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Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town)
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town) Paying attention to the buzz around Planet of the Humans, the new film by Michael Moore, is like standing in the middle of a three-ring circus. In ring #1 are the filmmakers, who raise critical questions […]
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret Cancerous lesions have developed across Keith MacDonald’s body and his son is dead from leukemia. His life has disintegrated, and in his eyes fault lies with the third richest company on earth. It is headquartered in the Netherlands, incorporated in the United Kingdom, and is an […]
The Fuel Shortage in Venezuela Will Lead to Starvation
The Fuel Shortage in Venezuela Will Lead to Starvation Dear readers, those who already know me are aware I used to write about confirmed facts we all care about as preppers. At this point in my life I hardly can be considered a prepper, though. A survivor? Sure. I’ve been in much better conditions (as […]
Permian Bankruptcies Could Fuel A Buying Spree For Big Oil
Permian Bankruptcies Could Fuel A Buying Spree For Big Oil The United States shale revolution is over. Production in the Permian Basin, which spreads across West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, has been slowing for months, but the novel coronavirus took things from bad to much, much worse for U.S. shale. The oil price shock […]
Trump Could Use ‘Nuclear Option’ To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Oil War
Trump Could Use ‘Nuclear Option’ To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Oil War President Donald Trump is considering all options available to him to make the Saudis pay for the oil price war as the crash that followed has done significant damage to the U.S. oil industry With last month having seen the indignity of […]
The LNG Market Is “Imploding”
The LNG Market Is “Imploding” While everyone is understandably watching the meltdown in the crude oil market, the global market for natural gas is also cratering. At least 20 cargoes of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) have been cancelled by buyers in Asia and Europe, according to Reuters. The global pandemic and the unfolding economic crisis […]
Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save […]
Review: Planet of the Humans
Review: Planet of the Humans A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans (directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs), in which she began by admitting that she hadn’t seen the film yet. When writers take that approach, you know there’s already blood in the water. (She has since watched […]
“We Are Moving Into The End-Game”: 27 Tankers Anchored Off California, Hundreds Off Singapore As Oil Industry Shuts Down
“We Are Moving Into The End-Game”: 27 Tankers Anchored Off California, Hundreds Off Singapore As Oil Industry Shuts Down Back in the late fall of 2014, when Saudi Arabia broke up OPEC for the first time and unleashed a torrent of crude oil on the world despite the protests of its fellow cartel members, oil […]
The Shale Suffering Has Only Just Begun
The Shale Suffering Has Only Just Begun A few weeks before the summer driving season begins, U.S. gasoline consumption has plummeted to levels last seen in the late 1960s, due to the lockdowns to contain the spreading of the coronavirus. With demand for motor fuel plunging, refiners are cutting crude processing, and crude oil storage […]
Far out power 1: human fat, playgrounds, solar wind towers, perpetual motion, thermal depolymerization
Far out power 1: human fat, playgrounds, solar wind towers, perpetual motion, thermal depolymerization Preface. Plans for power to gas, hydrogen, wind, solar, wave and all other alternative energies are equally silly as the ideas below, because they depend on fossil fuels for every single step in their life cycle, yet these schemes with negative […]
In 2020 Oil-Exporters’ Income Will Plunge By Over $1 Trillion, Forcing Widespread Stock Liquidations
In 2020 Oil-Exporters’ Income Will Plunge By Over $1 Trillion, Forcing Widespread Stock Liquidations While any other time the plunge of WTI prices into negative territory last Monday would have been the story of the year, the fact that the financial press has already moved on and is focusing on whatever 100-sigma event du jour has hit, […]
Oil Price Crash Was Inevitable
Oil Price Crash Was Inevitable The oil price crash was inevitable. To understand why we have to review a bit of history. In 2013, I began warning of the risk to oil prices due to the ongoing imbalances between global supply and demand. Those warnings fell on deaf ears. Nobody wanted to pay much attention […]
Postmortem of the Infamous Day WTI Crude Oil Futures Went to Heck in a Straight Line
Postmortem of the Infamous Day WTI Crude Oil Futures Went to Heck in a Straight Line The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) dissects the historic event. “It’s not often that we’re served up a WTF moment like this,” I wrote on April 20, when the May contract for crude-oil benchmark-grade West Texas Intermediate (WTI) plunged to […]
FIRST SHALE OIL DOMINO TO FALL: More to Follow
FIRST SHALE OIL DOMINO TO FALL: More to Follow In a stunning news release, Continental Resources, the largest shale producer in the Bakken, is shutting in most of its production in the region. That is one hell of a lot of output to shut-in as Continental Resources was producing over 200,000 barrels per day in […]
