Gary Hunt

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• Inconvenient Truths Not Spoken About at Doha

  Published 14 December 2012 | viewed 13,224 times

  The Doha climate change conference concluded this week with what has become a familiar ring.  Nothing much of import happened and increasingly fewer people noticed. …

• Encouraging Solar Energy to Stand on its Own two Feet

  Published 17 October 2012 | viewed 21,070 times

  The search for market equilibrium is an elusive quest in the solar energy industry.  But the addiction to subsidies, carve-outs and other political favours has…

• Coal Set for a Strong Comeback in Europe

  Published 25 September 2012 | viewed 14,046 times

  A funny thing is happening on the way to the clean energy future.  While the US government wages a regulatory war on coal fired generation,…

• Excessive Red Tape Causes Energy Costs to Soar on Public Land

  Published 18 September 2012 | viewed 11,565 times

  More than 96% of the domestic energy production growth from shales has taken place on private lands safely out of the reach of the Federal…

• Argentina's Shale Gas Dilemma

  Published 13 September 2012 | viewed 18,466 times

  You must admit there is a certain irony in reports out of Argentina by none other than the newly named CEO of YPF, (NYSE: YPF)…

• Let's Make a Deal on National Energy Policy

  Published 05 September 2012 | viewed 4,860 times

  When you read the Obama Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future and compare it to Romney’s Energy Plan for market-driven competitive energy growth to…

• Looking at the Progress Made on Obama's Energy Plan

  Published 04 September 2012 | viewed 9,124 times

  This is an overview of the Obama Energy Plan released in March 2011 as a Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future.  A year later,…

• The Shale Revolution will Create More Competitive Energy Markets

  Published 03 September 2012 | viewed 7,775 times

  The growth of oil and gas exploration in shales begun in North America is setting off a global race for shale E&P development and threatens…

• What’s Missing in the Romney Energy Plan?

  Published 27 August 2012 | viewed 8,160 times

  “An affordable, reliable supply of energy is crucial to America’s economic future. I have a vision for an America that is an energy superpower, rapidly…

• The Truth About Gasoline Price Volatility

  Published 23 August 2012 | viewed 15,786 times

  Nothing infuriates Americans more than volatile, spiking gasoline prices.  Often the causes given for gasoline price hikes seem contrived.  Iran and Israel trade harsh words…

• Shale Growth in other Nations: How Realistic is it?

  Published 22 August 2012 | viewed 6,193 times

  American leadership in developing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing used in shale oil and gas plays is spreading around the world making it possible to…

• Can the Big Shift in Energy bring a Return of Industrial Demand?

  Published 02 August 2012 | viewed 5,957 times

  Outsourcing has become a dirty word in the 2012 election, in part, because over the last decade the US lost more than 5 million jobs…

• How Domestic Energy Production in the US will Stimulate Economic Growth

  Published 01 August 2012 | viewed 9,539 times

  The Q2:2012 economic reports are in and—to use a technical term—the results suck!  GDP growth has slowed to 1.5%, unemployment rates remain stubbornly high at…

• Why Energy Will be Driven By Profitability in the Future

  Published 26 July 2012 | viewed 5,771 times

  The energy business cycle has always been dominated by boom and bust cycles.  Through changes in technology, economic conditions and regulation nothing has altered that…

• Why the Government Should Turn the Private Sector Loose in the Energy Market

  Published 18 July 2012 | viewed 8,490 times

  The economy, jobs and the debate over the direction of the country dominate 2012 political campaigns.  Nowhere is the political rhetoric fiercer than on energy…

• The Importance of Balancing Energy Economics for the Success of Sustainability

  Published 10 July 2012 | viewed 5,945 times

  It does not feel like recovery.  Recovery is a time for rationalizing the old and positioning for what is to come.  I know it seems…

• Rio+20 Economic Reality Check

  Published 26 June 2012 | viewed 9,109 times

  The latest economic statistics are out and it is not good news.  The Federal Reserve’s latest projections for the U.S. economy show significant deterioration as…

• Rough Years Ahead for the Solar Industry

  Published 18 June 2012 | viewed 9,337 times

  Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) workshop presentation of its Q2:2012 outlook for photovoltaic panels has attracted a lot of attention.  Before the presentation BNEF leaked…

• California to Use Revenue from Carbon Auctions to Reduce Huge Fund Deficit

  Published 16 June 2012 | viewed 6,058 times

  And you thought the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) was all about limiting greenhouse gas emissions, didn’t you?  Think again.There is a brewing fight…

• Dysfunction and Cynicism Rule in Environmental Regulation

  Published 14 June 2012 | viewed 5,225 times

  The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to publish new proposed rules setting air quality standards for soot this week under terms of a tentative…