Energy:
Thursday night saw the inaugural Energy and Environmental Security Initiative lecture at the University of Colorado School of Law. The lecture was given by Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, an early undeclared candidate for the '08 Democratic nomination for President. It...
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Posted on November 20, 2006 5:28 PM • 7 Comments
In the past couple of days I mentioned Rep. Richard Pombo a couple of times as my race to watch (because my local House seat is safely held by the great Mark Udall). Pombo held the 11th California District seat...
Posted on November 8, 2006 8:12 AM • 3 Comments
Caught on Lehrer's blog, GM VP Bob Lutz tells the WSJ today that, "the best thing the (U.S.) government can do is to raise the gas tax by 10 or 15 cents a year until it reaches European levels." This...
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Posted on October 2, 2006 3:12 PM • 11 Comments
I'm not much into shooting fish in a barrel or beating dead horses, but I just heard a Bush quote from today on energy that made me shudder a bit. Bush, stumping for a return to nuclear energy (a push...
Posted on September 4, 2006 5:26 PM • 7 Comments
If even half of Matt Savinar's dire predictions about the consequences of Peak Oil come true, we're in for a world of hurt. These are the sorts of things that bring down over-extended civilizations. Whether or not our civilization is...
Posted on August 30, 2006 12:00 PM • 5 Comments
The lessons for this region that West illustrates are as valid now as they were in the second half of the 19th Century. Ever since I moved to the Front Range I've had a subtle, mostly latent, uneasy feeling about life here. After reading West's book I know why.
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Posted on August 23, 2006 12:25 PM • 0 Comments
Word on the street is that Senator Domenici is moving toward a real solution on nuclear waste storage. CQ.com just told me that Domenici is putting a provision in the 2007 Energy-Water Appropriations bill (hey kids, it's approps markup season!!...
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Posted on June 27, 2006 3:46 PM • 2 Comments
I wrote about Cape Wind here and here, and in this post I discussed a major legislative obstacle to letting the project move forward. Namely, a provision in the Coast Guard reauthorization conference report (HR 109-413) that allows the guv...
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Posted on June 21, 2006 4:51 PM • 0 Comments
My last post about the politics of wind discussed the Cape Wind project and the cockamamie excuses -- some wrapped in science (surprise!!) -- being used to justify political interference with the project. (For what it's worth, politicians both left...
Posted on June 8, 2006 2:46 PM • 0 Comments
If you're a member of AGU, your latest Eos carries an article by C.J. van der Veen titled "Reevaluating Hubbert's Prediction of U.S. Peak Oil." If you're not a member of AGU, the article hides behind a password wall and...
Posted on May 30, 2006 5:08 PM • 7 Comments
It's been clear for a long time why environmental issues don't get the same political traction as issues like crime, security, taxes, job and health care. Ask a bunch of voters whether environmental problems are important and a large majority...
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Posted on May 15, 2006 7:01 PM • 6 Comments
It's not that Senators Domenici and Bingaman (R-NM and D-NM) have nothing at stake on wind energy. They are the Chair and Ranking Member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, after all, so they should be interested in...
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Posted on May 5, 2006 3:15 PM • 0 Comments
...this time about ExxonMobil's bipolar disorder on the issue. It's up on Prometheus....
Posted on May 4, 2006 12:17 PM • 0 Comments
I took these photos this morning from inside the main gym on the CU Boulder campus. You're overlooking the pool area from the main entrance. Two signs are hung over the pool and both are about the energy fueling the...
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Posted on May 2, 2006 12:51 PM • 2 Comments
Last Thursday I tore into the plainly moronic $100 give back plan by some Senate R's. Judging from a few comments and emails to me, some people were taking the plan as a direct insult on their intelligence. Apparently people...
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Posted on May 1, 2006 12:15 PM • 0 Comments
In case you only drive a Segway and don't read, watch TV or listen to the radio, gasoline is now really expensive and the AA (avg. American) is really angry (according to the media -- I'm not sure they care...
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Posted on April 27, 2006 7:06 PM • 2 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
