Real Clear Energy Everything begins with demand. There would be no need to solve the manifold challenges associated with energy supply but for the fact that everything humans invent, build and do demands energy.Part 1 of this series examined the supplyrevolution; here we turn to the second question: has there been any revolution in energy demand?
Real Clear Energy The Promethean task of supplying energy to the U.S. economy and the rest of the world involves scales that are truly difficult to visualize. Many options appear to make sense until you crunch the numbers. That’s why Bill Gates said that people need to bring “math skills to the problem.”
Wall Street Journal Only a few years ago America’s policy makers were wringing their hands about “peak oil” and dependence on imported fuels. Now headlines feature the return of oil gluts. What happened? Saudi Arabia undertook a “stress test” of America’s oil-and-gas industry that produced unintended consequences.
Real Clear Policy … co-author Julio M. Ottino. In today’s hyper-partisan era, one goal crosses the political divide: the need for more entrepreneurs.
Wall Street Journal President Trump says he will revive U.S. manufacturing through better trade deals and tax incentives. Others argue that America has entered a new “postmanufacturing” era. Sound familiar? In the 1970s, the U.S. had a stagnant economy, sluggish productivity, high unemployment and an auto industry threatened by the Japanese “juggernaut.” Doomsday was…
By now it should go without saying that President Trump’s actions should be viewed in business terms first. Tuesday’s executive orders to get the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines finished were not really about energy or environmental issues. It’s all about delivering on a promise to kick-start jobs in the heartland in the cheapest and fastest possible…
