The Open Market Blog

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/14/2008

The White House announced today that President Bush will lift the executive ban on oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf. This action in…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/17/2008

With oil topping $135 a barrel, ethanol must be cheaper than gasoline, right? Not if you adjust for the fact that ethanol has about 30%…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 05/12/2008

As most ethanol watchers know, the Renewable Fuels Association ran a full-page ad in The Hill magazine last week (May 6, 2008) titled: “Without ethanol, we’d be…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 04/18/2008

Today’s Wall Street Journal carries a front-page story by Ann Davis and Russell Gold on the surge in natural gas prices. The subtitle reads, in…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 04/18/2008

  In An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Al Gore, recalling the sudden break up of the Larson-B ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula in 2002, implied that the…