This came as a surprise to me: Exxon wins freeze on $12 billion of Venezuelan assets NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp has won court orders freezing up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets […]
Instant Energy Savings
The latest issue of Mother Earth News has an interesting article on ideas to reduce your carbon footprint: 8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings Some of them are going to be familiar to everyone […]
Brother, Can You Spare Chavez a Billion?
Now that Chavez has run Venezuela’s oil production into the ground and needs a new cash infusion for his social programs, he is inviting oil companies back in to make investments: Venezuela seeks oil investment […]
Consumers Boil
This is quite timely coming on the heels of my previous essay. I talked about the press picking up and running with the comments of Oil Watchdog’s Judy Dugan as if she were actually a […]
The Intellectual Dishonesty of a “Consumer Watchdog”
I am having an internal debate with myself regarding which aspect Oil Watchdog I find most annoying: Their intellectual dishonesty, their reprehensible tactics, or just their plain old-fashioned stupidity. I can give lots of examples […]
Coal-Based Ethanol
The handwriting has been on the wall on this issue for a couple of years. In fact, I first mentioned it in March 2006 in Improving the Prospects for Grain Ethanol. Here is an excerpt […]
Corn Ethanol Economics
Someone e-mailed a few days ago and asked some questions about the present economics of corn ethanol. I did a few calculations, which I think are interesting enough to share. (Note that because this is […]
Alone Again
I just put my family on a plane back to the U.S., leaving me alone in Europe (again) for a little while. The reason they are headed back is because of my new job. I […]
FutureGen Project Stopped
The FutureGen Project, a clean coal demonstration plant that would have included carbon capture and sequestration (and was #8 on My Top Energy Stories of 2007) has been cancelled. The culprit? Cost overruns of about […]
Future Reserves
Just going through some files on my hard drive, and I ran across the following story. Unfortunately, I don’t have the source. But it’s an interesting look at where projected future oil reserves are expected […]