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Archives: Energy
Trump’s Folly: Oil is a Worthless Commodity and Saudi’s Crown Prince Knows It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Crude oil prices are cratering, down 20% this year, in the biggest 6-month free fall in years. As Annie Pei of CNBC notes,…
Green France: Macron bans Fracking and welcomes US renewables Scientists fleeing Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The French government wants to steal increasingly unemployed US green energy scientists, who are being systematically defunded by the Trump administration. After Trump…
In March for 1st Time, 10% of US Electricity came from Wind and Solar
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I've been a booster of renewable energy for years and years. I can remember when readers would taunt me that only one percent…
Why Saudi Extremism, Instability is an Argument for EVs, Wind and Solar Energy
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi Arabia has gotten too big for its britches, and the oil-producing Middle East is turning even more unstable. Not to mention that…
Science: Back Electric Cars if your City wants to defy Trump & Go Green
By Daniel Cohan | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American…
Trump’s new Clash of Civilizations: Carbonites v. Greens
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment…
Sorry, Trump, Electric Car sales doubled last Year, dooming dirty Fossil fuels
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road doubled worldwide to 2 million in the past year with 40% of EVs being…
Who needs Trump: State Policies driving huuje advances in Wind Power
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anyone who is depressed about Trump's sabotage of action to halt climate change should take heart from a remarkable development in Kansas.. Governor…
Did Trump’s Climate Disavowal just kill Capitalism?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The last time capitalism faced a crisis this deep, it was 1929. People minded the Great Depression. All those people Joe McCarthy persecuted…
Coal in Death spiral as India cancels 14 gigs, and Solar prices Plummet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - China and India have knocked the United States off the top spot of the index of best places to invest in renewables. Analysts…
Allies Furious as Trump w/draws from G7 Climate Commitment, May leave Paris Accord
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump bombed at the G7 summit in Italy. Despite an "intense" discussion with Germany, France and the others, who made it clear as…
Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In
H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that cannot ring Forget…
Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Back in 2016 the talking heads on tv kept expecting candidate Trump, who made headlines almost daily saying racist and offensive things, to "transition." Their theory…
Pope to Trump: Climate Change is Real and we have to act in Solidarity
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Pope Francis gave Donald J. Trump a going away present after their meeting on Wednesday. It was a copy of his Encyclical on…
The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…
Is China Now the Adult in the Room? Xi and Macron Consult
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump preferred the Neofascist Marine Le Pen as president of France, who wanted to pull out of NATO and the European Union.…
Dakota Access Pipeline already Leaking Oil & not Completed
TeleSur | - - Even before it is fully operational, and after months of demonstrations by Indigenous and environmental groups that warned of the same, the Dakota Access Pipeline has already suffered…
China cancelled 100 Coal Plants but Trump going the other Way
By Oscar Reyes | (Otherwords.org) | - - States that invest in renewables are reaping the rewards. Those that stick to coal are faltering. When you’re in a hole, it’s usually best…