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Clean energy growth is powering the West Texas oil industry. Wind turbines tower over an oil pump jack

The Oil Industry’s Big Bluff

In a recent Wall Street Week video report on oil industry methane emissions there was a great insight into what the oil industry plans to do when it comes to environmental liabilities and the world in general. After hearing how there was potential to plug old oil and gas wells

LNG export terminal on U.S. Gulf Coast. Credit: Justin Mikulka

End Game: US Gas Reserves Edition

While it is now becoming clear to more people that the U.S. oil boom is about to end, very few people are talking about what that means for U.S. natural gas production. Few also are mentioning that some of the major shale gas plays like the Marcellus and

LNG tanker being loaded in Louisiana for export of U.S. LNG to China.

America’s Oil and Gas Export Delusions

The true hoax of this energy transition is the idea that the U.S. has unlimited oil and gas that is just waiting to be produced as soon as those tree-hugging liberals stop standing in the way.

U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

Back in the beginning of the century James Kuntsler published the book The Long Emergency which warned about societal collapse due to declining oil production combined with “climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and warfare to cause major trouble for future generations.” Twenty years ago it was

Zombieland

Zombieland

Here we go again. “Last week, a retired oil and gas worker named Luke Shipp called out Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian for claiming that no wastewater disposal well has contaminated groundwater used by people.” That quote is from a column in the Houston Chronicle about the ongoing problem of toxic

Abandoned oil pumpjack.

Learning from California As It Becomes An Orphan Petrostate

By 1910, California was producing roughly a fifth of the world’s crude oil. Today it is producing roughly a fifth of the oil consumed by the state. Source In addition to experiencing serious oil production decline, California is also a “fuel island” due to the geographical and regulatory constraints

Big Oil is Sticking Us with the Bill

Big Oil is Sticking Us with the Bill

State regulators are allowing the oil industry to walk away from its cleanup responsibilities.