Tag: oil companies

I’m preparing for the 50-minute talk I need to deliver on the energy industry at the International Trade Fair. It’s on occasions like these that I wish I were a bit more bombastic as a speaker; I do a decent …

Excellent Public Speaking Meets Environmental Activism Read More »

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Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes in response to my piece “Ian Bremmer’s Frightening Position on Climate Change” as follows: For the entire history of human civilization, an impending apocalypse has been an enormously popular prediction. The fact that none has actually occurred, …

Those Who Predict the Collapse of Human Civilization Have Been Wrong In the Past. But Does That Mean They’re Wrong Now? Read More »

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It certainly will be interesting to see how the stock market responds to the situation in which the oil companies will soon find themselves. There are several aspects of this, none of them good for share-holders (though very good for …

A Few Good Reasons to Short Oil Companies’ Stock Read More »

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2GreenEnergy “associate” Annemarie Osborne wrote me today from her home in Southern Germany, alerting me to the following opportunity for participation on a series of radio shows: Hi Craig, I received the message below from one of my media contacts. …

2GreenEnergy on the Wall Street Business Network Read More »

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As reported by my brilliant colleague Jon LeSage in his Green Auto Digest, the electric vehicle market is in the tank, largely due to the fact that prices of gasoline have fallen in half.  How much longer will gas prices …

Grim News for Electric Transportation Read More »

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This discussion on the culpability of the oil companies in suppressing the truth about climate change is everything I hoped it would be. Check out the comments of Terry and Gina.  Holy cats, that’s really brilliant and expressive writing.

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It’s hard to imagine the content of the conversations that are going on in the boardrooms of the power utilities.  Perhaps it’s not too different from those happening at the oil companies: The very conditions by which we exist are …

Tomorrow’s Electrical Energy Paradigm: Microgrids Read More »

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A reader points out: To replace coal we do not have to also displace oil. It is a common misunderstanding to equate oil companies with our general energy needs. 70% of refined oil products are used in transportation. 20% for …

Oil, Coal, and Electric Transportation Read More »

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Here’s an eight-minute video called “Carbon” which summarizes nicely where our civilization finds itself vis-à-vis a sustainable use of energy, climate change, the oil companies, political corruption, etc. Very well done, IMO.  

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The migration of the farmers out of the Oklahoma dust bowl in the 1930s was a story of gut-wrenching passion and sorrow, but the mainstream press in the U.S. was completely uninterested in covering it—until a very specific instant in …

Social Attitudes Towards Energy Policy Can Change Quickly Read More »

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