“Kind of astonishing how disappointing” EV sales have been – so please don’t kill petroleum companies yet
Ugh, yet another article about EV sales, with a big frown and a question mark. Hey, I don’t like going here either. The goal of this site is to explain energy for non-energy folk. It would be great to get back to that. But with the way the media treats the “energy transition”, the most […]
SUVs are taking over – the underreported story of what the world really buys
I have a bad habit of reading the news, it’s compulsive and very hard to break. It would be nice to be able to; modern hyper-coverage can addle the brain. I once took a screenshot of the Reuters commodity news page that had three consecutive headlines: one explained why oil prices were down, one explained […]
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 […]
Electric vehicle domination is a mirage born of lazy reporting and wishful thinking
Twenty years ago, there was a popular TV show called Friends that was about six idiots living in New York City. The cute, hipster-ish dialogue struck a pop culture nerve, in part because of the ultimate hipster setting, and unfortunately more than one nation began to emulate the show’s stars. Hair trends were born, […]
Just like Apple, some people hate Tesla beyond reason
Tesla cars have been in the news a lot lately. They are famous and cool, poster children for progressive thinking. Within a few weeks of its announcement, 400,000 people had put down deposits on Tesla Model 3s, even though deliveries won’t begin for year and a half. People lined up outside dealerships for the […]
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