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Category Archives: Experts
Reduce vehicle fuel consumption to increase energy security
[This is a really interesting House session that discusses U.S. energy policy, the need for consumers to be educated about why they should buy more fuel efficient cars, and push-back from the auto industry (see the full 140 pages for … Continue reading
Posted in Automobiles, Congressional Record U.S., Transportation What To Do
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David L. Greene, ORNL: Raise cafe standards and gas tax
Excerpt from: U.S. House. February 9, 2005. Improving the nation’s energy security: can cars and trucks be made more fuel efficient? Committee on science, House of Representatives, Serial No. 109-3. 140 pages. DAVID L. GREENE, OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, CENTER … Continue reading
Posted in Automobiles, Congressional Record U.S., Conserve Energy, Transportation What To Do
Tagged cafe standard, energy security, gas tax
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Tilting at Windmills, Spain’s disastrous attempt to replace fossil fuels with Solar PV, Part 1
Book review by Alice Friedemann at energyskeptic of “Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution. The Energy Return on Investment”, by Pedro Prieto and Charles A.S. Hall. 2013. Springer. Conclusion: the EROI of solar photovoltaic is only 2.45, very low despite Spain’s ideal sunny … Continue reading
Pedro Prieto – what life used to be like decades ago in small Spanish villages
[I’m reading James Howard Kunstler’s excellent trilogy “A World Made By Hand” now to get an idea of what life might be like post-peak when the worst of the crisis is over. Prieto’s vivid descriptions are wonderful, I wish he’d … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture
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Robert McNally on energy at U.S. Congressional Hearings
Preface. I think it is interesting to know what Congress hears about energy from experts, and what the official U.S. energy policies are. It is frustrating that Energy Return on Invested (EROI) is never discussed, even by intelligent analysts like … Continue reading
Posted in Congressional Record U.S., Other Experts
Tagged congress, energy security, house of representatives, national security, oil, Rapidan Group, Robert McNally
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Kunstler: Potemkin Party
James Howard Kunstler. July 27, 2015. Potemkin Party. www.kunstler.com How many of you brooding on the dreadful prospect of Hillary have chanced to survey what remains of Democratic Party (cough cough) leadership in the background of Her Royal Inevitableness? Nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Other Experts
Tagged Clinton, Democrat, kunstler, Sanders
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The crude oil export ban: Helpful or hurtful 2015 House hearing
House 114-22. April 14, 2015. The Crude oil export ban: Helpful or hurtful? House of Representatives. [ Excerpts from the 73-page transcript of the hearing follow ] Ted Poe, Texas. The United States is now the largest crude oil producer … Continue reading
Posted in Threats to oil supply, U.S. Congress Transportation
Tagged export oil
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Rising oil prices and dependence on hostile regimes — the urgent case for Canadian oil
Preface. Sullivan has an interesting overview of the instability in the Middle East, which could lead to an oil shock quickly along with the economic and sky-high prices that entails. He also mentions “peak oil” and its implications, a term … Continue reading
Posted in Congressional Record U.S., Peak Oil
Tagged Canada, middle east, peak oil, tar sand
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Former President Carter on U.S. energy security & policy now and in the past
[Former President Carter and General Wald both say the American public need to be better informed about the energy crisis to motivate them to stop buying gas-guzzling vehicles, since that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Congressional Record U.S., Dependence on Oil, Energy Policy & Politicians, President Jimmy Carter
Tagged energy crisis, energy security, history, jimmy carter
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Energy & Agriculture, Senate hearing July 20, 2000
Senate 106-930. July 20, 2000. Energy and agriculture. U.S. Senate hearing. Excerpts from this 162 page document follow: RICHARD G. LUGAR, INDIANA I begin the hearing by raising what I believe is a very important question: Are Americans prepared for … Continue reading
Posted in U.S. Congress Energy Policy
Tagged energy, energy policy, oil, renewables
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