My father was big on turning off lights because he was frugal. Another reason, of course, that affects those of us tied to the grid, is to do one’s part in lowering the consumption of fossil fuels.
Category: Fossil Fuels
Malaysia’s Path to Clean Energy
What Malaysia is doing with respect to renewable energy (see left) is a reminder of two things: 1) This planet will eventually achieve a sustainable approach to energy and transportation. The only open question is how much damage we will …
Germany and the U.S. — a Key Difference
As I mentioned in my recent post on Germany, we have a president in the United States who’s doing everything in his power to destroy the entire renewable energy industry, and, thus, is creating a real problem for those concerned …
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Big Oil Donors Will Sure Like This One
From The Other 98%: Trump just gave away America’s last wild frontier — to Big Oil. It’s the largest giveaway of public land to fossil fuel companies in modern history. The announcement, made Thursday by Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, …
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Norway (Supposedly) Offers Luxury Hotels from Old Oil Rigs
If I gave you a choice between a room in the “luxury hotel” pictured at left and a room in the place shown below in Oslo, which one would you pick? Suppose I were to surprise my wife with a …
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Sneak Preview: New GM Trucks
I hate to think of myself as prejudiced, i.e., making judgements about people before the facts are available, but I suppose I’m really kidding myself. When I see someone driving a truck like this, I can’t help but think he’s …
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Electricity vs. Gasoline
Note the use of the word “better” at the bottom of the cartoon here. A boyhood friend of mine learned in grade school to analyze words like that by asking “Better for whom? Better for what?” The answer is more …
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Photoshopped?
Anyone who thinks that an ExxonMobil franchisee actually posted this sign is a fool. Big Oil’s only hope for extending its corrupt stream of wealth is via Trump’s policies, and his deceit, e.g., “Gas is under $2 / gallon.”
Stanford University Professor’s Summary of the Energy Industry
Here’s an interesting analysis of the fossil fuel industry from Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Director of Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy Program and a professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Jacobson is best known for the contention that he’s been making for at …
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Chevron Wants Us to Fight Against Gas Taxes, Not Their Greed
Chevron is trying to convince us that the problem with high gasoline prices is the taxes we pay to keep our roads from falling apart. If we feel we’re paying too much at the pump, they want us to call …
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