Robert Bryce

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• Oil’s Irreplaceable Role in the Global Energy economy

  Published 19 June 2010 | viewed 14,072 times

  Back in 2006, George W. Bush declared that the US is “addicted to oil.” Since then, that phrase has been repeated ad nauseum by politicos…

• Ethanol Industry Produces a Top Ten Enemies List

  Published 17 June 2010 | viewed 12,596 times

  Richard Nixon had an enemies list. And now, so, too, do the corn ethanol scammers. Last week, Tom Waterman, the editor and publisher of The…

• Winners and Losers from The Gulf Oil Spill

  Published 13 June 2010 | viewed 15,066 times

  The oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico provides a near-perfect onshore platform for political demagoguery. That demagoguery was evident last week during just…

• Our Unhealthy Addiction to Oil

  Published 01 June 2010 | viewed 8,167 times

  The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is providing barrels of new ammunition to pundits on both the Right and the Left who…

• The Reality of Global Power Demand and Oil Consumption

  Published 27 May 2010 | viewed 10,922 times

  When considering the global energy sector, one of the most difficult tasks is understanding the gargantuan scale of our energy consumption. Talking about scale should…

• Wind Energy Hype: IEA Study Reveals the Real Cost of Wind Power

  Published 11 May 2010 | viewed 17,515 times

  The wind energy lobbyists love to claim that installing new wind turbines is the cheapest form of new electricity generation capacity. In fact, I heard…