The War Against Oil

With America choosing, stupidly, calling oil “energy” it’s time to admit that China won the War Against Oil. (Illustration from ChatGPT.)...

When the economic history of our time is written, I’m afraid that Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan will be...

Trump is a symptom of a global phenomenon. In 2024, when it’s obvious the world as we know it will...

An investor told me recently he wants to back Trump because it will be good for “energy” stocks. Trump has...

Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave us our first Clue that the current boom in Generative AI and data...

American urban design changed radically after World War II. Cars like wide roads. They’re noisy, they’re dirty. But we’re locked...

A hallmark of the “golden age of science fiction” is the idea of a strategic metal shortage. That’s why Allen...

Big tech is headed for a crash, worse than the one that caused the dot-bomb a quarter century ago. The...

In 2009, when this site was still called a-clue.com, I rededicated this blog to “the war against oil.”  At the...

One point lost in our arguments about transportation is how electricity scales in ways that engines powered by fossil fuels...