It's Like a Bad High School Math Problem
Oil and Oceans Don't Mix. From Mining News. “If oil gushes into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 60,000 barrels per day, and it takes 84 days to achieve a capability of “process” the spilled oil at a...
View ArticleCrisis (Mis) Management and the Gulf Oil Spill
What BP and the Government Could Have Done and Should Be Doing (updated 10/7/10) The handling of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is a textbook study of how not to manage a crisis. The government...
View ArticleThe Deepwater Horizon – The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Oil Eating Bacteria The good news is that newly discovered bacteria biodegrade oil in the oceans, and have been chowing down on the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon (Earth and Sky, NPR, PBS,...
View ArticleSustainable Investing
To paraphrase Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, “Buying a good company at a good price is a good idea. Buying a great company at a bargain price is better.” But to note this in light of L’ Affaire...
View ArticleEarth Day, 2011, Where Are We?
Earth from Space, courtesy of the American taxpayer. Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC Tweet Earth Day, 2010, I looked to the future on Popular Logistics. In 2009, I...
View ArticleKeynes, Reluctance to hire, & 21ST Century Energy
in black and white, because some ideas are. Tweet During the Great Depression the Classical Economists said “Unemployment is voluntary. Business owners will not voluntarily keep the means of...
View ArticleGDP or GPI? – My metric is better than yours.
As any freshman economics student should know, the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, is a measure of spending, derived from the Gross National Product, GNP, defined by Simon Kuznets during the Depression...
View ArticleGold Bricks and Sink-Holes – The Risk & Reward of Fossil Fuel, Solar & Wind
On Dec. 21, 2012, with virtual portfolios of 7 sustainable energy and 7 fossil fuel companies, I launched the Popular Logistics Sustainable Energy simulation, here. On Feb. 8, 2013, after 6 weeks,...
View ArticleReuters: “First spill trial witness: BP put cost cuts over safety”
Deepwater Horizon Oil Slick, May 10, 2010. From Reuters reporting on the BP oil spill trial; First spill trial witness: BP put cost cuts over safety. BP Plc fostered a culture that put cost-cutting...
View ArticleEnergy Portfolios – Simple Analysis re the Fossil Fuel Portfolio
The Deepwater Horizon Spill “You can’t have oil without oil spills.” – Markwayne Mullin, R, Oklahoma. (Official / GovTrack) Wind and Sun Won’t Spill In a period when the Dow Industrials rose 30%, the...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon may cost BP $53.8 Billion – 43.1% of it’s current value
Deepwater Horizon Spill in 2010. Photo: Gerald Herbert, AP. 11 Crew were lost in the explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010. In addition, roughly 5.2 million barrels of oil...
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