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September 17, 2012

Fossil Fuels
Deep in the Heart of Texas

In an op-ed I wrote for the Houston Chronicle on Friday, I tried to distill some of the policy lessons from my major new study on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was published by CFR last week…

September 21, 2012

Fossil Fuels
What OPEC Can Teach the U.S. Department of Energy

Markets thrive when information is cheap, abundant, and reliable. This rule holds true for all sorts of markets, from housing to stocks to energy. More transparency in energy markets makes them bette…

December 12, 2012

Fossil Fuels
The Middle East’s Surprising Appetite for Oil, in Three Charts

Some of you who saw my piece last month for the Globalist, “The Middle East’s Voracious  Hunger for Energy,” wondered if I could post some charts showing the data underlying the argument.  Here are t…

The Middle East’s Surprising Appetite for Oil, in Three Charts

December 14, 2012

Fossil Fuels
Three Takeaways From This Week’s OPEC meeting

OPEC ministers met in Vienna on Wednesday to discuss the current oil market outlook and make a decision about future production levels, as well as to select a new secretary general. After deliberatin…

December 19, 2012

Fossil Fuels
Oil Boom... And Risk Management

A story on NPR yesterday morning, “The Downsides of Living in an Oil Boomtown,” had an interesting portrait of the economic effects of high oil prices and booming oil production on Williston, North D…