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Alaska: An Energy and Economic Analysis 26 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
Alaska has some of the highest electricity and gasoline prices in the country, which is not surprising because Alaska is large, remote, and sparsely populated. These factors lead to high costs for bot...
IER Submits Comment on BLM Fracking Rule 24 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am
WASHINGTON — The Institute for Energy Research submitted a comment today on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed federal regulation for hydraulic fracturing on Indian and Federal lands. The commen...
McGinn Steers Navy Toward Green Energy Iceberg 23 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
The man charged with implementing the Navy’s energy agenda doesn’t seem to understand the energy revolution taking place in America. Ret. Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn, who was recently confirmed as assista...
Lack of Customers Results in Electric Car Price War 22 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
America will not achieve President Obama’s goal of 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. This is despite large subsidies from the federal government and many states for making batteries and veh...
MIT Economist on Bogus Climate Damage Functions 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
In my previous post, I summarized Robert S. Pindyck’s scathing paper on the computer models used by the Obama Administration for its estimates of the “social cost of carbon.” Pindyck’s critique is all...
Net Metering: False Free Market Claims and a Regressive Green Tax 20 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
Across the country traditional electric utilities and rooftop solar installers are battling over a controversial incentive program for solar power owners called net metering. In many states, net meter...
EIA Forecasts Higher Domestic Oil Production and Lower Oil Prices 16 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) is forecasting higher oil production than it did in its July Short-Term Energy Outlook and lower oil prices f...
Crude Oil Reserves at Highest Level Since 1985 14 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
“As a country that has 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, but uses 20 percent of the world’s oil — I’m going to repeat that — we’ve got 2 percent of the world oil reserves; we use 20 percent. …
China to Lead the World in Oil Imports; U.S. Petroleum Exports Booming 13 Aug 2013 | 04:39 pm
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that the China is expected to surpass the United States in oil imports this October and to lead the world in total oil imports in 2014.[i] As the gr...
Scathing MIT Paper Blasts Obama’s Climate Models 13 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
Robert S. Pindyck is a professor of economics and finance at MIT, with several decades’ experience publishing articles and books dealing with energy. Moreover, as he explains in this interview, Pindyc...
