My former CEO Jim Mulva spoke today at the National Summit in Detroit, and had some newsworthy comments. Bloomberg reported on his talk: Conoco Chief Says Replacing Oil May Take a Century June 16 (Bloomberg) […]
Tag: global warming
The White Revolution
When I was recently transcribing the interview that Vinod Khosla did for the Milken Institute, something he said caught my attention: Hybrids are an uneconomic way to reduce carbon dioxide. If you go to hybrids […]
Book Review: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Jeff Rubin – the former chief economist at CIBC World Markets – has always struck me as someone who “gets it.” I have seen him do a number of interviews, both on television and in […]
Vinod Khosla at Milken Institute: Part II
This is a continuation of the previous post covering Vinod Khosla’s (VK) recent lengthy interview Milken Institute 2009 Global Conference. The interview was conducted by Elizabeth Corcoran (EC) of Forbes and can be viewed here. […]
We Want Energy Independence!
That is, as long as it doesn’t increase gasoline costs by $0.40/gallon. That is one of a number of findings from Public Agenda in a new report called The Energy Learning Curve™ (PDF): What should […]
Too Many People?
It seems to be a given in many circles that the earth is overpopulated. I can see how some could come to this conclusion. There are people everywhere we look. Encroachment of suburbs into farmland, […]
A Simple Climate Tax Scheme
The following guest post is by Bob Findlay, a self-employed open source software engineer who lives on a small farm just outside Toronto.—————————-On 07 Apr 26 an Oil Drum blogger named Squalish (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2499) wrote a […]
The Next Secretary of Energy: Will He Flinch & Cave to the Fossil Fuel Culture?
The following guest submission is from a poster who wishes to be identified as ‘Silverthorne-Cebes’, and describes himself as: “Economist, retired; passionate about; ocean energy, development of eco-batteries for transportation, global debt repudiation, and research […]
Thoughts on the New Energy Team
In case you are just venturing out of your cave for the first time in a week, you are probably aware that President-elect Obama has announced his new energy team: Obama names energy team The […]
Pinning Pelosi
I received an interesting e-mail yesterday: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and Author of “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” will answer questions in a live discussion on washingtonpost.com today (Wednesday, Aug. […]