Foltz interviewed for The American Oil & Gas Reporter: Energy Policy Affects Consumers Too, November 2009
Click here to view coverage of CEA-South Executive Director Tommy Foltz as interviewed by The American Oil & Gas Reporter: Energy Policy Affects Consumers Too, November 2009.
NEBA Hears Batt at the September Meeting, November-December 2009
Click here to view coverage of CEA-Florida Executive Director Dave Batt at the September 2009 meeting of the Northeast Business Association.
Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Travels
In what has become something of an annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition, the latest survey of people’s travel plans this year shows a slight increase in the number of people who plan to travel by car, along with a rather sharp decline in those traveling to their turkey dinner by plane. These surveys can offer a useful […]
CEA Analysis Finds LCFS a Bad Option for Northeast
Consumer Energy Alliance analyzes Low-Carbon Fuel Standard compliance scenarios for 11 northeast states WASHINGTON – November 13, 2009 A regional Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) imposed on 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states would result in prohibitively high gasoline, diesel and home heating oil prices, and would likely be logistically impossible to meet under any of the […]
CEA: New Study Reinforces Need to Responsibly Develop Domestic Energy Offshore
Consumer group calls untapped domestic oil and gas resources “a game-changer” for the economy HOUSTON – November 19, 2009 This week, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) released a comprehensive, independent, long-term analysis of U.S. energy policy. The study, sponsored in part by the non-profit Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and conducted jointly by […]
Old, but not over the hill
Here’s an important detail about the strength of our domestic oil industry that is often lost in the larger debate over opening more of the country to drilling and exploration: Yields are up at many existing oil fields. The American Petroleum Institute reported this week that U.S. crude oil production reached a four-year high in […]
Truckers’ long haul, Part Two
You may recall what we said last spring about the tough times in the trucking industry: a business which really cannot seem to get a break, between the high fuel prices in good times and the dramatic slowdown in demand during tough times (when, by the way, fuel prices often remain pretty high). Now truckers […]
High unemployment and low carbon fuel standards: Two not-so-great things that are even worse together
What could possibly be worse than the 10.2% nationwide unemployment we recently highlighted? How about the jobless rates of 11% in Florida, 12.2% in California, and a staggering 15.3% in Michigan? If you didn’t think Michigan had a big part in the debate over domestic fuel production, think again. The state, which has been bleeding […]
1983 all over again
Twenty-six years ago, the video of Michael Jackson’s Thriller was broadcast for the first time. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. And here in the United States, unemployment peaked above 10%. That was in 1983. Sound familiar? Twenty-six years later, Michael Jackson and Afghanistan are still making news. And last week, we learned that the nationwide […]
Taking the drilling debate south for the winter
Texas. California. Alaska. And now, Florida. That’s the latest site of what has become a series of heated debates over offshore drilling. All around the country, lawmakers overseeing diminished state and local coffers are proposing opening up some regions that are now off limits for offshore drilling, and longtime opponents are clinging to outdated arguments. […]