NYTimes: Big package on oil addiction and energy self-reliance. Plus Obama’s speech on same.
Days up without much done. Things got sidetracked by a neighborhood ambulance run – not to this household - that diverted attention to more immediate local matters.
But can’t let things go without at least recognizing the tremendous special section the New York Times’s Business side put out this morning on US energy policy, on innovation, and on the country’s historic inability to wean itself of imported oil. It ran, by no coincidence at all, the day after President Obama’s nationally televised speech on those exact topics. It includes a breaking news story about that speech in this package that must have taken a week, or weeks, to pull together. There are few signs of rush. There many photos and few graphics inside to explain things – but on line there are quite a few. It may not be a money maker at all. There are some big ads, but not (excepting Chevron) from big corporations. One from Louisiana touting its friendliness to technology investment, another from makers of Scottish whisky promoting ingenuity there. Northeastern University has a big one, promoting its work in energy but it’s unclear what it hopes to get as result (more post-docs and grad students? Corporate grants?)
Stories:
- John Broder: An Energy Plan Derailed by Events Is Being Retooled ;
- Clifford Krauss: Can We Do Without the Mideast?
- Tom Zeller Jr.: Trading Pumps for Plugs: We Aren’t There Yet ;
- Matthew L. Wald: Nuclear Industry thrives in the US, but for Export
- Kate Galbraith: Ethanol Industry Hoping for Surge ;
- Matthew Wald: Tucking Carbon Into the Ground ;
- Todd Woody: Start-Ups Work to Reinvent the Combustion Engine ;
- Jim Witkin: Building Better Batteries for Electric Cars ;
The speech itself drew scores of major stories. I can’t get to them all. But here’s one, from an outside service that covers energy policy as well or better than anybody (and picked up in the NYT):
- Climate Wire / Environment & Energy Daily: Evan Lehmann: Obama, Steering for the Center, Draws Dissent From Both Sides ;
- Charlie Petit
