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The hare and the tortoise Costs for utilities rise faster than politically palatable rate changes can keep up	Sean Casten	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is one for the 'Things No One is Talking About But Should' file. Greenwire has this report ($ub. req'd) from Standard & Poor's noting that the credit risk of our utilities depends in large part on their ability to recover rising fuel costs, and this ability is diminished due to the fact that: High fuel costs translate directly to higher customer rates, but instituting constant and often significant increases is politically and socially unpalatable. Th ...
Topics: electricity grid, gas prices, economy, energy (all these topics)

No shame in our game Climate policy isn't a pill to swallow, it's a way off a sinking ship	David Roberts	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This Ezra Klein post echoes what has rather rapidly become conventional wisdom among progressives on climate legislation, and it makes me want to tear my hair out. The idea is that climate legislation will inevitably hurt people financially in the short-term, in order to secure environmental benefits in the distant future, so the only way to get it through is with a bunch of obscurantist double-talk to bore or distract people in the hopes that you can sneak something ...
Topics: climate, economy, gas prices, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Staycation, all I ever wanted	Clark Williams-Derry	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Photo: matildaben via Flickr. 'Staycation ... a portmanteau that combines 'stay' and 'vacation' and refers to a holiday that takes place either at or near home.' With gas well above $4 per gallon this summer, and with airlines raising prices and canceling flights because of high fuel costs, it's not too surprising to find a word like 'staycation' gaining a toehold in the North American lexicon. Google now finds nearly 200,000 web pages tha ...
Topics: air travel, gas prices, green living, travel (all these topics)

Must read CIBC report: $7 per gallon gas by 2010 Ten million cars off the road, 1970s style GDP growth	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
CIBC World Markets has just released a stunning yet detailed economic analysis of near-term oil prices and impacts. The PDF has some excellent figures I will convert to JPEGs. The two key pieces are 'Getting off the Road -- Adjusting to $7 per Gallon Gas in America' (PDF) and 'Oil and Growth -- That 70s show Re-Run' (PDF). Main points: 'That additional 200,000 barrels per day pledged from Saudi Arabia is a pittance compared to the four million barrels per day ...
Topics: cars, economy, energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Green Acres Ain't the Place to Be As gas prices rise, Americans move back to the urbs		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:20 PM on 25 Jun 2008 For decades, Americans have trickled steadily out of cities into suburbia -- and then into exurbia. But with gas prices high and likely to stay there, the wallet-conscious are now poised to trickle back in. In 2003, the average suburban household spent $1,422 on gasoline annually; in April 2008, that had leaped to $3,196 per year. "Before it was 'we spend too much time dri ...
Topics: gas prices, news, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics)

Nibbling the hand that supplies you Saudi Arabia to host summit on high gas prices	Joseph Romm	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Since when do we deal with our addiction by going to summits hosted by drug suppliers? Yet here is the Washington Post: 'Saudi Arabian Oil Summit Hopes to Isolate Cause of Price Rise' JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 21 -- Leaders from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations will meet here Sunday to try to pinpoint the reasons behind the rise in oil prices, which have doubled over the past year, and to find ways to bring them down. You cannot make this s ...
Topics: climate, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Put down the oil Increasing oil production will not substitute as energy solution	Michael Moynihan	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted on the NDN Blog. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia did what everyone -- including George W. Bush on bended knee -- has been asking it to do for months: agree to increase production. Prices closed up a dollar. The Saudi move and its non-impact on the market shows just how tight supplies remain. While it was designed in large part to offset declines in Nigerian production due to rebel violence in the oil-rich, poverty-stricken Niger Delta, it might have ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Oil Together Now Prez candidates tout new policies to lower oil prices		23 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:47 AM on 23 Jun 2008 John McCain and Barack Obama have both called for changes to national energy policy in recent days that they said would eventually help lower oil and gasoline prices. On Sunday, Obama called for closer regulation of oil speculators that have been a major force contributing to the rise in oil prices. He said his plan would close the "Enron loophole" -- a provision exempting trade in ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

