China has committed to long-term development of green energy, as is evidenced by all. As the world’s largest user of energy – and also it’s largest polluter – it needs energy to power its growth. China’s latest five-year strategy is quite …
Category: Fossil Fuels
[The Vector] The Latest Measures Taken by China – Taxing Polluters
China has committed to long-term development of green energy, as we all can see. As the world’s largest user of energy – and also its largest polluter – it needs energy to power its growth. China’s latest five-year strategy is quite …
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Externalities of the Oil Industry — Great Comments
There have been some fantastic comments to my piece on the externalities of fossil fuels the other day. I encourage folks to check out the response of frequent blogger Cameron Atwood in particular, to whom I reply: Unfortunately, this corporatocracy …
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2GreenEnergy Video Report — Energy Policy and the Externalities of Fossil Fuels
In this episode of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, host George Alger asks me about the externalities of fossil fuels. Those are some big words we’re throwing around here! What do they mean? What needs to be done? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZpKmFlGZA?rel=0&w=480&h=390]
Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy Sources – Some Business Considerations
I often think about how the energy industry’s financial analysts view the fundamentals that apply to market valuations. Just now, I was reading some of the discussion at SeekingAlpha.com on ExxonMobil that attempts to get to the underlying buy/sell recommendations, …
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Tagged with: coal, crude prices, ExxonMobil, fossil fuels, oil, renewable energy sources, subsidies, XOM
Chevron’s Sponsoring the PBS NewsHour
A few readers have objected to my post suggesting that Chevron’s sponsoring the PBS NewsHour could warp the objectivity of the coverage of the energy industry. Most of these responses point out that I have no proof that Chevron’s presence …
Fossil Fuels and a True Market Economy
Frequent commentor Dan Conine writes: … Make the actual cost of everything available at the point of purchase, rather than burying costs through incentives and subsidies. People buy gas to go to jobs to buy cars because they think it …
Clean Energy: We Sure Are Good At Talking About It
There are a few weapons in my arsenel as an advocate for renewables, and one of them is a fairly comprehensive calendar of events. I use it primarily to schedule travel, trying, as I have all my adult life, to …
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A Thought on Energy Subsidies
If there is a central theme to the Renewable Energy Finance Forums generally, it’s pragmatism. You can listen to every word from the presenters — as well as from each the other participants as they network on breaks between the …
It's OK to Advocate for Renewables — and Against Its Enemies
I sometimes glance back through my old posts here, to try to see 2GreenEnergy as I would if I were doing so through the eyes of the typical reader who had come across us Googling “renewable energy” or some such. …
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