The normally optimistic International Energy Agency (IEA) made some very pessimistic comments in Time yesterday: Oil Prices: It Gets Worse Oil prices hit a record high of $97 a barrel on Tuesday, but the next […]
Tag: energy policy
Renewable Energy: “Expensive and Impractical”
At least that’s the conclusion of the present government in the UK: Labour’s plan to abandon renewable energy targets Ministers are planning a U-turn on Britain’s pledges to combat climate change that “effectively abolishes” its […]
Debunking Thomas Friedman
I am in Norway at the moment, but I ran across a story that I wanted to call attention to. It is the same thing I wrote about in The Problem with CAFE: Debunking auto […]
Dingell’s Got the Right Idea
In case you hadn’t heard, Representative John Dingell of Michigan is proposing a carbon tax. He is inviting the public to comment: Summary of Draft Carbon Tax Legislation Some have suggested that he isn’t really […]
Recent Damning Biofuel Studies
There were a couple of recently-released studies on biofuels that readers have e-mailed to me or commented on. I will highlight them here. The first involves a study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and […]
USDA Cellulosic Ethanol Reality Check
I was getting some traffic from Grist, and I tracked it back to this story by Tom Philpott: The USDA goes all lukewarm on cellulosic ethanol Now this is good stuff. The same outfit that […]
Biodiesel Misconceptions
Sometimes I am astonished at the misconceptions people have. Take this article: Old cars become green machines The story is about a woman who has a number of cars that have been modified to run […]
The Good and Bad in the United States’ Energy and Farm Bills
About a month ago I was asked to contribute to the next issue of Subsidy Watch regarding the recently passed energy bill. The issue was just published: Subsidy Watch, Issue 16, September 2007 My comments: […]
A Disjointed Energy Policy
Hypothetical question: If a group of farmers in Iowa cut a deal with Tyson Foods to produce 2nd generation renewable diesel via a hydrotreating process, would Congress step in to stop them from receiving the […]
Pure Venom
It is disturbing to me that an industry that plays as important a role in modern life as that of the farmer is so vilified. It must be that people simply do not recognize the […]