Llewellyn King

Biography

Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle" on PBS. His e-mail address is lking@kingpublishing.com

Latest articles from Llewellyn

• Energy in the Time of Elections: Claims and Counterclaims

  Published 21 May 2012 | viewed 715 times

  Where there's oil and gas, there's milk and honey. That is the thrust of the American Petroleum Institute's report to the platform committees of the…

• Wild Swings Characterize Obama Energy Policy

  Published 23 January 2012 | viewed 1,406 times

  When it comes to energy policy, President Obama has an unfailing capacity to undermine his own declared intentions. If he were driving a car  the…

• Did Fukushima Really Put a Nail in Atomic Power's Coffin?

  Published 02 January 2012 | viewed 1,631 times

  There have been a flurry of antinuclear events in the United States since Christmas. Presumably, those who are opposed to nuclear power want to take…

• American Consumers May Pay High Price From Ethanol Damage

  Published 28 November 2011 | viewed 1,287 times

  Is too much ethanol in U.S. gasoline too much of a good thing? This isn't an idle question, because the federal government, under successive administrations,…

• Rowe, Philosopher-CEO, Retiring

  Published 13 November 2011 | viewed 1,079 times

  One of America's leading energy executives is retiring. John Rowe, a revered figure in the electric utility industry in particular, and energy circles in general,…

• The Brave New Energy World: Race Not Crisis

  Published 06 November 2011 | viewed 2,258 times

  As the United Nations declared that the world population had reached 7 billion, energy thinkers gathered in Houston last week were sure that even larger…

• America's Unrequited Love of Alternative Energy

  Published 30 September 2011 | viewed 2,952 times

  Like many Democrats, President Obama wants to believe -- wants desperately to believe -- in the technologies that can safely be assumed to be alternative.…

• The Joy of Natural Gas, It's Here Aplenty

  Published 16 May 2011 | viewed 4,859 times

  Tired of high gasoline pump prices? Wondering why, with our fearsome energy hunger, all the energy seems to be in the Middle East? That was…

• It's Time for Obama to Spook the Oil Markets

  Published 04 May 2011 | viewed 2,520 times

  The fate of the Obama presidency hangs not on a birth certificate or the red ink on the federal budget but by the hose nozzle…

• Engineers Are Now Wearing the Poet's Mantle

  Published 21 April 2011 | viewed 1,382 times

  F. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly told Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different from you and me.” And Hemingway supposedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.” Engineers…

• Obama's Empty Gasoline Tank

  Published 05 April 2011 | viewed 1,878 times

  There is a piece of doggerel which goes: They said it couldn’t be done.So I went right to it -- that thing they said Couldn’t…

• After 40 years of Nuclear Passion, It Hurts

  Published 21 March 2011 | viewed 1,733 times

  For 40 years I've written about nuclear power, defended it and believed, as I still do, that it offers the best signpost to a great…

• Stand Up to NIMBY - and Create Jobs

  Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 1,405 times

  In Britain, they call it “DADA.” It means Decide. Announce. Defend. Abandon. In America we call it “NIMBY” — “not in my back yard.” It…

• Israel Set To Join the Rich Countries Club

  Published 08 February 2011 | viewed 3,352 times

  From Israel, there is good news and bad news. The good news – and it is huge – is that Israel will soon be awash…

• Oil Price Could Doom Obama

  Published 31 January 2011 | viewed 3,611 times

  Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama’s worst nightmare at election…

• Who, How and Why: $140 Oil and $5 Gas

  Published 13 January 2011 | viewed 5,821 times

  According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the "end of days."  On or about that same date, the price of…

• Euro Shows One Size Doesn't Fit All

  Published 07 December 2010 | viewed 80 times

  When do two diametrically opposed economists, one from the left and one from the right, agree? Answer: When the subject of the euro comes up.…

• Energy Tells Tale of Fading West, Booming East

  Published 19 November 2010 | viewed 1,432 times

  The patient is the United States and the diagnosis is “Asia shock.” It is a psychological disease with physical symptoms and no known cure. However…

• US Government Agency Faulted in Nuclear Abandonment

  Published 27 October 2010 | viewed 981 times

  If you are heading north on the Chesapeake Bay, just above where the Patuxent River enters it, and you will see the Cove Point liquefied…

• They Died Before the Oil Ran Out

  Published 16 August 2010 | viewed 4,443 times

  There is an open secret in the oil industry that dare not speak its name: peak oil. Well, two did speak its name and gained…