The other day, a friend referred to the $70 billion provided annually to the fossil fuel industries as a “mosquito bite,” i.e., a negligible bit in the scheme of things. That is certainly one way of looking at it. But …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Daniel Yergin’s Talk on Energy Policy
To make good on my promise to write something about Daniel Yergin’s talk the other night at UCSB, he’s obviously a very bright guy whose travels and studies are quite impressive, and the talk was interesting to a point. But …
Dead Energy
Jim Miller, long-time supporter of what we’re doing here writes back on the title for my next book, “The obvious choice is DEAD ENERGY.” When I wrote back, “Wow. That makes a statement, doesn’t it?” he responded as follows: Craig, …
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We’re Talkin’ Clean Energy on Houston’s “Guys Gone Green”
It’s common wisdom that environmentalism means pain, sacrifice, and inconvenience, in the form of smaller, slower cars, higher energy prices, less comfort, etc. But I wonder if this is necessarily true. The subject arose on a radio show I just …
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[The Vector] Poll Says Voters Want 60 MPG Economy Standards
The Mellman Group for Ceres conducted a poll of likely Michigan and Ohio voters, and found that the voters overwhelmingly supported an increase to average fuel economy standards to 60 miles per gallon by 2025. The poll was conducted between …
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We Need to Control Our Destiny in Energy Policy — But Who’s “We”?
In a recent post I suggested that renewable energy throws a new set of variables into an already complex energy market: intermittencies, transmission issues, suitability for certain kinds of storage, etc. At the end, I asked: Are we intellectually capable …
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[The Vector] European Commission Has Ambitious (Radical?) Transport Plan, Including Elimination of Gasoline Cars by 2050
Europe has had a much higher cost of fuel for decades. After the oil shocks of the 1970’s, many of the countries took action. Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in moving to smaller and more fuel-efficient cars, hybrids, …
Where We Are as an Energy-consuming Society
I may have mentioned that I’m on a personal quest to figure out the dynamics of our society’s migration from fossil fuels to renewables. To that end, I conducted a 90-minute interview over lunch today with Wally Rippel, Cal Tech physics …
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Cost of the Externalities of Fossil Fuels — New Report to be Released on Coal
For those of you trying to wrap your wits around the cost of the externalities of fossil fuels, here’s a report by Dr. Paul Epstein, the Director of Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, who has …
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Webinar: Why Is Clean Energy So Slow in Replacing Fossil Fuels?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w_dQDUCcfI&w=425&h=349] Here’s the webinar I conducted on June 29th, 2011, in which I reviewed the results of a survey aimed at renewable energy. We had recently asked more than 500 people to tell us why they thought clean energy …
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