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While waiting to see how the Iranian nuclear confrontation and the various Eurozone crises sort themselves out, there is time to step back and look…
Last week we talked about the possibility that researchers have found a second and potentially useful and inexpensive way of converting hydrogen into helium accompanied…
With global warming driving down the demand for natural gas as a home heating fuel and natural gas drillers producing record amounts, an oversupply situation…
There is a lot of talk recently that "tight oil" as found in North Dakota's Bakken and other shales in the Southwest will save America…
If current population trends continue . . . • The population of the United States will increase to over 600 million by 2080, and in 2150…
With the EU's debt crisis and the Iranian confrontation relatively quiescent, attention has turned to the incessant increase in U.S. gasoline prices. The Capitol Hill…
World coal production and consumption data for 2011 are not yet compiled and published, but one key number is in. China’s Ministry of Industry and…
It has been six weeks since we last discussed the problems that could be in store for the U.S.'s East Coast due to closing of…
Here in northern California gasoline is now retailing for $4.20 a gallon. Prices haven’t been this high since mid-2008. Forecasts for $5 per gallon gas…
Gasoline prices in the U.S. are off on another tear. The national average just went by $3.57 for regular and due to a little problem…
As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the…
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a…
Almost exactly nine years ago, opposition to the US invasion of Iraq was reaching a fever pitch. On February 15, 2003 millions of people around…
If current trends continue, gasoline prices and U.S. energy policy seem destined to play a larger role in the political debate prior to the November…
Here is one more thing for those of us who live in the North Eastern U.S. to start worrying about - the refineries that make…
Natural gas prices have declined to below $3.00/mcf, levels not seen for years, yet the EIA posted the highest gas production ever in October, 2011.…
From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears…
In recent days there has been much discussion in the press about what might happen to gasoline prices in the coming year. Cognizant of the…
The returns are in and we now know that world price of a barrel of oil averaged $111 in 2011. This was up 14 percent…
The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term, making the…
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