How many of you remember Billie Holiday, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, early Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee? No, this is not a test for Medicare. Your answers will not be screened by the IRS nor will your thoughts be recorded… Continue Reading →
Recently, the U.S. Energy Information Agency announced that carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption in the U.S. during 2012 fell to the lowest level since 1994. Further, in 2012, emissions were 12.1% below the peak of 6 billion tons in… Continue Reading →
Remember the Cold War! Remember when the Russians launched Sputnik 1! It caused some of our political leaders to go up the wall. The Russians had seemingly beaten us in space; they were ahead in the race to the moon… Continue Reading →
I bet most of you have heard the dictum often passed on by management consultants, sometimes with humor and sometimes with tears, that you’re only an expert when you fly. Translated, the greater the distance you fly to either speak… Continue Reading →
It’s been many years since the very honorable Sen. George Aiken (D) indicated that in effect, America should declare it won the war in Vietnam and get out. His profound remarks were more extensive than my quick summary. He was… Continue Reading →
Recently, two major auto manufacturer alliances publicly announced their gamble on hydrogen fuel-cell technology as a future, viable transportation fuel. Toyota and BMW’s plan to jointly develop fuel-cell and car battery technology was almost immediately followed by a similar announcement… Continue Reading →
The word potpourri could mean a collage of wonderful vegetables, meats and fish, or, for the French, it could be a rotting bowl of soup. Ah, those French! In the world of public policy, a potpourri of policies can be… Continue Reading →
The U.S., as it is on most resource development and distribution policies, appears unable to make firm policy decisions concerning alternative transitional fuels, because of the involvement and sometimes clatter of diverse special interest groups before an often immobile Congress.… Continue Reading →
Between half-time breaks in football games and during free evenings, I read the recent projections from Exxon Mobil Corp. and EIA for future energy consumption. Both analyses, one by a major global oil company, and the other by a government… Continue Reading →
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2012 generated a mostly enthusiastic response, rather than criticism, regarding its prediction that the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest oil producer by 2020 and become virtually energy independent… Continue Reading →
