Category Archives: GOVERNMENT

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Energy certificates as currency when oil shocks strike?

Posted on April 6, 2022 by energyskeptic

Since world oil peaked in 2018, clearly there will be a time when there are oil shortages. The price may be high at first, but that often brings on a financial crash (Hamilton 2013), unemployment rises as business shut down, … Continue reading →

Posted in Oil Shocks, Rationing, U.S. Congress Energy Policy | Tagged blackouts, currency, ecological economics, energy crisis, Hubbert, money, oil shock, rationing | Comments Off

Implications of Refinery closures for Homeland Security & critical infrastructure safety

Posted on March 24, 2022 by energyskeptic

Preface. The talk of electric vehicles saving the world from greenhouse gases is nonsense, a red herring to distract everyone from what’s really at stake, and from the material requirements to build them with rare earth and other scarce minerals, … Continue reading →

Posted in Automobiles, Infrastructure & Fast Crash, Oil & Gas, Peak Oil, U.S. Congress Infrastructure | Tagged diesel, electric vehicle, EV, gasoline, infrastructure, lubricants, peak oil, pipeline, refinery | 1 Comment

Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?

Posted on February 8, 2022 by energyskeptic

Source: A year on the midieval farm https://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/year-medieval-farm/ Ever since I learned about peak oil in 2000 after reading my grandfather Pettijohn’s memoir (Pettijohn 1984), I’ve wondered what The Plan To Cope with Oil Decline and eventual disappearance was. … Continue reading →

Posted in An Index of Best Energyskeptic Posts, Energy Policy & Politicians, Farming & Ranching, Government on what to do, Military, guns, Over Oil | Tagged agriculture, carrying capacity, dawn of everything, emergency plans, long emergency, peak oil, war, weapons | Comments Off

Why do leaders & the public deny peak oil & limits to growth?

Posted on December 26, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. It’s strange that we’re on the cusp of Peak Oil, and yet the only existential threat you ever hear about is Climate Change. The New York Times has mentioned climate change over 15,000 times the past 5 years, and … Continue reading →

Posted in 2) Collapse, Alternative Energy, An Overview, Critical Thinking, GOVERNMENT, Limits To Growth, Other Experts | Tagged climate change denial, limits to growth, optimism, peak oil, Republican, why denial | 5 Comments

Can democracy survive peak oil?

Posted on August 27, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. This is a book review of Howard Bucknell’s Energy and the National Defense. University of Kentucky Press. Bucknell was amazingly prescient as you’ll see in this review, especially about why democracy might not survive the energy crisis. Though the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Energy Books, Military, Politics, Rationing | Tagged authoritarianism, Bucknell, defense, democracy, energy crises, energy transitions, rationing, synthetic fuel | 1 Comment

There are over 300,000 contaminated groundwater sites in the U.S.

Posted on July 1, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. If peak oil did indeed happen in 2018 as the EIA world production data shows, then let’s use the oil we still have, before it is rationed, to clean up the 126,000+ sites that threaten to pollute groundwater for … Continue reading →

Posted in Chemicals, Hazardous Waste, National Academies of Sciences, Water Pollution | Tagged chemicals, drinking water, groundwater, pollution | 1 Comment

Government plans to reduce dependency on fossil fuels won’t work

Posted on June 13, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. Yikes! These government plans from 2009 won’t help the energy crisis much! I do like these ideas though: Get Yucca mountain ready to take nuclear waste. We need to sequester nuclear wastes while there is still energy to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Government on what to do, U.S. Congress Energy Dependence | Tagged energy crisis, energy dependence, government plans, hearing, preparation, senate, what to do | 3 Comments

U.S. Army new jobs: quell social unrest from climate change, help get arctic oil

Posted on June 1, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. Of all the branches of government, the military is the most on top of climate change, peak oil, pandemics, power grid failure, and other disasters. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising, it’s their job to defend the U.S. against … Continue reading →

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Pentagon report: collapse within 20 years from climate change

Posted on May 23, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. The report that the article by Ahmed below is based on is: Brosig, M., et al. 2019. Implications of climate change for the U.S. Army. United States Army War College. It was written in 2019, before covid-19 and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Blackouts, Climate Change, Infrastructure & Fast Crash, Military, Over Oil | Tagged climate change, collapse, military | 2 Comments

Australian Senate hearings on Peak Oil & Transportation 2006

Posted on April 14, 2021 by energyskeptic

Preface. This post has a summary of two of the nine senate hearings on Peak Oil in Australia in 2006. Someday historians may want to know which politicians knew about the energy crisis and when they knew it, probably to … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Policy & Politicians, GOVERNMENT, Transportation | Tagged Australia, biofuel, government, hydrogen, LNG, peak oil | 1 Comment