The graphic below explains a lot about our world, and the brutal Saudi empire in particular. It gives one a sense for what the geopolitical globe will look like once we have removed oil as our source of energy in …
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California: No New Gas/Diesel-Powered Automobiles After 2035
A reader notes: Finally ending the insanity of 20th Century petrochemical industries, fully 35 years into our 21st. This is good news, to be sure, but don’t think for a moment that the battle is over. Big Oil has been …
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Fire the U.S. Postmaster–TODAY
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s message here is especially on target now that the USPS is in the process of replacing its entire fleet of postal trucks–get this–with gasoline powered drive trains. That’s right, we’ve finally reached the tipping point …
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Some Bad Days for Big Oil, and More To Come
As Bill McKibben notes here, it really hasn’t been a good couple of days for Big Oil. Are investors concerned about the baking of the planet at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, or are they worried about the …
Big Oil Capitalizes on COVID-19
Here’s a deeply moving article by legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben, covering the greed and criminality of the oil companies and the banks that support them, explaining how they’re capitalizing on the pandemonium caused by the coronavirus to push through their …
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Peak Oil Didn’t Happen, But….
From this week’s newsletter from the American Energy Society: Conventional oil discoveries have been declining; however, there were three large oil discoveries in 2019:
From the Washington Post–In North Carolina, Hurricanes Did What Scientists Could Not: Convince Republicans that Climate Change Is Real
Here’s a story about a few climate change deniers who became converts as a result of Hurricane Florence that tore through North Carolina and vicinity last month, causing massive flood damage and dumping coal ash, animal waste and raw sewage …
Environmental Protection Agency Suffers a Setback
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has had considerable success in helping his Big Oil clients run roughshod over the environment in their desperate quest to maintain their energy monopolies as far into the 21st Century as possible. But though the Trump …
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The Rapid Migration from Fossil Fuels: Check Out Ireland
Just another day on an absurd planet. Ireland is in the process of removing fossil fuels from its country, joining several European/Scandinavian countries that are moving swiftly in the same direction. Meanwhile, back in the good ol’ U.S., we’re moving …
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Trump on Renewables, Energy Efficiency
Counter-intuitive as it may be, President Trump (wow, it hurts to even type that) may provide an opportunity for renewable energy. For one, his energy plans (other than lifting restrictions on fossil fuel extraction) are very vague; it is believed …
