Think of this as Volume 17, Number 6 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy.
I haven't gotten into the nitty-gritty
of the War Against Oil here in some time.
For those who need a quick refresher,
the War Against Oil is the chief economic necessity of our time. The
Sun shines, the wind blows, we live on a molten rock, yet we still
power our world like cavemen did, by digging up shit we can burn and
burning it. As a result we're burning up our planet.
There are still (believe it or not)
idiots who deny that methane and carbon dioxide are responsible for
increased global temperatures, for more extreme weather, and for the
melting of ice caps around the world. Some are paid shills for folks
who want to dig shit up and burn it. Others are ideologues who scream
“no” at anyone saying yes. And some are indeed idiots.
The political winds toward burning shit
grew to hurricane force during the Bush years, with the wholesale
takeover of the country by the fossil fuel industry. The results were
war and (ta da) rising fossil fuel prices. We're now accustomed to
paying $4/gallon for gasoline, just as the “boiling frog” got
used to hot water, and the industry wants to apply more pressure.
All the fracking in the U.S. is not
going to drop gas prices one dime. It's not in the frackers' interest
to do it, they control the process of getting fracked oil to market,
it's just not going to happen. Besides, fracking costs big money.
Margins are thinner from fracking than they are from sticking a straw
into the ground and sucking.
The only way we're going to get a thumb
down on prices is with an alternative to fracking. And right now,
that means biofuels.
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