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Published 15 May 2013 | viewed 1,049 times
U.S.-based industries and utilities that consume a lot of natural gas have been trying to figure out just how to respond to proposals in Congress…
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Published 06 May 2013 | viewed 4,863 times
Maybe it's the gloomy Seattle weather that has made investment manager Jim Hansen and his son and partner, Kevin, at Ravenna Capital Management immune to…
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Published 30 April 2013 | viewed 1,847 times
Okay, I'm going to give you the shortest course ever in energy abundance: Energy abundance depends entirely on the RATE of energy flow. Let me…
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Published 25 April 2013 | viewed 1,405 times
Each morning when I release my cat from the basement where he sleeps, he rushes to the upstairs bathroom to drink water from a bowl…
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Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 2,378 times
With all the talk about new oil discoveries around the world and new techniques for extracting oil in such places as North Dakota and Texas,…
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Published 03 April 2013 | viewed 1,271 times
Current U.S. energy policy is, in fact, a hodgepodge of disconnected policies designed for specific constituencies with no coherent goal. The country has subsidies for…
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Published 25 March 2013 | viewed 4,013 times
As U.S. natural gas prices flirt with the $4 mark, some skeptics of the so-called shale gas revolution think prices are headed much higher. Such…
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Published 18 March 2013 | viewed 2,982 times
With the media awash in stories telling us how much oil is being discovered around the world, there is one word which the optimists quoted…
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Published 14 March 2013 | viewed 4,549 times
It is a slick piece of public relations to convince people to disregard what is right in front of them and believe the opposite. And…
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Published 04 March 2013 | viewed 2,992 times
The way the oil industry is touting gains in U.S. crude production, you would think that production is soaring to new all-time highs. But the…
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Published 26 February 2013 | viewed 1,975 times
With U.S. natural gas production having risen more than 25 percent from its nadir in 2005, natural gas producers are pushing for an end to…
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Published 20 February 2013 | viewed 2,106 times
It isn’t often that the world’s working stiffs get a chance to fleece rich investors. But that’s essentially what has happened as a result of…
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Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 1,985 times
“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment,” French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once said. Substitute “forecasts” for the word “statistics,” and you’ll have a…
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Published 10 February 2013 | viewed 3,707 times
America believed it could put off the question of slavery. It did for 73 years from the drafting of the U.S. Constitution to the beginning…
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Published 29 January 2013 | viewed 1,157 times
It is hard to imagine a more unlikely vehicle for advancing energy literacy than a finely crafted large format picture book. Energy, after all, is…
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Published 22 January 2013 | viewed 2,241 times
A professor friend of mine recently asked his freshman writing class what makes civilization possible. The students puzzled for a minute and then someone said,…
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Published 14 January 2013 | viewed 3,147 times
Here's the short version of why forecasts of low long-term oil and natural gas prices are almost certainly wrong: It costs more than that to…
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Published 07 January 2013 | viewed 3,676 times
Matt Damon's new fictional movie about natural gas development in a rural township was being lambasted by the natural gas industry even before it premiered.…
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Published 02 January 2013 | viewed 2,647 times
[I]f you're still operating under the assumption that the earth's petroleum--or at least the cheap stuff--is about to run out, you're not going to thrive…
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Published 01 January 2013 | viewed 2,161 times
Many people trot out their predictions for the coming year right about now. I'm generally allergic to predictions and think rather in terms of probabilities.…
