On Energy Independence and Oil Prices
Donald Trump brought us energy independence and low gas and oil prices; Joe Biden has destroyed that. It’s a good slogan but is it true?
Tagged: oil
To Break Our Addiction To Oil
Why don’t move off oil? Partly regulations. Partly lack of incentives to go forward, and partly career politicians listening to lobbyists.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Vs Canada over Enbridge’s Line 5
A 4.5 mile stretch of Line 5 under the Great Lakes is at the center of a legal fight with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
A Perfect Pandemic Storm: The COVID-19 Energy/Oil Crisis Explained
The COVID-19 Energy Crisis culminated Sunday evening, when the largest one-day slide since the 1991 Gulf War occurred, stoking fears of recessions or worse.
Do Cheap Oil Prices Really Damage the Environment?
Declining oil prices would suggest disaster for the environment but is that really the case?
A Vast Silence
The New York Times ran a story that took Burt Likko’s breath away in outrage when he read it last night. But apparently, he’s pretty much the only one.
Weekend Cooking Project : Grilled Whole Fish
The weekends coming up fast, and if you’re like us then today or tomorrow you’ll be shopping for things to eat over beer, wine and cocktails. So if you haven’t already got your grocery...
Stocks collapse, threaten to go even lower than our opinion of Congress
Here’s Krugman: It’s not the whole story, but something like this threatens to develop: 1. US debt is downgraded, sparking demands for more ill-advised fiscal austerity 2. Fears that this austerity will depress the...
The Car & The City
by Trumwill Peak Oil has been right around the corner for decades. Global warming requires a response that is going to make energy – oil in particular – more expensive. Commuters and drivers are...
Still Puzzled by This One
David Brooks, yesterday: In the state capitalist world there are government-run enterprises like Gazprom, Petrobras, Saudi Aramco, Petronas, Petróleos de Venezuela, China National Petroleum Corporation and the National Iranian Oil Company. These companies create...
Her fake Chinese rubber plant in the fake plastic earth
David, I’ve thought much the same thing. At some point we’re going to wish we’d saved the oil that went in to all that packaging and those water bottles and all the other multitudinous...
