In 2010, when I wrote my first book: “Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies,” I wanted a chapter on hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, and so I turned to the local expert on the subject, Honda’s Steve Ellis. Steve was anxious to promote his …
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One Cost Item No Longer Necessary for Big Oil: Public Relations
From the American Energy Society: US supermajor Chevron acquired Hess for $53 billion two weeks after Exxon Mobil purchased Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion and while BP doubled its YOY profits ($27B). Note: Many SMEs believe the sector’s historic performance is far …
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Big Oil’s Little Helper
It’s deeply regrettable that the fossil fuel industry owns America’s energy policy, and will make it impossible for us, for at least the foreseeable future, to make more than a small dent in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors. Making …
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True, We Don’t All Think Alike, But Give Me a Break
This fellow makes a good point, but isn’t there a limit? Given that were all endowed at birth with a huge brain and an enormous capacity for compassion and kindness, how is it possible that half of the United States …
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A World Without Big Oil
The graphic below explains a lot about our world, and the brutal Saudi empire in particular. It gives one a sense for what the geopolitical globe will look like once we have removed oil as our source of energy in …
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California: No New Gas/Diesel-Powered Automobiles After 2035
A reader notes: Finally ending the insanity of 20th Century petrochemical industries, fully 35 years into our 21st. This is good news, to be sure, but don’t think for a moment that the battle is over. Big Oil has been …
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Fire the U.S. Postmaster–TODAY
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s message here is especially on target now that the USPS is in the process of replacing its entire fleet of postal trucks–get this–with gasoline powered drive trains. That’s right, we’ve finally reached the tipping point …
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Some Bad Days for Big Oil, and More To Come
As Bill McKibben notes here, it really hasn’t been a good couple of days for Big Oil. Are investors concerned about the baking of the planet at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, or are they worried about the …
Big Oil Capitalizes on COVID-19
Here’s a deeply moving article by legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben, covering the greed and criminality of the oil companies and the banks that support them, explaining how they’re capitalizing on the pandemonium caused by the coronavirus to push through their …
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Peak Oil Didn’t Happen, But….
From this week’s newsletter from the American Energy Society: Conventional oil discoveries have been declining; however, there were three large oil discoveries in 2019:
