As someone said to me just now by e-mail, “It ain’t about the fuel… it’s about a piece of the pie.”
Democrats Plan to Reverse Tax Break for ConocoPhillips, Tyson
April 20 (Bloomberg) — Democrats in Congress plan to reverse an Internal Revenue Service ruling that allowed ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods Inc. to benefit from a tax [...]
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World’s Largest Producer of Geothermal Electricity
I would have guessed Iceland, but it’s actually the U.S.:
Beyond the sun, a new wave of clean energy
As policymakers promote alternative energy sources to reduce the United States’ emissions of greenhouse gases and its dependence on foreign oil, entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly inventive about finding novel ways to power the economy.
Beyond solar power and wind, [...]
This Week in Petroleum 11-21-07
2nd Update:
Well, we got that big surprise, primarily because crude imports were sharply down from last week. Some excerpts:
U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 14.9 million barrels per day during the week ending November 16, down 151,000 barrels per day from the previous week’s average. Refineries operated at 87.0 percent of their operable capacity last [...]
Rentech Making Waves
The following story posed a bit of a dilemma for me. In my new role, there will be potential conflicts of interest in some of the stories I may post, and until I elaborate on what I am doing, I am trying to avoid posting anything that might fall into that category.
When I first saw [...]
Why Energy Independence Eludes the U.S.
The following is an essay I wrote by request for another website. Regular readers won’t see anything they haven’t seen before, but I figured I would go ahead and post here as well. It is a condensed version of some of the topics I have hit here several times.
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Every president since Nixon has promised to [...]
Crude Cracks $130
I am still trying to extract myself from underneath an avalanche of e-mails, but thought I would post just a bit on oil prices, which are again in record territory:
Oil passes $130 for the first time
In the past year, crude oil prices have more than doubled, pushing retail gas prices higher.
The price of a gallon [...]
A Disjointed Energy Policy
Hypothetical question: If a group of farmers in Iowa cut a deal with Tyson Foods to produce 2nd generation renewable diesel via a hydrotreating process, would Congress step in to stop them from receiving the renewable diesel credit? Anyone?
But it wasn’t a group of farmers in Iowa. It was an oil company in Texas, and [...]
The Biodiesel Lobby Cries Foul
Let me be clear that I strongly support biodiesel. It has a better energy return than does corn ethanol, and diesel engines are far more efficient than gasoline engines. Each gallon of biodiesel displaces far more fossil fuel than a gallon of ethanol. Therefore, I am much more in favor of biodiesel production than I [...]
Neste Moves Forward with Green Diesel
I have written periodically on ‘green diesel’, which should not be confused with biodiesel. Neste, Petrobras, and ConocoPhillips (in a venture with Tyson foods), have all entered the green diesel arena. (See a bit on the projects from these companies here; explore the green diesel stories I have written here).
Green diesel is produced either from [...]
This Week in Petroleum 11-15-06
The weekly inventory report from the Energy Information Administration came out today, and it provided support for my latest essay. You can read the report at: This Week in Petroleum. A quick look at the gasoline inventory graph can tell you that upward pressure on gas prices is imminent:
In my previous essay, I argued that [...]
