Category: oil

BP’s Dumb Investors

The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.

The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.

It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.

Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?

I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers.

Why good people do bad things

This is the second of my bare-knuckle interviews with policy makers.

For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.

An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster

The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.

Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.

We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.

The rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud.

One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth

We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply

BP is working with a genocidal government

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster

Is a life without fossil fuel possible?