Why are big European oil companies urging action on climate change? What are they selling now, bananas?
Europe’s biggest oil companies recently vomited forth a joint statement professing grave concern for the environment, and throwing in for free a lecture on the need for better planning to deal with it. I wish I was making this stuff up but I lack the imagination. Maybe Sepp Blatter is calling the shots, lord knows […]
California cleanin’: Plains Pipelines adds the worst Sheen yet to the West Coast
On May 19, several hundred barrels of oil leaked out of a Plains All American Pipeline pipeline (no easy way around that grammatical pig) and found its way down into the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California. The situation remains totally not funny despite the droll PR campaign that was professionally and promptly put into […]
Global oil production: Glut Nuts Have No Clue
While I happily and diligently sneer at the media for presenting distorted energy-related stories and headlines designed to excite at the expense of adding confusion, occasionally the media helps me out by ridiculing themselves. They do it without trace of irony or embarrassment, either of which qualities would be appropriate and/or welcome. But I don’t mind, […]
Saudis dream of oil price stability, but for now prefer wild market gyrations
These posts are geared to helping average citizens understand the energy world a little better because the media doesn’t help much what with their outlandish headlines (ok, I’m guilty too), and a lot of energy information on the web is biased to the point of silliness. Sometimes though this stuff is just too crazy to explain […]
CNG vs. LNG vs LPG vs Propane vs Natural gas…what is this stuff and do we still get the grant if the new handi-bus explodes?
In the good old days at the corner gas station, you’d pull the family beast up to the pumps and fill it with plain gasoline. Nothing fancy. Big trucks were equally simple, using diesel that made them stinky with big black clouds of fumes, clattering away like a cheerful jackhammer. Times were simple, and us […]
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