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148 Days to Go McCain and Obama tout very different energy policies		09 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:51 PM on 09 Jun 2008 While campaigning in different cities Monday, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama managed to trade plenty of jabs on energy policy. At a rally in Raleigh, N.C., Obama called for a tax on oil-company windfall profits and declared, "At a time ... when we're paying more than $4 a gallon for gas, [McCain] wants to spend $1.2 billion on a tax break for ExxonMobil." McCain's economic adviser ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

What Mr. Crude Oil sees ahead High oil prices are our lot until demand is destroyed, but no peak	Joseph Romm	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Goldman Sachs analyst Arjun Murti predicted the recent spike in oil prices, so it's worth looking at his recent interview in Barron's:IN 2004, ARJUN N. MURTI, A TOP ENERGY ANALYST AT GOLDMAN SACHS, published a report predicting 'a potentially large upward spike in crude oil, natural gas and refining margins at some point this decade.' It was a controversial call, with crude around $40 a barrel at the time. But it was right on the money. Four years later, crude is tradin ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, interview, oil (all these topics)

'You just gave my speech' Drilling for fossil fuels and subsidizing nuclear power: McCain energy policy	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain reveals the heart of his energy policy: McCain was more gung-ho about nuclear power and expanded domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. When a donor in Richmond summed up his advice as, 'nuclear, and drill wherever we've got it,' McCain responded: 'You just gave my speech. Thank you, my friend.
Topics: energy, insanity, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

The Will to be ignorant Drilling in ANWR still isn't the solution to high gas prices	Andrew Dessler	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
George Will is at it again. His latest bit of inane demagoguery can be found here, in which he excoriates everyone who has ever opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Also disqualified from complaining [about oil prices] are all voters who sent to Washington senators and representatives who have voted to keep ANWR's oil in the ground and who voted to put 85 percent of America's offshore territory off-limits to drilling. Naturally, Will ignore ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, dumbassery, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

End the stalemate Last, best hope for clean energy tax incentives	Adam Browning	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
For the past six months, Congress has been squabbling over how to pay for a package of expiring clean energy tax incentives. These incentives, which will phase out in December, are bringing down the cost of manufacturing, building, and installing renewable energy systems and energy-efficient products. A multitude of bills have been introduced by both parties, in both chambers, and all have failed. The last, best hope for this year is H.R. 6049. This bill passed the ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

It's not the size of the government, it's how you use it The right comparison between Obama and McCain on climate/energy	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Power summarizes the difference between Obama and McCain on energy and environmental policies this way: Sen. Obama is pushing a bigger government role in fostering the development of technologies to reduce emissions and alternatives to fossil fuels. Sen. McCain, meanwhile, argues for a more hands-off approach, saying "unintended consequences" can result from wrongheaded interference in the marketplace. This is the J ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

IEA report, Part 1 Act now with clean energy or face 6 degrees C warming; cost is not high; media blows story	Joseph Romm	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
When the normally conservative International Energy Agency agrees with both the middle of the road IPCC and more ... progressive voices like mine, it should be time for the world to get very serious, very fast on the clean energy transition. But when the media blows the story, the public and policymakers may miss the key messages of the stunning new IEA report, 'Energy Technology Perspectives, 2008' (executive summary here). You may not have paid much attention t ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil (all these topics)

Taking the Pledge Five nations agree to think about ending oil subsidies	Ron Steenblik	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The day after markets registered the highest single-day rise in crude oil prices ever, the United States and Asia's four largest economies (Japan, China, India and South Korea), meeting in Aomori, Japan in advance of the G8 Energy Ministers summit, have formed a sort of Petro-holics non-Anonymous club, calling for an end to oil subsidies in their countries. Consumer subsidies (subsidized fuel prices), that is, not producer subsidies. OK, what they actually agreed upo ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, international treaties, oil (all these topics)

