How hard will it really be to stop using oil?
Like many other people, I sometimes fall prey to adopting sweeping generalizations based on sheepishly arbitrary observations. The other day I was having coffee with a friend at a hipster-ish coffee shop, and as we contemplated the world’s problems we noticed that many of the male customers had beards. This useless observation then of […]
Too much comfort will destroy you
It’s part of the human condition to seek out comfort. It’s not a stupid thing to do; it’s infinitely more sensible to sit on something soft than to sit on a pile of rocks. Making such decisions is widely regarded as a basic sign of intelligence. But we’re far beyond those decisions. Thanks largely […]
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 […]
What do I know? Turns out not so much…
This blog started in mid 2014 after percolating for years. The void in useful energy information was so huge I was inconsolable. Then the stars aligned, I had some help that pushed it into existence, and it was off and running. I was ready to fill the void in energy information that seemed obvious […]
Energy (mis)information: The problem with facts
Some people are very upset by the debate over pipelines, or the Keystone pipeline in particular. Opponents of the pipeline have a fairly clear view of why it’s evil; they believe constructing the pipeline will unleash billions of tons of carbon as the oil sands are developed, destroying the environment. Scares you out of your […]
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