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Sunday 7th of December 2025

Bullshitters say From day one I wanted a strong military. He doesn't want to see that. … He would like Hillary where she wants to have windmills. He would much rather have that, because energy prices will go up. And Russia as you know, relies very much on energy. Donald Trump, explaining why Vladimir Putin wanted Hillary Clinton and not him to be elected president © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which more Americans work in the solar industry than in fossil fuels: 2 Harper's Index, April 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Last year, natural gas surpassed coal for the first time in U.S. electricity generation, providing 34% of the nation's power, versus 30% for coal, according to the EIA. [U.S. Energy Information Administration] As recently as 2011, coal provided roughly 43% of generation. Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Coal The world's biggest insurers are opening up a new front in efforts to cut down on coal use by refusing to offer cover to miners and power generators that use the polluting fuel. Financial Times, January 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Industrialized nations that utterly depend on the consumption of fossil fuels have not amplified environmental degradation of the natural world. Kathleen Hartnett-White, oil and gas industry propagandist and Donalds Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office responsible for coordinating environmental and energy policies and improving the environment © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The war on coal is over. Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator, announcing his plan to repeal the Clean Power Act which sought to curb emisions from coal-fired power plants © 2017 Kwiple.com
Energy But it [digital messianism] is also built on a  conceit: tech as the industry of industries; the shaper of events. It is a less tenable conceit than it was a month ago. Tech is relevant in Ukraine; see the propaganda war. But next to the existential role of energy, which keeps Russia solvent, and has the west scrambling for alternative sources, what stands out is the modesty of its bearing on events. Silicon Valley is giving history a nudge here and there, no doubt, but not setting its essential course. That is still the role of people who dig stuff out of the ground for fuel. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, March 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Energy  I know of no energy source that equals the desire to get out of somewhere. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, November 28, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Energy According to congressional testimony by Armond Cohen of the Clean Air Task Force, meeting all of the eastern United States' energy needs might require 100,000 square miles of solar panels (an area greater than New England) or more than 800,000 square miles of onshore windmills (Alaska plus California), versus only a bit over 500 square miles of nuclear power plants (the city of Phoenix, Arizona). Given the amount of real estate that solar and wind farms usurp, efforts to place them are running into entirely predictable local resistance, which will only increase as the easiet and cheapest sites are picked off. Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, March 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Energy An utterly crushing day for Big Oil 1) Chevron investors demand emission cuts 2) Dutch court tells Shell to cut emissions by half 3) Exxon shareholders buck the company and elect directors demanding climate action. Thanks to all who fight--you push long enough and dominoes tumble Bill McKibben, 3:27 PM – May 26, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Energy Nuclear power’s biggest environmental challenge is the waste it produces, which requires thousands or tens of thousands of years of safe storage. But there isn’t a lot of it: All of the nuclear produced in the U.S. since the 1950s adds up to about 85,000 tons of material. Compare that with the tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide that would have been produced had that electricity come from fossil fuels instead. Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Energy Shale is unusual in the oil business because of its high decline rates: a typical well produces prolifically for a year before output drops steeply in the second and then settles into a modest and diminishing flow rate thereafter. Just to hold US shale production steady year after year, let alone increase it, requires ever more wells to be drilled. Of more than 14,000 new wells that had been expected this year, 85 per cent were needed to match last year’s level. Financial Times, March 30, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Energy So what is Dr Copper's message for the energy transition? Unless solutions are found quickly, which will be challenging, insufficient supply of minerals risks short-circuiting the drive to achieve net zero by 2050. Daniel Yergin, Financial Times, July 14, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Energy Thanks to an unseasonably warm winter in  Europe, Putin's moment of maximum leverage has passed uneventfully, and … the biggest  victim of Putin's gas gambit was Russia itself.  Putin's natural gas leverage is now noneistent, as the world — and, most importantly, Europe — no longer needs Russian gas. Far from freezing to death, Europe quickly secured alternative gas supplies by pivoting to global liquefied natural gas (LNG). …  Putin … has zero remaining leverage and no way to replace his erstwhile primary customer; he is finding out the hard way that it is much easier for consumers to replace unreliable commodity suppliers than it is for suppliers to find new markets.  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Foreign Policy, Jan. 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming Q: Why don't they have any solar power in Florida? A: Because they'll be underwater before the payback period is over. Joke among green energy advocates © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Abolish all subsidies and tax breaks for discovering, extracting, refining, distributing and exporting fossil fuels © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Leave fossil fuels in the ground © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require American resource companies to disclose payments they've made to foreign governments to obtain drilling or mining concessions or to service operations © 2017 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Drop a rock in a stream and the stream flows around it. Put eager candidates and enormous interested spenders together, and trouble will follow, as it has. Look no further than the corruption of American politics on climate change by the fossil fuel industry. Sheldon Whitehouse © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Increasing global warming by increasing emissions from coal-fired power plants is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Limiting public participation in managing public lands in order to enhance the influence of oil and gas companies is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Repealing anti-corruption rules requiring energy companies to disclose payments to foreign governments is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Renewables are a false hope that simply won't work. … intermittent renewables are parasitic on back-up power from reliable fossil fuels. Kathleen Hartnett-White, oil and gas industry propagandist and Donalds Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office responsible for coordinating environmental and energy policies and improving the environment © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say And so, my hat's off to you for taking that stance and presenting a clear message around the world that America's going to continue to lead in the area of energy. Rick Perry, congratulating Trump on withdrawing from the Paris Agreement to mitigate the effects of climate change © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Joe Biden has destroyed U.S. energy independence. Marsha Blackburn © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Thank god for air conditioning. Let's talk about refrigerators. I personally like my refrigerator. I know you all like yours.  What about washing machines and dryers? Lord please God don't make me scrub clothes in a bucket and have to hang them out on a line when we switch over to wind turbines and solar panels. I'm gonna be really pissed off about that. I mean, how absurd is this? I like the lights on. I wanna stay up later at night. I don't want to have to go to bed when the sun sets. It's so silly! I mean, all of this is insane. Marjorie Taylor Greene © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Ukraine War I started to think about the parallels between climate change and this war and it's clear that the roots of both these threats to humanity are found in fossil fuels. Burning oil, gas and coal is causing warming and impacts we need to adapt to. And Russia sells these resources and uses the money to buy weapons. Other countries are dependent  upon these fossil fuels; they don't make them- selves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.  It's clear we cannot continue to live this way; it will destroy our civilization. Svitlana Krakovska, Ukrainian climate scientist and member of the  UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, quoted in The Guardian, March 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com