News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase
By
Michael Barnard
The petroleum age is unlikely to end with one dramatic crash. It is more likely to enter a volatile decline, with each shock strengthening the case for electrification, and each wave of electrification weakening the future demand that once held the oil system together. The countries, cities, companies, and households that understand this will not wait for the last oil shock to pass. They will build around electricity because electricity is not just cleaner. It is more controllable.
LNG Shock, Coal Myths, & The Real Winners On The Grid
By
Michael Barnard
Coal was not the global winner of the Hormuz shock. It was a regional emergency beneficiary in a few LNG-exposed markets. Renewables alone did not replace LNG everywhere either. But renewables plus batteries, backed by hydro, nuclear, interconnection, and demand flexibility where available, already replaced enough of LNG’s daily balancing role in several major markets to overturn the old assumption that a gas shock naturally belongs to coal. The real strategic winner was not a single fuel. It was the clean flexibility stack, and the countries building it fastest are the ones rewriting what energy security means.
The Inherent Evil of Fossil Fuels
By
Jennifer Sensiba
Transitioning to clean energy isn’t just about cutting carbon emissions or saving the environment. It’s about starving a deeply unethical system that rewards the absolute worst human impulses. We can talk about numbers all day. There’s a possible 33.7 kWh per gallon of gasoline, but how many Iranian schoolchildren is a barrel of oil worth? How much is global security worth? If the worst case scenario happens and this thing goes nuclear, will we feel like it was a good price to pay for some oil companies to have a record quarter? There are some things in life that you really can’t put a number on.
Is it Time to Drive 55 & Conserve Gasoline Again to Deal with this “Fuck Up” Asks Economist Paul Krugman
By
Paul Gipe
Nobel winning American economist Paul Krugman asked today on his podcast if it was time again to call for a …
As the oil and gas crisis drives the world economy towards another financial crash, green energy is the only viable future
By
David Toke
Let’s not make a secret of this. The world is hurtling at breakneck speed towards the worst-ever energy crisis. This will be worse than the oil crises of the 1970s. It could be worse even than the oil crisis of 2007-2012, the latter which triggered the global financial meltdown of 2008. Maybe it is small comfort to those billions of people around the world facing hardship in this developing crisis. However, out of the ruins we shall see a market and state-driven renewed drive towards installation of wind, solar, batteries and Electric Vehicles.
“Energy Security” Makes Us Less Secure. Renewables Are The Answer
By
Steve Hanley
Krugman notes that while the price of oil has increased, the price of gasoline has gone up much more quickly. Are oil companies taking advantage of the situation to extract additional profits? What do you think? The so-called US president — in his lucid moments — rails against renewable energy, probably because the fossil fuel industry has so generously supported his lunacy for their own private benefit. But Krugman suggested the UK and other European nations must be wishing they were getting an even larger share of their energy from renewables rather than natural gas, which would free them both from the idiocy of Trump’s delusions and the Middle East war.
