Posted by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise
October is conference month, it seems. This week I spoke at two conferences, and next week is bookended by two more. First up is one that may be of interest to you, if you live or work in the Baltimore-Washington...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
While last summer's gas price spikes have finally faded in the rearview mirror, I was reminded this morning of how quickly things can change. At my local station, gas is creeping up to $2.62 per gallon. Nationally, in the last 20...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Are the goals of energy security and climatic stability fundamentally at odds? Or can we in the U.S. forge ahead toward a preferred future in which we address both these threats? These are valid questions. While we must be...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
I'm sick of it.There's a new campaign with a bumper sticker slogan that's attracting a lot of attention because it offers easy solutions to our oil-addiction woes. You may have seen it: Drill here, drill now, pay less. Sheer deception....continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel again yesterday due to market jitters, a move that will translate into more pain for struggling consumers. This is in part due to unfortunate, hard-to-control factors, notably supply cutoff threats from Hugo Chavez and...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Lord Richard Branson just made a exciting announcement: Virgin Atlantic plans to test a jet plane running on biofuels early next year. Frankly, this matters more than developments that we've seen in the vehicles market, where companies like GM are...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
As the media picks up on the remarkable events in the Senate earlier tonight, it's worth putting this vote in context. The fuel economy program was put in place in 1975, in reaction to the oil embargoes that many still...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
Heads are still spinning here.This transpired in just the past hour: After a press conference announcing a compromise on fuel economy standards, featuring enough Republican supporters to protect it from an assault led by Senators Pryor, Levin, Bond and Voinovich,...continued→
