There has been and will be a lot of ink spilled (literal and virtual) regarding the meaning of the Deepwater Horizon disaster; especially what it says about our dependence on oil. But if you want to really understand it — and what it means for us — you can probably do no better than...
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Nichole Gelinas at The National Review makes a couple of good points about how markets can help price oil production externalities. But this is nowhere near a comprehensive solution, nor is it any argument against other policies designed to influence demand for oil. Full Post Gelinas makes a good point. But this is hardly...
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Back in August, we covered an unexpected outbreak of honesty from the International Energy Agency regarding global oil supplies. At that time, we had the IEA Chief Economist admitting for the first time that most of the world’s largest oil fields were at or near peak production. This week more IEA people are going...
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Reason Number 169,012 why the Internet is TEH AWESOME is shared visualizations. One very clever person can put together a neat graphic that explains a very complex subject in that one-picture-worth-a-thousand-words way and share it with everyone. Implementing new power technologies like wind and solar that are not tied to always on generation facilitie...
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An effort to raise the state gas tax as a way to pay for the badly underfunded road budget in Iowa was seriously studied but came nowhere close to passing last year. Opponents criticized the measure as a way to strangle the economy. Via The Economist comes a nice little bit of infoporn on...
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