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Articles and Editorials by Richard R. Loomis
CEO and Publisher of World Energy Magazine
and Editor in Chief of World Energy Monthly Review

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 7 - October 2009

Editor's Note

My Prediction

Energy demand is rising and supply is not. And until our homes and cars learn to run on sunshine or breezes, there’s only one direction for oil prices to go.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 7 - September 2009

Editor's Note

Game Changers and the Fine Art of Massage

Oh, for the good old days when we knew just how much – and by whom – our media was manipulated. Today, game changers are everywhere, from YouTube to town halls, and they’re taking the media with them.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 6 - July/August 2009

Editor's Note

Cap and Trade, or Cap and Tax?

Waxman-Markey's initiatives have conservatives and environmentalists equally dismayed. The dire consequences for the U.S. energy industry should have us all worried.

World Energy Magazine
Volume 12 Number 1

Publisher's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 5 - June 2009

Editor's Note

The Answer Ain't Blowin' in the Wind (Yet)

Wind turbines work great in Denmark: ergo, they will solve America's energy problems, too. Memo to Washington: We're not Denmark.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 4 - May 2009

Editor's Note

Will ACES Put Us in the Hole?

Cap and trade led to economic havoc in Europe ... but hey, that'll never happen here. At least that's what the American Clean Energy and Security Act wants you to believe.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 3 - April 2009

Editor's Note

CERA Week 2009

The annual industry conference attracted a who's who that can't agree on what's what.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 2 - March 2009

Editor's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 5, Number 1 - Jan/Feb 2009

Editor's Note

President Obama's Energy Picks: "True Believers"

Our new president's hand-picked team has expertise, background and motivation - plus plenty of "policy baggage" to take to Washington, too.

World Energy Magazine
Volume 11 Number 2

Publisher's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 11 - December 2008

Editor's Note

The Perfect Storm

A faltering economy, a spike-down in oil price and even a rise in gas-guzzler sales are just three of the factors contributing to a virtual tsunami of future energy problems.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 10 - November 2008

Editor's Note

A President Obama Energy Policy: Would It Work?

Sen. Barack Obama has carved a place in history as a presidential candidate. But as president, would his wide-ranging energy plan make the grade? And just as important, could we afford to pay for it?

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 9 - October 2008

Editor's Note

Hype Me Once, Shame on You …

Why wait for an actual hurricane to cause gasoline panic and finger-pointing when you can create hysteria by hyping a tropical storm?

What Does the DOE Do?

Spread too thin and bogged down with bureaucracy, the Department of Energy is government at its most inefficient. Maybe it’s time for the private sector to take charge.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 8 - September 2008

Editor's Note

Should We Be Pickin’ on Pickens?

The legendary wildcatter is now touting wind power as a way to reduce foreign dependence. But are we ready and willing to put our money where his mouth is?

World Energy Magazine
Volume 11 Number 1

Publisher's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 7 - August 2008

Editor's Note

When Our Industry Speaks … People Listen

From cable stations to the Internet, the energy industry's message is making its way into more homes — with a mission to create a more informed public.

Knowledge Is Power

Politicians aren't going to get us out of the high-priced-energy mess. Don't get mad — get more educated, then put that insight to work for you.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 6 - July 2008

Editor's Note

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Congressional hearings on oil prices: They're dramatic, bombastic and headline-grabbing … while achieving absolutely nothing …

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 5 - June 2008

Editor's Note

We Report, We Decide

The global warming debate has at last been settled … not by scientists, of course, but by celebrities, TV anchors and newspaper writers.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 4 - May 2008

Editor's Note

Dunce Cap

In spite of economic consequences we are moving rapidly toward the implementation of a cap-and-trade system. Members of Congress and each of the presidential candidates endorse the plan. Meet Hillbamacain.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 3 - April 2008

Editor's Note

It's a Smokescreen, Stupid

The same get-it-now mindset that gave us the subprime mortgage mess is having its effect on U.S. energy supplies.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 2008

Editor's Note

Short-term Markets, Long-term Problems

In the midst of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover campaigned for president with his vision of the American Dream: a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot. And, it went without saying, a comfortable house in which to store them.

World Energy Magazine
Volume 10 Number 4

Publisher's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 1 - Jan/Feb 2008

Editor's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 11 - December 2007

Editor's Note

When Is a Tanker Not a Tanker?

When a cargo ship spills its fuel in San Francisco, the media has a field day covering the wrong story. Meanwhile, a real issue halfway around the world goes ignored.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 10 - November 2007

Editor's Note

Who's Blowing Hot Air?

We have just one year left to figure out which presidential candidate has a true grasp of energy issues.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 9 - October 2007

Editor's Note

Speak Up (or Let Your Critics Do It for You)


When the words "public relations" are often followed by "disaster," you know your industry has an image problem. We made this mess; now let's clean it up.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 8 - September 2007

Editor's Note

Wall Street Could Use More Energized Investment


While the Dow makes roller-coaster headlines, the smart money remains on energy. Now, if only investors would listen.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 7 - August 2007

Editor's Note

Could Chávez Lose It All?


