Guest Written By Peter C Glover What’s the difference between the European Union and the Titanic? Answer: the Titanic was holed by a single immovable object and took minutes to sink. The EU, another allegedly “unsinkable” project, is taking a little longer. As if Eurozone crisis and keeping Greece afloat wasn’t threatening enough, the next [...]  More »

By Michael J. Economides The time has come for a new era in petroleum production operations worldwide and, as usual, a crucial component will play a pivotal role. It has been considered in the past but largely unexcitingly as a means of natural gas transport and can still serve as such. However, compressed natural gas [...]  More »

By Peter C Glover When Elijah stood on Mount Carmel he faced a formidable array of 950 prophets (I Kings 18:19). All were resolute in their populist ‘consensus’ theory about a troubling environmental matter. But Elijah didn’t mind the odds. He wasn’t interested in predictions and theory, just hard facts. The issue on Carmel was [...]  More »

By Michael J. Economides A phrase often repeated during the Arab Spring “be careful of what you wish, it may happen” now finds its starkest manifestation in Egypt, a country profoundly tortured by horrible politics and corruption, with a burgeoning population and not nearly enough natural resources. Islamic fundamentalism is certainly not be the worst [...]  More »

Guest Written By Peter C Glover As prices at the pump spiked over recent months I received a networked e-mail urging me to sign up to a UK “war on Big Oil”. The green activist clearly had a genuine concern for his fellow man. But he was no economics or business major. In truth, he [...]  More »

By Andrés Cala and Michael Economides Venezuela was a pillar of America’s energy security last century, not only as a reliable supplier, but more critically as a shortstop for bullish global pressure on oil prices. Hugo Chávez’s ascent to power in 1999 drastically changed that, but to be fair, the consequences were mute throughout most [...]  More »

Michael J. Economides and Donna D’Aleo The news from Russia on Sunday was far starker and much less exciting but far more definitive than the ongoing Republican electioneering in the United States. No American-style TV talking heads will be necessary to analyze the results. Vladimir Putin was triumphantly re-elected as President of Russia in a [...]  More »

By Michael J. Economides I have waited for a couple of months for 2012 to mature before I put this piece out. (Even with past successes in predictions the anemic economy and the US elections make for a difficult punditry on the future.) The New Year opened with a sobering warning on energy policy and [...]  More »

By Michael J. Economides Say what you want about the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill: necessary to protect consumers, a stranglehold on the economy, a must to fix up Wall Street. Whatever your opinion, there is a small provision in this colossal 2,319-page measure that deserves the attention of everyone concerned about the future competitiveness of [...]  More »

By Michael J. Economides & Peter C. Glover Energy has become a hot button election issue. President Obama’s State of the Union address and his decision to reject TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline crystallized the fact. The language of the GOP presidential candidates post-Keystone was suitably pithy. Gingrich intoned it “a stunningly [...]  More »

By Peter C Glover and Michael J. Economides The assassination of another Iranian nuclear scientist on the streets of Tehran immediately cast suspicion on the obvious and usual suspects, the Israeli Mossad and America’s CIA. But Israeli writer Caroline Glick posits a third equally credible suspect: Iran’s internal opposition party, the Green Movement (no connection [...]  More »

By Michael J. Economides There is nothing that portrays more the ideological divide in America than the debate on energy. The climate and energy wars have now become an insurmountable chasm and no cost is too great for the ideologues. It is an all-out war, with no prisoners, not unlike so many other cultural, social [...]  More »