The EU has lost its mind: Private jet/yacht emissions are totally fine, the rest of you can go cuddle your cats to stay warm
“Wow, you really are happy to see me, luv.” “Blimey, no, I’ve got me ferrets in me trousers.” Any Monty Python fans out there? For the non-initiated, the UK comedy troupe unleashed a barrage of wickedly funny absurdist humour that set a high watermark for comedy for decades. The Ministry of Silly Walks. Ancient philosophers […]
Europe’s energy calamity offers a global teaching moment – do not try this at home
There is a website that shows European power prices in the day-ahead market. It is a beauty – a simple map of Europe, with each country’s name and a single power price below. To make it even simpler for us that qualify as the ultra-lazy, the countries are colour-coded by price, higher prices denoted by […]
Cutting-edge colonialism: “Hey Africa, we’ll take all that cobalt, but we decided your hydrocarbons have to stay in the ground”
Here in North America, we’re becoming accustomed to powerful figures uttering utterly bonkers statements with respect to energy. We have President Biden in 2020 expressing an interest in throwing fossil fuel executives in jail for their crime of providing hydrocarbons, then currently admonishing those same executives for not producing enough oil/natural gas. We see European […]
Irreconcilable political postures don’t belong in energy discussions – or Europe’s pathetic energy situation will go global
If you hear a story about someone that starts a business with their own money, and that business grows, and becomes highly profitable, and eventually hires a hundred people, and the owner gets rich…what do you think when you hear that story? Given that readers here are most likely businesspeople, you would likely think it’s […]
$5 trillion in 2021 global debt/equity raised (so far), “divest fossil fuels” in full swing, the world running short of natural gas/coal, and winter is coming
As an independent energy voice, I have no corporate editors or lawyers or hand-tailored silver haired senior management muting commentary. It is often fun, being able to say what many are thinking in a direct and unfiltered way. And yet, even with that freedom, I am at a loss to describe the mayhem going on […]
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