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 …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Coal Won’t Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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 …
Peak Oil and Its Relevance To Today’s Energy Picture
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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Peak Oil May Be An Empty Concept, But Fossil Fuels Will Vanish Far Faster Than Most People Believe Nonetheless
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 …
Shell Oil Has an Indefensible Position, But At Least (I Believe) It’s Trying
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 …
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Chevron Will Not Clean Up Ecuador Anytime Soon
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 …
Congress Can’t Wait to Approve Keystone XL
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 …
Reject the Keystone XL
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 …
Proud to Write for the Financial Prognosticator "The Hedge Connection"
Over the last six months I wrote a number of articles for the Hedge Connection, a newsletter that goes out to many thousands of investors, especially family offices. Considering that one of its most important domains is clean energy, I was …
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Why Are Oil Prices Falling? Putin? Something Else?
A colleague just sent me this: “The story should not be how falling oil prices will impact the shift to clean energy, it should be how the shift to clean energy is impacting the oil price.” – Michael Liebreich, chairman of …
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