Energy Politics

Archive for June, 2008

Methane-Powered Automobiles, Or A New Kind of Gas Station

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Chatting with a nice man at Oil and Gas Investor's Energy Capital Forum, I discovered that he had a factory-made Honda Civic that runs on natural gas instead of gasoline. ... Read more..

Time To Break Our $700-Billion-A-Year Habit

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens warned at Oil and Gas Investor's Energy Capital Forum that the U.S. is facing an energy crisis that is being swept under the rug ... Read more..

Governments Still Trying To Spin Oil Prices Problems

Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

It's inflation. That's it. Really, it is. Chinese and Indian oil consumption is going to drive up prices, sure. But not to these levels. So why does the U.S. Government and ... Read more..

Oil Price Fall Is Coming, But It’s Going To Hurt For A Little Bit First

Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Oil prices jumped up $6 yesterday based on a report that oil prices are going to, well, go up. It seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. However, CNN says the ... Read more..

Bernanke Must Be Reading Our Blogs

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

No less than one day after fellow OGI blogger Steve Toon attacked Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's financial policies, not greedy oil execs as the U.S. Congress has suggested, for ... Read more..

When You Ride Alone, You Ride With… Bin Laden?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Remember those old WWII propaganda posters? The one that goes: When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler? The suggestion being that by riding alone, you selfishly waste fuel only on ... Read more..