Energy Policy

Federal energy incentives have chiefly benefited oil, natural gas industries; nuclear, renewables lag

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Public interest in the role of federal incentives in shaping today’s energy marketplace and future energy options has risen sharply. That interest has met with frustration in some quarters and half-truths in others because of the difficulty in developing a complete picture of the incentives that influence today’s energy options. The difficulty arises from the many forms of incentives, the variety of ways in which they are funded, managed, and monitored, and changes in the agencies responsible for administering them.

The nausea express

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Is oil priced at $80 a barrel this morning? That’s nice. Except if the company that employs you is about to fold up and you face a holiday season of driving frantically around Atlanta in search of another job, which the odds are against you find finding. Or if you’re living on a retirement fund that’s just lost 37 percent of its value and it’s time to fill the heating oil tank.

United States – Oct 9

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The Candidates and climate: a persistant air of surreality
Debate fact check is offshore drilling the answer?
The myth of election year manipulation of oil price
Latin leftists gloating over ‘Comrade’ Bush’s bailout
New U.S. intelligence report warns ‘victory’ not certain in Iraq

Peak oil focus of Michigan conference in November

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Over 30 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Ellen Hodgson Brown, Albert Bates, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, Richard Gilbert, John Richter, Tim Hudson, Bill Wilson, Tony Earley, Jerry Norcia, Paul Murray and Aaron Wissner explore the challenges and possibilities for Michigan’s future at a three day solution oriented conference in November.

Fix energy, fix the economy

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It appears that demand destruction may mask the reality of Peak Oil for a time, perhaps for a few years. This “stay of execution” is an important opportunity that should not be wasted… Despite my personal aversion to additional government involvement, the fact of the matter is that we face both an economic abyss, and an energy abyss.