The open southern border of the United States, and the millions of individuals flowing across that landscape, has created an environmental disaster 2,000 miles long, and one that will cost billions of dollars to remedy. While mass migration has battered the southern border’s ecosystems for decades, the recent surge of over ten million […]
Imagine No Jets, Ships, Defense, or Space Program!
Over the last 200 years when the world populated from 1 to 8 billion, we learned that crude oil is virtually useless, unless it’s manufactured (refineries) into oil derivatives that are the basis of the fuels to move the heavy-weight and long-range needs of more than 50,000 jets moving people […]
Earth – Why Bother?
I suggested to a friend that she read The Overstory, by Richard Powers. Months later, she finished the first story/chapter and made the mistake of telling me. Poor soul, she then had to listen to me expound at length — accompanied by ferociously animated hand gestures — on Powers’s ingenious use of […]
Unsold Electric Cars May be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seem unable to sway the logical thinking and the numerous concerns of the average citizens to buy into EV’s. With new EV inventories beginning to increase on dealer lots, the auto industry has many challenges such as locating the buyers that may have […]
Everything That Needs Electricity is Made with Oil
The few wealthy countries pursuing the generation of electricity from wind turbines and solar panels while simultaneously moving to rid the world of fossil fuels have short memories of petrochemical products and human ingenuity being the reasons for the world populating from 1 to 8 billion in less than two hundred years. […]
“America is Successfully Pursuing ESG = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed”
Everything that needs electricity is made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil. In an all-electric world, there will be nothing to power without oil. Energy growth, electricity AND the products made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil and the fuels to power ships, planes, militaries, and space […]
Why Europe’s Electricity Prices Are Soaring
Reverberations from the war in Ukraine have “distorted” the market for natural gas, forcing energy prices up. Energy traders in Europe are witnessing price increases that are hard to fathom. Natural gas, which is used to generate electricity and heat, now costs about 10 times more than it did a […]
“Ronald Stein on the Huge Advantages of Fossil Fuels Over Wind/Solar Power via a Tom Nelson Podcast”
Everything that needs electricity is made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil. In an all-electric world there will be nothing to power without oil. Hopefully, you’ll have time to listen to my one-hour Podcast with Tom Nelson. This Podcast provides a concise lesson on energy literacy through is an […]
Is the automobile industry being mandated toward a Death Spiral?
The passion for electric vehicles to help achieve lower emissions in wealthy countries seems to be oblivious to the potentially insurmountable and uncontrollable challenges facing the automobile industry. The few healthy and wealthy countries of the United States of America, Germany, the UK, and Australia representing 6 percent of the […]
Inflation Reduction Act Will Hinder EV Growth
Dependence on lithium mining in America to qualify for subsidies, will further negatively impact the lithium supply chain for batteries and stagnate the mandated transition to EV’s. After his mandate to transition to EV’s, President Joe Biden then signed The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that requires EVs to contain a battery […]
Why Burning So Many Old Fossil Fuels Is A Problem – Video
Meet the Fossils – We are burning our resources at a rapid rate – Writer and narrator Robert Krulwich explains how in this “CBS Sunday Morning” video essay, based on the work of Aatish Bhatia. Animation directed and designed by Nate Milton. Music by Buck St. Thomas. Watch it HERE
Merchant Ships and Planes Needed to Support the World’s Eight Billion
Merchant Ships and Planes Needed to Support the World’s Eight Billion Divesting in fossil fuels will negatively impact the heavy-weight, long range infrastructures needed to maintain economies and the health of the world’s population. Escalating climate change pressures are strangling capital flows for oil and gas producers, driving up the […]