Conservatives and climate change, continued A carbon policy is likely to be less devastating than nature, or oil markets	Ryan Avent	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Reihan responds. Let me just say a few more things. First, I described his characterization of carbon pricing as 'insane' based on this: What we need is a $100 billion prize or set of prizes to the person or firm or non-profit entity that can devise a cost-effective means of scrubbing the atmosphere of carbon emissions. This sounds insane, I realize. It is less insane than the far costlier, far less egalitarian regulatory alternative. Just to clarify. Next, Reiha ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, gas prices, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Holding onto what's golden Saudi Arabia and oil	Andrew Dessler	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I recently found a pretty good NYT Magazine article on oil production. It's definitely worth a read, if for no other reason than as a reminder of how much things have changed since the article was written in 2005. For example, on page 1 comes the quaint statement: If consumption begins to exceed production by even a small amount, the price of a barrel of oil could soar to triple-digit levels. Yes ... yes it could. Here's another one: But will such a situatio ...
Topics: energy, oil, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Country songs dedicated to your favorite climate personalities	Gar Lipow	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Dedicated to the coal and nuclear industries: Lorrie Morgan's What Part of No Don't You Understand? Dedicated to Scott McClellan: Randy Travis' Pray for the Fish: Dedicated to all the carbon traders: Tanya Tucker's Lizzie and the Rain Maker:
Topics: carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, music, nuclear power (all these topics)

We Spend That Before Breakfast Mere $45 trillion needed to tackle climate change, says IEA		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 06 Jun 2008 A G8-backed goal to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 would take a global clean-technology investment of merely $45 trillion, the International Energy Agency said in a report Friday. That's about 1.1 percent of the world's average annual gross domestic product through 2050; more overwhelmingly, it's also about three times the size of the current U.S. economy. To meet ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, G8, news (all these topics)

Cause and effect	David Roberts	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here's a sentence from a new story in the WSJ: The second-poorest state in the nation based on household income, West Virginia counts on coal to support its economy. May I suggest a rewrite? West Virginia counts on coal to support its economy; as a consequence, it is the second-poorest state in the nation based on household income.
Topics: economy, West Virginia, energy, coal (all these topics)

Your two cents Opening ANWR cuts gas prices $0.02 in 2025	Joseph Romm	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In the climate and energy debate, conservatives continue to argue that the only solution to high gasoline prices is drill, drill, drill, especially in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This argument is false, false, false. The Administration's own Energy Information Administration found differently in a 2004 Congressionally-requested 'Analysis of Oil and Gas Production in ANWR' (see 'Note to Bush, media: Opening ANWR cuts gas prices one cent in 2025'). I pointed ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Who is being misleading? A Post columnist's defenders can't salvage his poor cap-and-trade logic	Ryan Avent	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Tyler Cowen weighs in on the cap-and-trade debate. He focuses on my criticism of Samuelson's seeming failure to understand the relationship between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax: But Samuelson is correct here and Avent is misleading. When there is uncertainty about the location of the social optimum, and uncertainty about elasticities, a carbon tax and cap-and-trade are by no means equivalent. If you see very high costs from setting the binding cap too l ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, messaging (all these topics)

Me Tar Sands, You Insane U.S. emphasis on Canada's tar sands a bad idea, says report		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 04 Jun 2008 As the United States expands its oil-refining capabilities, more than two-thirds of planned capacity will be devoted to processing crude oil from Canada's tar sands, says a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project and Environmental Defense Canada. Tar-sands capacity is predicted to see a total increase of 1.9 million barrels per day, says the report, while conventiona ...
Topics: Canada, energy, insanity, news, oil, oil sands, United States (all these topics)

Hyperion Active South Dakota vote is step toward first new U.S. oil refinery in decades		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 04 Jun 2008 Plans have moved forward for the first new U.S. oil refinery in more than 30 years, as voters in South Dakota's Union County approved a rezoning that would allow the project to be built. Energy company Hyperion Resources says the planned $10 billion facility would be a "green refinery" and would produce ultra-low-sulfur gasoline and diesel. (Never mind that it may s ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, South Dakota (all these topics)

