Yesterday’s New York Times contained a story that depicts the vulnerability of the U.S. military’s fuel supply chain: U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels In Iraq and Afghanistan, the huge truck convoys that […]
Oil Infrastructure and Terrorism – Part I
In light of the recent attacks by militants on tankers carrying oil for NATO and U.S. troops, the series that I am posting this week is especially timely. When we consider the dependence of the […]
Book Review: Power Hungry
Introduction “There is no more complex or fascinating topic than energy.” — Robert Bryce As I began to work on my review of Robert Bryce’s latest book, Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and […]
Have We Hit Peak Coffee?
The following is a guest essay authored by R-Squared regular Paul Nash. (Credit to Ronald Steenblik for the “Carter-Reagan Parallel” portion.) Have We Hit Peak Coffee? There is continued debate about whether the world will […]
The Lesson from Rising Ethanol Prices
I thought it was a bit humorous recently — when corn ethanol prices dipped and were cheaper than both sugarcane ethanol and gasoline (even when adjusted for lower energy content) — that some corn ethanol […]
How to Run an Oil Industry into the Ground
Hugo Chavez is putting on a clinic in Venezuela. The theme is “How to Destroy a Domestic Oil Industry.” I have warned for years that this would be the end result of Chavez’s actions. As […]
Peak Oil Interview: Misconceptions, Replacing Oil, and False Solutions
Back in June, I gave a presentation on Peak Oil at the Global Footprint Conference in Siena, Italy. (More on the event here). Following my presentation, I was asked to do a pair of interviews. […]
$10M Purse Split Between Three 100 MPG Auto Teams
The Edison2 “Very Light Car” took home the grand prize of $5M while two other teams were awarded $2.5M each. After undergoing on-track testing at Michigan International Speedway, and laboratory verification at the Department of […]
ExxonMobil Says No to Subsidies
Earlier this week I participated in a conference call with ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) that was hosted by the American Petroleum Institute (API). It is the first API blogger call I have joined in a very […]
Maxwell Forecasts Peak Oil in Seven Years
Respected oil analyst and oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell (nicknamed the “Dean of Oil Analysts”) has forecast peak oil by 2017 or 2018: Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade’s End His prediction is not […]