Patience Wheatcroft, The Wall Street Journal
“The work of the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security shouldn’t be disparagingly dismissed. Its arguments are well founded and lead it to the conclusion that, while the global downturn
“Carbon-based fuels, in their cleaner forms, must keep carrying the load. Renewables just cannot ramp up fast enough to replace them. Let’s consider what gas can mean for the future. The real future, not the pipe dreams of the hydrocarbon deniers.”
“I think it might not be a bad idea to examine the faith-based assumption that the US has a virtually unlimited supply of natural gas from shale formations
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“Shale gas has a fairly short history of production. [Companies] are projecting stable production for 20 to 30 years, but we don’t have a history
The oil supply challenge is often summarized in terms of the production volume equivalent of Saudi-Arabia’s that needs to be replaced. This popular
“Sanctions [against Iran] are a long-term solution. They may work, we can’t judge. But we see the issue in the shorter term maybe because we
Even for staunch proponents of U.S. biofuel policy, it is hard to argue that the current subsidy on grain ethanol serves the purpose it was designed to
“The work of the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security shouldn’t be disparagingly dismissed. Its arguments are well founded and lead it to the conclusion that, while the global downturn
“Motor vehicle gasoline demand is down, is headed down and is going to continue to head down.”