The other day, John McCain visited an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to call for more offshore drilling. The massive Chevron rig produces 10,...

When energy optimists tout the huge supply of oil that is still available to us in the form of tar sands and oil shale, they forget to mention that costs...

Do oil prices really tell the market what it needs to know when it needs to know it?

Reports of a new discovery, by a team of MIT researchers, in the popular media are confusing, claiming that a magic "catalyst" has been discovered that...

Jesse Jenkins and I published two op-eds recently, one in the San Francisco Chronicle and one in the Baltimore Sun, outlining a proposal for a National...

Another July 4th has come and gone, accompanied by the usual cries for a new "Declaration of Energy Independence." Continuing a longstanding tradition...

Understanding how the great hopes of early nuclear power advocates eventually turned into great disappointment may shed some light on nuclear power's future...

While the latest geological surveys indicate there may lie one fifth of the world's unrecovered gas and oil under the Arctic-ice,...

Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste, according to a press release...