidified into expectations about what is normal and what is to come as that sense of normal changes. It's an important process of human development, and it is a particularly interesting thing to look at on a national scale --... [read more]

The Smart Grid Can Change the Energy Agenda

March 19, 2012 by Christine Hertzog
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President Obama focused on energy and gas prices in recent speeches, deriding the opposition party’s outright preference for all things oil. “They dismiss wind power,” he said. “They dismiss solar power.… We’re trying to move towards the future, and they want to be stuck in the past.” Their peculiar focus on this singularly bad fossil... [read more]

The Gas Price Blame Game

March 15, 2012 by Peter Lehner
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Every year when gas prices rise, politicians and pundits like to play the blame game. On Fox & Friends, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal blamed the Obama administration's "radical environmental ideology" for high gas prices. (The latest Bloomberg poll, however, showed that most Americans do not blame the White House.) The Christian... [read more]

A Cleantech Trade War with China?

March 14, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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While we wait to see whether the next big move in oil prices--and hence gasoline prices--is up or down from today's level of around $125 per barrel, two stories in today's Wall St. Journal highlight some of the challenges facing manufacturers of equipment used to produce renewable energy. [read more]

On Gas Prices & the Keystone XL Pipeline

March 9, 2012 by Robert Rapier
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In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer more questions about gas prices, and discuss the Keystone XL pipeline and future development of Canada’s oil sands. Some of the topics discussed are: The EROEI for producing oil sands The emissions profile of shipping the oil sands to China versus refining it in the U.S. Why I... [read more]

Is There A Better Way to Use Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oil Now?

March 9, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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With US gas prices rising rapidly to record levels for this time of year, it was inevitable that some politicians would start calling for a portion of the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to be released in hopes of moderating high oil prices, which are mainly responsible for the current gas price spike. A narrow majority of... [read more]

Cutting the Cost of Gasoline: It's About Gallons, Not Prices

March 7, 2012 by Deron Lovaas
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Everyone is fixated on the numerator in the price-per-gallon equation, especially the media and politicians. I would argue, fellow consumers, that they are dead wrong to turn a blind eye to the denominator. It calls out for attention, since we can do little to nothing about prices. Photo credit: istockphoto/Talaj Still, let's get... [read more]

What Would It Take for Gas to Hit $5 per Gallon?

March 2, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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After returning from a business trip to California, I don't find media speculation concerning the possibility of $5 gasoline later this year quite as far-fetched as I might have last week. [read more]

How Helpless Are We in the Face of Rising Oil Prices?

February 29, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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Oil is rarely not political, and with gasoline prices hitting record levels early in a presidential election year, we shouldn't be surprised that both the President and his challengers have focused on energy policy. P [read more]

Who's To Blame For Current Gas Prices?

February 28, 2012 by Robert Rapier
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Newt Gingrich — Gas Price Fairy If you have been following the news at all, you know that President Obama is catching a lot of heat over rising gas prices. He used his weekly radio address this week to talk about the issue: Obama calls GOP gas price plan “a bumper sticker” Most of his critics are way off the mark, for reasons I will get... [read more]