Green Video
Troy Simpson, the Journal video guy, has been doing a series with our energy conservation guru, Al Zelicoff. He just put together a nice “channel” collecting them all:
Archive of posts filed under the energy category.
Energy Cost Comparisons
In my quest for intuitive ways of understanding the relative costs of various forms of energy, kudos to the Financial Times for this graphic (and also a good article to go with it): Hat tip Gernot at Env-Econ.
Our Declining Energy Consumption
Nothing like a good ol’ economic collapse to get us on the using-less-energy bandwagon. Total energy consumption in the US is down 1.7 percent for the first 9 months of 2008, compared to the same period a year ago, according to EIA.
Liberal? Socialistic?
A couple of months ago in this space, a commenter responded to a post about economists favoring a carbon tax as a response to climate change by asking whether said economists were “liberal and socialistic”. The question is perhaps best answered by reference to former advisors to George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan who favor …
Elasticities in the Short and Long Term
Via Dessler and Revkin, an interesting interview with economist Gary Yohe that gets to the heart of the puzzle about gasoline consumption this year. Gas prices soared over the summer, but consumption dropped only a bit (on the order of 3-5 percent year-over-year). The question posed by critics of a carbon tax as a greenhouse …
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Net Green Jobs Watch
John Whitehead’s jihad against the green jobs argument continues: The implication of this type of study is that environmental policy creates net positive green jobs. The jobs lost as a result of environmental policy are never mentioned. You’ve really got to follow the comment threads on these. And to be clear – John is not …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
NM Coal Production: Up
The Intolerable Shortage of Pixie Dust
In the Guardian, David Appell begs us to accept the grim reality: Not one of us – you, me, Obama or the greenest activist anywhere in the world – is willing to live without the comforts fossil fuels provide us – heat, light, instant hot food, convenient transportation, modern agriculture and airplane travel.
Still Looking for Oil
This is one of those signs that, just as people with financial skin in the energy game didn’t believe last summer’s $140-plus oil prices, neither do they believe that $40-ish will be the going price for very long. From Bloomberg last week: Rental rates for deepwater drilling rigs continue to surge as a worldwide shortage …
Another Remarkable Graph
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