Claims have been circulating on social media that the United States has only about two weeks of oil left. The calculation appears to compare the 286.6 million barrels currently held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve […]
How To Make Money Manipulating The Oil Market
President Donald Trump made a potentially market-moving announcement last Friday evening. He said the United States had reached what he called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY,” giving the U.S. majority control over more […]
AI Is Ending America’s Era of Flat Electricity Demand
Global data-center electricity demand is growing at a remarkable pace, and no country is driving that growth more than the United States. The Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy helps put the scale […]
Battery Storage Growth Exploded In 2025, Led By China
For the past several weeks, I have been working my way through the major findings in the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy. This article concludes that series. For readers who want to […]
Solar Overtakes Wind, But Fossil Fuel Demand Keeps Rising
In 2007, nearly two decades ago, I wrote an article called “The Future Is Solar.” At the time, my argument was largely based on efficiency. I had been comparing biofuels with direct solar energy and […]
The Story of How Energy Built America
For the past nine months, I have been working on a project that is especially meaningful to me. My son, Luke, has a degree in history, and for years I had wanted to write a […]
China Accounts for All Global Nuclear Growth in 2025
Global nuclear power generation reached an all-time high in 2025, and China supplied all of the net growth. According to the latest Statistical Review of World Energy, nuclear plants generated 2,845 terawatt-hours worldwide last year, […]
The World Burned More Coal in 2025 but Generated Less Power From It
Global coal consumption reached another record in 2025, seemingly contradicting years of discussion about phasing out the world’s most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. But the headline number does not tell the whole story. The latest Statistical […]
U.S. LNG Exports Leave Qatar and Australia Behind
Global liquefied natural gas exports grew by about 1.2 trillion cubic feet in 2025. The United States supplied approximately 1.10 trillion cubic feet of that increase. Put another way, roughly 93% of the world’s additional […]
America Is Still The World’s Oil Superpower
The newly released 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy reinforces a point that sometimes gets lost in political discussions about energy: the United States remains the world’s largest oil producer. But the size of the […]