Commentary: A talk with Russell Gold, author of ‘The Boom’
Russell Gold is absolutely marvelous. Not only has he spent over a decade as an intrepid energy reporter at the Wall Street Journal, but he has written a book, ‘The Boom‘, which is the quintessential...
View ArticleSome Preposterous Data Points across the Energy Landscape
If this tortoise could talk, I’m pretty sure he would say ‘preposterous’ in response to what you are about to read. For the wild and wacky world of energy has revealed some preposterous notions in the...
View ArticleTen Lumps of Coal Info
While I’ve been digging into a bunch of different commodities recently, there have been a number of interesting bits and bobs relating to coal that I’ve been squirreling away. Hence, here are ten...
View ArticleCommentary: Hitting the gas…and the brakes
There is an interesting set of twists and turns at play between US unemployment data, vehicle sales, and gasoline demand.
View ArticleCommentary: How natural gas is changing China’s energy landscape
China is in a pickle. It is a pickle it is well aware of – and trying to fix – but a pickle nonetheless, as it tries to wean itself off coal and ramp up its natural gas consumption. So here are some of...
View ArticleCommentary: Mixing energy and pop: If Katy Perry and I were to do a duet…
…I would have no squabble in doing one of her hits, but we would have to work in some commodity themes into the lyrics. So here are some ideas I am working on pitching her. Roar - We could definitely...
View ArticleIt’s Good to be Bad
Not meaning to be villainous – like my British counterparts in the Jaguar commercial - but it would seem that sometimes ‘it’s good to be bad‘. And here are some immediate examples across...
View ArticleCartographic Capers
This visual voyage through some cartographic capers plots a course across US energy consumption, global emissions, and the second largest continent on earth. So grab your coat, and let’s...
View ArticleThe More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
The above phrase is from the translation of ’plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose‘ by the French novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Regardless, not only is it great, but also highly applicable...
View ArticleCommentary: Solar to be leading source of electricity by 2050?
Schneider Electric's CMO, Chris Hummel, pondered whether the IEA's claim that solar energy could be the leading source of electricity by 2050 was achievable. Matt Smith's initial reaction was...
View ArticleHow Currency Weakness Plays into Commodities
One of my favorite songs of this year is ‘I Forget Where We Were‘ by Ben Howard. The song’s title has been resonating with me recently as I get a wee bit reflective as we approach the twilight of an...
View ArticleEnergy Trends in Africa
While I have written posts on Nigeria and regularly referenced Libya in the last half decade on the burrito, I know very little about most of Africa when it comes to energy. So it was interesting to...
View ArticleCommentary: The shakeout in US shale
My favorite quote by H.L. Mencken is ‘a cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin‘. A bit morose, I know, but this appeals to the contrarian in me. My second favorite is...
View ArticleFestive Freebies!
‘Tis the season to be jolly, and here on the burrito there are a number of festive freebies being given away to celebrate…. First up, Energy Burrito has just turned five years old (my baby is all grown...
View ArticleCommentary: actions speak louder than words on oil prices
FuelFix.com Voices blogger Matt Smith takes a look a prices. His starting premise: "With soooooooo much talk swirling about the current oil price drop, I feel compelled to focus less on the rhetoric...
View ArticleCommentary: What I think about when I think about crude
Some of the factors Voices blogger Matt Smith thinks about when he thinks about oil.
View ArticleWhat Lower Prices at the Pump Mean for the US Economy
The price drop we have seen at the pump in recent months has been nothing short of spectacular. It has provided the equivalent of a huge tax cut to the US consumer, considerably boosting disposable...
View ArticleCommentary: The far reaching impact of lower oil prices
Despite an unrelenting focus on the recent rout in oil, there have been a number of other significant swoonings across commodityland™ which have also been rather noteworthy
View ArticleCommentary: the US crude conundrum
The current US oil market is in the midst of a slugfest reminiscent of a Rocky fight, as competing influences face off against one another, says Voices poster Matt Smith.. In one corner we have rising...
View ArticleTrends in Texas Wind Generation, Driving Habits, and Network-enabled Devices
Apparently, the Queen of England sent her first email in 1976, some 14 years before the World Wide Web was born. I learned this while reading about the growth of ‘smart’ devices, and their impact on...
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