Category Archives: Energy markets

Joe Biden Is in No Position to Lecture the World on Climate Change

The US president’s administration has lots of rousing climate change rhetoric but has taken little action.

Spike in Energy Prices Suggests That Sharp Changes Are Ahead

Gail Tverberg expands her focus beyond energy to provide an analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy

Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion

A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.

The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years

Clean energy and green growth proponents greatly underestimate the amount of change needed to migrate off fossil fuel sources.

Rapid Shift to Clean Energy Could Save ‘Trillions.’ But Corporate-Backed Groups Are Fighting the Transition in US Budget Bill

Even as evidence mounts that moving faster to clean energy sources would benefit businesses and the planet, the usual suspects fight back.

The European Energy Crisis Is About To Go Global

Rising energy prices in the US look set to go higher.

“We Will No Longer Sell Crude Abroad”: Mexican President AMLO

This is good news for Mexico’s long-beleaguered state-owned oil company, Pemex, but not such good news for the US’ refinery industry.

“All-Electric Future Comes At A Huge Cost”

Tempering some of the enthuiasm for “all-electric” schemes.

Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger

A new Iran gas find has the potential to supply 20% of Europe’s needs. But its pricing and delivery will be coordinated with Russia.

Don’t Plant Trees, Grow Forests!

Forests are far superior to tree plantations at carbon removal. Unfortunately, the world is planning for tree plantations.

Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests

Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures

How a National Infrastructure Program Would Protect Americans From Hurricanes

Biden’s infrastructure plan includes defending flood and hurricane vulnerable areas, when saving all of them may not be the right answer.

The Oil & Gas Inflation Trap That No One Wants To Talk About

So much for concerns about climate change. The Biden Administration is doing what it can to lower oil and gas prices.

China’s Industrial Slowdown Could Kill The Commodity Rally

Many commentators have fixated on levitating US securities markets, ignoring softening growth in Asia that is now hitting commodity prices

Pacific Salmon and Heat, along with Beavers, Bears — and Nitrogen

Beavers and bears as ecosytem engineers. But can salmon be saved?