Jerry Jung’s passion for reforming the nation’s ethanol laws started when he noticed that the monarch butterflies had vanished from his hobby farm north of Clare, Michigan.…
In a recent article, I provided a firsthand look at the booming oil production in the Permian Basin. Notably, after 100 years of production, the Permian Basin…
For most of the past 25 years, there was no better investment for income-seeking investors than Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). That changed with the oil…
Modern Saudi Arabia has been built on the back of petroleum — an ancient resource that has been stored for millions of years underneath the…
One school of thought is that future oil demand is set to decline because consumers will have better options. Many in this “peak demand” camp…
In 2006, following 35 years of declining U.S. oil production, net monthly imports of crude oil and finished products had climbed to more than 13…
Recently, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the International Energy Agency (IEA) and BP updated their outlooks for U.S. oil production. All of these projections have…
In a recent post, I wrote that the U.S. would almost certainly set a new oil production record this year. I noted that the most recent data from the…
Between 2010 and 2015, annual oil production in the U.S. grew by four million barrels per day (BPD). Production dipped in 2016, but then U.S.…
Recently Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware said that President Trump was floating the possibility of a fuel tax increase of 25 cents per gallon to pay for…
This year begins the ninth year of cellulosic ethanol mandates in the U.S. Today I want to give a brief review of cellulosic ethanol, review…
As I indicated in my previous article, I believe President Trump missed a golden opportunity to highlight energy in his State of the Union address last week.…
During President Trump’s State of the Union address, the energy industry was scarcely mentioned. In fact, his full comments on energy were: “We have ended…
Waymo Update Waymo is a self-driving car company created by Google. As I explained in an article last November, the company tests its self-driving cars in Chandler, Arizona…
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Venezuela’s oil output in December fell by 11 percent, to 1.62 million barrels per day (BPD). That capped a decline…
Boomtown Last week, my day job took me to the Permian Basin. A colleague and I arrived late at night at our hotel in Fort Stockton, Texas. The…
The energy recovery is well underway. President Trump continues to roll back regulations aimed at boosting oil production and saving the coal industry. How might…
The results of my 2017 energy predictions were a mixed bag this year. I correctly forecast that Donald Trump would take action on some stalled…
The tax bill recently signed by President Trump should be a boon to corporate America. The bill will drop the corporate tax rate from the…
As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time to review the top energy stories of the year. There are several stories that could compete for…