OPEC Decision Hits Renewables
Is a solar supply glut on hand? Not exactly, but oil’s multi-month slide has largely overshadowed the sector’s emergent capacity. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the state of California, where...
View ArticleUtica Pipeline Could Send Ohio Gas to Gulf Coast
A proposed pipeline in Ohio just received federal approval, which could connect shale gas from the Utica basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Ohio is home to the Utica shale, which is thought to hold...
View ArticleIs the U.S. Overestimating How Much Shale Gas It Can Get?
MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images U.S. government estimates of the amount of natural gas that can be extracted by fracking may be far too optimistic, according to a new study by the University of Texas...
View ArticleWhy US Shale May Fizzle Rather Than Boom
Source: Thinkstock The Shale Revolution may not really end up being a revolution after all. A new study in Nature finds that the estimates for shale gas production could be vastly overblown, and that...
View ArticleAmerica: The World’s Top Energy Producer?
Source: Getty Images Swing into your nearest 7-11, Citgo or Wawa and you’ll probably mistake the gas prices for something else. But it’s true, oil prices have dipped significantly, down to under $70...
View ArticleBoom or Bust: What’s the Outlook For the Energy Sector in 2015?
Source: Thinkstock It appears that crude oil prices are starting to stabilize. At least, they’ve started to decline slower. Most of the “experts” who send price forecasts have the low being set in the...
View ArticleHow Russia is Edging OPEC Out of China’s Oil Market
Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images Russia’s economic freefall and isolation from the West has made it increasingly eager to build its relationship with China, even at the cost of lost leverage with...
View ArticleEnergy Companies Are Getting Their Fracking Asses Kicked
David McNew/Getty Images Americans are reaping the benefits of cheaper energy as of late, mostly in the form of inexpensive gasoline for their vehicles. While for most of us saving a fistful of cash on...
View ArticleWhy You’re Not Paying Nearly Enough for Fossil Fuel
Source: Thinkstock As you may have read and heard before, particularly here on The Cheat Sheet, the vast majority of Americans are getting off pretty easy on their energy bills. That is, we’re not...
View ArticleBig Oil’s Been Covering Up One of Fracking’s Destructive Secrets
Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Cheap and bountiful energy is integral to America’s future. As we’ve seen prices for fossil fuels plummet over the past year or so, a lot of it has to do with one of the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Is Now the World’s Top Oil Producer
Andrew Burton/Getty Images It’s a headline that’s as attention-grabbing as it gets, and the proclamation itself is something many people probably never thought they’d see: America is the world’s...
View ArticleWhat the Frack? OECD Argues That Natural Gas Is the Future
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/todbaker/ Energy policy is one of the more nuanced and important components of the American legislative system, and for decades, if not centuries, finding reliable...
View Article10 States With the Lowest Energy Prices
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juggernautco/ One of the more complicated measurements in the entire economic structure is the price of energy. Energy itself is a nebulous commodity, and can come...
View Article10 States With the Highest Energy Prices
Source: Thinkstock Energy, as we all know, is the world’s most valuable resource. It’s traded, speculated upon, and bet on by Wall Street brokers, private enterprises, and legislators almost every...
View ArticleGas Prices Are Falling, But Solar Energy Is Set to Take Over
Source: Thinkstock 2016 is going to be an incredibly pivotal year for a lot of reasons, and the future of clean, renewable energy in America is just one of them. Why 2016? That’s the year that the...
View ArticleBoomtown: The State of U.S. Energy Production in 4 Charts
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Energy is the backbone of the American economy. Without reliable, reasonably-priced sources of energy, economic systems the world over would eventually grind to a...
View ArticleAmerica: The World’s Top Energy Producer?
Source: Getty Images Swing into your nearest 7-11, Citgo or Wawa and you’ll probably mistake the gas prices for something else. But it’s true, oil prices have dipped significantly, down to under $70...
View ArticleEnergy Companies Are Getting Their Fracking Asses Kicked
David McNew/Getty Images Americans are reaping the benefits of cheaper energy as of late, mostly in the form of inexpensive gasoline for their vehicles. While for most of us saving a fistful of cash...
View ArticleWhy You’re Not Paying Nearly Enough for Fossil Fuel
Source: Thinkstock As you may have read and heard before, particularly here on The Cheat Sheet, the vast majority of Americans are getting off pretty easy on their energy bills. That is, we’re not...
View ArticleBig Oil’s Been Covering Up One of Fracking’s Destructive Secrets
Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Cheap and bountiful energy is integral to America’s future. As we’ve seen prices for fossil fuels plummet over the past year or so, a lot of it has to do with one of...
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