Author Archives: John McGregor
Dodgy Demand Data? The Oil Price Collapse Conspiracy
John here. Environmental concerns and tighter regulations reduced investment in refineries. Tight refining capacity then drove the high crack spreads, but they have recently. This long-term strategy to reduce the use of fossil fuels by raising prices is achieving its goal, but at the predictable cost of people using less fuel. Gas stations, largely independent […]
Read more...Links 8/7/2022
Australia’s Grand Plans to Export Solar – A Lesson from the ‘Gas Crisis’
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher As perverse as it seems, achieving the dream of linking Australian renewable energy to Asian energy buyers may generate a household electricity crisis as artificial as the current gas crisis. As with LNG, large scale solar projects are set to largely, perhaps even entirely, bypass domestic […]
Read more...The Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just the Sacklers’ Fault – and Making Purdue Pharma Pay Isn’t Enough on Its Own to Fix the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Deeper Problems
Focusing on the Sacklers as villains obscures the problems that permeate the entire pharmaceutical industry.
Read more...Links 8/4/2022
Italian Technocrats Allow the Right to Weaponize Democracy
Why the Italian right looks set to go from strength to strength.
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