The retail price of E85 motor fuel, which is gasoline blended with up to 85% ethanol, has fallen in recent months. While ethanol has been cheaper than regular gasoline on a per-gallon […]
On the day of his second Inauguration, in January, Barack Obama delivered an address of unabashed liberal ambition and promise. As recently as early April, before the realities of the world and […]
Business as usual as we know it, with economics as its guide and financial metrics as its scorecard, is in its death throes. The below essay is going to appear critical of […]
The June 16 edition of Today in Energy examined the wide age range of all electric power generators for all fuels; today’s article looks specifically at natural gas-fired generators. At the end […]
Renewable energy becoming more cost-competitive with fossil fuels isn’t news – as technology improves and more clean power generation comes online, electricity without emissions gets cheaper. But one new analysis reveals just […]
Perhaps no field in the world has so vexed oilmen as Kashagan. The world’s biggest oil companies—Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Italy’s Eni and others—have stumbled again and again while developing this offshore Kazakhstan […]
China has long benefited from cheap thermal coal imports from Indonesia. But that may be coming to an end. The Chinese government last week announced it will add a 3% tax to […]
Solar panels are the next granite countertops: an amenity for new homes that’s becoming a standard option for buyers in U.S. markets. At least six of 10 largest U.S. homebuilders led by […]
Issues of electricity regulation typically play out in drab government hearing rooms. That has not been the case this summer in Arizona, where a noisy argument – featuring TV attack ads and […]
Underground natural gas storage fields in the American Gas Associations AGA East region have neared their capacity limits before each winter since 2005. Storage field utilization in the East has ranged between […]
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