I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy struggled. ...

Signs of Recovery While it will only be with years of hindsight that we can determine the total environmental impact of the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, there are encouraging signs that the environmental devastation will be less severe than many had feared. Today a reader sent me ...

The following is a guest essay by Kevin Kane. Kevin is the author of the Energy Fanatic Blog. Oil Prices, Recession-Depression, and Investment Low Oil Prices Foster Future Oil Price Peaks By Kevin Kane As the global economy stalls, some economists including Paul Krugman argue that ...

Increase in barrel tax is designed to provide a fund for future oil cleanups similar to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Global study is designed to examine whether private fuel producers are paying enough for drilling on Federal lands.

First OPEC wanted to be compensated if climate change legislation costs them revenue, and now this: OPEC: give us certainty to investYou only get a small preview of the following story, but I found the bit that is accessible to be pretty humorous:...

As we continue to develop biomass as a renewable source of energy, it is important to keep the cost of energy in mind, because this has a very strong influence on the choices governments and individuals will make. I sometimes hear people ask "Why are we still using dirty coal?" ...

In this, my last posting of the decade, I thought I would write something profound. Then I realized I don’t really have anything profound to say today, so at the risk of violating Point 9 below, I thought I would summarize some of the things I have learned since starting ...

Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2009. Previously I listed how I voted in Platt's Top 10 poll, but my list is a bit different from theirs. I have a couple of stories here that they didn't list, and I combined some topics. ...

As I compile my year end list of the biggest energy stories of the year, I have just gotten an e-mail from Platts that is very helpful. As they have done in previous years, they have a survey up so readers can rank the top stories:Platts wants ...