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BPC Event on Geopolitics of Shale Gas

On July 25th, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted its second installment of its ongoing series on unconventional oil and gas developments in the U.S. The first was on the geopolitical implications of the tight oil boom, and this second event covered the geopolitical...

What We Are Reading

December 3 With Military’s Push, Biofuels Can Grow Andrew Holland/The Christian Science Monitor US Senate voted Wednesday to restore the Defense Department’s ability to buy biofuels. As the largest petroleum user in the world, the US military says its dependence...

What We Are Reading

The Big New Push to Export America’s Gas Bounty Mark Scott/NY Times As one of the first United States companies to be granted an export license, Excelerate Energy is looking to capitalize on an American oil and gas boom that is reshaping the global energy markets....

Long-term National Energy Policy Still Needed

Wind turbine factory in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Photo credit: DOE Former CIA Director John Deutch published an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on August 14, offering his thoughts on the shale gas revolution. Here on ASP’s Flashpoint blog, we’ve been...

What we are reading

Push in Congress to ban biofuels in military has big long-term costs Norman Seip / Christian Science Monitor The US armed services is working hard to wean itself off of fossil fuels and foreign oil. Yet some in Congress, for short-term savings, want to ban them from...