Oil Prices Will Remain High For Years To Come
Oil Prices Will Remain High For Years To Come A growing number of major investment banks are turning bullish on oil in the medium to long term. A lack of investment is leading to supply deficits as demand rebounds to pre-COVID levels. Rebounding consumption and tight supply could push oil prices even higher. Six years […]
Why root washing is important – an illustrated cautionary tale
Why root washing is important – an illustrated cautionary tale I’ve promoted root washing of containerized and B&B trees and shrubs for a few decades now. The experimental science is slowly coming along – it can take several years to determine if the practice is more successful in terms of plant survival than leaving the […]
Doing 90 MPH on Deadman’s Curve: A Few Thoughts on Risk
Doing 90 MPH on Deadman’s Curve: A Few Thoughts on Risk When the wreck is recovered, witnesses will wonder why they took such heedless, foolish risks. You’re in the back seat wedged between tipsy revelers, the driver is drunk and heading into Deadman’s Curve at 90 miles per hour. Nobody’s worried because the driver has […]
This is not 1997
This is not 1997 Not that minimum wages are anything new. The USA introduced its Federal Minimum Wage as far back as 1938; although today each state sets its own rate. And the general consensus is that minimum wages help raise wages in general with little or no impact on employment as a whole. The broad […]
“Transitory” Shortages & Inflation Are Actually Your Quality Of Life Being Stolen Right Before Your Eyes
“Transitory” Shortages & Inflation Are Actually Your Quality Of Life Being Stolen Right Before Your Eyes The Washington Post published an op-ed urging Americans dealing with product shortages to lower their expectations. My response? Don’t settle. Failed policies have our country devolving. There’s no doubt our country has all of a sudden slipped into the […]
Northern California Swamped With “Historic Rain” Amid Rare Atmospheric River Event
Northern California Swamped With “Historic Rain” Amid Rare Atmospheric River Event The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Sacramento office said “potentially historic rain” rain has fallen in parts of Northern California after a bomb cyclone accompanied an atmospheric river that unleashed massive amounts of moisture pulled in from the Pacific Ocean. Northern California bore the brunt late Saturday/Sunday, with record […]
Putin Lays Cards Down: Approve Nord Stream 2 To Get More Gas
Putin Lays Cards Down: Approve Nord Stream 2 To Get More Gas Russia could immediately increase natural gas deliveries to Europe as soon as German authorities approve the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the Financial Times reports, citing President Vladimir Putin as saying gas can be delivered “the day after tomorrow” if approval is granted “tomorrow”. Putin […]
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A movement has been growing for decades to replace hydrocarbons, which collectively supply 84% of the world’s energy. It began with the fear that we were running out of oil. That fear has since migrated to the belief that, because of climate change and […]
A tale of two civilisations
A tale of two civilisations In recent years, America’s unsuccessful attempts at containing China as a rival hegemon has only served to promote Chinese antipathy against American capitalism. China is now retreating into the comfort of her long-established moral values, best described as a mixture of Confucianism and Marxism, while despising American individualism, its careless […]
Brace For Shortages of Oil, Natural Gas, Propane, and Coal: It’s Only Going to Get Worse
Brace For Shortages of Oil, Natural Gas, Propane, and Coal: It’s Only Going to Get Worse
Forget $100, Options Traders Now Betting On Oil Prices Hitting $200
Forget $100, Options Traders Now Betting On Oil Prices Hitting $200 $100 Oil is no longer an ‘outrageous’ bet in the call-options market Some speculative traders are now betting on $200 oil in December 2022 For those betting on $100 oil, the leader of the OPEC+ alliance, Saudi Arabia, has a message: look beyond the […]
Peak Oil Demand Forecasts Turn Sour As Demand Keeps Growing
Peak Oil Demand Forecasts Turn Sour As Demand Keeps Growing Predicting oil—or, apparently, gas—prices is a notoriously uncertain business Over the longer term, predicting oil prices becomes even more challenging But besides crazy bets on high oil prices in the near future, there are other signs that the demise of fossil fuels has been greatly […]
Deleted Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves to “Conform”
Deleted Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves to “Conform” Climate change technocrats plan on using same methods that convinced public to obey lockdown. Alex Segre via Getty Images A deleted government report exploring how to make the public alter its behavior to accept the new ‘green economy’ reveals how COVID-19 restrictions have created a population […]
Homage to soil
Homage to soil Perhaps surprisingly, given that I worked for more than 20 years for an organisation called the Soil Association, my striving to understand the full significance and importance of the soil is still an evolving process which continues to be inspired and illuminated by ongoing revelations derived from my farming, my reading and my […]
Shortages & Hyperinflation Lead to Total Misery
SHORTAGES & HYPERINFLATION LEAD TO TOTAL MISERY At the end of major economic cycles, shortages develop in all areas of the economy. And this is what the world is experiencing today on a global basis. There is a general lack of labour, whether it is restaurant staff, truck drivers or medical personnel. There are also […]
