A recipe for geopolitical madness – Combine surplus US oil, anti-oil activism, rising consumption, a less-relevant Middle East, and a dash of Trump
Once upon a time, like fifteen years ago, there was a weird stability in the petroleum world. It was a highly customized stability, with miles of duct tape and haywire holding it together, but it worked. In a nutshell, the industrialized world (the US in particular) was a voracious oil-consuming machine, which turned largely to […]
Those who can, do; those who can’t and are crazed with hate develop Green New Deal economic models
Have you ever built anything? Beyond IKEA furniture, I mean. Or actually, even including IKEA furniture. If you’ve ever built anything, how hard is it to do it on budget and on time? With IKEA contraptions, at least one doesn’t go over budget on cost. Time might be another thing. For any project bigger than […]
If the environmental movement remains so entangled with the political movement, 2020 will be ugly
“Though successive Norwegian governments have made it a goal to wean the economy off oil, actually doing so has proven difficult in practice…Greta Thunberg has publicly accused Norway of violating children’s rights around the world because of its reliance on oil and gas.” A Bloomberg “news” story entitled Norway’s financial regulator says ‘green’ investing has […]
Dealing with the current insanity of fossil fuel narratives – the smart path forward
Given the gloomy time of year, when the sun peeks above the horizon (for 12 minutes every afternoon, laughs at me (I’m pretty sure), then disappears), and the gloomy state of Canada’s energy sector, I found myself in such a lowly state of mind that I actually read the news. It seemed like a fitting […]
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie…propane*
In the disfigured beast that is Canada, with its once-enticing regional disparity no longer a source of charm but more an aggravated series of enflamed carbuncles, it seems to take something extraordinary to cause regions to reach out to each other and offer support. Of course, some distant bonds are natural and deep, like Newfoundland […]
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