BRYCE INTERVIEWS DAVID PURSELL ABOUT TRENDS AND PROMISING EQUITIES
David Pursell is a managing director and head of macro research at Tudor Pickering Holt and Company, a Houston-based energy investment and merchant-banking firm.
5 MYTHS ABOUT GOING IT ALONE ON ENERGY
With oil prices still flirting with $100 a barrel, everyone is talking about the need for “energy independence.” Late last year, President Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007; Sen. John McCain has declared, “We need energy independence”; and Sen. Barack Obama has called for “serious leadership to get us started down the path of energy independence.”
IF MORE CO2 IS BAD…THEN WHAT?
On the science of global climate change, I’m an agnostic. I’ve seen Al Gore’s movie, and I’ve read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
BRYCE INTERVIEWS AMORY LOVINS
For three decades, Amory Lovins has been the darling of the Green/Left when it comes to energy policy. In this 3,600-word Q&A, Lovins claims that nuclear power is still bad, and amazingly, that William Stanley Jevons, the British economist who formulated the Jevons Paradox back in 1865, is wrong.
GURU OR FAKIR? AMORY LOVINS IS AMERIC’S FAVORITE GREEN ENERGY ADVOCATE. DOES HIS RHETORIC MATCH REALITY?
In early August, it was announced that Amory Lovins had won the Volvo Environment Prize. Regarding Lovins’s selection, Volvo officials said, “He has developed a number of path-breaking technical, economic and policy concepts and succeeded in merging theory with a wide range of practical applications. His work is transforming the way we use energy worldwide.”
INCONVENIENT CORRECTIONS – AL GORE’S WACKY FACTS
Facts don’t matter. Only spin matters. That’s the main conclusion to be drawn from the fact that Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week.
CARBON TAX MEA CULPA – WHY FUEL AND CARBON TAXES ARE NOT THE ANSWER
I was wrong. It’s hard to write those three words. But nevertheless, over the last few years I have written several articles, some for this journal, that argued in favor of higher motor fuel taxes.
A $20 BILLION SOLUTION TO AN INTRACTABLE PROBLEM
There are many reasons why the U.S. has lost the war in Iraq: hubris, terrible post-invasion planning, lack of knowledge of Iraqi/Muslim culture, and the failure of the occupation forces to control Iraq’s oil sector. But on the most basic tactical level, America has been defeated in Iraq because it cannot effectively counter the defining weapon of the Iraq War: the roadside bomb, which is also known by its now-familiar acronym, the IED, short for improvised explosive device.
WHEN IT COMES TO ENERGY, RHETORIC BEATS PRAGMATISM
When it comes to energy issues, Americans are far more interested in rhetoric than pragmatism. For proof of that, look no further than the massive energy bill passed by the House last month.
BRYCE INTERVIEWS JESSE AUSUBEL OF ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
Jesse Ausubel directs the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University in New York City. Ausubel, with degrees from Harvard and Columbia, has long worked on environmental issues.
GORE’S ZERO EMISSIONS = ZERO SENSE
It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it.
AN INTERVIEW WITH HUGH SHARMAN
Hugh Sharman is the founder and principal of Incoteco, an energy consulting firm based in Hals, Denmark. A native of the U.K., he received his degree in civil engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1962. Since then he has worked on energy infrastructure projects all over the world, including electric power plants in the Philippines, carbon dioxide injection projects in the North Sea, and the potential for electricity storage applications in Europe.
BIOFUELS: THE WATER PROBLEM
The latest indictment of the biofuels madness concerns the copious quantities of water needed to produce them.