The Petroleum Truth Report

Birol should but will not state that the only solution to climate change is greatly reduce consumption of all energy, not just fossil fuels.

Most people and leaders are energy-blind. Most of our approaches don’t have a map so we’re lost in the wilderness.

The additional land use for wnd and solar is approximately 24 million square kilometers or an area about the combined size of Russia and Australia. The cost would be more than $51 trillion.

The IMF’s message is opportunistic, journalistically dishonest and more appropriate to Fox News than to an international opinion leader and supposedly honest broker.

What perplexes me most about mainstream analysts is their certitude about reductionist cause-and-effect axioms that become memes when enough of them repeat what the other said.

Simply switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is not a solution to climate change, certainly not in our time window of urgency.

The idea that electric vehicles may displace gasoline reflects a fundamental ignorance about the oil refining process. The idea that a green energy transition is reshaping society ignores the way the world really works.

I just don’t see any extraordinary structural change about to happen that is outside of what is normal and expected for oil markets.

Net Zero is a naive and unscientific fantasy that is largely untethered to physical reality.

An energy transition will have little net effect on society’s material footprint on the planet.