I'd drive 245 billion miles (just not five billion more) Americans drove less in April 2008	Joseph Romm	21 Jun 2008	Gristmill
April 2008 saw another sharp drop in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) according to the Federal Highway Administration's monthly report on 'Traffic Volume Trends' (PDF). This follows, 'the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history' in March (see here). I was compelled to blog on this because of the incredibly astute media coverage by AFP, 'worldwide news agency,' which wins the 'Duh!' award for the month: Observers surmise a possible link between the decl ...
Topics: cars, climate, climate science, gas prices (all these topics)

A huge tax increase? The GOP disinformation machine settles on an angle	Ryan Avent	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
It seems that another way that the GOP will try to win on this issue is by painting carbon pricing as a massive tax increase. This is just dishonest, though politically it's their best bet (assuming a complete lack of regard for actual outcomes). Let's all think back to the Lieberman-Warner debate, when Bush did his best to scare the crap out of everyone by arguing that L-W would increase gas prices 53 cents-per-gallon by 2030. In fact, it's difficult to imagine th ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, gas prices, politics (all these topics)

You know things are getting bad ...	David Roberts	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
... when even China is raising fuel prices.
Topics: China, energy, gas prices (all these topics)

The Grand Ostrich Party Conservative heads increasingly buried in sand	Ryan Avent	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Andrew Sullivan reads this Jim Manzi post (Conservatives are going to win on climate change! By doing nothing!) and says he's on board. He then proceeds to blow my freaking mind: The key will be private and public innovation of non-carbon energy, and possibly carbon capture technology. Frankly, however painful it is for many, the high price of gas is perhaps the best anti-global warming non-policy there is. Now, why is it that the high price of gas is the best an ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, gas prices, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Pause for effect Iconic Ford SUV plant to be idled for summer	Sara Barz	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Dean Souglass Ford will close its Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne for nine weeks -- four weeks longer than previously announced -- starting on June 23. Birthplace to Lincoln Navigators and Ford Expeditions, the MTP has come in for hard times due to the plummeting market for SUVs. Since January, Expedition sales are down 31 percent; Navigators, 22 percent. Once bread and butter for American automakers, SUVs have fallen victim to $4-a-gallon gasoline. To ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, gas prices (all these topics)

More on the cost of GHG regulation Short-term high gas prices (hopefully) mitigate long-term environmental disasters	Andrew Dessler	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I have been reading Sean Casten's post on the economics of carbon pricing with interest. After some thought, here's my take. A carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system will, without question, raise the price of energy, at least in the short term. In the long-term, it may well be that technological developments lead us to new energy sources that turn out to be cheaper than anything we have today. But that's pure speculation. But in the short term, the costs of a c ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, energy efficiency, gas prices (all these topics)

Putting Lipstick on a Rig Backing up McCain, Bush calls for ending offshore drilling moratorium		18 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 6:36 AM on 18 Jun 2008 President Bush has joined John McCain in calling for an end to the offshore drilling moratorium that's been in effect for most U.S. waters since the early 1980s. Bush's reversal on the offshore-drilling issue follows on the heels of McCain's big energy speech in Houston on Tuesday, where he advocated offshore drilling as a way to lower energy prices. Industry analysts ...
Topics: gas prices, George Bush, John McCain, news, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Trust as first sight Public trusts Obama more than McCain on gas prices, global warming, energy	David Roberts	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Interesting results from a new ABC/WaPo poll. Who do Americans trust more on the economy? Obama 52%, McCain 36% How about gas prices? Obama 50%, McCain 30% Global warming? Obama 55%, McCain 28% Energy policy? Obama 51%, McCain 36% Issues where McCain is more trusted: international affairs, war in Iraq (by one point), and war on terror. Overall, Obama's ahead by 6% -- roughly where he's been for a while now:
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, gas prices, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Lord, Hear Our PR Oil industry turns to PR offensive to diffuse anger over record prices		17 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:35 AM on 17 Jun 2008 Faced with angry consumers incensed at high oil and gasoline prices, oil companies in the U.S. and Europe have turned to well-funded PR campaigns in an attempt to shift their image from profit-hungry oil-mongers to responsible innovators fulfilling their duty as energy providers. ExxonMobil has led the most recent effort to sway the public; on June 1, Exxon released a barrag ...
Topics: Big Auto, Big Oil, business, energy, gas prices, news (all these topics)

