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“The Struggle Behind Oil’s Ups and Downs”: The industry has been recalibrated to a lower price level.

Thought Piece [Daniel Yergin has been one of the most reliable voices of world energy experts and writers for the last 40 years. His intellectual credentials would make a mortal man weep: Yale, founder of the New Journal, PHD from Cambridge University, lecturer at Harvard Business School, found of Cambridge Research Associates, and founder/VP of information company IHS. He is best known for his [...]

By |2017-05-24T07:05:42-05:00May 21st, 2017|Categories: Energy, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on “The Struggle Behind Oil’s Ups and Downs”: The industry has been recalibrated to a lower price level.
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An Open Letter To Rick Perry On Natural Gas Exports: Natural Gas provides strong environmental and economic benefits.

Thought Piece [The following piece from James Taylor is spot on! While it is reasonable to expect a former Texas Governor to understand energy issues, this piece adds some intellectual firepower to the expansion of the whole hydraulic fracturing revolution. If it makes geopolitical and economic sense to export US oil (and it does), it certainly [...]

By |2017-04-19T21:57:10-05:00April 19th, 2017|Categories: Energy, Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , , , , , |5 Comments
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Real science must guide policy: Climate alarmists use faulty science and bald assertions to demand end to fossil fuels

Thought Piece [Paul Driessen recaps the testimony by four scientist witnesses at the recent House Science Committee hearings on assumptions, policy implications and scientific principles of climate change.  He makes a thought-provoking and compelling case that the supposed “consensus” or “settled” science on “dangerous manmade climate change” is still much in dispute and has been driven [...]

By |2017-04-18T21:04:44-05:00April 18th, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , |1 Comment
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Fracking comes to the Arctic in a new Alaska oil boom: This comes at a time of low oil prices, when observers felt the Arctic would remain off-limits.

Thought Piece [While the discovery of 5 to 6 billion oil and untold natural gas is good news for Alaska, the U.S. and the global energy markets, the logistics of the harvesting the oil will require vast quantities of water and sand needed for fracking, which will be challenging, and probably more expensive than the lower 48 states. Of the [...]

By |2017-04-14T21:58:37-05:00April 14th, 2017|Categories: Energy, Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Fracking comes to the Arctic in a new Alaska oil boom: This comes at a time of low oil prices, when observers felt the Arctic would remain off-limits.
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Legal Group Wants ‘Partisan’ AG Punished Over Handling Of High-Profile Public Records Request: Another New York Attorney General without boundaries?

Thought Piece "Legal Group Wants ‘Partisan’ AG Punished Over Handling Of High-Profile Public Records Request." Another New York Attorney General without boundaries? [Below, you will find two pieces about New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman. In many ways, his AG office's activities have been  reminiscent of Elliot Spitzer's attack on Wall Street: Highly political, very ambitious and utterly [...]

By |2017-04-14T21:48:53-05:00April 13th, 2017|Categories: Energy, Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Legal Group Wants ‘Partisan’ AG Punished Over Handling Of High-Profile Public Records Request: Another New York Attorney General without boundaries?
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Saudi Arabia’s Oil Supremacy Falters: Rejiggering its long-held strategy of clinging to market share

Thought Piece [No amount of rejiggering its long-held strategy can help Saudi Arabia keep its market share. Simple supply and demand economics has hit the international oil markets right between the eyes. Thanks mostly to the growing efficiencies and supply in the US, we are witnessing a fundamental change in the way the oil business is done. It doesn't matter which [...]

By |2017-04-03T22:50:20-05:00March 21st, 2017|Categories: Energy, Thought Piece|Tags: , |Comments Off on Saudi Arabia’s Oil Supremacy Falters: Rejiggering its long-held strategy of clinging to market share
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Justin Trudeau: “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.”

Thought Piece [The total lack of understanding about the importance of good global economics on display in James Ayre's piece is staggering. As Bjorn Lomborg points out in Wall Street Journal Op-Ed on February 9, 2017, "by far the largest source of renewable energy used in China [and all poor countries] is traditional biomass—that is, people burning charcoal, firewood [...]

By |2017-04-03T22:50:21-05:00March 19th, 2017|Categories: Energy, Thought Piece|Tags: , |Comments Off on Justin Trudeau: “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.”
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