As part of a movement that appears to be sweeping the developed world, France has announced that it will ban the sale of all automobiles that run on gasoline and diesel by 2040. Two remarks:
Category: Fossil Fuels
Clean Coal Is a Myth, But Don’t Take It from Me
There are a couple of commenters here who routinely call into question my personal credibility as a reporter on renewable energy and sustainability more generally. It is for them that I write this:
Recipe for Clean Coal Success: Lose the Coal
Here’s an article in “Think Progress” called “Mississippi realizes how to make a clean coal plant work: Run it on natural gas” in which the organization’s founder and editor, Joe Romm, writes, “After wasting $7.5 billion, the state realizes its coal-to-gas plant …
The Validity of Natural Gas as an Energy Resource
In a newsletter, Bill McKibben notes that we need to: 1) Stop new fossil fuel infrastructure. If you’re serious about Paris, that means realizing we’re already overshooting the temperature targets we set there – there’s literally no more room in …
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Survey Shows People Don’t Trust Fossil Fuel Giants
One of the world’s top accounting and consulting firms, Ernst and Young is a venerated name if there ever were one. And, as is typical for large business consulting concerns, they seem to do an awful lot of market research …
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The Politics of Coal: Here’s an Interesting and Entertaining–Yet Factual–Source
The top American comedians whose fodder is U.S. politics include household names like Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, and John Oliver. Now, I’ve heard these people themselves warn audiences: this is not a valid way to find and ingest news; this …
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Quandary: The Oil Industry Is Both Important and Destructive
Re: my post on the subsidies for and taxation of the oil industry the other day, frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy opposionist writes: The oil industry is already America’s largest taxpayer and most valuable taxpayer…..Attempting to build into the tax system …
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Subsidizing Oil Exploration/Extraction
In response to my recent piece calling for an end to subsidies for the oil companies, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: Actually, while the oil subsidies – like the renewable subsidies – are terribly structured, they are defensible. Right …
Burning Coal Is Choking Our Planet and Its People, But Strangely, That’s OK
Here’s something that will put a smile on a few faces, i.e., those investors whose meager integrity and broken moral compass enables them to support coal as an energy source. According to Energy Matters: Nearly all publicly traded US coal …
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Coal Is Going Away, and It’s Not Coming Back
Here’s an article (with great graphics) that helps us understand the limits to the power of the Trump administration in the outcome of our civilization. Can he slow down the integration of renewables into the grid-mix? Yes, at a certain …
