Through at least this week, my posting will continue to be sporadic. I have been traveling a lot the past couple of weeks, and this week (Thursday April 23rd) I head to Kansas City to […]
Does This Look Familiar?
Regular readers know that I am a proponent of a carbon tax with income tax offsets. See my essay The Case for Higher Gas Taxes for details. A bill proposing that has now been proposed: […]
The 2009 EIA Energy Conference: Day 2
Energy and the Media This was the panel I had been asked to participate in. My fellow panelists were Steven Mufson (one of my favorite mainstream energy reporters), from the Washington Post; Eric Pooley from […]
The 2009 EIA Energy Conference: Day 1
The Plenary I covered Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s comments in the previous post. Here, I will cover the rest of Day 1. This is not so much a comprehensive summary as it is a collection […]
Steven Chu at the 2009 EIA Energy Conference
Because I am terribly snowed under, I am going to provide the summaries in pieces. But there are some other options if you want immediate gratification on all of the sessions. Professor Dave Summers – […]
Anything But Oil
The 2009 EIA Energy Conference is history, and I will write a summary as soon as can. One of the things I commented on today is that I am concerned about the path we are […]
Off to D.C. for 2009 EIA Energy Conference
I will be shortly on a plane to D.C. where I will participate in the Energy Information Administration’s 2009 Energy Conference. I will update as I can via Twitter (RRapier) and possibly on Facebook, but […]
The Art of Spinning
As the previous post indicated, we in the U.S. have a pretty low energy IQ. One of the reasons is that energy stories are often reported in a very biased or uninformed manner, which tends […]
We Want Energy Independence!
That is, as long as it doesn’t increase gasoline costs by $0.40/gallon. That is one of a number of findings from Public Agenda in a new report called The Energy Learning Curve™ (PDF): What should […]
Web 2.0
Slowly but surely I am getting sucked into the networking aspect of the ‘Web 2.0’ world. For a long time I ignored these sites, but have come to appreciate that they can be used to […]