Since last March, when I wrote a story about the apparent suicide of Col. Ted Westhusing in Iraq, I had believed there was nothing else to write about his tragic death.
Read moreDavid Pursell is a managing director and head of macro research at Tudor Pickering Holt and Company, a Houston-based energy investment and merchant-banking firm.
Read moreWith oil prices still flirting with $100 a barrel, everyone is talking about the need for “energy independence.” Late last year, President Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007; Sen. John McCain has declared, “We need energy independence”; and Sen. Barack Obama has called for “serious leadership to get us started down the path of energy independence.”
Read moreOn the science of global climate change, I’m an agnostic. I’ve seen Al Gore’s movie, and I’ve read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Read moreFor three decades, Amory Lovins has been the darling of the Green/Left when it comes to energy policy. In this 3,600-word Q&A, Lovins claims that nuclear power is still bad, and amazingly, that William Stanley Jevons, the British economist who formulated the Jevons Paradox back in 1865, is wrong.
Read moreIn early August, it was announced that Amory Lovins had won the Volvo Environment Prize. Regarding Lovins’s selection, Volvo officials said, “He has developed a number of path-breaking technical, economic and policy concepts and succeeded in merging theory with a wide range of practical applications. His work is transforming the way we use energy worldwide.”
Read moreFacts don’t matter. Only spin matters. That’s the main conclusion to be drawn from the fact that Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week.
Read moreI was wrong. It’s hard to write those three words. But nevertheless, over the last few years I have written several articles, some for this journal, that argued in favor of higher motor fuel taxes.
Read moreThere are many reasons why the U.S. has lost the war in Iraq: hubris, terrible post-invasion planning, lack of knowledge of Iraqi/Muslim culture, and the failure of the occupation forces to control Iraq’s oil sector. But on the most basic tactical level, America has been defeated in Iraq because it cannot effectively counter the defining weapon of the Iraq War: the roadside bomb, which is also known by its now-familiar acronym, the IED, short for improvised explosive device.
Read moreJesse Ausubel directs the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University in New York City. Ausubel, with degrees from Harvard and Columbia, has long worked on environmental issues.
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