No offense to the brilliant Robert Reich, but obviously it’s a no-brainer. Just like removing subsidies from the wealthiest enterprise in human history and putting a price on carbon. Any six-year-old can understand why all these things need to happen. …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Biden and U.S. Energy Independence
A reader sent me something to the effect that Biden is at fault for our high gasoline prices, commenting that, from the day he took office, he’s done everything in his power to increase America’s dependence on foreign energy resources. …
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Biden, Oil, and Disinformation
This from Trump toady Jim Jordan, to which energy investment analyst Robert Rapier replied: Someone should ask him which of these pipelines (see below) are closed. What’s the disconnect here? My best guess is that it’s the reaction to one …
Effects of Biden’s Keystone Pipeline Cancellation
I had a talk with a Republican the other day who told me that Biden, worse than buying oil from the Russians, destroyed America’s domestic oil production on his first day in office. It took me a few moments to …
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Big Oil Board Members Refuse to Testify on Climate Pledges
As a critic of Big Oil put it, “Given all the loopholes and disinformation in their companies’ ‘net-zero’ pledges, it’s no wonder these board members are dodging the committee’s request to testify.” It’s very clear that the battle to phase …
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Formosa Plastics Wants to Build Huge Petrochemicals Plant
From this piece on Formosa Plastics, which is trying to build a massive 14-acre facility petrochemical complex in Louisiana. If it succeeds, it would double toxic emissions in “Cancer Alley.”
Perhaps Some Justice in the Case of Exxon’s Atrocities in Indonesia
By the time ExxonMobil finally paid restitution to the people whose lives were disfigured by the 1989 oil spill from the Exxon Valdez , more than 8000 of them had died, either of the disease the spill caused, or of …
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The Hard Reality of Coal Consumption
Here’s a piece from The Economist that takes on the question: Now that we know how terrible coal is for the environment, why is it so devilishly difficult to remove? Well, it’s economics, obviously, or it wouldn’t be covered in …
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Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
I just signed up to be a part of the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is a global initiative to phase out fossil fuels and propel a just energy transition globally. You may wish to do the …
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Big Oil Seems To Embrace the “Energy Transition,” But Is It Sincere?
The 23rd Annual Petroleum Conference is underway in Houston, TX, and outside the building is a banner that reads, “Welcome To Houston, Energy Transition Capital of the World.” What’s the significance of this? Does the industry embrace the phasing out …
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