Here’s a piece that covers one of the many hidden costs associated with petroleum: cleaning up oil train wreckages. That, in and of itself, wouldn’t qualify it as unique, or even terribly interesting, given how increasingly common these disasters are …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Will Divestiture Affect the Oil Companies?
A reader notes: The share price of oil companies has been more affected by the low price of oil due to oversupply than any “ethical” investor movement. Yes, that’s been true thus far. But does the future always look like …
Exxon and Climate Change: Does the Criminal Case Have Merit?
A reader explains how the criminal case against ExxonMobil (for covering up the truth about fossil fuels and climate change) has no merit, partially on the basis that Exxon shareholders are happy right now. Yes they are, but it’s not …
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Big Coal Mounts an Attack
From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Just weeks from now, NRDC and its allies will be fighting in the D.C. Circuit Court to defend the Clean Power Plan in one of the most important courtroom battles ever for our …
Sobering Notes on the Transportation Sector
I had lunch today at the annual ACTExpo (alternative fuel vehicles) conference with Steven Johnston, an extremely senior consultant to the transportation industry, based in Michigan. I thought I’d simply list a few of his viewpoints that I found most …
It’s Not Impossible to Make Broad and Wonderful Changes To Our Civilization; It Happens All the Time
In response to my post The U.S. Citizenry Is in the Process of Taking Back Its Democracy, a rather cynical reader notes: “corruptive influence of money,” is a cliche like “world peace.” Such slogans sound ideal and high minded, but while …
The Fossil Fuel Death Grip
Roger Senior writes: New Zealand is probably the only country in the world that could power all its petrol and small diesel vehicles with renewable energy: hydro, wind, geothermal. Also plenty of tidal energy is as yet untapped. But instead …
Coal Giant Bankruptcy Portends a Clean Energy Future
The word “harbinger” was on our vocabulary list in sixth grade. The robin is a harbinger of spring. I hadn’t come across it too often in the last 50 years…until yesterday, when 350.org’s comment today on Peabody Energy’s (the world’s …
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Those Greenpeace Boys Are At It Again
Greenpeace is well known for its aggressive posture vis-a-vis environmental justice, and, in particular, for its demand that our civilization phase out fossil fuels in favor of conservation, efficiency solutions, and renewable energy. Among other things, that means putting a …
Making Fossil Fuels Obsolete
This morning I explained to a friend that, in my estimation, Buckminster Fuller was a super-human engineer, architect, author and visionary. He’s perhaps best known today for some terrific quotes he made during his long and rich life, including my …
