I honestly yearn for a day when there won't be anything exciting to write about in energy, so I could focus on my gardening and fiction-writing endeavours.
““Surplus fossil fuel supplies would likely lead to lower prices…” Yes, yes - but that’s just the starting-pistol in the supply/demand/price market process, next comes reduction of supply and then up go prices again.
Yes, it seems to me the praise of hallucinogenics is another step in the overall effort to keep the hoi palloi stoned and stupid. While the latter is being handled with aplomb by the ever failing "educational" system, the former gets occasional prods - now that MaryJane has been shown to be wonderful and harmless and a beautiful thing - why not hallucinogens?
I await the day there is a version of Frosted Flakes - "now with a hint of fentanyl!"
There has been some promising research into using micro-doses of hallucinogens to help with some mental health issues. Not enough to go on trips. And it had nothing to do with turning folks into Climate zombies, which seems to be the goal of the proponents quoted in the above article.
The sample size of the experiments has been way too small for any kind of conclusiveness, though. This stuff was getting a tiny bit of coverage ten or more years ago.
These jokers seem to be siezing on this promising relief for debilitated people and distorting it into a tool for their climate agenda.
There are huge numbers of therapists using hallucinogenics in their practices via micro dosing but also actual trips. Ketamine therapy is the big deal but so are mushrooms, LSD, peyote, which are all the new hallowed ground in therapy. I have an acquaintance who has done scads of research, attended seminars, gone on guided acid trips, etc in trying to develop psychological help for her clients. But she also really wants to believe in the course of action. Maybe acid trips are useful psychologically. But given that the soft sciences are becoming less scientific by the hour because of a sea of bad causation studies and a lack of sober research, repeated ketamine use might just be a bad idea. As John Ioannidis has shown over and over, it's a short distance between science and scientism or out and out fraudulent science.
Well written you! I am going to quote the following (with attribution) as it resonates. "It is always a profound experience to see fiction turn into reality. What I would like to know is why it is always the crushing dystopias and not the zombie apocalypse fiction that turns into reality."
Thanks Irina! You've demonstrated again that AU (Actual Unreality) is much more fun than VR (Virtual Reality), also much cheaper and no headset required.
Re Huxley, a brave new world is only possible with a cowardly herd is how I see it. As for various psychotropic substances helping in the transition efforts, I would rather our various decision makers are given copious doses of ketamine. That should slow them down a bit.
Just been having a similar conversation with a guy who has first hand knowledge of the employment situation on the Northern Alaskan oilfields and he swears that so many mandated jabbees are now on disablement it is highly unlikely there will be a rush to do it all again. Here's to hope. Great stuff Slav!
In the movie The Jerk Steve Martin is working in a gas station and a guy is shooting at him but keeps missing Steve and hitting the oil cans behind Steve , and Steve thinks they are trying to kill the cans not him ! This comes to mind concerning this situation .
It's interesting how money can get people's tongues to wag in any direction and almost each direction at the same time!
Sad to hear that Orsted is not going to bankrupt themselves over hydrogen. I was hoping - since one of our neighbors signed with them... we're trying to land lock him!
I am thinking about "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" - 1975 - an iconicly depressing movie, now we seem to be living it without the walls of the institution.
More coffee needed!
Also sad to hear that "consumer demands and political regulations are in sync...." huh....???? Is that an oxymoron? Or just coming from a moron?
Well thanks for an eye opening article, if not a "run for the hills" before they get you article!
Fabulous quote in your last paragraph which ties in nicely with a WSJ editorial today. Governor Slick and his minions just keep that drumbeat going:
“You’re seeing gas prices drop across the rest of the country, but spike in California,” Mr. Newsom declared on Monday as he signed a bill imposing onerous new mandates on refineries. Oil companies “buy all these ads saying somehow it’s California’s fault. They’ve been manipulating you. They’ve been lying to you.”
The truth is that California’s gasoline prices are on average $1.47 a gallon higher than the national average owing to its gas taxes—the highest in the country—and environmental regulations, including cap-and-trade and low-carbon fuel standard. High operating costs have spurred seven California refineries to cease production over the last decade. On Thursday, Phillips 66 announced plans to cease operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery, which constitutes about 8% of the state’s refining capacity
I think I have an alternative opinion as to who's been lying. I'd be glad to let him know.
Was just reading an article on the Dailysceptic.org (https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/13/buy-woke-go-broke-the-failure-of-esg-investing) and this quote seemed appropriate to Irina’s article today. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” Milton Friedman
I honestly yearn for a day when there won't be anything exciting to write about in energy, so I could focus on my gardening and fiction-writing endeavours.
From one writer to another: “Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.” - Voltaire
How well said. Thank you.
Thank you, Ian. It is a hard-hitting quote, for sure.
““Surplus fossil fuel supplies would likely lead to lower prices…” Yes, yes - but that’s just the starting-pistol in the supply/demand/price market process, next comes reduction of supply and then up go prices again.
Yes, well, apparently Birol et al disagree because why not? They create reality, after all.
“Hallucinogens are apparently great at making people feel “more connected to nature and [demonstrate] proenvironmental behavior.”
LSD was so good at connecting its users to nature they believed they were birds and flew out of upstairs windows.
Thank you Irina for another amusing report from the asylum and the capers of its inmates. It’s Psychedelic Climate Week every week.
