President-elect Barack Obama announced his national security team today. For National Security Adviser, Obama is nominating General James L. Jones. General Jones is a retired Marine commandant and NATO supreme commander. He has most recently been president and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.
The Institute has recently published a [...]
I haven’t been writing much about Peak Oil recently. It’s not because I’m unhappy that prices have come down, or that I think the problem has gone away. It hasn’t. The recent decline in oil prices may have some people breathing easier. And the near miss by Hurricane Gustav didn’t destroy oil infrastructure in the [...]
Quick: What country is the chief supplier of foreign oil to the United States? Hint: the answer is not Mexico.
Early this month, Valero Energy in Texas got the unwelcome news that Mexico would be cutting supplies to one of the company’s Gulf Coast refineries by up to 15 percent. Mexico’s state-owned oil enterprise is one [...]
The Republic of the Marshall Islands became an independent nation in 1986. Located roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia, these 29 atolls and five single islands total about 181 square kilometers of land area and have a population of 63,174.
The government has declared a state of economic emergency. President Litokwa Tomeing said that the country [...]
I’ve been taking a close look at The Pickens Plan. T. Boone Pickens, the 80-year-old oilman, is pushing this idea. “I’ve been an oilman all my life,” Pickens says. “But this is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of.”
The Pickens Plan is to use wind power to generate electricity. The plan calls for [...]