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Global Warming Models: 'Out of Order'?

What is amazing, is how many people can be influenced and made to believe something just by the media spinning stories a certain way on the news and making a few movies that are slanted toward a certain agenda. People think if it is on TV, written in mainstream publications or in theaters, it must be true. Having the resources to use these vehicles is true power and this power is being abused in a big way. It is too bad, but we all need to do a lot of our own detective work and information gathering to know what the real truth is.
My take from all this, is that global warming is probably more to do with the sun and other natural processes. Pollution, air and otherwise is man-made. And man-made pollution should be cleaned up.

Time to Bail on Shale?

If we believe our importing 80% of foreign oil used in the USA is a huge national security risk. If we believe that burning coal to produce the energy for electric vehicles will Not reduce climate change. If we believe that recent new drilling technology has changed the game allowing many wells to be drilled from one rig (rig counts are now useless for predicting production). If we believe that using natural gas for transportation & power generation is cleaner than oil & coal. If we believe the USA now has huge domestic reserves using this new drilling technology. Then the nat gas producers are demonstrating that they can meet a new increase in demand, if we switch to nat gas is made & that they can keep the price relatively low to boot.

Rapid Transition to Grid Enabled Vehicles Not Possible or Desirable

Why do pro EV people think that electric transportation is so clean when we get 50% of our electricity from dirty coal fired utilities ???

Ethanol vs. Natural Gas or Coal: Comparison Not Even Close

We have enough domestic natural gas to replace coal and ethanol for transportation & electricity generation. This would accomplish cleaner air and use a better NOW technology, we can start making the switch tomorrow. New natural gas infrastructure can be used again in the future for a totally clean hydrogen fueled economy that is coming down the road.

PG&E Sued Over Smart Meters, Slows Down Bakersfield Deployment

Install the smart meter and the bill goes from $200 to $500-$600, Hmmmmmm. PG&E = he must of used more energy-used his air conditioner more, Hmmmmm.

Peak Oil: Caused by Geology, Politics or Infrastructure Issues?

Why not spend the money needed for new oil infrastructure on new infrastructure for wind. solar & natural gas. Replace coal & oil for transportation & electricity generation with this group. The wind, solar & natural gas group would be politically correct, cleaner & make us more energy independent.

Don't Believe Long-Term Oil Forecasts: Part II

Any economic oil shock can be avoided here in the USA by switching to North American natural gas for transportation & electricity generation. New drilling technology has made American NG abundant & cheap. This would accomplish a number of positives. Reduce imported oil, reduced demand will keep the price stable. We would be using a cleaner fuel for vehicles & electricity generation (verses coal). New jobs & revitalization of the auto industry making new NG or multi-fuel cars & trucks. The build out of new NG infrastructure would be a huge boost for American business. NG would also be used in partnership with solar & wind electricity generation to keep the turbines running consistently when solar & wind are not present.

Don't Believe Long-Term Oil Forecasts

China's oct. auto-truck sales have increased 72% from a year earlier. This trend will continue in the other emerging countries too. How many people in China do not have cars yet??

Three Macro Musings

The switch of policy to encourage the use of natural gas for transportation & to substitute natural gas for coal in electricity generation would give the American economy a huge boost. The jobs & business it would create converting truck fleets, car fleets & building out infrastructure for more storage, fueling stations, fueling station conversions & pipelines would go a long way in turning the economy around. It would almost be a patriotic thing to do. I wonder if our leaders are patriotic. Or is the foreign oil & coal lobby influence too strong??

Natural Gas Extraction May Be More Expensive Than It Seems

You missed my my point. Whether nat gas is $3 or $9, the USA should not waste trillions of dollars on clean coal research. It should be used to harvest and use American natural gas. New technology for drilling already has made the cost of drilling come way down. Multiple wells can be drilled from one rig now, which is why the rig count has come down so low, while we are still increasing our supply with way fewer rigs.

Natural Gas Extraction May Be More Expensive Than It Seems

Whether natural gas is $3 or $9 does not matter. The important point that our leaders & policy makers should embrace, is that natural gas is a better fuel for the people of the USA and for world air quality. Better than imported oil or dirty coal (no such thing as clean coal that will actually produce energy on the plus side). They are planning on spending trillions of dollars on clean coal research, that money should be spent on American jobs & American equipment to build natural gas infrastructure, converting vehicles to run on natural gas & converting coal fired electricity utilities to use other forms of energy.

Saudis Drop WTI Oil Contract - But Why?

Most of the oil produced in the middle east is sour crude now. Easy to refine light sweet crude has peaked, it has become a minor part of production. Should'nt the benchmark be based on what is actually traded on the market??

Oil: Supply and Demand? Hardly!

People do not seem to get it. Its about LIMITED supply & demand. All the cheap oil supply is getting used up. All of the new discoveries are deep water or tar sands that are super expensive to produce. The oil coming from the middle east is not light sweet crude, it is heavy crude that is expensive to refine. The large oil field in Mexico where we import a large amount from, will be depleted in a couple of years with no new production in the pipeline in the near future.

Understanding Energy: Professional Money Management and Peak Oil

How would the peak oil story change if we switched transportation fuel from gasoline to natural gas??

The Larger Energy Implications of Hydrogen Autos

I have read that new natural gas infrastructure can be re-used for hydrogen in the future when the hydrogen technology becomes practical & cheaper to use.