Biography
Allen writes the popular energy news blog Open Choke
Latest articles from Allen
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What the S&P Downgrade Means to you and Me
S&P lowered the US debt rating from AAA to AA+ on Thursday. What does this mean to you and me? Well, S&P is only one of…
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How Much of the Price of Oil is Due to Dollar Weakness?
Our markets seem very sensitive to the price of oil... to the extent that I read articles about how high oil prices are keeping the…
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What the Frack? A Look at the Possible Dangers of Fracking
Lot's of people are discussing the HBO movie "Gasland" which has aired on HBO. I encourage everyone to watch it, if, for no other reason…
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The BP Blowout - Part 2
Below is the TransOcean rig data on the wellbore from two hours out until blowout. This from what was filed with the US government investigators.…
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9 Important Points about the BP Blowout – Part 1
Here is what a couple of offshore drilling engineers told me about the BP Blowout… However, everything is consistent with a well way over budget,…
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Looking for Renewable Energy That Actually Works
White House renewable energy darling Solyndra, the beneficiary of a $500 MM+ loan guarantee from the DOE, is featured on the White House Blogs... Written…
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Big Oil is Paying
In 2006, when I wrote this, and culled directly from their 10K, ExxonMobil paid $30.7 billion in excise taxes, $41.6 billion in other "taxes and…
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Who to Believe?
As we enter a week without further news as to whether BP's efforts to place a containment vessel over the oil leak in the subsurface, two…
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Some Perspective on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Panic time, folks. News stories about impending environmental disasters. A couple of senators calling for hearings. The media calling it "Obama's Katrina". Time for that rarest of things, perspective.…
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