Falling gasoline/oil prices: Impressionable reporters, clever hedge funds fuel a phenomenon
I’m no fan of Wall Street’s ethical black hole. To be fair though, the ferociously predatory anti-industrialists play a very competitive game and utilize whatever is available to extract maximum profits for their privileged rat pack. Their environment is a bare-knuckle one and any tool is fair game. Sometimes the tools have two legs, and […]
Why is shale gas/oil more popular than what’s-his-name Bieber now?
Way back in 2008, back in the days when the really clever audience members were just being born, a motley collection of banks, financial institutions, housing-industry degenerate punks and some really poor government policies cratered the global economy. That’s a long story too, but they did it primarily by all pitching in to create a […]
Falling gasoline/oil prices: Can someone please explain?
As many of you may have noticed, gasoline prices are the cheapest they have been in years. Most wise people fill up hit the highway happy that the damage wasn’t so bad, or if they’re more vindictive have a little moment of joy at the pain being inflicted on, well, whoever the hell makes all […]
Hoping for the death of fossil fuels? Be careful what you wish for…
Fossil fuel usage is such a massive part of the landscape that it’s hard to imagine a life without it. Many dream of that day and for them it can’t come soon enough. If there was a new technology announced that would be available tomorrow that would render fossil fuels obsolete overnight, would you be […]
Oil/Gas production: Harebrained headlines, or why the whole world is confused by energy information
If you read business websites and/or have any interest in petroleum (and who wouldn’t), you may notice headlines like this one from an energy patch publication called The Daily Oil Bulletin on Nov 14, 2014: U.S. Natgas Rig Count fell 6 at 350 – Baker Hughes . In itself, that’s a pretty cryptic message: who is […]
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