I thought I’d publish a conversation I just had with a reader, who commented on my piece Sour Grapes from ExxonMobil’s CEO. Reader: You sent me the story of a pathetic anti-leader. Here is some hope for a Friday….from a …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Coal and Natural Gas
To summarize a conversation that is happening in the comment to my post called Bans on Fracking: Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty supports fracking insofar as every kilowatt-hour of energy that doesn’t come from natural gas will come from coal, which …
Tagged with: Bans on Fracking, Bullish on Renewable Energy, Coal and Natural Gas, energy policy, overall economics of energy, tipping point exponential growth of solar and wind energy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to overturn our federal government’s limits on power plant pollution, Union of Concerned Scientists
Jobs and the Fossil Fuel Industries
Will there be jobs lost when we retire our last coal-fired power plant? Of course. 80,396 to be precise. How upset should we be about that? I think about it like this: There are 100 million people worldwide working in …
Where Are We Headed with Fossil Fuels?
I mentioned (ExxonMobil CEO) Rex Tillerson in an unflattering way in a recent post, based on his refusal to put an environmental scientist on his board of directors. Of course, he is not the only executive in the fossil fuel …
Saudi Arabia, Oil, and Renewable Energy
A colleague writes: Kent Moors might be an interesting person to interview at some point–especially in light of global energy developments, both renewable and fossil-based. Sounds like an astute guy indeed. And he’s onto a very important theme in energy, …
Oil Companies Misbehaving
In terms of decency, it hasn’t been a good day for the oil companies. First it was the ExxonMobil CEO’s mocking renewable energy, and now it’s more news on Chevron’s refusal to clean up its mess in Ecuador. For those …
Sour Grapes from ExxonMobil’s CEO
“Any fool can despise what he can’t have” is the moral of the most famous of the Aesop’s fables (“The Fox and the Grapes“). Sadly, Big Oil is incapable of participating in the rapid migration to renewable energy; oil and …
Bans on Fracking
With his characteristically lucid writing style, frequent commenter BreathOnTheWind asks me to clarify my position on fracking. It’s largely the result of conversations I’ve had with energy analyst Glenn Doty and other senior scientists. I’m convinced that: • Despite widespread …
Tagged with: Bans on Fracking, fracking perpetuates the overall concept of fossil fuel extraction and consumption, natural gas acts to promote the integration of variable resources (solar and wind) into the grid-mix, natural gas derived from fracking offsets huge amounts of coal, no evidence that fracking causes harm
Divestment
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, …
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 …
