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June 13, 2011
Fossil Fuels
A Crude Predicament: The Era of Volatile Oil Prices
There has been no shortage of reporting over the last week on the fight within OPEC over whether to expand oil production. Bob McNally and I have an essay in the forthcoming (July/August) issue of Fo…
May 4, 2011
Fossil Fuels
Sneak Peak: Oil Markets in the Next Issue of Foreign Affairs
Bob McNally and I have an essay on oil markets in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs. We argue that big oil price swings are here to stay for awhile, outline the consequences for economics and …
April 21, 2011
China
Truth and Nonsense on Chinese Clean Energy
There is a serious fact-based case to be made for why China is not crushing the United States in a clean energy race. Unfortunately, Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post makes the argumen…
October 8, 2015
Economics
What Big Data Can Tell Us About the Oil Price Crash
The oil price collapse was supposed to boost the U.S. economy by prompting consumers to spend their savings on other goods and services. During the first half of this year, though, data seemed to sug…
March 18, 2011
Japan
Nuclear Energy and Oil Dependence
I have a new essay up at the Washington Post that challenges five myths about nuclear power and provides some basic facts. (It will be published in print on Sunday.) I discussed it in an online chat …