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Can we tax for transit? New transportation proposals to ease energy dependence	Eric de Place	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This is one of those weeks when it feels like things are changing fast. Here are two stories that caught my attention: A panel organized by Congress -- the melodically-named National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission -- just called for higher federal gas taxes. In fact, they recommend a 40-cent-per-gallon hike. It sounds like the tax would go mainly to repair and maintain current road infrastructure rather than road expansion. The pa ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, oil, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Spectacularly ignorant claim of the day Nukes don't replace oil	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Over at the New Republic's blog, Adam Blinick writes: As it stands, nuclear power is the only environmentally friendly, economic, and efficient source of energy that can help the U.S. wean itself off foreign oil. For the record: Oil is primarily a transportation fuel. Nuclear power, in contrast, is a source of electricity. Ergo, nuclear power will do absolutely nothing to "help the U.S. wean itself off foreign oil" (unless we miraculously electrif ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Soliciting the House of Saud Bush and big U.S. banks beg for help from the oil barons	Tom Philpott	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bush has been doing some fast talking in the court of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, imploring His Majesty to boost oil production to so that gas prices for U.S. consumers can come down in time for the fall election. As part of his charm offensive, Bush has promised to bolster the dictatorship's arsenal with '900 sophisticated satellite-guided missiles.' He also rattled his tattered saber against Iran, Saudi Arabia's archenemy. While Bush and the King talk bombs, ...
Topics: economy, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

We're Getting the Shakes President Bush asks OPEC to boost oil production		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:15 PM on 15 Jan 2008 President Bush, on a trip to Saudi Arabia, has urged the key member of OPEC to boost oil production. "Oil prices are very high, which is tough on our economy," said Bush. "I would hope, as OPEC considers different production levels, that they understand that if ... one of their biggest consumers' economy suffers, it will mean less purchases, less gas and oil sold." Tran ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, international politics, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Sands Between Your Woes Canada oil sands not good for the environment, says study		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:34 PM on 11 Jan 2008 To absolutely no one's surprise, Canada's oil-sands operations have been given poor environmental marks in a study by green groups Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund. Ten oil-sands ventures in the province of Alberta, including seven that have not yet started producing, were rated on their pollution of (or potential to pollute) the land, air, and water, as well as their ...
Topics: Canada, energy, news, oil, oil sands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Vex and the Single Hull South Korea to outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in 2011		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:42 AM on 07 Jan 2008 South Korea has announced that it will outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in its waters by January 2011, four years earlier than its original goal, due to the country's largest oil spill in December. The December spill dumped about 2.7 million gallons of oil some five miles off the country's coast when a barge struck a massive single-hulled tanker, puncturing it in three places. As of ...
Topics: international politics, news, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

Bad combo Cheap coal and $100 oil	Tom Philpott	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Amid vague talk of how $100/barrel oil might represent a kind of sea change, inspiring corporations and individuals to lower their carbon footprints, the smart money is betting on another direction: the burning of more coal.That's a harrowing trend. As NASA climatologist James Hanson recently put it:Coal will determine whether we continue to increase climate change or slow the human impact ... Increased fossil fuel CO2 in the air today, compared to the pre-industrial at ...
Topics: climate, coal, economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

One-hundred-dollar oil	Andrew Dessler	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Oil Drum had a few comments yesterday on $100 oil: Today, someone in the NYMEX pit session paid $100.00 per barrel for front month crude oil. (Logical for it to happen during a TOD holiday short staff period). Despite the talking head rationale for today's $4 rally, the underlying reasons for the 8 year+ climb in crude are geologic in nature. $100 oil in itself is no big deal -- its 1% higher than $99 oil. But it serves as a milestone reminder that the future i ...
Topics: economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

Hawk, Stock, and Too-Smoking Barrels Oil hits $100 a barrel		03 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:44 AM on 03 Jan 2008 Some folks are reeling after yesterday's brush with significant arbitrariness (if there is such a thing) as oil prices briefly hit $100 a barrel in trading before settling slightly lower. The significance of $100-a-barrel oil has often been debated, with environmentalists and others coming down on all sides of the issue. Some greens get all freaky. Some rejoice since it could lower consumption. Others t ...
Topics: business, news, oil (all these topics)

'Stop using so much oil'	Joseph Romm	23 Dec 2007	Gristmill
A great little story today in Tom Rick's Inbox, from the Washington Post's military correspondent: As most Americans prepare to celebrate the holidays, others are marching off to war. One of the unusual aspects of the Iraq conflict is that the same people keep going back, which means that they often take with them the no-nonsense attitude of the combat veteran. Here, Lt. Col. Mark Yanaway, an Army reservist returning for his second tour, reports on his first steps ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Proof that 'beyond petroleum' was greenwashing BP joins 'biggest global warming crime ever seen'	Joseph Romm	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The tar sands are rightly called one of the world's greatest environmental crimes, as I've written. No company that invests in the Canadian tar sands can legitimately call itself green. Yet BP, the oil company that lavished millions on advertising its move 'Beyond Petroleum,' announced this month it's putting $3 billion into this dirtiest of dirty fuels! BP is buying a half-share of the ironically named Sunrise field: 'BP's move into oil sands is an opportunit ...
Topics: fossil fuels, energy, oil, greenwashing, business, oil sands (all these topics)

Clean Up That Oil, Stat! Up to a million gallons of oil spill in North Sea		12 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 12 Dec 2007 Perhaps jealous of the recent oil spills in San Francisco, Russia, and South Korea, Norway has had a spill of its very own. Oil company StatoilHydro says a mistake transferring crude from an offshore oil platform to a tanker resulted in up to a million gallons of black liquid flowing into the North Sea. The spill, likely the second-largest in Norwegian history, occurred 125 miles from sho ...
Topics: news, Norway, oil (all these topics)

