Category Archives: Energy markets

Carbon Pipelines in the Hawkeye State

A new, enormous boondoggle?

Oil & Gas Investors Are Underestimating This Systemic Risk: Plugging Costs

An issue to keep in mind as fossil fuel demand declines: plugging costs can no longer be kicked down the road.

How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning

Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.

Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain?

Oil companies and regulators must bolster nascent efforts to repair the damage that has already been done.

The US Biofuel Mandate Helps Farmers, but Does Little for Energy Security and Harms the Environment

Why biofuel is a scam, except perhaps as a subsidy to Big Ag.

The Geopolitical Game That Could Transform Gas Markets

Will Turkey’s economic straits prime a big multi-country gas deal?

Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out

How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.

Experts on Inflation: Prognosis, Political Fallout and Who’s Really to Blame

Some non-mainstream experts discuss inflation: what is driving it, how long it might persist, and what if anything the officialdom can do.

More Proof of Biden’s Weak Position: Tasks FTC to Investigate Oil & Gas Companies in Gambit to Rein in High Prices

Why Biden trying to use the FTC as an attack dog against oil and gas companies is a sign of desperation.

COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior

The ink is barely dry on COP26 pledges, and it’s not hard to see that they are largely for show.

We Need Far More Radical Thinking Than Any COP26 Deal To Save the Planet

Recognizing that COP26 is not remotely ambitious enough is a step in the right direction. But it is still only a small step.

On the Duty to Obstruct

A recap of the progressive punt on the Build Back Better bill and the contention that duty demands much more radical action.

The Climate Fight Over Line 5, or the Upper Peninsula and Canada Versus Greenhouse Gas Absolutism

The fight over shutting down Line 5, a major oil pipeline, could set an important precedent.

‘This Must Not Happen’: If Unhalted, Permian Basin Fracking Will Unleash 40 Billion Tons of CO2 by 2050

Climate change activists have new oil and gas wells in their crosshairs, starting with the potential carbon bomb of the Permian Basin.

Carbon Tax Over-Rated

A carbon tax is an idea that has been around yet never deployed despite potential benefits because reasons, such as hurting the poor.