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Navy Buys Fuel at $15 per Gallon: They Should Read IER’s New Report Blog Natural Gas

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The Navy will be paying about $15 per gallon for a biofuel-gasoline blend that will be used in a demonstration project next summer.[i] The Navy believes that “Our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national…

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Growing Disenchantment with Renewable Energy Blog Wind

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Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance forecast is predicting that global clean energy investments may double to $395 billion by 2020, led by growth in offshore wind and solar power.[i] But, the Dutch find that offshore wind is too expensive to subsidize…

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IEA Review Shows Many Developing Countries Subsidize Fossil Fuel Consumption, Cr Blog Oil

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its 2010 estimate of global fossil-fuel consumption subsidies—$409 billion, 36 percent ($109 billion) higher than in 2009.[i] This increase, however, is almost entirely due to the increase in international energy prices. Under current…

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Rebutting Ms. Bode’s Wind Comments Blog Wind

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In last Sunday’s New York Times Dialogue on Incentives on Energy, Denise Bode, Chief Executive of the American Wind Energy Association, argued that

“Including incentives, which all forms of energy get, wind is now close to cost-competitive with all other…

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  • Published // November 14, 2011
  • Author // IER
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The Turning Tide for World Oil Supplies ANWR Oil

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According to oil experts, the global oil map is being redrawn. The future of oil will no longer be the Middle East, but will be shifting to the Americas. Projections from the International Energy Agency and experts such as Daniel…

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  • Published // November 8, 2011
  • Author // IER
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