I have always preferred to focus on specific policy issues and not get too involved in personalities and relative character. In my feuds with David Boaz, Tom Palmer, and Steve Horwitz over Donald Trump/TDS, utter distain, even Hate, seems to trump public policy.
Trying to understand this better, I recently visited the website of The UnPopulist, which describes itself as in favor of “liberal democracy” as opposed to “intolerant populist nationalism, including in the United States…”
I immediately read a piece by Steve Chapman, “Kamala Harris Might be Less Injurious to the American Economy than Trump.” It can with the subtitle: “Neither is exactly a devotee of Milton Friedman but at least Harris won’t use fiscal and economic policy to settle personal scores and violate the rule of law.”…
Continue ReadingAn eternal thanks goes to Bruce Wells and the American Oil & Gas Historical Society. His fascinating look back at major industry events of the last 150 years is both educational and inspirational. It is upon the backs of our ancestors that we enjoy today’s high-energy civilization.
“Petroleum history provides a context for understanding modern energy challenges,” the Society explains.
AOGHS preserves U.S. petroleum history, which provides an important context for understanding the modern energy industry. This history, which began in August 1859 with the first commercial U.S. well in Pennsylvania, can help make informed decisions about meeting future energy needs. AOGHS offers education resources, including links to community oil and gas museums, county historical societies, libraries, and others dedicated to material preservation. Please join our effort.
The latest edition covers September in Oil & Gas History News, Vol.…
Continue Reading“The contrived sense of accomplishment in history matching is spurious correlation for an infinitesimally small period of time. Using Exxon’s internal analysis of CO2 climate forcing is little more than a propaganda tool.”
“Exxon Knew” is a political-lawyer campaign focusing on certain internal company documents to make a case that the oil major knew that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were a future threat to human betterment.
Smoking gun? Hardly.
A half century later, the IPCC is still trying to update and figure out physical climate science. Exxon did not do a study on the benefits of CO2 or the offset of sulfur dioxide emissions. The concern way back then was Global Cooling, Peak Oil, and Peak Gas. And as the company knew, fossil fuels had no viable substitute, as in wind and solar.…
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