That's the equation fossil
fuel companies really don't want the public to understand.
Not exact matches
Put simply, it's
really hard to build a strong
company when all of your competitors are giving away free shit
fueled by venture capital chasing winner - take - all returns
I started referring to my concoction as «golden
fuel,» because it started to
really feel like the catalyst that
fueled my ability to do all the other things I needed to do to get my health back (full disclosure: I loved my blend so much I ended up starting a
company to share it with other people).
But today's Friday's Find
really gets me meowing, because finally there's a
company that creates baking mixes that taste great and
fuel the body well.
Plenty of
companies including Honda, Ford and Chrysler have offered CVTs, and they work fine, but the long - touted
fuel - economy improvement that they once promised has never
really materialized.
It's amusing to see the
company try to appeal to the practical - minded shopper with touts of
fuel efficiency, safety, and rear - seat DVD entertainment systems when, in the end, they're
really just a bunch of hooligans.
The Mazda 3 makes use of a
really interesting series of mechanical tweaks that the
company calls «SkyActiv» mechanics, which all act to improve the
fuel economy and performance of the vehicle over a standard midsize sedan.
Very good piece — but when dealing with the kind of massive public relations campaign being run by the last holdouts (fossil
fuel investors, coal
companies, and fossil
fuel - dependent nation - states), it
really is unwise to go along with their «list of questions.»
Berman told VICE late last year that these lawsuits have «the potential
really to bring down fossil
fuel companies.»
It's got the potential
really to bring down the fossil
fuel companies.»
We need to be investigating nonfossil
fuel energy sources far more,
really leaning in on finding more efficient uses of the fossil
fuels we do have to use, and legislating ways of making sure there are incentives for people and
companies to do so.
So when utilities and fossil
fuel companies urge our political leaders to keep energy costs low for the poor folks, we should recognize that what they
really want is to keep profits high for themselves.
What I
really can not figure out though is where this hatred of fossil
fuel and car
companies has come from.
DOI's budget successfully greases the wheels for more government giveaways to fossil
fuel companies that will facilitate additional extraction — but it also slashes support for renewables, the kind of energy that America
really needs.
What comes after fossil
fuel powered containers shipping is a pet topic of mine to contemplate and a new story from CNN on what the folks at B9 Energy (primarily a wind power
company...) are planning in the way of carbon - neutral three - masted cargo ships is
really pretty inspiring — even if some of the react and contextual quotes in the article show a decided lack of vision.
But even then: Perhaps with improved
fuel efficiency we can just keep stretching oil
company profits out longer and longer as the world's finite supplies of oil start
really dwindling down and prices just rise.
Do you
really not understand the motivation for fossil
fuel companies to keep the value of their proven reserves from going to zero, tomthegreekguy?
In fact, unlike most
companies, it was not
really the
company's home success that drove its foreign expansion — it was foreign expansion that
fueled its meteoric rise and underpinned its blockbuster flotation.