US May Pass Natural Gas Legislation – This Would Kickstart Conversion to Gas as Transportation Fuel
by Paolo von Schirach May 5, 2011 WASHINGTON – Long after the “Drill, Baby Drill” populist slogans...
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Standard & Poor’s Downgraded US Outlook – America in Decline Accepts “Negative” as “The New Normal”
by Paolo von Schirach April 20, 2011 WASHINGTON– The US sovereign debt outlook was just downgraded from...
The Arab World’s Glorious, Yet Uneasy, Steps Towards Democracy
WASHINGTON – A recent US public TV documentary featured Gigi Ibrahim, one of the young stars of...
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...