Here’s top climate scientist Dr. James Hansen on global climate change. When people ask where I stand on this subject and why, I simply request that they watch this; I sure wish I had it in my power to get …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Energy Policy and the Skyrocketing Rates of Certain Childhood Diseases
Over the years, I’ve learned that the most productive way to deal with climate change deniers is to point out that global warming is only one of half-a-dozen reasons to knock off our dependence on coal and oil. “Just pick …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, Amherst MA, asthma, CDC, clean energy, climate change deniers, coal-fired power plants, dependence on coal and oil, energy policy, environmental regulation, global climate change, global warming, green energy, Renewable Energy, skyrocketing rate of respiratory disease, skyrocketing rates of childhood diseases, Sylvia Brandt
Michael Klare: Why High Gas Prices Are Here To Stay
I refer frequently to the writings of Professor Michael Klare, documentarian at Amherst, as I find him so lucid and so on-target in his analysis of the macro issues on energy that we face here in the 21st Century. Here, …
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Summary of Oil Production and Consumption
My colleague Fritz Maffry just sent me this summary of oil production and consumption that I thought readers might find interesting.
A Few Words on the Keystone XL Pipeline from Jim Hightower
Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline project may want to read this excellent piece by Jim Hightower, radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. The concept that the oil companies who are working so hard to make this happen are doing …
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Considering the Externalities of Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy Is the Bargain of the Century
As readers may have noticed, I’ve begun promoting the launch of my second book, Is Renewable Really Doable? (available March 15th) using the 32-page report “Insights into LCOE – The Levelized Cost of Energy” as a give-away. In response to …
An End to Subsidies for Big Oil?
Every once in a while I hear something from Washington D.C. that provides a ray of hope that perhaps a bit of sanity may eventually prevail in the U.S. energy policy. Obama sure has disappointed a bunch of people in …
Video on Chevron’s Appalling Behavior in Ecuador
Every few months, I try to remind myself to write something on Chevron and its overtly criminal behavior in Ecuador. Those who are keeping track here will recall that, for a period of 26 years, Chevron (then Texaco) deliberately dumped …
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This Morning’s Interview with Jerry Taylor at the Cato Institute
I just interviewed Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute for my next book, Renewable Energy – Following the Money. This was a wonderfully engaging talk of about 90 minutes with a brilliant person, which I have time only to summarize …
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Tagged with: Cato Institute, coal companies, Communism, externalities, fossil fuels, Jerry Taylor, Libertarianism, oil companies
Role of Government in Migrating to Clean Energy
I was delighted with the discussion pursuant to my piece on moral philosophy and energy policy. I note that most comments support my beliefs that a) young minds should be exposed to man’s great questions, b) we all do, in …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, green energy, moral philosophy, Renewable Energy, role of government
