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Showing posts with label petroleum industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petroleum industry. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Aiming for the maximum

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In what can only be described as a confluence of terrible news, catastrophically strong Hurricane Florence is now taking direct aim at North...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

David 1, Goliath 0

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There's been so much bad news lately that I've several times felt like I needed to avoid all forms of media not to go into a full-bl...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Oil prophecies

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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy  is the practice of picking out the data points, after the fact, that support whatever your claim is.  The na...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Debate debacle

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I have a particular aversion to seeing people humiliate themselves.  I remember as a kid watching sitcoms on television, and when I knew a c...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Wagering everything we've got

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Prior to the 20th century, lung cancer and emphysema were rare diseases.  When someone contracted either of these diseases, doctors took not...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Corporate-run small government

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Some days, being an optimist is a losing proposition. In previous posts, I have outlined the evidence supporting the claim that hydrofrack...
Monday, January 26, 2015

A risk too far

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Assessing risk is a complicated thing.  The technical definition of risk -- that it is equal to the statistical probability of exposure mult...
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