One of the most important reasons to believe in a sustainable future is the approach that young people are taking vis-à-vis the environment. Those looking for a bit of insight into this should check out this video sponsored by 350.org, …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Understanding Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
We read constantly about the subsidies for fossil fuels, but we note how hard it is to pinpoint exactly how large they are. For one, what exactly should be counted and what should be excluded? No one doubts that we …
Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Here’s an interesting bit of conversation from the Low Carbon Investors conference: a session moderator noted the following about divestiture: Divestment from all fossil fuels is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Natural gas plays a role in …
Carbon Capture and Storage
Here’s a webinar that readers may want to check out: Fossil Fuels Without the CO2: Can Carbon Capture and Storage Deliver? My take, albeit an oversimplification of a very complex issue: Obviously it can “deliver” in some sense of the …
Can the Oil Companies Become “Energy Companies?”
Is it possible that Big Oil can morph itself into so many “energy companies,” in the sense that they offer an overhauled set of (cleaner) energy resources? Over the years, I’ve consistently denied that they are capable of this (even …
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Coal Plants Produce Cheap Energy—But There’s a Catch
We often talk about the “externalities” of the energy from fossil fuel resources; it’s a term in economics describing the costs involved in a certain transaction that are not captured by the parties involved in the transaction itself. In the …
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The Folly of Carbon Taxes
Frequent contributor “MarcoPolo” has written dozens of comments here over the years. Judging by his remarks, it’s clear that he’s a Libertarian, yet he has a keen and heartfelt concern for the health of the environment. In what he wrote in …
Different Perspectives on Renewable Energy
On my post on the Sierra Club and Chevron, a long-time reader who happens to be a biofuels expert writes: I do not want to read political opinion so I and others will unsubscribe. I respond: I’ll be quite sorry …
Heartland Institute Is Always On the Attack
It’s been a while since I wrote something on the brazen evil represented by the Koch-funded Heartland Institute, so I thought it might be time to rectify that. Linked below is an article that will make your skin crawl.
Opening Up Colorado Wilderness to Coal Mining
The Center for Biological Diversity writes: We don’t get it: The Obama administration says it wants to fight climate change, but it keeps opening our public lands to more brutal fossil fuel extraction.
