iPhone, Justin Bieber and lower fuel prices
It is the decade of the iPhone, Twitter and Justin Bieber. It is a decade where there are more music reality TV shows than you can count. It is a decade where Americans are spending more on...
View ArticleAn American horror story
With Halloween just around the corner, my thoughts have been filled with black cats and jack-o-lanterns and, scarier, Dexter-esque murderers and Walking Dead zombies. These disturbing thoughts from my...
View ArticleA game with consequences – attack on Saudi oil results in economic calamity
I once believed, when I was very young, that American foreign policy was guided by an extension of the meaning of the words of Woodrow Wilson. The U.S. role in the world was to “to make the world safe...
View ArticleIf oil was its own country
In 2011, the U.S. trade deficit with China reached $295.5 billion. India exported $14.6 billion more worth of goods to the U.S. than they imported from us in 2011. If all the oil in the world was...
View ArticleIEA and Saudi America: Nothing is so firmly believed as what we don’t know
I just got a call from Congressman DoRight. He is one of the remaining members of Congress who wants to leave partisanship on the policy doorstep. The congressman calls me when an important energy...
View ArticleDon’t be fooled by the illusion of low gas prices
Overnight, the most popular headlines have become “Gas Prices Hit Low for a Year,” “Gas Prices Continue to Decline” and the list goes on. According to Daily Fuel Gauge, the average price of a gallon of...
View ArticleChina’s Growing Methanol Economy
Could methanol be the feasible path toward replacing petroleum-based fuels? Balancing dependence on Middle East oil against increasing fuel demand continues to challenge China in its ongoing...
View ArticleAirpocalypse
The Hong Kong Medical Association found that for every 10 micrograms per cubic meter of pollutants, the risk of a heart attack increases by 2-3% (in Los Angeles the highest recorded reading was 43...
View ArticleChoice. Competition. Free trade.
Fuel Freedom Foundation’s premiere “Fueling the Future” webinar featuring Gal Luft and Anne Korin of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security took place April 8, 2013 at 7 p.m. EST. The...
View ArticleWhen the WSJ speaks about oil, should everyone listen? Yes, with one ear.
I have great respect for the Wall Street Journal, particularly for its coverage of news related to energy, oil and alternative fuels. Generally, it does a fine job. But last week’s front page story,...
View ArticleWhere NGVs thrive – in unlikely places
Iran, Argentina and Pakistan – what do they have in common? Well, all are run by more-or-less autocratic governments that play a large role in the economy. All have had rogue nuclear-weapons programs...
View ArticleAnd that’s the way it is or isn’t — stable oil and gas markets
“And that’s the way it is” was used by my favorite news anchor, Walter Cronkite, to sign off on his highly respected network news show. And that’s the way the content he generally delivered generally...
View ArticleThe U.S. and China on methanol: Two roads converge
Nobel-Prize-winning chemist George Olah recently put methanol front and center again with a powerful Wall Street Journal editorial arguing for the conversion of carbon dioxide emissions from coal...
View ArticleFrom lab to market, it’s a long haul
The Energy Information Administration has done us an enormous favor by producing a simple chart to make sense of where the development of energy storage technology is going. Energy storage, as the EIA...
View ArticleOptimist and pessimist, the Oil & Gas Journal and replacement fuels
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true” — James Branch Cabell. Or, as I once said in a presentation in China after Tiananmen...
View ArticleWinston, what would you do concerning natural gas?
Where is Churchill when we need him? How many psychobabble articles and cable commentary about Putin and Russia could we have done without by just remembering good old Winnie’s marvelous, insightful...
View ArticleWill Pittsburgh be the center of a CNG revolution?
The EQT compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in the Strip District of Pittsburgh may one day be remembered as the place where the CNG revolution began. Located just north of downtown, The Strip...
View ArticleSelf-driving cars
It seems like a kind of Hollywood fantasy — autonomous little roadsters scooting in and out of traffic, breathlessly avoiding collisions and getting to their destination before anyone else. Then again,...
View ArticleWhat are flex-fuel vehicles?
At the beginning of the long, winding road away from complete dependence on gasoline lies the holy grail of the flex-fuel vehicle. This would be a car that runs on any fuel at any time. That would...
View ArticleLife becomes tough for oil companies and oil nations — what to do?
Wow. Over the last few days, the nation has seen the possibilities inherent in a transportation-related energy and environmental policy. No, Washington has not become more functional. It’s still a...
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