December 19, 2014

The Three Prices of Oil

In the United States, there are three (3) crude oil prices.  The media oil price – the oil price given to the public on television and in newspapers – is the guess of Wall Street speculators for a relatively small amount of oil six m...

April 24, 2014

Renewable Lies

The ethanol industry has issued a campaign of lies about the oil industry.  As Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it....

March 12, 2012

Oil and Gasoline Prices

Actual oil prices are unknown to most Americans.  The only oil price reported by the media is the Wall Street speculators' guess of the price of oil six months in the future.  A guess about the price of oil six months in the future should n...

March 14, 2011

Solving US Energy Problems

I graduated from West Point 60 years ago, and strongly believe in its motto: Duty, Honor, Country.  I have been in the energy industry for 57 years, first as an engineer and later as an attorney, and feel that it is my Duty to try to help my Cou...

March 13, 2009

Obama's energy policy will increase dependence on foreign oil

President Obama’s biofuel and oil policy is on a collision course to a national catastrophe.  Yet, the alarms are not sounding and the red lights are not flashing.Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is not warning Obama that his oil policy will...