It won’t. Many people hypothesize that Big Oil will go down the same road that Big Tobacco has been travelling over the last 50 years, i.e., hunker down, ignore the contempt of civilization, and use its vast wealth and power …
How Will Big Oil Manage To Continue Its Profit Stream? Read More »
In a post yesterday on Shell and the rest of the oil companies, I mentioned that I could have chosen any of hundreds of examples of corruption between Big Oil and U.S. law-makers. Here’s another beauty: each senator who voted …
I’ve long believed that Royal Dutch Shell is the least obnoxious of the big oil companies (though I may be wrong). Here, Ben van Beurden, Shell’s CEO explains why he thinks the oil industry needs to take a more active …
The ad below is a call to action focused on Australian coal miners, but it illustrates a larger point: there are interest groups on all sides of every issue—some helpful, others harmful. Yet getting rid of destructive practices isn’t as …
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty notes: Peak oil, or peak anything for that matter, is about production peaking, not about production running out. There’s nothing uncertain in this, there’s just misunderstanding. Hubbert’s peak (his prediction that the production of oil would …
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A reader comments: The problem that most concerns me is not the shortage of oil but its abundance. Saudi Aramco, the Saudi (state owned) oil company is the world’s largest corporation with over $30 trillion dollars in assets including oil …
If I were forced to choose an oil company that I resent less than its peers, it would probably be Royal Dutch Shell. I’ll admit that my reasoning is flimsy, but here goes: 1) A few years ago, a very large …
Shell Oil Has an Indefensible Position, But At Least (I Believe) It’s Trying Read More »
Over the past few years, I’ve written several articles calling out Chevron’s nauseating behavior in defiling the rain forests and people of Ecuador. In many such posts, I’ve speculated that they’d still be fighting against the world justice system long after …
Everyone with lungs should be in support of the Sierra Club and what they’ve done with their campaign called “Beyond Coal,” which has brought the awareness of the issue to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise would have been …
I just signed The Center for Biological Diversity’s petition calling for POTUS Obama to “Reject the Keystone XL Once and for All.” Will rejecting the project materially change our country’s devotion to oil? No. Will doing so suggest to Americans and …
