In its Ahab-like focus on harpooning ExxonMobil, the BBC missed an opportunity to explore the enormous challenges involved in replacing fossil fuels.
Tag: Oil and gas
“Big Oil vs The World”: BBC Exposé Fails (Episode II)
Finally, the documentary offers a false choice by implying that we can quickly stop using fossil fuels without the loss of millions of lives.
BRICS Starts Sidestepping the Tragedy of Western Energy Policy
The world is marching right past us, here in the west, in a certain way. Fear of a lack of fuel and food will do that to people.
Reuters Writes that US Government is Unfair to……Oil Refineries?
But today, the nation’s ethanol plants produce more than double the climate-damaging pollution, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries, according to a Reuters analysis of…
Column: Appalling New Historical Precedent – Surplus Cash Flow Cannot Solve World’s Energy Problems, By Design
The golden goose has had its beak stapled shut.
Biden Promises, Policies and Political Problems
Moreover, every increase in “green” energy makes the United States more reliant on China which, like Russia, increasingly wields its energy, mineral and economic power as a weapon, to keep…
Guyana, Suriname Oil Bonanza to Boost Economies, Help Meet Global Demand
The poverty-stricken Caribbean countries of Guyana and Suriname have hit the jackpot with the discovery of huge offshore oil reserves that are on track to produce revenue for decades.
BRICS In the New World Energy Order: Hedging in Oil Geopolitics
The BRICS have been catapulted into a position of being the only constellation of forces that challenges the global economic dominance of the G7 developed countries bloc.
Column: Summer Interrupted – A Good News Energy Story Amid the Carnage
The ability to increase throughputs by up to 10 percent has enormous repercussions, and if the alternative to moving that extra ten percent is building tens of billions of dollars…
‘Ten Policies to Unleash American Energy and Fuel Recovery’ (API gets nine of ten right)
… it is time for an energy awakening – for the natural gas and oil supply chain and the government at all levels to open a new era of working…
The Democrats’ Energy Disaster
So, why, if we’re on the precipice of this apocalypse, if saving the planet trumps every other concern, is President Biden begging everyone to drill?
Biden’s Virtue-Signaling: The Costs of Climate Policy
President Biden’s climate policy is not “the root of all evil,” but it’s close. Instead of improving the earth’s climate, it is causing or at least substantially worsening several economic…
The ESG Community Lacks an Understanding of What Crude Oil is Used For
Products from crude oil are the foundation of modern society and few consumers are willing to give up those benefits. Access to inexpensive, abundant and dependable crude oil has been…
The Russia-Ukraine War: A New Geopolitics of Finance And Energy Trade Emerges
As one local oil analyst put it, “If Russia is offering oil at a cheaper price and the trade is between rupee and rouble, then looking at the national interest…
Death By a Thousand Cuts Until Climate Scare Defeated
“A good general knows never to fight a battle on his enemy’s turf, terrain, and terms unless he has no other choice.”
Newsom’s Energy Regulations Have Oil Tankers Emitting More Than Twice What All of California’s Vehicle Fleet Do
As a result of continuously decreasing in-state oil production, California has increased imported crude oil from foreign countries from 5 percent in 1992 to 58 percent today of total consumption.
Oil Price Hikes Hit Poor Countries The Hardest
However, the situation is far more serious for populations of developing countries who have a much smaller buffer against life-threatening deprivation.
Is This What Peak Oil Feels Like?
In summary, we have created an artificial and destructive “Peak Oil”, and we can learn from the pain that it causes how to avoid a painful “Peak Oil” in future.
After The Ukraine Invasion: Energy Realism Emerges In Germany While The US Doubles Down
Economy Minister Robert Halbeck said that “there were no taboos in deliberations” concerning options to extend the operations of the country’s coal and nuclear power stations or in importing liquified natural gas…
Forget Inane Media Preoccupations And Pay Attention: The World Is Running Out Of Fuel. We Are All Going To Pay
The problem is, few are doing the taking. Hydrocarbon producers are being hounded to move on from hydrocarbons, to pour their cashflow into emissions reductions infrastructure, or send it to…
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