Category Archives: Energy

‘Free as the Wind’: The True Cost of Wind Energy

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Steve Maley

Green activists preach about renewable energy sources, using words like ‘holistic’ and ‘sustainable’. Wind energy is one of their favorites; nothing is as free as the wind, n’est-ce pas? If we truly consider the holistic environmental impact of wind turbines … Continue reading →

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America’s Strange Love for Corn Ethanol

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Steve Maley

In 2007, before our domestic shale boom put a big dent in America’s reliance on foreign oil, the Bush Administration made a massive commitment to biofuels. The Renewable Fuels Standard mandated an ever-increasing consumption of ethanol as a motor fuel … Continue reading →

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Man-Made Disasters: The BP Oil Spill and Obamacare

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Steve Maley

It is always a good idea to study ones mistakes so as to avoid repeating them. In that light, we will compare and contrast the two man-made disasters will shape the legacy of the Obama Administration: BP’s Macondo oil spill … Continue reading →

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Is There a Hydrogen Car in Your Future?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Steve Maley

A couple of weeks back, I blogged about the State of California’s use of monthly user fees on utilities to create massive programs to benefit alternative energy (“Robbin’ the ‘Hood”: California’s Green Energy Schemes Benefit the Well-Connected). One of the highlighted … Continue reading →

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One highlight of LAGCOE 2013: Frank’s Casing’s Float Plane

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Steve Maley
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‘We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices.’ Oh yeah?!

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Steve Maley

But you and I both know that with only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices – not when consume 20 percent of the world’s oil. — Barack Obama, March 10, … Continue reading →

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“Robbin’ the ‘Hood”: California’s Green Energy Schemes Benefit the Well-Connected

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Steve Maley

You know those odd little charges at the bottom of your utility bill? In California, electricity customers pay average fees of $24 per year, plus $12 per year if they also use natural gas, for the benefit of alternative energy … Continue reading →

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BP Engineer Kurt Mix and the ‘Ham Sandwich’ Indictment

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Steve Maley

On May 2, 2012, just over two years after the catastrophic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, BP drilling engineer Kurt Mix was indicted on felony charges. Mix’s deletion of of text messages and voicemails from his cell phone, … Continue reading →

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‘The President’s All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy’ and Other Self-Delusions

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Steve Maley

We’ve been having area-wide lease sales over the same portions of the Gulf of Mexico for the last 30 years. Despite this week’s tepid response at the Western GoM Sale (shelf and deepwater offshore Texas, mostly), the press release from … Continue reading →

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Interior: Keystone XL Pipeline will impact “cultural soundscapes” and “high quality night skies”.

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Steve Maley

As part of the State Department’s review of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, 1.2 million comments have been received from interested parties including environmental groups and the public at large. The Department of the Interior has commented too, expressing concern … Continue reading →

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