It’s the 150th anniversary of the signing of the First Geneva Convention, which, according to the Writer’s Almanac, “marked the beginning of the international humanitarian law movement.” I’m going to resist the temptation to go off on a rant about …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Rejection of Coal Export Facility Is Good News–But It Gets Even Better
Have you ever wondered why the far right wing tends to support fossil fuels and fights against renewable energy? They don’t have children—or bronchial tubes? They hate trees, clean air, and oceans that support life? Some speculate that the phenomenon …
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From Guest Blogger Hannah Whittenly: Eleven Things that Would Happen if We Ran Out of Oil
Our over-dependence on oil can’t last forever. Either we as a species will start finding alternatives on our own or the dwindling supply of oil will force us to. Here are a few of the things you can expect if …
Apparently, Oil Money Does Not Buy Happiness
Though it’s on my to-do list, I haven’t yet visited the Getty Villa, the sight of J. Paul Getty’s magnificent collection of antiquities. Checking out the video on the website linked above just now made me wonder about who Getty …
Public Relations in the Energy Business Normally Means Someone’s Lying
When it comes to PR in the energy business, I must confess that I have a suspicious mind. For example, when I see a billboard like this one pictured here, I somehow believe that it must be some sort of …
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How Does Big Oil Misinform Voters About Renewable Energy? Check Out This Cartoon
As I’ve mentioned in dozens of posts over the years, one of the issues at the core of most of our woes here in the U.S. are screwy interpretations of the First Amendment to our Constitution. Most famously, we have …
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Disruptive Technologies Have Doomed Fossil Fuels
Here’s an author with the right idea: the industrial age, powered as it was by fossil fuels, is at an end. Within a few years (by 2030 according to the book, though I believe it’s happening more quickly), disruptive technologies …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan: Will Natural Gas Powered Vehicles Ever Become Mainstream?
Considering that America has some of the biggest natural gas reserves in the world, and gasoline has become extremely expensive in the past few years, it makes a lot of sense to start using it as vehicle fuel on a …
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U.S. Government Expands Subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Industry, Throwing Cold Water on the Migration to Renewable Energy
I expressed in a recent post how certain areas of the U.S., including Hawaii, can migrate to renewable energy very rapidly. The operative word there is “can” (expressing the possibility), as distinguished from “will” (expressing the future as it is …
One of Life’s Surreal Elements — An Energy Policy from Hell
Today happens to be my birthday, and I share it with Franz Kafka (pictured here), best known for his short but surreal and deeply disturbing novels of the early 20th Century, in which he so ably points out the absurdity and …
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