Category Archives: Economics
The end of airlines
Here is the airline’s business model and problem in a nutshell: use cheap fuel to propel people between healthy economies. Economies have flatlined, and fuel is becoming too expensive to burn. The global aviation business model is dead.
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Posted in Economics
Tagged aviation, british airways, collapse, oil price, Peak Oil, strike
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A smaller world
Leading Canadian economist, Jeff Rubin, sets out the premise of his book “Why your World is about to get a whole lot smaller” in this 45 minute video from 2009′s The Business of Climate Change Conference. We aren’t running out … Continue reading
The story of cap + trade
I have to admit, I waver on Climate Change. But the methodology employed to subvert climate change intervention, and in particular the distractions created by them to real action, are equally applicable to energy security interventions and efforts to expose … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Videos
Tagged Carbon Cycle, climate, Climate Change, Emissions trading, finance, Greenhouse gas, trade
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Head in the sand
The International Energy Agency was established in the wake of the 1974 oil crisis. Its functions are to provide authoritative information on the supply of oil, and energy policy advice based on it to its member nations. The IEA has … Continue reading