Thirsty oil-rich nations reduce exports Some Arab countries have passed the U.S. in per capita oil consumption	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
A fascinating and important article was the lead story in Sunday's New York Times: The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast ... several of the world's most important suppliers may need to start importing oil within a decade to power all the new cars, houses and businesses they are buying and creating with their oil wealth. Indonesia has already made this flip. By some projections, the same thing could happen within five y ...
Topics: oil, energy (all these topics)

Suin' 'Bout the Schlock of the Bay San Francisco sues over oil spill, South Korea spill cleanup ongoing		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 11 Dec 2007 The city of San Francisco has sued the owners of the container ship that hit the iconic Bay Bridge last month and blackened the bay with 58,000 gallons of oil. The "wholly avoidable" accident caused "more injury to the San Francisco Bay Area than we can yet begin to fathom," says the suit, which seeks damages for costs ranging from overtime ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oil, San Francisco, South Korea, water pollution (all these topics)

Fools on the Hill Greed versus green on the energy bill	Joseph Romm	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As the new energy bill hit the Senate with a thud last week, we had to ask: Is it really so easy to stall vital public policy with tired old scare tactics? Last Friday, the answer was 'yes.' One of the potholes the bill has encountered is its $13 billion take-back from Big Oil. The bill proposes to repeal tax breaks given to the ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Bartlett opposes energy bill over RFS	David Roberts	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I'm a fairly enthusiastic supporter of the energy bill that just left the House, but I am painfully aware that the Renewable Fuel Standard, which would mandate (insofar as one can mandate ponies) 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2036 -- and worse yet, 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol by 2015 -- is a grotesquerie that will do far more harm than good. I tend to think that it will get ratcheted back by a subsequent Congress, particularly once the perversity becomes cl ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Can You Believe That Ship? Barge collides with tanker, spilling 2.7 million gallons of oil off South Korean coast		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 07 Dec 2007 A barge collided with a massive oil tanker this morning about five miles off the coast of South Korea, damaging the tanker's single hull in three places and resulting in an oil spill estimated at about 2.7 million gallons. The over four-mile-long oil slick is slowly making its way toward what were once probably some very nice beaches and a national m ...
Topics: news, oceans, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

How will you ride the slide?	David Roberts	02 Dec 2007	Gristmill
(via Big Gav)
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Gristmill community chastised! The global nature of global warming	biodiversivist	02 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is my formal rebuttal to Brooke Coleman (director of the Renewable Energy Action Project), specifically to comments found in Tom Philpott's latest corn ethanol article. I'm using my access to the bully pulpit to pull it out of comments, like I did the last time a corn ethanol enthusiast joined the discussion. Welcome to the best environmental blog on the planet, Brooke. You don't seem to have a very high opinion of this community, but maybe you'll warm up t ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, climate, energy, ethanol, oil (all these topics)

White courtesy phone, paging Homer Simpson Necessity is the mother of invention ... and some really bad ideas	JMG	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Mein Gott. I was so hoping that this article was from The Onion or something. Porta-nukes will power oil-shale melters, because there's just no topping the American spirit -- the willingness to take a truly abysmal idea (oil shales) and make it worse: The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub. It's shaped like a sake cup, filled with a uranium hydride core and surrounded by a hydrogen atmosphere. Encase it in concrete, truck it to a site, bury it underground, hook i ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

No second helpings on gas Per-person gas consumption has decreased in the last year	Clark Williams-Derry	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
On the heels of the year's biggest travel week, some interesting news: Consumers purchased an average 9.32 million barrels of gasoline a day in the week ended Nov. 23, down 1.7 percent from the same week last year ... It was the fifth consecutive week that demand at the pump dropped compared with a year earlier. The price [of gas] was 38 percent higher than a year earlier. That's right, population rose, but gas consumption fell, year-over-year ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

The cash nexus Is there really so much money in environmental devastation that it can't be stopped?	Tom Philpott	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In the Nov. 12 New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert published an article (unavailable online; abstract here) typical of her style: spare, restrained, vivid, cogent, devastating. The topic was Canada's tar sands, now being profitably exploited by the major oil companies: Shell, Conoco-Phillips, Chevron, and ExxonMobil. And they've only just begun. According to Kolbert, the oil majors intend to invest more than $75 billion over the next five years in building infrastructure t ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

The states of high gas prices How oil-intense is your state's economy?	Eric de Place	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Last time I checked, oil prices were hovering just below $100 per barrel. This reminds me of something I used to obsess about: high oil prices hit some places harder than others. All else being equal, oil-efficient economies are more insulated from oil price shocks than are economies that require large oil inputs to function. I'm not talking about the amount of oil consumption, but about the "oil-intensity" of an economy. New York state consumes a lot ...
Topics: economy, energy, oil, United States (all these topics)

The price of oil will go ... down We have $100-a-barrel oil due to speculation and fear	Jason D Scorse	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
As this Foreign Policy article points out, there is no fundamental rationale for the current prices; oil should be between $40-$60 a barrel, but because of speculation and fear the price has been driven up much higher. The peak oil people love to say "I told you so" when the price goes up. What are they going to say when the price goes down? I expect crickets.
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

OPEC issues bizarre oil threat, Financial Times also confused OPEC nations demand that petroleum-consuming countries maintain current thirst for oil	Joseph Romm	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
NPR's Marketplace called me today for comments on this bizarre Financial Times article: 'Opec to seek assurances on oil demand.' Apparently these absurdly rich countries -- with projected revenues of $658 billion this year -- who are selling their product at nearly $100 a barrel, are threatening not to invest in new production unless the consuming countries promise to maintain demand. Seriously! No, seriously: Opec will this week seek assurances f ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, oil, politics, international politics (all these topics)

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