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Cap and Trade and Non-Tradeable Emissions
Tom Bozzo thinks the path of Chinese energy and climate policies is interesting but the prospect of international trade creating a game of carbon whack-a-mole is not a great argument for the ex ante...
View ArticleWyden’s Proposal for taxing oil and gas speculators
Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon who serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy Committee, is generally considered a liberal, though with a mixed bag of positions that hardly...
View ArticleOpower…this is your profile
The Washington Post reports on an interesting development. If people aren’t able to “see” how they personally fit in to the ‘economy’ or ‘carbon footprint’ in a real way, they often ignore the...
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China and use of coal
Reader benamery 21 comments on US energy consumption from a previous post at Angry Bear on a better picture of what drives energy consumption in China. The NYT article used air conditioning and...
View ArticleCGI, Day 4 – Clean Technology and Smart Energy: Deploying the Green Economy
Moderator is John Holdren, Science and Technology Advisor to President Barack Obama and Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Participants are: Nadia K. Al Dossary, Chief...
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Oil prices and consumer spending.
With the recent surge in oil prices I thought it would be useful to look at the potential impact with one set of data I watch. It is energy as a share of personal consumption expenditures or consumer...
View ArticleJapan May Have Reached Point 7
I give up. It was perfectly obvious what was happening at Fukushima on Saturday afternoon, when I posted bullet points at Skippy: there was going to be a major cleanup cost and the live reactors were...
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The Effect of Oil Prices on Oil Drilling in the U.S.
by Mike Kimel The Effect of Oil Prices on Oil Drilling in the U.S. Oil markets have changed dramatically in the past couple of decades or so. Except for a few years following the second Oil Embargo –...
View ArticleA boom in shale gas? Credit the feds.
A boom in shale gas? Credit the feds. By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (hat tip to Barry Ritholtz) Since the high-profile bankruptcy of Solyndra, the solar company that received $535 million...
View ArticleCorporate/shareholder value, energy market and global warming
Updated: Renewable Germany bailing out Nuclear France I just read the following in an article by a Mr. Bill McKibben and thought it to be an interesting perspective on why climate change/global...
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