OGPSS - Miles travelled, gas used and OPEC

Leanan has noted the API report of the continuing drop in US oil demand . It would be wrong, I believe, to explain this purely by reference...

A Panel on Gas Prices and their Effect

I have been invited to join the discussion at the Focus Group tomorrow on the subject: The Real Causes and Microeconomic Effects of High Gas...

Gas prices and oil supply in light of EIA and OPEC monthly reports

I paid $50 to fill my tank at a gas station in Maine this morning, at a cost of almost $4 a gallon. When the Actress muttered some comment ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Restarting Progress

BP does not seem to have gone back to the daily briefings, let alone the twice-a-day ones that were being issued just a couple of weeks ago....

Gasoline, crude, supplies and miles travelled

This winter has been a little harder, in the sense of snow on the road, than some I have experienced in the past. Which may explain, to a d...

Seasonality of Demand

Well, with Thanksgiving, and a slight problem in transportation that got us home a day late, it is belatedly time to catch up a little on th...

Natural Gas versus Coal - perhaps the UK experience revisited?

Back when North Sea oil and gas were discovered the British Coal Industry was a powerhouse in the land. Coal gas was used for domestic cook...

Oil up, gas down, and Hurricane season is here

I had meant to include the weekly plot of gasoline demand in the last post, that began by talking about the hybrid, but somehow the post dri...

New cars, miles travelled, crude oil and Charles Gibson

Over the past three weeks we have driven to Maine and back, putting 3,000 miles on the new Fusion Hybrid and, in the process averaging some ...

Driving is picking up, but is that good?

Having effectively been away for a couple of weeks, as good a place to start as any, to catch back up with the current state of things, is ...

TWIP in mid-April

After the excitement of the two days in Washington last week at the EIA Energy Conference , we are now returned to casting our eyes over the...

FutureGen, and the Natural Gas Report

Well I was planning on just putting up a quick post today on the natural gas report, and then trotting off, but I noticed that the plans for...

P52. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: With OPEC coming up on their next meeting this Sunday, I suppose it is time to guess whether or not ...

P43. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: I wrote earlier today about the pickup in gasoline demand that EIA had reported, and this was also n...

The last TWIP in February

Wednesdays are the day that the EIA releases its figures for petroleum product production and demand, and as we move into the pre-driving s...