The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects the retail price for regular gasoline will average $3.63 per gallon during this summer’s driving season, slightly below average prices over the last two summers.  More »

The first signs are emerging that key Persian Gulf members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are adjusting their strategies to cope with the growing threat that North American shale oil is making to their long-term dominance in global energy markets.  More »

U.S. coal mining employment the past two years was the highest it’s been in 15 years, despite claims that President Barack Obama is waging war on the industry, an environmental group that studied federal data said Tuesday.  More »

Reflecting both new information about natural gas reservoirs and advances in technology, the American Gas Association said Tuesday that the United States has 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas that can be recovered by current drilling techniques.  More »

Retail gasoline prices in the U.S. dropped to the lowest for this season in three years after crude futures capped the biggest weekly drop in six months.  More »

In an era of political pygmies whose greater concern is for opinion polls and dubious consensus politics, it is hard not to look back with nostalgia to a very different era. An era when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan – both conviction politicians – represented a style of leadership that is so glaringly absent from today’s world stage.  More »

Israel’s transformation from a land of milk and honey into a land awash with oil and gas money is underway. The country’s offshore Tamar field finally started pumping domestic natural gas direct to Haifa in March, meaning Israel is no longer in the thrall of its Arab neighbors for gas imports.  More »

Each year the larger oil production companies provide their views of the future, and I recently reviewed that for ExxonMobil. Shell has now produced their projections, though in a somewhat different format as the document “New Lens Scenarios”, whic…  More »

Solar-energy installations are set to receive record loans this year through a U.S. municipal finance tool modeled after one that backed $17 billion of sewers and sidewalks in the past decade.  More »

As debate continues over raising the ethanol content in motor fuel to reduce emissions, another form of green energy is coloring the discussion.  More »

This is a guest post by James Hamilton, Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. This post originally appeared on the Econbrowser blog here. “Peak oil is dead,” Rob Wile declared last week. Colin Sullivan says it has “gone th…  More »

This is a guest post by James Hamilton, Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. This post originally appeared on the Econbrowser blog here. “Peak oil is dead,” Rob Wile declared last week. Colin Sullivan says it has “gone th…  More »