Congress needs a Shale Caucus
At the end of yesterday’s post about critiques of the Administration’s shale policy by Colorado Congressmen Lamborn and Tipton, I suggested that Congress should form a Shale Caucus made up of members...
View ArticleLast post of the week
Taking the family to LegoLand, so this will be the last post until Monday. Just a bunch of links to important or interesting stories that I did not get to fully cover in this shortened week. Elizabeth...
View ArticleNew York Times (finally) discovers the Shale Age
New article this week is amazed to find the vast amount of oil and other fossil fuels in the Americas. The world, of course, is awash in oil, and this has been known for years, despite the “Peak Oil”...
View ArticleUpdate: The World is Awash in Oil
“The World is Awash in Oil” is a phrase that I have used repeatedly on this blog, going back to the very first few months. The phrase is actually incorrect – when I wrote “oil,” I really meant fossil...
View Article$100 Billion shale gas windfall
A new study from the Yale Graduates Energy Study Group used common cost benefit analysis to find that, in 2010 alone, natural gas fracking contributed a $100 billion surplus to the broader US economy....
View ArticleRussia joins the Shale Age
Russia holds the worlds largest reserves of conventional natural gas, accounting for about 40% of the global total. Because of the size of those reserves, Russia has neglected the revolution in...
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