Commentary
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Apr 28, 2011 |
The move to more automated trading styles has seen slow progress in the energy markets amid fears that removing direct trader control will add risk to trading operations. But algorithms need not be source of risk, argues Henning Böttger of Baringa Partners, when they are used to fulfill the more mechanical hedging strategies currently being undertaken. -
Apr 21, 2011 |
Last month, when President Obama unveiled the Better Buildings Initiative to provide incentives for businesses to become more energy efficient, we were reminded how efficiency is a critical, but often overlooked component of our national energy policy. -
Mar 30, 2011 |
As the market price of liquid fuels for the transportation sector increases, so does interest in alternative forms of propulsive energy. While various governments may provide research funding to such ends, there are numerous private groups that also seek to develop alternative and potentially viable forms of propulsive energy. Higher world oil prices have allowed the Government of Brazil to end subsidies to the sugar-cane fuel ethanol industry. -
Mar 23, 2011 |I had hoped to give a provocative lecture on the economics of nuclear energy at the forthcoming international meeting of the International Association for Energy Economics in wonderful summer Stockholm, but on the basis of what might happen in North Africa and the Middle East in the coming months, I suspect that I will be asked by the conference directors to fall back on one of my oil market recitals.
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Mar 10, 2011 |
The United States continues to slumber while a catastrophe lies in wait. Increasing numbers of analysts and policymakers are warning of another super price spike for oil and the likelihood of "peak oil" more generally. -
Mar 08, 2011 |As most readers of this short paper probably know, Dr. Steven Chu is the energy secretary of the United States, a physicist, and a Nobel Laureate. Discovery Magazine, in its latest issue (2011), selected what it called the "100 Top Stories of 2010", one of which was authored by an editor of Discovery, and whose main purpose was to verify Dr. Chu's green credentials.
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Feb 24, 2011 |
During the last year, using exploration technology similar to British Petroleum's [BP] three mile deep oil well [my BP Oil Spill live TV interview CBS12 Sunday June 27, 2010], trillions of cubic feet [TCF] and billions of cubic feet [BCF] of natural gas have been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. -
Feb 17, 2011 |This short paper borrows from my forthcoming energy economics textbook (2011), and consists of a part of the lecture that I once desperately wanted to present at either the Stockholm School of Economics, or at the research organization called Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), which is also located in the Swedish capital.
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Feb 08, 2011 |
Americans are all too familiar with the ways political instability in oil rich places like Iraq and Saudi Arabia impact the price they pay for gasoline and heating oil. But uncertain energy prices affect the economy at large -- not just the cost to refuel our cars and heat our homes.
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Jan 20, 2011 |An article published in the Infantry Journal (U.S.) many years ago contained the following exotic question: “If you only had an hour in which turn civilians into soldiers, what would your instruction consist of?”
