If anyone knows of a particularly good website that specializes in energy, please let me know. So far, the ones that I've read have too much ideological baggage. You know the drill (ahem): Peak Oil, instead of being based on petroleum engineering or economics, gets used as an apocalyptic prophecy of divine retribution visited upon mankind for living in Sin with SUVs and big pickups.
It was astonishing to read that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves might be 40% lower than they have claimed in the past. It took Wikileaks to uncover this? And he is being hounded as a criminal? What the heck was the mainstream corporate media doing the last few decades if they never got around to revealing this (if it's true).
I have seen graphs of oil production from Mexico; it is falling so fast that they might not even be oil exporters in seven years. Since oil revenues used to fund a large part of the Mexican government, just imagine the millions of desperate Mexican refugees at the American border by the end of this decade.
I have seen graphs of oil production from Mexico; it is falling so fast that they might not even be oil exporters in seven years. Since oil revenues used to fund a large part of the Mexican government, just imagine the millions of desperate Mexican refugees at the American border by the end of this decade.
Another problem with energy websites is that they over-sell green energy, which is mostly just Buddhist physics, central planning, crony capitalism, and hippie-dippie sentimentalism. I am more interested in the opinions of people with real engineering backgrounds.
Recently I was reading the entertaining (environmentalist) rants at kunstler.com. I even agree with him sometimes. Once he encouraged the reader to imagine all the wealth, houses, roads, automobile culture, etc., in America that have no future, since the cheap oil era is ending. Have no future -- those words really struck me. Perhaps you have to be a truck driver or a full time RVer to be so affected, since they can think back to all the highways they've covered, all the ranchettes 20 miles from the job, and all the strip malls.
From time to time I do find informative articles on various websites about energy. The link is one of the best, although I have mixed feelings about the blog. (Too emotional and political.)
Recently I was reading the entertaining (environmentalist) rants at kunstler.com. I even agree with him sometimes. Once he encouraged the reader to imagine all the wealth, houses, roads, automobile culture, etc., in America that have no future, since the cheap oil era is ending. Have no future -- those words really struck me. Perhaps you have to be a truck driver or a full time RVer to be so affected, since they can think back to all the highways they've covered, all the ranchettes 20 miles from the job, and all the strip malls.
From time to time I do find informative articles on various websites about energy. The link is one of the best, although I have mixed feelings about the blog. (Too emotional and political.)
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Aaargh! I hope their statistics at this site are more truthful than government statistics about the CPI inflation rate or unemployment or ... ad infinitum.
http://www.economist.com/node/18285768?story_id=18285768
Tom in Orlando
Do you feel like a pioneer, with your focus on Independence?
Tom in Orlando
Have you read The Automatic Earth blog?
Kelly
The thing is, al Qeada could learn leagues from the environmentalists on destroying western civilization for the eco-whacks are the master at that out of control train.
Kelly, glad you like the new look. I looked at the blog you recommended. It resembles Zero Hedge somewhat.
1 More Mile, that's an interesting analogy between the Greens and Al-Qaeda. The Greens have "only" hurt the manufacturing and resource sectors. If you work in the public sector, services, or finance, they haven't hurt you.
Has energy news, exploration & production, global operations, manufacturing, renewables & green business, company reports, etc.
G & R in JAX, FL