Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. January 10, 2012.
With energy demand on the rise and sources of supply dwindling, we are entering a new epoch in which disputes over vital resources will dominate world affairs.
A large percentage of the power Angelenos depend on comes from coal plants, which spew their filth hundreds of miles away, across state lines in Indian country.
Energy companies continue to rake in massive profits. They use this wealth to leverage elections, write legislation, scale back regulations and escape accountability.
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. September 15, 2011.
America's rise to supremacy was fueled by control over the world's oil supply. Now, the decline of the U.S. coincides with the decline of oil as a major energy source.
The standards the GOP are fighting will save about $100 per household annually in lower electricity costs, or about $12 billion per year when fully implemented.
Charlie Hall champions a revolutionary idea known as "energy return on energy invested." Every plant, animal and human civilization lives by EROI, he explains.
After a college invited ExxonMobil's CEO to do a commencement address, outraged students instead invited Richard Heinberg. Here's what he had to say about life after oil.
Until then, we will still see commentators ignoring the larger forces of change, calling for reforms and the fixing of an unfixable system or at best a changing of the guard.
