Lots of very crazy stuff going on behind the scenes that's been keeping me very distracted, and writing to a minimum. Fortunately, Money Morning sent me a very timely essay this morning on crude prices. This one takes aim at the API. While I have a cordial relationship with the ...

Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute conducted a blogger's conference call to talk about various energy issues that they are focused on. I used to regularly attend these calls, but things have been quite busy and it has been a while since I participated. But I thought it would be ...

I should have Part 2 of the series of answering readers' questions posted by tomorrow, but until then I was just sent the following link, which was of great personal interest to me:A Green Refinery?The gist is that last year the American Petroleum Institute flew ...

Energy and the MediaThis was the panel I had been asked to participate in. My fellow panelists were Steven Mufson (one of my favorite mainstream energy reporters), from the Washington Post; Eric Pooley from Harvard, (the former managing editor of Fortune); ...

As the previous post indicated, we in the U.S. have a pretty low energy IQ. One of the reasons is that energy stories are often reported in a very biased or uninformed manner, which tends to distort public viewpoints. For instance, you may think those evil oil companies are ...

This time, the news comes from the API:U.S. oil demand drops in first half of 2008WASHINGTON – U.S. oil demand was significantly down for the first six months of 2008, API said today in its Monthly Statistical Report. While U.S. refiners churned out record and ...