Updated: You would think if last week’s large inventory drop was due to fog-induced delays, all of that crude would show up this week. Not so, as another drop in crude inventories was recorded: U.S. […]
Pacific Ethanol Woes Continue
I have been a critic of Pacific Ethanol’s (PEIX) business model for a long time. I criticized it a year and a half ago in an article I wrote for Financial Sense, arguing that it […]
Holiday Travel Plans and a Letter from a Reader
I will be traveling from December 16th until January 13th with intermittent Internet access. During this time, I hope to put up some posts covering the year in energy, my $1,000 bet on oil prices […]
Al Takes the Train
Because I gave Al Gore such a hard time over his electric bill, I thought I would mention this story. Gore is in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Price, and he took public transportation […]
BioOil Gains Traction
BioOil, also known as pyrolysis oil, is not quite renewable petroleum, but it is a renewable liquid fuel made from the destructive distillation of biomass. A Canadian company has announced that they will build a […]
House to Vote Today on Energy Bill
The House is scheduled to vote today on their latest incarnation of an energy bill: Energy bill vote pushed to today amid opposition WASHINGTON — Congressional Democratic leaders pushed back a vote on an energy […]
This Week in Petroleum 12-5-07
Update following the release: Big surprises all around this week: Summary of Weekly Petroleum Data for the Week Ending November 30, 2007 U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) dropped […]
Solar is the Solution
There is a good article on solar energy in the current issue of Mother Earth News. The theme is similar to my article The Future is Solar, and the author comes to similar conclusions: Solar […]
Responsible Ethanol Goes Bankrupt
Last year I wrote a story about an ethanol company that was trying to produce ethanol in a more sustainable fashion: E3 Biofuels: Responsible Ethanol They had a great idea. Use corn to make ethanol, […]
Beginning of the Correction?
It’s no big secret that I think oil prices ran ahead of themselves in the past couple of months. I don’t think they should have cracked $90 this year (and despite mass amnesia by analysts, […]