In the same week, a report tells us we can achieve 10% of our energy from solar by 2025, and the Senate turns down the renewable energy tax credit. Again.

This blog title could have been a headline for The Onion not so long ago. And yet now, it’s all in earnest. With oil topping $130 per barrel, a vehicle that gets somewhere around 10mpg suddenly seems like a burden rather than an asset. Remember when every new year seemed to bring another, bigger version [...]

It seems like it was only yesterday that politicians, coal executives and even some environmentalists had agreed on the benefits of clean coal technology. Among other duties, it takes the polluting carbon dioxide byproducts of coal-fired power stations and sequesters it deep underground, where its greenhouse gases cannot enter the atmosphere. (For a good overview, [...]

Facing increased roadblocks to financial success and growth stateside, the U.S. coal industry is taking its business elsewhere: overseas. Coal exports jumped from a little over 49 million short tons (mmst) in 2006 to 53 million in 2007, according to the National Mining Association, and the New York Times reports that coal executives predict exports [...]

It’s finally happened: Castro has hung up his hat. Okay, handed it to his brother, and he will absolutely still put it on from time to time…but a regime change is in the air. Even if Raul Castro is blessed with unusually good health and long life, he’s still 76 years old, and Cuba can’t [...]

News: New York Times
A New York Times article about rising energy prices and increased scarcity shows us that we have a pressing issue on all of our hands.