El Presidente is playing hardball, dictating a nationalization plan that's destined to work against his country's interests.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 6 - July 2007

Editor's Note

Fresh Corn from Congress


Has someone passed a law requiring politicians to harp on inefficient ethanol at the expense of more abundant and accessible fuel alternatives?

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 5 - June 2007

Editor's Note

Are We Headed for a Showdown over Supply?


As the halls of Congress resonate with cries against price-gouging, the harder truth is that high gas prices appear to be here to stay. Anyone up for a real solution?

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 4 - May 2007

Editor's Note

 

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 3 - April 2007

Editor's Note

You Can Call Me Al(armist)


Picking up his Academy Award in February for An Inconvenient Truth, a smiling, joking Al Gore was in his element - giving climate-change testimony, as it were, before a cheering crowd of California partisans. A month later, testifying before the House and the Senate on climate change, his reception was a bit cooler. Oh, well … that's showbiz. One supposes any publicity is good publicity.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 2 - March 2007

Editor's Note

Stuck on Stupid


When George W. Bush took office in 2001, he declared that the Kyoto Protocol was bad for America and that we needed to pursue our own course. Over the next few years, many in the scientific community debated the effects of humanity on global warming, and for much of the Bush administration, there was no climate-change problem - at least, not in the opinion of the White House, which avoided discussion on the subject.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 1 - Jan/Feb 2007

Editor's Note

They've Had Us Over a Barrel Long Enough


The United States imported more than 3.69 billion barrels in 2005, and a lot of that came from hostile nations. Why are we still feeding Chávez, Ahmadinejad and their cronies? We have the resources, we have the brainpower and heaven knows we have the reason to develop alternatives. What we need is the policy and the leadership to see it through.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 12 - December 2006

Editor's Note

What Can We Learn from an Airline?


Continental went from worst to first when the airline decided to put the focus on their people's progress.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 11 - November 2006

Editor's Note

Will Price Fixing Fix OPEC?

When your international oil cartel holds an emergency session, can the news possibly bode well for your profits? The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) took a hasty meeting in Doha, Qatar, on October 19, with just one big agenda item: stemming the fall of profits caused by a market glut of oil.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 10 - October 2006

Editor's Note

Down in the Delta

"Just in the event you do not know," writes a reporter for the Africa News, "hostage-taking is fast becoming a lucrative business enterprise in the Niger Delta." Nigeria is the African continent's most populous nation and, thanks to the oil-rich Niger Delta, one of its potentially most profitable nations.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 9 - September 2006

Editor's Note

Can BP Come Clean?

"When trust is destroyed, the result is an uncertain world where the future is not just unknowable but frightening, and where people cling to what they have for fear that any change will be for the worse."
- Lord Browne of Madingley, group chief executive of BP, writing in World Energy magazine, 2003...

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 8 - August 2006

Editor's Note

Mandateless In Mexico

As we reported in "Mexico: An Ally in the Balance" (March 2006), in an ever-widening desert of Latin American left-leaning tendencies - culminating in the rise of nationalistic oil companies in Venezuela and Bolivia - Mexico has remained an oasis of capitalistic ideals as well as one of the staunchest allies of the United States. This seems unexpected for a country with a 100 percent state-owned oil industry and no ability for outside investment in those resources.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 7 - July 2006

Editor's Note

Fear Factor

"Oil prices jump amid fears about …" You can finish that headline with any number of options, from Iran to Venezuela. Geopolitical jitters and the ever-growing competition for crude are driving up wholesale prices. But why does it appear that the "fear factor" headlines increasingly seem to pop up when the per-barrel price dips under $70?

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 6 - June 2006

Editor's Note

A Piece of the Action

A decidedly un-free market is the worrisome result of a growing trend toward nationalized oil companies.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 5 - May 2006

Editor's Note

Not Everybody Loves Raymond

We compare the outcry greeting Lee's headline-grabbing pension check to the facts behind that big number.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 4 - April 2006

Editor's Note

Energy Taxes Fill Federal and State Coffers … and Are Bad Policy

Oil companies have been accused of gouging, but guess who's really the gouger and who's the gougee?

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 3 - March 2006

 

Mexico: An Ally in the Balance

While we were busy in the Middle East, Latin America turned left. Will Mexico follow this dangerous trend?

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 2, Number 1 - January 2006

 

Gas Wars: Over There & and Over Here?

It's not just Olde England worried about keeping warm.
New England's in a similar bind.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 1, Number 12 - December 2005

 

The Not Ready for C-SPAN Players

Let's just say nobody was singing "kumbayah" when five energy CEOs met a panel of senators on Capitol Hill.

World Energy Monthly Review
Volume 1, Number 11 - November 2005

 

Clean, Efficient, Abundant. What Are We Waiting For?


No longer the fuming fuel of school buses, improved diesel is ready to impress. So why aren't we paying attention?

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