The Greatest Scam In History
It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
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Big Automakers Grudgingly Buy Into EVs. Oil Majors Still Lag Behind
Small, nimble startups are leading the shift to electric cars, while big U.S. automakers and oil majors are struggling to keep up.
Oil Giant Total Sees Electric Cars Seriously Cutting Into Oil Demand Soon
At the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York on April 25, Joel Couse, chief economist for Total, predicted that sales of electric cars will surge from about 1% globally in today’s new car market to up to 30% of the market by 2030. If that happens, he says, demand for petroleum based fuels “will flatten out, maybe even decline.” Total is one of the world’s largest oil producers. His forecast surprised many people at the conference.
Total’s $1.1 Billion Saft Acquisition & Tom’s BMW i5 — Cleantech Talk #26
In episode #26 of Cleantech Talk, Matthew and I tackled Tom Moloughney’s vision for the BMW i5, how BMW could potentially compete with Tesla Motors and the Tesla Model 3. We then chatted about a fascinating recent acquisition — Total’s majority control acquisition of Saft — and the general topic of Total’s apparent leadership among oil companies in the transition to clean energy.
No Time Toulouse
For the past few decades, the simple message “no time to lose” has fallen on deaf ears, leaving many of us pushing for climate action feeling like Eric Idle in the homonymous Monty Python skit, in which he goes out of his way to help Michael Palin utter the four … [continued]
Oil Companies Overstating The Case For Natural Gas As World’s ‘Fuel Of Choice’
Originally published on Energy Post. By Karel Beckman They are the biggest companies in the world and they are making a huge bet: they are staking their – and our – future on natural gas. At the World Gas Conference in Paris, the major oil companies all avowed their belief … [continued]
Fracking Wastewater Spoils California Drinking, Farm Supplies
Central California, already painfully stressed by the worst drought in 50 years (which the US Drought Monitor designates as “extreme or exceptional drought,” the most serious category on the agency’s five-level scale), has another problem with its water supply. Aquifers that supply drinking and irrigation water have recently had to … [continued]
PG&E Opposes Big Oil-Sponsored Prop 23
Today, PG&E formally came out in opposition to Prop 23, the oil-company-sponsored ballot initiative that is designed to shut down AB32 – California’s progressive climate legislation passed by voters in 2006 and due to be implemented in January 2011. “Since actively supporting the passage of AB 32, PG&E has worked … [continued]
Texas Oil Companies Double Spending to Make California Voters Kill Their Climate Bill
This November, Texas oil companies hope to dupe California voters into repealing their own clean energy bill; AB32. The oil companies’ ballot measure had $966,000 in funding up through the end of March. Now they have doubled that, bringing the total to $1.9 million – supposedly to save California jobs. … [continued]
LAO Rips $54,000 Valero Oil-Funded "Study" Designed To Ditch AB 32, California Climate and Energy…
The state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) today released a report further discrediting a $54,000 oil-sponsored study that falsely exaggerated the costs of AB 32; California’s clean energy and air pollution standards law. The discredited study, trying to scare voters is the foundation for an oil-funded ballot initiative that the oil … [continued]
