Tag archive for ‘Energy Demand’
Gone with the Wind? Pickens’ plan for America.
America is facing a serious long-term energy crisis. The price at the “pump” that people are so traumatized by is really the short-term symptom of a longer term problem. As the largest of the two “third world” nations industrialize, India and China, billions of people are rapidly increasing in their wealth, standard of living, and [...]
Why is crude oil (and gasoline) so expensive?
I have been getting emails from readers essentially asking me to do a post on oil - why is it so expensive, and what, if anything should be the GOP’s party platform on energy. While energy economics is not my specialty - I do understand commodities markets, and I believe I probably understand better than [...]
Obama to America - I won’t drill…
Sen. Barrack Obama, in addition to wanting to tax the living daylights out of you, has also decided, it is good you pay more for gasoline. Responding to the recent 180 by the President and Sen. McCain on oil exploration, Senator Obama said this:
Offshore drilling would not lower gas prices today. It would not lower [...]
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