R-Squared Energy

The secretary of Russia’s National Security Council is now warning that militants have joined forces with pirates to carry out attacks on key maritime oil transport hubs like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]