The driver of the taxi who took me from a meeting I had last week in Los Angeles to the Amtrak station hailed from Mogadishu, Somalia. I asked, as I normally do, “What’s it like there?” I love to get …
Category: Fossil Fuels
If the Move To Renewables Is Inevitable, Why Not Do It Now?
Here’s a question for you: When you listen to the debates in English Parliament, and hear how people with opposing viewpoints heckle and interrupt one another, doesn’t your skin crawl? Mine does. These people have such incredible manners on most …
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Estimating the Externalities of Fossil Fuels Isn’t an Easy Job
I sympathize with those tasked with putting a precise dollar figure on the externalities of fossil fuels. Sure we know there are costs to society in terms of lung damage and long-term environmental damage, but what are they? The story …
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Iran and Syria: Using Vast Oil Profits — For What Purposes?
Sorry, we made an error and sent you this email with a link to the wrong article. It’s corrected below….. I’m anything but an expert on the Middle East, but this can’t be good news: Iran and Syria signing a …
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Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy
A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater. I don’t get it…we applaud companies for reducing their …
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Fossil Fuels and Sea-level Rise — Where's All This Going?
Per this article in Global Energy World, offshore drilling for oil and gas is predicted to expand at a CAGR of 10.6% between now and 2018, bringing it to $211 billion annually. And here’s an article on sea-level rise, showing …
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Our News Media Avoids the Most Obvious Issues Re: Sustainability
I’ve been laid up for a couple of days with a badly tweaked back, resulting in my first major exposure to commercial television in a while. I wrote about CBS’ “Sunday Morning” a bit earlier in the day, and I …
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From Guest Blogger Cameron Atwood: Are Dirty Fighters Throwing Sand in Our Eyes?
There now rages a great contest among our species over the nature of our present and future energy infrastructure. On the one side, we have people and entities aligned with the status quo – these include the vested moneyed interests …
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Google and Jim Inhofe
I don’t claim any inside track on what the hugely moneyed U.S.-based companies and the families that underlie them are doing – whether they’re the descendants of the Rockefellers and their 125-year-old oil companies, or the duPonts, or the new …
Chevron's In No Hurry To Settle the Case in Ecuador
I normally don’t bet against my own longevity, but it seems extremely unlikely that I’ll still be on this planet when the case against Chevron in Ecuador is finalized and the damages are paid. Here’s an article that explains Chevron’s …
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