Category: Fossil Fuels

I thought readers would enjoy the comments by an Instagram follower, as presented below. Caption: That is Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, explaining how his company plans to extract every molecule of petroleum from the Earth and sell it as …

ExxonMobil Has 73,100 Employees. What’s Going Through Their Heads? Read More »

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Caption: Only one side can win.

Here’s a piece that covers one of the many hidden costs associated with petroleum: cleaning up oil train wreckages.  That, in and of itself, wouldn’t qualify it as unique, or even terribly interesting, given how increasingly common these disasters are …

Our Patience With Oil Train Wrecks Is At An Ebb Read More »

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A reader notes: The share price of oil companies has been more affected by the low price of oil due to oversupply than any “ethical” investor movement. Yes, that’s been true thus far.  But does the future always look like …

Will Divestiture Affect the Oil Companies? Read More »

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A reader explains how the criminal case against ExxonMobil (for covering up the truth about fossil fuels and climate change) has no merit, partially on the basis that Exxon shareholders are happy right now. Yes they are, but it’s not …

Exxon and Climate Change: Does the Criminal Case Have Merit? Read More »

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From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Just weeks from now, NRDC and its allies will be fighting in the D.C. Circuit Court to defend the Clean Power Plan in one of the most important courtroom battles ever for our …

Big Coal Mounts an Attack Read More »

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I had lunch today at the annual ACTExpo (alternative fuel vehicles) conference with Steven Johnston, an extremely senior consultant to the transportation industry, based in Michigan. I thought I’d simply list a few of his viewpoints that I found most …

Sobering Notes on the Transportation Sector Read More »

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In response to my post The U.S. Citizenry Is in the Process of Taking Back Its Democracy, a rather cynical reader notes: “corruptive influence of money,” is a cliche like “world peace.” Such slogans sound ideal and high minded, but while …

It’s Not Impossible to Make Broad and Wonderful Changes To Our Civilization; It Happens All the Time Read More »

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Roger Senior writes: New Zealand is probably the only country in the world that could power all its petrol and small diesel vehicles with renewable energy: hydro, wind, geothermal.  Also plenty of tidal energy is as yet untapped. But instead …

The Fossil Fuel Death Grip Read More »

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The word “harbinger” was on our vocabulary list in sixth grade. The robin is a harbinger of spring. I hadn’t come across it too often in the last 50 years…until yesterday, when 350.org’s comment today on Peabody Energy’s (the world’s …

Coal Giant Bankruptcy Portends a Clean Energy Future Read More »

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