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Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced
Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced Subscribe to International Man In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church convinced the commoners to buy indulgences to alleviate their sins. And they made a fortune in the process. Similarly, today, our overlords—the mainstream media, central bankers, and their political allies—are working overtime […]
The End Of The Petrodollar
The End Of The Petrodollar The Saudis, New Chapter in Energy Economics, De-dollarization, and the American-Made Pressure Cooker “Oil is too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” ~ Henry Kissinger Just last Sunday, one of the most significant economic deals of the century came to an end. The long-standing […]
California Wants Higher Gas Prices and EVs, Virginia Did, But Changed Its Mind
California Wants Higher Gas Prices and EVs, Virginia Did, But Changed Its Mind Common sense returns to Virginia as California Governor Gavin Newsom Struggles to defend inane policy. Let’s start with Newsom and gasoline prices. In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Newsom says “What people pay at the pump isn’t simple supply and demand but the result […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s… It seems nowadays we’re always trapped in the silly season of election campaigning. Perhaps my memory is foggy but where it used to be a short window of inane proclamations and ever-grander promises (that never […]
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again If we build them out of wood, large wind turbines could become a textbook example of the circular economy. Illustration: Eva Miquel for Low-tech Magazine. For more than two thousand years, windmills were built from recyclable or reusable materials: wood, stone, brick, canvas, metal. When – electricity producing […]
Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Surged by 73.5% in January-May
Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Surged by 73.5% in January-May Russia’s budget revenues from oil and gas soared by 73.5% in January-May of 2024 compared to the first five months of 2023, according to data from Russia’s finance ministry released on Monday. Between January and May 2024, the revenues for the Russian federal budget from […]
IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024
IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024 According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), more money is being invested in solar power than in all other sources of electricity combined. Global investment in clean energy will reach $2 trillion (€1.84 trillion) this year, twice the amount invested in fossil fuels, according to the International […]
Power outage-causing storms are on the rise. That’s already impacting food insecurity
Power outage-causing storms are on the rise. That’s already impacting food insecurity Major power outages have increased tenfold since 1980 Straw bales and storm (Getty Images/BalazsKovacs) As rounds of severe weather — complete with thunderstorms, hail and flooding — continue to pummel Dallas and surrounding Texas counties, many of the over 650,000 people who were left without power are […]
Is the Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing in California and America?
Is the Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing in California and America? The idea that the panacea of electric vehicles will end “climate change” may have finally crashed into the wall of reality. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on May 26 by host Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” The full interview is on YouTube. Ms. […]
Reaching the end of offshored industrialization
Reaching the end of offshored industrialization Moving industrialization offshore can look like a good idea at first. But as fossil fuel energy supplies deplete, this strategy works less well. Countries doing the mining and manufacturing may be less interested in trading. Also, the broken supply lines of 2020 and 2021 showed that transferring major industries […]
Energy Wars | Art Berman
Energy Wars | Art Berman We have to save ourselves from ourselves Whoever controls the energy supply controls the new world order. Russia and China are deepening their relationship, Western allies in the Middle East are joining the fossil-fuelled BRICS alliance spanning the globe, and the Wagner group is loosening Europe’s grip of Africa. The […]
Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable due to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice. PHOTOGRAPH: FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR/REDUX PICTURES Ecuador is in trouble: Drought has shrunk its reservoirs, and its hydroelectric dams […]
The Energy Transition Story Has Become Self-Defeating
The Energy Transition Story Has Become Self-Defeating We need another kind of transformation more than ever A place and time for magical thinking. Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash There is still a widespread belief that it is possible to transition away from fossil fuels, a myth which is contradicted by an ever growing body of evidence. Not […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXX–She Blinded Me With Science, and More on the ‘Clean’ Energy Debate…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXX She Blinded Me With Science, and More on the ‘Clean’ Energy Debate… For whatever reason, I just can’t seem to help myself… The most relevant issue for the first part of this Contemplation is a loose definition and lack of agreement at the outset on what all of us involved […]
