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What’s Wrong With the SAFE Report? Analysis Oil

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Securing America’s Energy Future (SAFE), a group of corporate CEOs and active and retired military officers with concerns about oil released a report entitled “The New American Oil Boom, Implications for Energy Security” via Its Energy Security Leadership Council.[i]  The report applauds increasing U.S. oil production (96% of which is occurring on non-federal lands) but concludes more supply will not sufficiently enhance energy security.  Instead, the report concludes …

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Energy Density in the Driver’s Seat Blog Wind

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What is driving U.S. energy policy? One might say Obama, Jackson, Salazar, or even Holdren—or any politician whose visible hand redirects the market’s invisible hand.

But on closer inspection, these folk are really just riding the brakes. The accelerator is all about highly concentrated, reliable, dense energy—oil, natural gas, and coal mainly—versus the dilute, unreliable, politically correct energies of wind, solar, and biofuels. This is why fossil fuels command more …

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What Nordhaus gets wrong about climate change Analysis

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William Nordhaus is a professor at Yale University and one of the pioneers in the economics of climate change. Earlier this year Nordhaus wrote a piece in the New York Review of Books entitled, “Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong.” Because of Nordhaus’ stature in the profession, and because of his supposedly definitive claims, the article was an instant hit in certain circles, even being assigned by economics professors …

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