More energy, more power: A new opportunity to pivot in Asia
Despite an announced “Asia pivot,” there has been little new substance to the US approach to the region. Yet Washington needs a more robust Asia policy: the region is becoming the center of...
View ArticleHow dangerous is Vladimir Putin?
The International Economy asked:Western experts have offered various explanations for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in recent years. Some suggest Putin has been merely reacting to NATO and...
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5 charts on the US shale boom
From “Plunging Crude Prices: Impact on U.S. and State Economies” by Mine Yücel Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from February: 1.) An amazing change of direction. 2.) A now textbook example of the...
View ArticleMore on how cheaper oil will affect Texas and the rest of fracking America
From IHS Global Insight:The Great Oil Price Deflation, as it has been dubbed, will have an overall positive effect on the US economy. It will accelerate real GSP [gross state product] growth in most...
View ArticleMichigan still needs nuclear power
Routinely and quietly, nuclear power generates a large amount of energy without loading the atmosphere with global warming emissions.Yet more than a half century after the Big Rock Point nuclear plant...
View ArticleTough times for the Texas economy
Consumers sure love the drop in gasoline prices caused by cheaper oil. But the decline in crude prices seems to be bad news for the Texas economic “miracle.” This from JPMorgan:The Texas Workforce...
View ArticleHow much has the shale revolution boosted your income? Maybe $150 a year
From “Economic and environmental impacts of fracked shale gas” by Catherine Hausman and Ryan Kellogg (via VoxEU)The fracking revolution has happened incredibly quickly, with natural gas output in the...
View ArticleLinks and Quotations: Google to Alphabet, “disruptive” customer service, the...
Here’s your daily dose of links and quotations on the latest in science, business, and tech.Google is now part of “Alphabet,” Sundar Pichai steps up as CEO, Updated – ArsTechnica – “This is no mere...
View ArticleOn energy security, Obama should follow David Cameron’s example
Less than a decade ago U.S. energy security was in crisis. Domestic oil production had been declining steadily from a peak of 10 million barrels per day in 1970 to only half that amount in 2005. Our...
View ArticleEnergy and climate policy: Remarks from the Right Honorable Philip Hammond...
Event TranscriptEvent SummaryOn Tuesday, UK Foreign Secretary the Right Honorable Philip Hammond spoke at AEI on energy and climate policy, where he asserted that the desire to protect the world we...
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Why nuclear energy is Obama’s Nixon-to-China opportunity
President Obama and other world leaders are in Paris for talks to limit climate-altering emissions.Now the problem here is that a) the world needs to get richer, b) that requires more energy, and c)...
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Each American has the energy-equivalent of nearly 600 full-time “human energy...
This post was inspired by an analysis that Brian Wang featured recently at his Next Big Future blog that attempts to answer the question: Based on the amount of energy expended per average American for...
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After the Paris climate deal…
The Eiffel Tower is engulfed in fog early morning in Paris, December 14, 2015. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes.Not surprisingly, perhaps, many on the right dismiss the big climate agreement reached in Paris....
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Energy charts of the day: Another energy milestone as the energy share of...
The top chart above displays the share of monthly consumer expenditures that is spent on “energy goods and services,” on a monthly basis back to January 1959 (BEA data here). The energy share of...
View ArticleAEI Public Opinion Study: Polls on the environment, energy, global warming,...
Read the Public Opinion StudyThis AEI Public Opinion Study examines polls on the environment, energy, nuclear power, and global warming. In the first section, we look at national polls on the politics...
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DiCaprio and the hypocrisy of moral licensing
This week, Time Magazine released its list of the top 100 Most Influential People and placed Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover of its magazine for the personal example he sets on climate change. How...
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Energy charts of the day
The three charts above are based on new data from the Energy Information Administration on energy-related CO2 emissions through 2015, see the EIA report here and Ronald Bailey’s related report here at...
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In 2015, the US economy was more than twice as energy efficient (‘green’) as...
Earth Day 2016 is coming up next Friday (April 22), and this is the first in a series of upcoming posts over the next week to help recognize and celebrate this year’s “Green Holy Day.”The EIA released...
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Regulations are a really big drag on US growth
When the Department of Commerce reported recently that the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of only 0.5% during the first quarter of 2016, the White House attributed the meager growth in output to...
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Is the nuclear liability limit a subsidy, or not?
The heat is on. I refer not to the beginning of summer, nor the looming global warming apocalypse for which there is little evidence, nor an election season sure to be characterized by personal attacks...
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