Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break?
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break? Preface. This is a long preface followed by two articles about how supply chains and complex tractors may be affected by energy shortages and consequent supply chain failures in the future.Which we’re already seeing as massive numbers of ships sit offshore waiting to be […]
What It Takes To Homestead As A Working Retirement
What It Takes To Homestead As A Working Retirement What are your plans for retirement? Are you looking forward to watching more TV, playing golf, or traveling? And when you aren’t doing those things, then what? This is why I’m looking forward to a “Working Retirement.” Learning from previous generations In my 50’s, I watched my […]
WEF Issues Ominous Warning Over Coming Food Crisis, Recommends ‘More Sustainable Diets’
WEF Issues Ominous Warning Over Coming Food Crisis, Recommends ‘More Sustainable Diets’ Did you see the ratio Bloomberg just earned for a tweet which recommends getting used to lentils instead of meat, switching to public transportation, and avoiding buying things in bulk? The piece, written by economist Teresa Ghilarducci, recommends that families earning under $300,000 per year consider switching to […]
Why liquefied coal (CTL) and natural gas (GTL) can’t replace oil
Why liquefied coal (CTL) and natural gas (GTL) can’t replace oil Preface. Here are just a few of the reasons why we aren’t likely to convert enough coal to diesel to matter as oil decines (see Chapter 11 Liquefied Coal: There Goes the Neighborhood, the Water, and the Air for more details on this in When Trucks […]
Saudi Aramco to increase oil production to meet global demand
Saudi Aramco to increase oil production to meet global demand Saudi Arabia’s state oil company said it would increase spending on oil production to meet rising global demand, as it reported a doubling of profits in 2021.© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/ReutersSaudi Aramco – the world’s largest oil exporter and one of the world’s most profitable […]
Russia-Ukraine War and the Changing Energy Landscape.
Russia-Ukraine War and the Changing Energy Landscape. The can of worms that is our global use of energy, has been levered open yet further by the escalating war in Ukraine. Prices of all types of energy had already been hiked dramatically as a result of a strong economic rebound post-covid, but with limited capacity to […]
World War III is here, but it’s not what we expected
World War III is here, but it’s not what we expected Movies and books have often portrayed World War III as either the final chapter of the human epoch or as a new but primitive restart for those who survive the nuclear conflagration. We cannot know if such prophesies will ultimately come true. For now […]
While You Weren’t Paying Attention, The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Turned Out To Be True & Zero Media Outlets Have Been Held Accountable
While You Weren’t Paying Attention, The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Turned Out To Be True & Zero Media Outlets Have Been Held Accountable The laptop story coverage tells you everything you need to know about the journalistic integrity of large media outlets in this country. It turns out that the party who spent four years […]
Chris Hedges: Waltzing to Armageddon
Chris Hedges: Waltzing to Armageddon The Dr. Strangeloves, like zombies rising from the mass graves they created around the globe, are once again stoking new campaigns of industrial mass slaughter. Bus burning on a road from Kharkiv to Kiev as Russia invades Ukraine on Feb. 24. (Yan Boechat/VOA) The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was […]
Five critical factors why prices will stay high for years
Five critical factors why prices will stay high for years At approximately 9am local time on February 21, 1972, a Boeing 707 airplane dubbed Spirit of ‘76 landed in Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport. The airplane’s main door opened, and out walked US President Richard Nixon. The trip shocked the world. There had been no formal communication […]
IEA calls for driving restrictions and air travel curbs to reduce oil demand
IEA calls for driving restrictions and air travel curbs to reduce oil demand Energy agency warns 2.5mn barrels a day of Russian oil exports could cease from next month The International Energy Agency has called for member countries to adopt “emergency measures” to cut oil demand in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including […]
After the Ukraine Invasion: Sobering New Global Energy-Economic-Political Terrain
After the Ukraine Invasion: Sobering New Global Energy-Economic-Political Terrain Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s response, are ushering the world into a new energy, economic, and political era. In broad outline, this new era will have less-globally-integrated energy markets, and less-secure supplies of fossil fuels. Since energy is the irreducible basis of all economic […]
The Petrodollar Collapse is Here! Disaster for U.S.
The Petrodollar Collapse is Here! Disaster for U.S.
