Rich Sweeney had a post last week that answered a question I’ve had: What does the runup in oil prices look if you’re not so US-centric as to view it in dollars? Obviously dollars is the currency I have to use to buy my barrels of oil, but I was curious how much of the …
On the city of Albuquerque’s greenhouse gas reduction claims (adwalled): It is a claim every Albuquerque resident who cares about global warming could be proud of: Since 1990, city residents have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent. It is also untrue. See also ethanol vehicles.
I’m not sure how effective this will be, but the government of Indonesia seems hell-bent on making sure more of the carbon trapped beneath the Earth gets out in a timely fashion: Indonesia has been offering incentives, particularly for oil and gas, seeing them as strategic businesses that could impact the country’s revenue. Finance Minister …
A letter in Science last week from William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute lays out a piece of the argument I’d not heard regarding the extent to which ethanol as fuel reduces, or doesn’t reduce, carbon emissions. The ethanol push in this country is causing U.S. farmers to shift from soy to corn. …
Joseph Kahn, Mark Landler and others had the latest yesterday in the New York Times series on the problems enveloping China’s rapid growth. The story uses the journalistic trope of moving from the illustrative particular to the more significant general issue underlying it. The particular in this case is the shift of steel production from …
Oil prices have dropped a bit of late. Spot prices for crude are down ten bucks from their peak two weeks ago. One reason? The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, according to This Week in Petroleum: Still another factor behind the recent decline in oil prices is a lessening of geopolitical tensions. Following the release …
Seldom has a satellite image conveyed quite so much useful information quite so easily: From Yale Simkin, in the comments at the Arms Control Wonk. That’s one approach, I guess, to energy conservation.
Gas prices have settled a bit around the $3 per gallon level. And, contrary to last week’s confusing post on this question (hey, I’m a newbie on this whole energy economics thing), apparently this enormous price of oil by the barrel means refiners are not making enough money to send their kids to private school …
On whether advocates of reducing greenhouse emissions should be celebrating the compromise energy bill announced over the weekend.
I ran across two interesting comments in the blogworld yesterday in response to the new McKinsey report on U.S. greenhouse emissions opportunities. The report lays out a lot of enticing cost-benefit analyses of various greenhouse gas emissions options throughout the U.S. economy. The first came from Grist commenter Sean Casten: I agree – great message, …
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