I’d been curious about what this graph might look like. From EIA: (Source: EIA – click through to see it bigger) The interesting thing is that the U.S. energy mix largely stabilized, in terms of the share of total consumption from the main sources, in the late 1980s, and has been relatively unchanged since. Why …
The whole energy sector of the global economy may be in freefall, but in New Mexico we’re still digging up coal at a rate 5 percent above last year, and climbing. Nationwide, coal U.S. coal production year-to-date is up 3.5 percent over last year.
FAO thinks we should not be sanguine about falling global food prices: [T]he gradual return to equilibrium in food markets should not be taken to assume that the world’s food problems have been fixed, neither in the short-run nor with a view to the longer-term challenges. Cereal stocks still need to be replenished and lower …
From a bunch of guys in suits, likely not wearing Birkenstocks: Members of the Journal’s CEO Council tasked with discussing priorities for the U.S. economy and finance offered several fairly uncontroversial suggestions to the incoming administration: implement a fiscal stimulus plan without worsening the long-term deficit, appoint a panel to address financial regulation, create an …
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“China National Nuclear Corp., the nation’s biggest nuclear plant builder, said a decline in the spot price of uranium will affect the country’s exploration for the fuel at home and overseas.” – Bloomberg “Petro-Canada, the country’s third- largest oil company, has delayed the C$25.3 billion ($20.6 billion) Fort Hills oil-sands mining project in Alberta because …
You know when you’re a blog-writin’, energy wonkin’ wonk when you go bike riding with friends, and the whole thing turns into an energy policy riff. On the Internet. I’ll let Scot tell it: I see at Bloomberg this morning that oil is $55 a barrel. $85 dollars down from $140, carry the one….that’s…a 61% …
The Washington Post thinks you’re not paying enough for gas*: In a perfect world, we’d like to see a gas tax that was the equivalent of oil at $100 per barrel. This would send a loud-and-clear signal to drivers to continue eschewing gas guzzlers for fuel sippers and mass transit. Automakers would get the message …
Paul Collier, writing in the current Foreign Affairs, argues thus about climate change and food prices: In recent years, the increase in demand resulting from gradually increasing incomes in Asia has instead been matched with several supply shocks, such as the prolonged drought in Australia. These shocks will only become more common with the climatic …
I wrote a piece for this morning’s Albuquerque Journal trying to address what I think is a misunderstanding afoot in New Mexico about the future of Los Alamos and Sandia labs – the idea that they can shift to energy reserach as support for nuclear weapons spending declines. It ain’t gonna be easy: During the …
James Hamilton: It is sometimes argued that if economists really understand something, they should be able to predict what will happen next. But oil prices are an interesting example (stock prices are another) of an economic variable which, if our theory is correct, we should be completely unable to predict.