Energy Policy
The Demise of the “Energy Transition”
The demise of the “energy transition” does not mitigate the fact that there is a strong need to develop adaptions to the reality of a warming planet. It has been...
Trump’s Foreign Energy Policy is a Winning Formula
Trump’s foreign energy policy has the potential to be the foreign policy hallmark of President Trump, if utilized correctly. The president’s National Energy Council, tasked with formulating energy strategy, is...
Joe Biden’s Parting Shot To Natural Gas
While the Biden administration’s views on energy policy are arguably of rapidly diminishing importance, the study on U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) released by the Department of Energy...
American Energy Dominance in a Trump II Administration
The Biden-Harris administration has constrained the U.S. energy industry in the mistaken belief that it is the source, rather than a solution, to the challenges of the twenty-first century. In...
The United States Can Still Be a Leader on Natural Gas
In 2014, the cover of Foreign Affairs magazine was devoted to the newfound American energy renaissance, dubbing it a “Big Fracking Deal.” Already gaining momentum, the shale revolution provided a...
On Energy Policy, All-of-the-Above Is the Only Sensible Choice
President Joe Biden needs to rethink his energy-climate-prosperity paradigm. His current thinking holds that the U.S. fossil fuel industry needs to be restrained because its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are...
Happy Independence Day: Sheetz Reduces Gas Prices Through 4th of July
One regional gas station and convenience store chain has found an innovative way to help their customers deal with historically high gas prices: reducing its prices, albeit temporarily. Sheetz, a...
Here’s Why You Really Don’t Want to Live Near an Oil or Gas Well
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea In a California study, we found that pregnant women living near active high-production oil and gas...
The Ukraine-Russia Energy Crisis
Factories in southern Europe cut their production and ordinary cities began to lose their heat. After the cutoff of Russian gas supplies through Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quite...
Energy Without Politics
The idea that Europe is becoming more dependent on Russian gas is as widespread as it is untrue. Europe’s fears about dependency spring from several misapprehensions about the Russo-European natural...
A Resource Recourse
Speaking at the Nixon Center on July 13, Vladimir Averchev, the director of research in BP’s Moscow office, observed that Russia’s oil and gas industry once behaved much like a...