Alaska, diesel, refining changes and Venezuelan exports

The Iditarod dog-sled race commemorates the time in 1925 when serum had to be carried from Anchorage to Nome to counter a diphtheria outbre...

Coal - a new technology and another look at the TV series

Back in 2008 Robert Rapier wrote a post on using coal in the making of ethanol , in which he referred back to a post he had written in 200...

A VMT oddity and the latest TWIP

I have been writing about the use of the monthly reports from the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) on vehicle miles travels, at intermit...

The TWIP and changes in regulations

There has been some talk recently of the current Administration raising taxes on oil and natural gas companies. Specifically the suggestion...

Can politics be removed from biofuel generation?

The Administration has been praised for its move to rely more on science in the generation of policy, and on Tuesday a new group was announ...

P54. Pick Points

So here it is the weekend, and I would usually be putting up Saturday Pick Points, and the Saturday post, with Sunday’s Tech Talk in the win...

7. The limited Energy Growth Options of the Future

We’re now getting closer to the start of the new Administration, with President-elect Obama having travelled to Washington, to begin his res...