Energy Outlook
Useful information and discussion about energy, including oil and gas, peak oil, hydrogen, alternative energy, ethanol and other biofuels, climate change, and geopolitics, from an experienced industry professional.
A service of GSW Strategy Group, LLC, providing foresight and insight in an uncertain world. Content Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 by Geoffrey S.W. Styles. All rights reserved. The views expressed here are solely those of the author.
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Posted 1 week ago
Part of the research for my writing and consulting involves watching for trends or common themes, and one that I've been picking up from diverse sources reflects a growing skepticism about clean coal
Posted 1 week ago
When Detroit's CEOs return to Washington, DC in early December for further Congressional hearings on a rescue package, the industry's prospects for meeting tougher fuel economy standards are likely ex
Posted 1 week ago
Yesterday I received a question from a reader inquiring whether the price of oil has fallen to a level at which the US should consider resuming additions to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. I hadn't l
Posted 2 weeks ago
The analysis in the current edition of the Department of Energy's This Week in Petroleum highlights an unexpected finding from the department's Short Term Energy Outlook: a forecast of a pronounced
Posted 2 weeks ago
While watching the scenery from Amtrak's Acela on my way back from a meeting in New York yesterday, I made my first sighting of $1.99 per gallon gasoline, posted on the polesign of a station in Delawa
Posted 2 weeks ago
As Congress meets today to take up the subject of rescuing the Big 3 US automakers from possible bankruptcy, I'm concerned that this issue has been conflated with energy and environmental policy, rath
Posted 2 weeks ago
If I told you that there was a potentially limitless source of fossil fuel, you would naturally want to know what the catch was. In the case of methane hydrates, a form of natural gas that has been bo
Posted 3 weeks ago
This spring I reviewed Robert Bryce's book, Gusher of Lies, a thorough debunking of the notion that America could or should become energy independent any time soon. In a provocative article in Slate
Posted 3 weeks ago
Although overshadowed by the presidential contest, there was much speculation going into last Tuesday's election about whether Democrats could capture a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in the US
Posted 3 weeks ago
The world doesn't stop when you're on vacation, and I will be playing catch-up for some time, between the implications of the US election, a report from the International Energy Agency on chronic unde
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