AUTHOR ARCHIVES: Robert Bradley

BRADLEY: New Obama, Old Carter on Energy Policy Blog

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Proposals for federal energy planning are old and stale—and perennially misguided.

Last week, President Obama proposed a $2 billion Energy Security Trust to “shift our cars and trucks off oil” to “break this cycle of spiking gas prices.” The $200-million, …

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Does the U.S. need a National Energy Board? Blog Oil

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John Hofmeister, formerly president of Houston-based Shell Oil (the U.S. side of Royal Dutch Shell), has been an active voice for energy policy reform. Upon retiring from Shell in 2008, he founded Citizens for Affordable Energy (CAE), an educational nonprofit  …

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150 Years ago, Scholars Knew the Need of Dense, Not Intermittent, Energy Blog

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W. S. Jevons classic book The Coal Question (1865) explained how coal (and by implication, gas and oil) were uniquely suited for—and indeed, prerequisites for—the machine age. His insights are even more applicable to today’s ultra-reliable, always-on energy requirements than …

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Let it glow, let it glow, let it glow Blog Oil

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Critics of electrified America have mixed emotions this time of the year. It may be the season of good cheer and goodwill toward all, but it is also the time of the most conspicuous of energy consumption: billions of stringed …

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Electric Vehicles’ “Burden of History” (Technology Defeated 110 Years Ago) Blog

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“Let’s be fair, the combustion engine has got a 100-year head start,” remarked Brian Wynne, president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). “We started this a little while ago…. [We have] essentially … two years’ worth of run here.”…

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