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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
Lawrence Solomon: Free global gas prices
(March 23, 2012) There is a silver bullet for lowering gas prices: a return to a free market in gasoline. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Pipelines
Tagged energy, energy independence, fracking, gas, gas prices, gas tax, gasoline, gasoline prices, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, road tolls, U.S. Politics
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Old King Coal
(March 19, 2012) Listen to Energy Probe’s Parker Gallant on “Demon Coal” – in an in-depth look at the fossil fuel that made the industrial revolution happen, it’s demonization in the 21st century, and why coal is still a fuel of the future. Continue reading
Posted in Clean Coal, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
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Lawrence Solomon: New glory for Greece
(February 17, 2012) A deregulated free-market Greece — in tourism, energy, transportation — could transform the broken country. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Natural Gas, Oil
Tagged Cyprus, energy, EU, euro, eurozone, Greece, Greek default, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Mediterranean gas, natural gas, Oil, Turkey
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Lawrence Solomon: The fallout of the Nobel scam of 1946
(February 10, 2012) Scientist’s radiation cover-up might have cost thousands of lives. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Democratic jackpot
The game-changer is “unconventional fossil fuels,” much of it trapped in shale — rock that often contains oil or gas. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged China, fossil fuels, fracking, geopolitics, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Russia, shale gas, Shale Oil, terrorism
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Lawrence Solomon: Divide Libya into its tribal parts
(October 28, 2011) Who should get Libya’s fabulous oil and gas wealth, an amount that could be equivalent to several million dollars per Libyan? Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Arab Spring, civil war, energy, Gaddafi, Lawrence Solomon, libya, Muslim Brotherhood, NATO, Oil, Sharia, tribal, UN
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Ontario Energy Prices: Frankly Bogus
Omitted Costs, Inflated Benefits, a study I co-authored with Glenn Fox for the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society a week ago, has been discovered by the media and the Ministry of Energy. While we will have to wait until October 20th to hear the cabinet appointments by Premier McGuinty, that didn’t stop the Legislature’s most recent Minister of Energy, Brad Duguid from commenting on the study. Continue reading
Ontario’s Power Trip: The $4000 electricity bill
For the average ratepayer, an annual electricity bill will escalate from $1,700 per year to $2,800 by 2015 and by the time the renewables envisaged in the LTEP are largely in place (expected in 2018) an average ratepayer will be paying in excess of $4,000 annually — well over a doubling. Put another way Ontario’s ratepayers will be paying in excess of 40¢ per kWh, placing them on a par with Denmark, which suffers the highest cost of electricity in the developed world. Continue reading
Joubert on climate change science
To the extent that global warming has increased awareness of the environment and encouraged respect for our planet, it is definitely good, but I do not believe it right to create unnecessary fear. To contend that there is a scientific consensus on global warming is outright deception. Continue reading
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