Tag Archives: Oil

North America’s Energy Bounty, By the Numbers

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Steve Maley

On Tuesday, the Institute for Energy Research issued its North American Energy Inventory (.pdf link), a report which documents the government’s own estimates of oil, natural gas and coal resources for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. (The IER is a … Continue reading →

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Keystone XL Pipeline: Bureaucratic Hacky-Sack

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Steve Maley

The Obama Administration continues to play bureaucratic hacky-sack with what could be a key element of our nation’s secure energy future: the Keystone XL pipeline project. The new line would increase the export capacity of the Keystone Pipeline (placed in … Continue reading →

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Lee Fang on Oil Speculation and the SPR

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Steve Maley

Summertime 2011, and “investigative journalist” Lee Fang of ThinkProgress has replaced the BP Spill in my blogging life. Fang’s amateurish attempts to find scandal in oil commodities trading have become my new blog fodder. Fang puts forward the half-baked theory … Continue reading →

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Why Did Obama Open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Steve Maley

On Thursday, the Department of Energy announced a release of thirty million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s stockpile supposedly set aside for emergency supply disruptions. Washington, DC – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced … Continue reading →

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