Awkward Segway Segway sales at an all-time high		16 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:20 PM on 16 Jun 2008 With gas prices rising, more people are busing, scooting, biking -- and riding the electric scooter we all love to mock. Yes, sales of the nerdarific Segway have risen to an all-time high, as more folks deny transportation fashion in the interest of gas-saving comfort. The two-wheeled, electric scooters get up to 25 miles per charge, have a top speed of about 12.5 miles per hour, and have, just once, caused the Lea ...
Topics: gas prices, news, placemaking (all these topics)

With friends like these ... Saudis agree with McCain: Cut gasoline taxes!	Joseph Romm	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If anything should put a stake through John McCain's absurd gas tax holiday idea, it's that the Saudi King advocates it, too! As I have previously noted, the only ones who benefit from the gas tax are the oil companies and the petroleum producers. Case in point, the biggest producer just said: Next month, the Saudis will be pumping an extra half-a-million barrels of oil a day compared to last month, bringing total Saudi production to 9.7 million barrels a ...
Topics: Big Oil, gas prices, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Gas prices to peak soon? EIA: Making the same mistake again and again	Eric de Place	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If you believe the Energy Information Administration, U.S. gas prices will peak at $4.15 per gallon in August. Whew. That's a suprise for most Americans, 86 percent of whom believe that prices will top $5 by the end of the year. We can be confident that the EIA -- the agency that does the country's official projection of oil prices -- knows what they're talking about. Yessiree. If you detect a note of sarcasm in my post maybe that's because the EIA has a hilario ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Hell Nay! We Won't Pay! Protests erupt worldwide over fuel prices		11 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:39 PM on 11 Jun 2008 Skyrocketing fuel prices show no sign of flagging, and no one's happy about it (except the occasional holier-than-thou environmentalist). Truck drivers and transportation operators have threatened to strike, gone on strike, or are still striking in Britain, France, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, and Thailand. In some places truckers have quit the ...
Topics: business, energy, gas prices, insanity, news, Spain (all these topics)

Next: Replace Peanuts With Cotton Candy Airline industry takes small steps to offset high fuel prices		11 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:35 AM on 11 Jun 2008 To offset the impact of rising fuel prices, the airline industry is doing the obvious: retiring less-efficient aircraft, flying slightly slower, and plugging into electrical systems when parked at the gate. But even smaller steps, multiplied over a large fleet, can have a significant impact. Various airlines are carrying less water for the facilities and seeking ...
Topics: air travel, business, gas prices, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

In a pinch TV characters avoid gas pump drama	Sarah van Schagen	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Interesting post about TV characters who will likely feel the gas price pinch (including Dwight Shrute of The Office and the taxi driver on How I Met Your Mother).And to counter that, a list from Whitney at Pop Candy of TV characters who don't have to worry about problems at the pump: 1. Hiro Nakamura, Heroes -- Not only is teleportation the wave of the future, it's absolutely free!2. Liz Lemon -- She's smart, she's sexy, and she digs public transportation.3. Th ...
Topics: celebrity, gas prices, green living, TV (all these topics)

High-speed train to victory? Swing states need green manufacturing	Jon Rynn	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Suppose you just became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic party, and suppose you really could use some of those Midwestern swing states in order to win the general election. Suppose, further, that you have mentioned how it would be a good thing to have high-speed rail coming out of Chicago, and that 'the fight for American manufacturing is the fight for America's future.' And further, suppose that there is a Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commissio ...
Topics: gas prices, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

That's a gas Today's gas consumption shows that price increases are only one part of the solution	Gar Lipow	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
As SUV sales plummet and gasoline use finally drops, one meme spreading around is, 'Looks like people respond to price after all.' The implication seems to be that any demand response other than zero proves that prices are wonderfully effective. The problem, however, is not response is or might be zero. (I can think of few who ever claimed that.) The problem is that it takes a big price increase to produce a small response. The current data support the conventional wisdo ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

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