Libya Reminds Us of Unresolved Oil Vulnerabilities WASHINGTON– First Tunisia, then Egypt and Yemen and Bahrain. And now, back to North Africa, we have...
Old Lobbies Prevent New Energy Policies WASHINGTON – A while ago, a former high ranking Republican technocrat, senior staff member in many administrations, almost casually indicated...
Natural Gas Is a “Gift to the US Economy” WASHINGTON – I have already noted in an earlier piece the baffling inability to properly cover the story of...
America Has Got Natural Gas! WASHINGTON – A Recent, (November 14, 2010), segment of the popular CBS TV program 60 Minutes was devoted to...
BP and the Mismanagement of Complex Systems Systemic failures indicate inability to understand the true nature of problems, in industry as well as in government WASHINGTON – The story of the BP Gulf platform explosion and never-ending spill has been presented to the public as...
BP Is not “Beyond Petroleum” WASHINGTON – A few years ago, the oil multinational British Petroleum, more commonly known as BP, embarked in a...
BRIEF: Quoting the PickensPlan on Education Energy and Education in the US? What is the connection? Quotes below are from www.PickensPlan.com. This is a website...
Health Care v. Energy WASHINGTON – What’s the correlation between the vast shale gas deposits in Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New...
US: Waiting for the Green Economy WASHINGTON – The old US economy will not come back; while the seeds of the much advertised new economy,...
America: Still No Energy Policy WASHINGTON – A small news item in the briefs section of The Wall street Journal (Environment – Fuel-Efficient Auto Sales...