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• 02/29/2008 -- House energy bill an exercise in childishness
  Kicking oil companies in the shins is not energy policy. It's childishness.
• 02/22/2008 -- CBO: CO₂ tax the best move on climate change
  The Congressional Budget Office is right to favor a tax on carbon dioxide over other possible US responses to climate change. But it omits an important reason.
• 02/15/2008 -- Congress offers bad reasons for bad energy bill
  Doing good things for good reasons is best; good things for bad reasons, lucky; bad things for good reasons, wrong; and bad things for bad reasons, stupid.
• 02/08/2008 -- Energy in need of politically popular change
  A political campaign with "change" as a rallying call should be good for energy policy in the US. But don't count on anything.
• 02/01/2008 -- Like energy bill, stimulus package misses the target
  The economic stimulus initiative pushing its way through the US Congress has much in common with last year's energy bill. It's superficial and insufficient, probably harmful.
• 01/25/2008 -- Societe Generale mess a reminder of trading perils
  The unfolding Jerome Kerviel drama says much about cap-and-trade remedies for climate change.
• 01/18/2008 -- Request for more oil highlights US contradictions
  These thoughts might have occurred to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah when US President George W. Bush, during a visit to the desert kingdom, requested an increase in oil production.
• 01/11/2008 -- Import arguments backfire against US oil producers
  Arguments aimed at cutting US oil imports do producers more harm than good in Washington, DC. The industry should try a different approach.
• 01/04/2008 -- Candidates test limits of unruly energy utterance
  On energy, US Democratic presidential hopefuls are testing the limits of unruly utterance.