More talk this week of war with Iran, and the price of oil jumps right up. Maybe the two are related, and maybe not.
Category Archives: energy
External scientific advice at the Department of Energy
Energy department abolishes science advisory board
ExxonMobil and peak oil
ExxonMobil is out to convince people that peak oil is in the far distant future.
Enhanced oil recovery
The Department of Energy issued a series of optimistic reports on Friday about the potential for carbon-dioxide-based enhanced oil recovery methods (CO2-EOR) to lead to huge increases in U.S. crude oil production.
Another look at near-term oil supplies
Now that the Energy Information Administration has published oil production figures for the full year 2005, I was curious to take a look at how the predictions of Cambridge Energy Research Associates are faring thus far.
Autos limp forward
Could be better, could be worse.
Just how implausible is a gasoline tax?
New poll results on energy
Iraq’s electricity challenges
Those who want to see Iraq’s democracy fail have targeted electricity production as one of the key strategic objectives of the conflict. Those who want to see Iraq succeed would be wise to do likewise.
Oil at $15-30 a barrel?
Arnold Kling was surprised by what he found in the energy chapter of the Economic Report of the President.
Nigeria back in the news
And the news is not good.