Because apparently, this is a business that any dummy could run. Take Ed Markey’s new bill, for instance: America’s untapped oil “Big Oil is more interested in pumping up prices and pumping up their own […]
Tag: energy policy
More Calls for Nationalization
As I have been saying, expect more of this: That’s pretty scary, but not unexpected. As oil prices continue to rise, governments will make desperate moves that will probably worsen the situation. Can you imagine […]
A Spite-Based Energy Policy
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the latest attempt to pass a windfall profits tax on oil companies. You know, it isn’t the windfall profits tax itself that bugs me. It is the […]
The Alaskan Gas Pipeline Controversy
For months now – off and on – I have been trying to wrap my head around the controversy over the proposed gas pipeline for Alaska. As a shareholder and former employee of ConocoPhillips – […]
Nationalize the Oil Industry?
In a post I wrote just over a year ago – Peak Oil: End of the World? – I posed the following: If you think the public is outraged now, wait until gas is $10 […]
An Amazing Disconnect
Why Are Oil Prices Rising? The Picture Tells the Tale (Credit to Optimist) The recent, rapid climb in oil prices has started to get everyone’s attention. In fact, when people use Google to search for […]
Redundant Ethanol Subsidies
The proposed farm bill just sent to President Bush (and expected to be vetoed) contains several ethanol provisions. One is to cut the corn ethanol subsidy from $0.51/gal to $0.45/gal. Forbes explains: Ethanol For Everyone! […]
Stop Filling the SPR?
To me, some of the most humorous ideas for relieving high oil prices are the perpetual calls to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Note what the SPR is actually for: The Strategic […]
Hillary’s Stupid Energy Plan
I had intended for this, my 500th essay on this blog, to be about my recent trip to Choren’s new plant in Germany. But Hillary Clinton has just come out with a plan for high […]
An Open Letter to Our Next President
Mr. or Madam President, Vice President Dick Cheney once famously quipped “The American way of life is non-negotiable.” I submit that while our next president might not be so brash in stating this, the root […]