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Posted by The oil and gas industry promises “a few days of fracking” for “decades of … production.” But is it true? Believe it or not, some people don’t buy the fracking boom story. Some predict bust. Others, more of a petering out. What gives? Let’s begin with a story about a lunch. Lunch with a Skeptic In…
Posted by Energy independence is a lot like the extravagant Christmas present you wished for all year as a child. For Americans, it’s been the equivalent of a pony, or a Red Ryder BB gun – we hoped for it, we yearned for it, but we never completely believed we’d get it. Now that it’s potentially within…
Every year, the Annual Energy Outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration tries to identify the big trends that are likely to shape the next 20 years in energy – and in this year’s edition, some key trends are different from those that shaped the last 20 years. For instance: We keep getting more efficient.…
New federal statistics show that, for the first time since 1949, the United States is exporting more petroleum products than it’s importing. Does your life feel any different? This is something of a trick question, as we’ll explain in a moment. But this goes to the heart of the long debate about “energy independence.” The…
“The truth is that our energy policy is improvised; it simply isn’t serious.” If you’re thinking that sounds like an apt criticism of U.S. energy policy over the last few decades, you may be surprised to learn that it’s actually a quote from a Spanish policymaker bemoaning his own country’s lack of a long-term, well-thought…
Like so much else in the energy and environmental field, recent news about the discovery of “vast oil fields in the U.S.”, that could dramatically increase domestic oil production, is a mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Let’s go down the list: The good: According to projections by the U.S. Department of…
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A decade ago, the United States urged Israel to lean more heavily on Egypt as an energy supplier, in hopes that such an economic tie would foster cooperation and peace. But those bonds looked more like shackles after a weekend explosion in the north Sinai desert on a terminal serving the natural gas pipeline that…
