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The Witch-Hunt Begins as Gas Prices Continue to Climb

April 25, 2011 by Robert Rapier
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 The Usual Suspects  Summer is approaching, and that typically means rising gas prices. And when gas prices rise, our political leaders generally start looking around for someone to blame. Over the past few years it has become a regular ritual that as gas prices rise, the CEOs of our biggest oil companies will be marched to... [read more]

No Matter How You Slice It, Energy Efficiency A Good Thing.

March 22, 2011 by Tyler Hamilton
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Eric Wesoff of GTM Research has a guest blog post on GE’s Ecomagination site titled “Will efficiency lead to more power consumption?” It touches on the idea, first proposed by economist William Stanley Jevons in 1885, that technologies designed to make our use of energy more efficient work to increase, not decrease, overall power... [read more]

Could Competition and Low Demand Stall Wind Power's Growth?

March 3, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
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In the last week I've seen reports that two of the biggest wind power developers in the world, Spain's Iberdrola Renovables and Portugal's EDP Renovaveis, plan to reduce their wind power investments in the US for at least the next couple of years. That's significant because these two firms together accounted for just under a third of the... [read more]

Open source, open data, climate, energy and collaboration

February 23, 2011 by Tom Raftery
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  James pointed me to a post yesterday about Transparency in energy usage – it made for interesting reading. The article talks about the benefits of having open data in the energy arena. In this case, the post is specifically talking about the US Energy Information Administration‘s publishing of historical annual energy statistics... [read more]

Why Oil Prices Aren’t Going Down

September 10, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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I saw a humorous story a few days ago: Oil Should Be Around $10 a Barrel The price of a barrel of oil would be closer to $10 if the commodity wasn’t traded as an investment instrument, given the record-high levels of U.S. oil inventories, Peter Beutel, president of Cameron Hanover, told CNBC Monday. “I honestly think that if there were... [read more]

Infonugget: EV market

January 14, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Surprise demand for electric cars?: Plug-in electric cars have technology geeks and the well heeled excited, but how will they play in Peoria? Ernst & Young on Thursday released survey results from a survey of one thousand licensed U.S. drivers which found that 10 percent of drivers would consider purchasing a plug-in hybrid or... [read more]

Peak oil, peak transport

November 2, 2009 by David Hone
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Recently the Guardian newspaper in the UK launched into that much discussed topic of peak oil  in response to a recent report Heads in the Sand issued by Global Witness. I will pass on the topic of peak oil, but look more at the energy use solutions that we should be thinking about to better manage demand for oil. The Guardian... [read more]

A Career in Oil and Natural Gas--Unprecedented Opportunity

July 30, 2009 by Jane Van Ryan
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Thinking about a career in the oil and natural gas industry? The summer 2009 Salary Survey report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) shows that petroleum engineers are pulling in the highest starting salaries... [read more]

Demand Rebound

February 19, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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For a long time, it appeared as though US gasoline consumption was impervious to increasing prices. Last year we learned again that the price elasticity of gasoline demand, while low, is not zero, as the combination of $4 prices and a weakening economy triggered a change in America's driving habits, turning the vehicle miles traveled... [read more]