Dr. F's: Energy Matters Columns

Previous Issues

 

June 13, 2008 Speaking of Gasoline Prices

June 6, 2008 Keeping Energy Options Open

May 2, 2008 Mortgaging the Future with the Natural Gas Myth

April 25, 2008 Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel

April 18, 2008 Food and Energy Markets

April 11, 2008 Oil Prices to Remain High Says IEA

April 4, 2008   Energy Tax Subsidy Madness

March 28, 2008 Obsolete Referent

March 21, 2008 Wall Street Hubris v. Reality

March 14, 2008 Wind Doesn't Blow All The Time - Duh!

March 7, 2008 Annual Natural Gas Update

February 29, 2008 Big Solar

February 15, 2008 No Magic Bullets for Climate Change

February 1, 2008 Midwinter Update

January 18, 2008 Promises, Promises, Promises

January 11, 2008 The Inertia of Money

December 21, 2007 Car Talk

December 14, 2007 Arctic Screams, Who’s Listening?

December 7, 2007 Visualizing Climate Success

November 30, 2007 Dislodging King Coal

November 23, 2007 $100 Oil

November 16, 2007 Dislodging King Coal

November 9, 2007 Cap’n Trade’s Unintended Carbon Consequences

November 2, 2007 Plentiful; Not Cheap

October 26, 2007 What's the Value of Green Power?

October 19, 2007 Those Amazing Oil Prices

October 12, 2007 Going to the Ends of the Earth for Gas

October 5, 2007 Plug-in Hybrids - Where's the Juice?

September 28, 2007 Are We Crazy or What?

September 14, 2007 End of Summer Update: Lots of Gas, Not So Plentiful Oil

September 7, 2007 Dr. Ferguson on vacation

August 31, 2007 Dr. Ferguson on vacation

August 24, 2007 Dr. Ferguson on vacation

August 17, 2007 PetroDollar Welfare?

August 10, 2007 California's Future: Solar or Nuclear?

August 3, 2007 Renewable Transmission Initiative Is Underway

July 27, 2007 Adjusted for Inflation

July 20, 2007 Only So Many Dinosaurs

July 13, 2007 Summer 2007 Natural Gas Update

July 6, 2007 CARBon Politics

June 29, 2007 Irrelevant Washington

June 22, 2007 The Flow of Money

June 15, 2007 Transmission Planning: Lessons Learned

June 8, 2007 Arizona Says NO

June 1, 2007 When Do We Start Worrying?

May 25, 2007 Coming Soon: Energy Action Plan Decisions

May 18, 2007 Those Pesky Energy Prices

May 11, 2007 Everyone's Singing Kumbaya

May 4, 2007 Oil Prices Increase When They Can

April 27, 2007 California Gasoline - It's the Price, Stupid

April 20, 2007 Market Forces Don’t Make Decisions – People Do

April 13, 2007 Does California Need LNG?

April 6, 2007 Supremes – EPA Can Act on Global Warming

March 30, 2007 Time for a California Solar Contract

March 23, 2007 The China Coal Syndrome

March 16, 2007 The Global Warming Elephant

March 9, 2007 I Go Pogo

March 2, 2007 Smoothing AB 32 With Good Intentions

February 16, 2007 Energy Matters Mea Culpa?

February 9, 2007 Inconvenient Or Otherwise, What Is Truth?

February 2, 2007 Saying No To Coal

January 19, 2007 The Price of Tortillas

January 12, 2007 Balmy Weather Cools Energy Prices

January 5, 2007 Truckee Coal Decision - A Sign of the Times?

December 15, 2006 Federal Energy Optimism

December 8, 2006 AB 32 Reality Begins To Sink In

December 1, 2006 Price Risk - Who Pays?

November 27, 2006 All Is Well, Or Is It?

November 17, 2006 What, Me Worry About Global Oil?

November 10, 2006 Natural Gas Update - Hedge Your Bearish Bets

October 20, 2006 Cap'n Trade - Get Real

October 13, 2006 "No Coal" Says California

October 6, 2006 Blame Game

September 29, 2006 Natural Gas Price Swoon Continues

September 22, 2006 Ain't Rocket Science

September 15, 2006 The Bears Dominate Energy Markets

September 8, 2006 Global Warming - What Hath Sacramento Wrought?

September 1, 2006 Tehachapi Money

August 25, 2006 Consensus on Tehachapi Transmission Plan

August 18, 2006 There's More to Electricity Than Keeping the Lights On