The American Energy Crisis

(Originally posted at Libertarian Animal Dot Blogspot) Dear American Men: The United States of America, and much of Western Civilization, has been suffering through what future historians wil...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2016/10/dear-american-men_22.html

My wife has been busy producing a number of songs and tunes for use in Documentaries. I had not been promoting these as I should lest someone confuse them with me... but that issue has past. He...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2015/05/documentary.html

"OPEC", the former cartel come trade association, has died and Americans have whooped up a cheer. Me thinks this was a case of "be careful what you wish for, you may just get it" (OPEC - Organiza...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2015/01/opec-is-done-and-we-are-really-going-to.html

The furious bear market in world Oil prices took market participants by complete surprise. That's how markets work. Calling tops and crashes is impossible. Bottoms and recoveries are much easier....

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/12/year-end-review-of-data.html

For decades now the American public (and by extension the West and the OECD nations) have been bombarded with "information" regarding what one must do to maintain their heath. Eat right and exerc...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/04/everything-you-have-been-told-about.html

I am going to wander off of the subject of energy and muse a bit about health. I LOVE my Life. This one. Not some wished for existence of perfection. I love the Life I have. Grey hair, flat ...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/04/for-what-its-worth.html

To put the U.S. Oil circumstance into its proper perspective please take a gander at the following graphs:         24 months of data starting January 2012 and ending December 2013 ...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/03/ukraine-crimea-was-about-oil-and-its.html

The possibility that one of the pilots of the missing Malaysian jet committed mass murder/pilot suicide is an ugly prospect - and evidence increasingly points in that direction - though clearly n...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/03/suicide-and-commercial-aviation.html

Regardless of whether or not Putin pushes the Oil export/US$ issue at this time is not the issue. To me, the issue is now reasonably clear. I pointed out in 2 earlier posts, here and here ,  t...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-oil-export-cat-is-out-of-bag.html

The U.S., like it or not, irrespective of whether one is rich or poor, dumb as a bag of hammers or razor sharp, is in the hands of the Oil exporters. Particularly Saudi Arabia and Russia. Especia...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/03/us-is-in-hands-of-putin.html

Personally, I am absolutely sick of hearing about "The Economy".  I cannot conceive of a sillier meme than this thing that gets tossed around as if it was actually of some real importance a...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/03/sick-of-economy.html

 Everything covered in this NYT article I have covered before, except this incredible nugget that most of us have over looked: > A study last year >  found > that driving by young p...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-bother-driving-when-you-could-take.html

Here is an interesting article about the future of cars in our society. The end of the automobile is in sight. Certainly in the lifetime of the Millennials. Maybe in the Life time of the last of...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-re-birth-of-small-city.html

For the first time in decades, U.S. net petroleum imports is sporting a 4 handle for the week  (very bottom, first number on left - 4,825,000 mbpd). The 4 week average is the lowest that I can f...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-4-handle.html

The tumultuous 20th Century came to a close in the giddy environment of the "internet boom". While the Web has caused some to be incredibly wealthy its real and lasting effect, me thinks, is that...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/to-heart-of-matter.html

After noodling the "where is the Oil" (from my previous post) if the U.S. is not importing it I figured that the tanker market would point me in the right direction. After reading this, I think ...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/oil-tanker-daily-rates-lowest-since.html

Oil imports into the U.S. in 2013 fell rather briskly with the percentage rate of change increasing as the year went on. For Q4 and January 2014 Oil imports are sporting a 5 handle (5.6, 5.33, 5....

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/it-seems-that-something-happened-to.html

"Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains" - Rousseau Every day, the average American - with an average IQ of 100 (meaning they can pass the written DMV test on 70% of the attempts) - i...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/living-in-state-of-fear.html

Argentina has gone/will go from being an Oil exporter to an Oil importer in 2014 , and has already gone from being a net exporter of energy to a net importer. Their government can pretend that t...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/argentina-is-next-arab-spring.html

Net Imports of Oil into the U.S. continue to rapidly decline. From a peak of 13,354,000 barrels per day in October of 2005 to November of 2013's rate of 5,334 barrels of oil per day. Yes, t...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/never-underestimate-complexity.html

“In war, the first casualty is Truth” – Aeschylus There is a pitched propaganda battle being fought in the American media today. The 2016 election season is nearly upon us, and the for...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth.html

The Oil Conundrum is doing its thing, reasonably on schedule. The Leftist Media and the tenured political operatives would have you believe that Shale Oil & Gas has solved the energy issue for ...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-tyranny-of-distance-iii.html

Before I get into my post, I wanted to share this article . As gross as it is, considering my experience with C. Diff over the past (more than) several years, people should know just how import...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2013/07/peak-oil-will-not-be-televised.html

"Its the Economy, Stupid!" Was a famous campaign soundbite from a 1990's U.S. presidential election. It seems today that EVERYTHING is the economy. We worry about jobs, the "economy" (whatever ...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-we-work-ourselves-to-death.html

I have to admit that the U.S. Federal Reserve and the various central banks have pulled off what I thought was darn near impossible – they have been able to re-inflate the credit system and...

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/2013/06/normal-0-0-1-836-4767-39-9-5854-11.html