I consider the level of dependence of the U.S. on imported petroleum to be a very large financial risk endangering the country's future. There are certainly other import-related risks as well, but here I want to talk about the financial risk.I consider it similar to having a mortgage ...

I am going to be pretty busy for the next few days, and probably won't be able to put anything new up until at least mid-week. Until then, over the past few days there have been a lot of headlines about a recently released study from the Environmental Law Institute. ...

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 ...

A number of people have written to ask why I haven't commented on the climate bill. There are two reasons. First, the House and Senate versions are very different, so the final form may not resemble the version the House just passed. Second, I haven't had the time to read ...

My former CEO Jim Mulva spoke today at the National Summit in Detroit, and had some newsworthy comments. Bloomberg reported on his talk:Conoco Chief Says Replacing Oil May Take a CenturyJune 16 (Bloomberg) -- ConocoPhillips, the third-largest U.S. oil company, said it may ...

Jeff Rubin - the former chief economist at ...

I don't normally post press releases that are e-mailed to me (I get 4 or 5 every day), but this one is important to me. (See my essay The Case for Higher Gas Taxes for my revenue-neutral proposal which is along the same lines as the bill that has ...

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 following guest post is by Bob Findlay, a self-employed open source software engineer who lives on a small farm just outside Toronto.----------------------------On 07 Apr 26 an Oil Drum blogger named Squalish (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2499) wrote a response to a debate about government's role in climate change policy. ...

The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, has just issued a report comparing the effectiveness of fossil-fuel taxes versus renewable energy subsidies for increasing the usage of renewable energy:Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy UseFrom their concluding remarks:...