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Thursday, May 23, 2013

America’s natural gas: Should exports be restricted?

Abby McCloskey | May 6, 2013, 1:46 pm

America is now the world’s biggest producer of natural gas, thanks to hydraulic fracking and drilling advances. Mark Perry has written that the US has enough gas in reserves to last the next 110 years. Yesterday, the WSJ reported the … read more >

Carpe Diem

It’s payback time for the UK’s insane energy policy

Mark J. Perry | March 29, 2013, 7:40 pm

As the UK experiences its coldest March in 50 years and braces for a white Easter weekend at the same time there are critical shortages of natural gas, Christopher Booker expresses his frustration with the UK’s energy policy in The (UK) Telegraph: … read more >

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Classic 1978 Milton Friedman lecture on the future of energy

Mark J. Perry | February 27, 2013, 3:17 pm

In the video above from 1978, Milton Friedman delivers a timeless lecture in San Franciso about the future of energy in the US, and discusses issues including peak coal, peak oil, the myth of finite resources, the Limits to Growth, and the price mechanism.

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What’s to like about ethanol? It can ruin car engines, it’s bad for the environment, and it raises taxes, gas and food prices

Mark J. Perry | January 16, 2013, 5:41 pm

Except for a small minority of corn growers and ethanol producers, corn ethanol is a bad deal for everybody else: it damages automobile engines and fuel systems, it’s bad for the environment, it requires billions of dollars extracted from US … read more >

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Energy updates: Carbon dioxide at a 20-year low, oceans of natural gas, Romney vs. Obama on energy, $1T oil/gas capex in 2012

Mark J. Perry | August 23, 2012, 4:49 pm

1. Investor’s Business Daily ran an excellent editorial a few days ago on the “shockingly good news” that carbon emissions are now the lowest in 20 years, going all the way back to 1992 (see chart above, EIA data here), … read more >

Economics, Energy and the Environment

We don’t need a ‘national energy policy’

Kenneth P. Green | July 3, 2012, 9:59 am

My colleague, Norm Ornstein, recently weighed in on the issue of energy, riffing on his continuing theme that the government is broken, and what’s needed to fix it is for conservatives to, well, drop all the stuff about free markets, … read more >

Economics, Energy and the Environment

Sierra Club goes after natural gas

Kenneth P. Green | May 7, 2012, 11:16 am

It is a mistake to take the green energy agenda at face value. While claiming that what they really want is simply to replace “dirty” energy with “clean” energy, the real agenda is to leave people with less abundant, less … read more >

Economics, Energy and the Environment

What comes after the renewabubble?

Kenneth P. Green | April 18, 2012, 4:03 pm

A team of analysts from the Breakthrough Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the World Resources Institute have put out a meaty report on the pending collapse of the renewabubble as the inflating power of the Obama administration’s “stimulus” (ARRA) from … read more >

Economics

The entire Obama presidency in one anecdote — updated

James Pethokoukis | April 13, 2012, 2:39 pm

One of my favorite moments from the new book The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery: Energy was a particular obsession of the president-elect’s, and therefore a particular source of frustration. Week after week, [White House economic adviser Christina] … read more >

Economics, Energy and the Environment

Greens trying to turn coal exports into ‘another Keystone’

Kenneth P. Green | April 9, 2012, 3:42 pm

As my colleague Steve Hayward pointed out in January, the U.S. may be burning less coal to generate energy, but we’re still producing and exporting plenty of it: some 80 million short-tons in 2010. That represents a lot of export value: at … read more >