Lynne Kiesling Run, don’t walk, to Randall Parker’s place and read his excellent and thorough post on the science, economics, and politics of ethanol in Brazil and the US. Chock full of outstanding and informative links. I also had not thought about what he mentions in his parting comment about ethanol from biomass: But my …
Lynne Kiesling This AP story on today’s oil market gives a nice overview of the roilings in the market over the past month. Thus far today markets are calm in anticipation of Iran’s response to the UN about its uranium enrichment.
Lynne Kiesling The boom in natural gas prices has led to revived interest in drilling in Oklahoma and Texas: A flurry of home building, packed hotels, the new cars and trucks cruising the red dirt oil patch along the Texas border 110 miles west of Oklahoma City announce a natural gas boom that hasn’t been …
Lynne Kiesling This is a humdinger: BP’s Prudhoe Bay pipeline is possibly corroded and leaking, and will be shut down. Once the field is shut down, BP said oil production will be reduced by 400,000 barrels a day. That’s close to 8 percent of U.S. oil production or about 2.6 percent of U.S. supply including …
Lynne Kiesling We leave on an intermountain West camping trip Saturday morning, so will be beyond the reach of communication technology for a fair chunk of the next week. But given that the underlying fundamentals have not changed substantially in the past year, even though the prices have, I am re-posting this post, this post, …
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Lynne Kiesling US gasoline at $3 drives people onto buses, trains In the first quarter, as gas prices started to surge again, public transportation ridership rose 4.25 percent nationwide, representing almost 2.5 billion trips, the APTA said. The increase “seems to relate very largely to gas prices,” Millar said. “Hearing anecdotally from our members about …
Lynne Kiesling Please do go over and welcome back Mr. Seat, who has been away for far too long. He offers sympathy to our Indian friends, and links to an Environmental Economics post about generating electricity from cow manure. One company I know of that does great energy things with manure is Real Energy. As …
Lynne Kiesling The ever-clever Jonathan Rauch has a Reason column today in which he makes a provocative proposal to President Bush: Here is the idea: Propose an international treaty whose signatories would agree to eliminate gasoline from their transportation systems by a date certain—say, in 30 years. Seek initial support from Europe and Japan, but …
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Lynne Kiesling Have you noticed those AMD processor ads in airports, magazines, etc., that say things like “this processor saves enough power to steam the milk for 1,000 lattes”? I am fascinated by the fact that AMD sees value in a general marketing campaign focused on energy saving features of processors! We would see more …
Lynne Kiesling On Monday the Chicago Tribune published an editorial about electricity policy in Illinois (registration required). We’ve got a lot of electricity policy issues on the table right now. Nine years ago, the political bargain struck to allow wholesale market competition in electric power was a ten-year retail rate freeze, at a discounted rate …
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