I have written previously about Brazil's "ethanol miracle," and the tendency of the media and various advocates to ignore facts and embrace hype:Lessons from BrazilVinod Khosla DebunkedThere are two take home messages from those essays. First, ethanol provides a small fraction of ...

Through at least this week, my posting will continue to be sporadic. I have been traveling a lot the past couple of weeks, and this week (Thursday April 23rd) I head to Kansas City to give a talk that will be partially about biofuels and partially about acetylated wood:...

Regular readers know that I am a proponent of a carbon tax with income tax offsets. See my essay The Case for Higher Gas Taxes for details.A bill proposing that has now been proposed:Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax: The Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009...

The 2009 EIA Energy Conference is history, and I will write a summary as soon as can. One of the things I commented on today is that I am concerned about the path we are headed down on our domestic oil and gas industry - and if things don't go ...

Gas prices crested the $2 mark for the first time since November of last year, and are now averaging $2.04 a gallon.

It has been a very bad year so far for helicopters ferrying passengers to and from offshore oil platforms. Today comes word of another tragedy involving BP workers:Sixteen people feared dead in North Sea helicopter crashSixteen people were feared to have been killed today when ...

Under a new resolution adopted Thursday by the state Air Resources Board, maintenance shops will have to check the tire pressure of every vehicle they service.

Reality is starting to catch up with prospective cellulosic ethanol producers. I felt like this was bound to happen, but the poor economy is making it happen faster than I expected. I expected some plants to be built, and then they would bleed red ink for a while before declaring ...

More than thirty percent of U.S. Smart car customers are leaving orders on car lots, as lower fuel prices blunt the appeal the tiny car had last year.

This is a timely story, coming on the heels of the previous story on the tariffs the U.S. applies to Brazilian ethanol:European tariffs stun U.S. biodiesel industryThe U.S. biodiesel industry will suffer from new trade barriers that threaten to end its lucrative export business ...