We need to learn quickly to keep up with the massive change around us so we don't get run over. We need to outrun change.
I followed a link from one article, to another, and to yet another site. There I found a blogger at the site Hogewash.com with this tagline:
Never pick fight with a man who buys pixels by the terabyte.
There’s two funny things in that line that got me chuckling.
Via Meadia talks about new tech that could go around the traditional credit card payment model: Startups Threaten Visa and MasterCard.
He mentions this article at Quartz: Why the two hottest US startups in payments might collaborate to marginalize Visa and MasterCard
Here’s the short version:
Continue reading “Disruptions on the near horizon for Visa and Mastercard”
There is an old saying to describe someone who is brand new on the job. They are wet behind the ears. I’m so new to energy issues I need to towel off a while so I can move up to the level of merely wet-behind-the-ears.
But I’m learning fast. I hope.
If you’ve read many posts here, you know I haven’t found anything from the Peak Oil school of thought that makes any sense at all. Quite the contrary, it is nonstop foolishness to me.
Continue reading “New description for the debate over oil – Cornucopians vs Peak Oil”
Incredible growth in shale production, both oil and gas, starting to have an impact on geopolitics. In his Wall Street Journal column, John Bussey expands on the idea: Shale: A New Kingmaker in Energy Geopolitics. He describes some of the ways that a dramatic increase in U.S. production is changing the world’s political dynamics.
One big change is the drop in oil imports:
Check out the importance of the U.S. constitution in the efforts to ban hydraulic fracturing within the city limits of Las Vegas, NM. That’s a small town in New Mexico, not the gambling capital.
Here’s the money quote in an article in the Albuquerque Journal, Group Seeks To Prohibit Fracking from Ms. Hern, a board member of the group which helped write a law which would have banned fracking inside city limits:
Asked about the constitutionality of the ordinance, Hern said, “What people don’t understand is sometimes we have to step outside the boundaries of the Constitution to get things done. Laws are made to protect corporations and we need laws that protect Mother Earth – earth, air and water.”
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