Opening Bid on Fracking Regulations
Gasoline prices hit their highest Labor Day level ever in 2012. In days before and after, the usual mix of factors leading to that retail peak. The half-hearted embargo on Iranian oil was a factor....
View ArticleAn Easy Win for Americans – One That Only Washington Can Lose
Permission to speak plainly? The U.S. could approach energy self-sufficiency in the next decade. We are slowly gaining experience in wind and solar, but cost, technical snags and logistics remain...
View ArticleFracking Done Right — Part I
The economic benefits from fracking (hydraulic fracturing of gas and oil-bearing shale) are widely understood. They include reduced oil imports, a lower deficit in our balance of payments, domestic...
View ArticleFracking Part II: “Peak Oil” Was Overtaken by Events
On a recent road trip through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, most of the oil well jack pumps that we saw were motionless – even though a few pumps continued rocking. Since...
View ArticleKilling Our Carbon-Related Economic Recovery
In an economy with elevated unemployment, chronic under-employment, feeble GDP growth, and federal deficits as far as consumers can see, there is little stimulus to thank except for the Federal...
View ArticleOil Despots versus a Blind EPA
America’s new found effectiveness in extracting oil and gas from underground deposits has boosted U.S. oil production from 5,077 thousand barrels per day in 2007 to 6,498 thousand barrels per day in...
View ArticleCrude Exports Should Start Soon
If the subject were export of materials such as scrap iron, timber, iron ore or electric power, there would be no political backlash. Indeed, improvements in our balance of payments and the creation...
View ArticleEnergy as an Economic Stimulus
Energy production is booming in some western states, like North Dakota, where its unemployment rate has fallen below 2%, and fracking has made the potential for gas extraction a promising proposition....
View ArticleNo Good Reason to Hold Up Keystone — ACI in Real Clear Policy:
Alan Daley writes on why the Keystone XL project should be a simple and quick decision. You can read his piece at Real Clear Policy.
View ArticleThe Calm behind Fracked-Well Flaring Optics
Flaring at fracking sites makes for great TV pictures but flames don’t speak and don’t come with explanatory tags. For a fiction writer, it’s even better than a blank slate. TV news anchors are...
View ArticleDo Not Treat Consumers Like Piñatas
Former Governor Ed Rendell doesn’t want the oil price decrease wasted on consumers. He wants a quick hike in the federal gas tax to capture those funds before consumers get used to paying less and...
View ArticleACI in Forbes: Energy Diversity Helps Consumers
This piece, written by ACI’s Alan Daley, discusses how diversity in domestic energy resources — coal, nuclear, gas, oil and green energy — is beneficial to consumers and the country. You can read his...
View ArticleCooler Heads Abandon a Gas Tax Increase
For the past 6 years, consumers endured economic bad news ranging from disappointing to terrible. Their chance of finding a good new job is so dismal that millions stopped looking. The middle-class...
View ArticleKilling Our Carbon-Related Economic Recovery
In an economy with elevated unemployment, chronic under-employment, feeble GDP growth, and federal deficits as far as consumers can see, there is little stimulus to thank except for the Federal...
View ArticleDependency on Middle East Energy
US consumers rely on 19.63 million barrels of crude oil and 78 trillion British thermal units of natural gas per day for transportation and electrical power generation. A few years ago, those...
View ArticleShould Energy Policy be Rooted in Logic or Fashion?
Unfortunately, the U.S. is not self-sufficient in petroleum and we have a way to go. We consume 19.96 million barrels of crude oil per day (Mbbl/day). Of that, we produce 13.134 Mbbl/day. We also...
View ArticleNo Good Reason to Hold Up Keystone — ACI in Real Clear Policy:
Alan Daley writes on why the Keystone XL project should be a simple and quick decision. You can read his piece at Real Clear Policy. The post No Good Reason to Hold Up Keystone — ACI in Real Clear...
View ArticleThe Calm behind Fracked-Well Flaring Optics
Flaring at fracking sites makes for great TV pictures but flames don’t speak and don’t come with explanatory tags. For a fiction writer, it’s even better than a blank slate. TV news anchors are...
View ArticleDo Not Treat Consumers Like Piñatas
Former Governor Ed Rendell doesn’t want the oil price decrease wasted on consumers. He wants a quick hike in the federal gas tax to capture those funds before consumers get used to paying less and...
View ArticleACI in Forbes: Energy Diversity Helps Consumers
This piece, written by ACI’s Alan Daley, discusses how diversity in domestic energy resources — coal, nuclear, gas, oil and green energy — is beneficial to consumers and the country. You can read his...
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