Nuclear questions for Lovins What should I ask the efficiency guru about nuclear power?	David Roberts	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amory Lovins. Photo: � Judy Hill Amory Lovins is on the warpath against nuclear power, battling the industry PR push that says nuclear is a viable climate solution. He's got a new report, co-authored with Imran Sheikh, called 'The Nuclear Illusion' [PDF]. Spinning off from that report are a Newsweek article called 'Missing the Market Meltdown' and an article on the RMI site called 'Forget Nuclear.' I was on a conference call with Lovins earlier today in whic ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy, interview, nuclear power (all these topics)

The truth will set you free Democrats are undermining the strongest message behind climate policy	David Roberts	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In this post, I argued that the best, simplest, and most impactful message for advocates of climate legislation is this: Good climate policy will rescue American families from a sinking ship. I meant to add that the Dems not only seem to miss the power of this message, but are by all appearances working to undermine it. What do I mean? Well, core to the message is a simple truth: Fossil energy costs are going up. They're going to keep going up. The reasons are comp ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, gas prices, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Elder care for the long emergency Cool housing for oldsters	JMG	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
People who think about how we're going to adapt to lower-energy living arrangements often miss that the U.S. continues to gray rapidly. Given that we've had almost sixty years of radical suburbanization and cross-country relocation, sundering the extended family networks that once provided child and elder care, we're in a pickle when it comes to figuring out how to care for elders.Here's an encouraging story about a new facility that really seems to get it. My question is why we ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Train of thought Rail and the coming changes in transport	Erik Hoffner	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
National Train Day was marked this year on May 10, so it's not too incredibly late to mention two new books of note: John Stilgoe's Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape that came out in the fall says that rail is 'an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States.' Maybe that's a little grand, but rail is definitely on the ascendancy, since it can move people and freight at a fraction of the energy usage vs. ...
Topics: books, energy, holiday, oil, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Bright lights, big energy Hybrid solar lighting: a solar retrofit for hot climates	Gar Lipow	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A fascinating commercial application for solar energy in clear (or semi-clear) hot climates seems to not be getting the attention it deserves: hybrid solar lighting. You take a parabolic concentrator and focus some sunlight, optically split with plastic fiber into visible light and heat. Pipe the visible light through diffusers throughout the building. It saves lighting electricity, of course, but unlike skylights or conventional T8s, it adds almost no heat to the buil ...
Topics: energy, green building, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Beam me down, Scotty Can we shoot concentrated solar power down from space?	David Roberts	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
CNN takes a look an energy long shot that could change the game on climate change: space-based solar power. The idea is to launch satellites covered with solar panels up into geosynchronous orbit, where the sun is always shining, and beam the power back down to land-based receivers. A 2007 Pentagon study concluded that 'a single kilometer-wide band of geosynchronous Earth orbit experiences enough solar flux in one year to nearly equal the amount of energy contained wit ...
Topics: energy, innovation, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Nukes, part II: nuclear bomb Bite-sized version of longer nuke study is on Salon	Joseph Romm	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If you are looking for a shorter, more readable version of my study, 'The Self-Limiting Future of Nuclear Power,' I've got just the thing. Salon has published my article, 'Nuclear bomb: Nuclear energy, the sequel, is opening to raves by everybody from John McCain to a Greenpeace co-founder. Don't be fooled. It's the Ishtar of power generation.' As the article points out, back in May 2001, the Economist explained ($ub. req'd) that nuclear power had fallen out of favor ...
Topics: economy, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Jumping ship from the USS Fossil Climate action advocates need a simple, compelling message on costs	David Roberts	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
As this lamentable New York Times piece demonstrates, advocates for action on climate change have lost the framing battle. If they don't want to lose the war for America's future, they need to step back, coalesce around a simple message, and get it out to voters in a disciplined way. The corporatist wing of the Republican party has a simple, compelling populist message: capping emissions will hurt American families. It will raise the price of energy -- gasoline, he ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, messaging (all these topics)

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