Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Resilience, Le Monde Diplomatique, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
Harvard economist Morris Adelman, famous for saying that we will never run out of oil, died last month. What followed the announcement of his death…
Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann wakes up every day thinking about trash. What got him thinking about it in the first place is how much of it is…
There is an important hidden lesson for climate activists in the vast downgrade of recoverable oil resources now thought to be available from California's Monterey…
As the Obama administration puts off once again any decision on authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline, there are whispers of another intriguing possibility. If the…
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Mark Twain once said, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."…
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Will anyone who is currently predicting U.S. energy independence be punished if the story turns out to be wrong? I ask because the story--and that's…
No doubt you know someone who's told you about his or her great aunt who lived to be 98 and never went to a doctor.…
It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it…
Optimistic, but unwarranted, energy supply forecasts permeate the media (courtesy of the oil and gas industry) even as the occasional dire scenario gets coverage. But,…
Hardly a day goes by without someone writing or saying that we need to save the Earth. My geologist friends scoff at such language for…
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Energy independence sounds good, and that's why politicians and oil company executives love to say the words. It's so easy to say, but oh so…
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Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969.…