Yes, it seems to me the praise of hallucinogenics is another step in the overall effort to keep the hoi palloi stoned and stupid. While the latter is being handled with aplomb by the ever failing "educational" system, the former gets occasional prods - now that MaryJane has been shown to be wonderful and harmless and a beautiful thing - why not hallucinogens?
I await the day there is a version of Frosted Flakes - "now with a hint of fentanyl!"
That day may not be too far away, I'm afraid.
There has been some promising research into using micro-doses of hallucinogens to help with some mental health issues. Not enough to go on trips. And it had nothing to do with turning folks into Climate zombies, which seems to be the goal of the proponents quoted in the above article.
The sample size of the experiments has been way too small for any kind of conclusiveness, though. This stuff was getting a tiny bit of coverage ten or more years ago.
These jokers seem to be siezing on this promising relief for debilitated people and distorting it into a tool for their climate agenda.
It makes sense -- poison is in the dose, as it were. But yes, the radicals would be happy to abuse the benefits.
There are huge numbers of therapists using hallucinogenics in their practices via micro dosing but also actual trips. Ketamine therapy is the big deal but so are mushrooms, LSD, peyote, which are all the new hallowed ground in therapy. I have an acquaintance who has done scads of research, attended seminars, gone on guided acid trips, etc in trying to develop psychological help for her clients. But she also really wants to believe in the course of action. Maybe acid trips are useful psychologically. But given that the soft sciences are becoming less scientific by the hour because of a sea of bad causation studies and a lack of sober research, repeated ketamine use might just be a bad idea. As John Ioannidis has shown over and over, it's a short distance between science and scientism or out and out fraudulent science.
Good point about LSD.
Well written you! I am going to quote the following (with attribution) as it resonates. "It is always a profound experience to see fiction turn into reality. What I would like to know is why it is always the crushing dystopias and not the zombie apocalypse fiction that turns into reality."
Be my guest. I am one very disgruntled zombie fiction fan. :D
used it on linked in, thanks
Thanks Irina! You've demonstrated again that AU (Actual Unreality) is much more fun than VR (Virtual Reality), also much cheaper and no headset required.
Well said, Ian!
Re Huxley, a brave new world is only possible with a cowardly herd is how I see it. As for various psychotropic substances helping in the transition efforts, I would rather our various decision makers are given copious doses of ketamine. That should slow them down a bit.
The pandemic hysteria demonstrated the herd is right there, alas. But I daresay it may be shrinking before our eyes.
Just been having a similar conversation with a guy who has first hand knowledge of the employment situation on the Northern Alaskan oilfields and he swears that so many mandated jabbees are now on disablement it is highly unlikely there will be a rush to do it all again. Here's to hope. Great stuff Slav!
Thank you. There are a lot of people who should be in jail for what they did to millions of unwitting human guinea pigs.
In the movie The Jerk Steve Martin is working in a gas station and a guy is shooting at him but keeps missing Steve and hitting the oil cans behind Steve , and Steve thinks they are trying to kill the cans not him ! This comes to mind concerning this situation .
I've missed this one. Sounds like a must-watch.
That's a fantastic analogy.
Trying to get my head around the "new realities".
More coffee needed!
It's interesting how money can get people's tongues to wag in any direction and almost each direction at the same time!
Sad to hear that Orsted is not going to bankrupt themselves over hydrogen. I was hoping - since one of our neighbors signed with them... we're trying to land lock him!
I am thinking about "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" - 1975 - an iconicly depressing movie, now we seem to be living it without the walls of the institution.
More coffee needed!
Also sad to hear that "consumer demands and political regulations are in sync...." huh....???? Is that an oxymoron? Or just coming from a moron?
Well thanks for an eye opening article, if not a "run for the hills" before they get you article!
Yes, money has interesting effects on people's principles, doesn't it...
So good, Irina, so good.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot, Irina.
Especially for the "switch direction in your digestive tract" bit.
Now I have to clean the coffee off of my keyboard. ;-)
Well done.
Agree that one was priceless.
Our dear Birol is a veritable stream of inspiration.
But not when it comes to getting a decent anagram out of his name.
Oh, well, we can't have everything, alas. At least we have his "music"!
Yes it truly is a disease not a skill or talent!!
Fabulous quote in your last paragraph which ties in nicely with a WSJ editorial today. Governor Slick and his minions just keep that drumbeat going:
“You’re seeing gas prices drop across the rest of the country, but spike in California,” Mr. Newsom declared on Monday as he signed a bill imposing onerous new mandates on refineries. Oil companies “buy all these ads saying somehow it’s California’s fault. They’ve been manipulating you. They’ve been lying to you.”
The truth is that California’s gasoline prices are on average $1.47 a gallon higher than the national average owing to its gas taxes—the highest in the country—and environmental regulations, including cap-and-trade and low-carbon fuel standard. High operating costs have spurred seven California refineries to cease production over the last decade. On Thursday, Phillips 66 announced plans to cease operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery, which constitutes about 8% of the state’s refining capacity
I think I have an alternative opinion as to who's been lying. I'd be glad to let him know.
I bet every refinery is either for sale (no buyers) or on the brink of closure. That’d be funny.
That man doesn't just have no shame. He has negative values of shame.
I compare him to the Christian Bale character in “American Psycho”.
Yes, good comparison. Except Bale was easy on the eye.
The bobbleheads are BS-CRAZY when straight, I can't wait to see them perform under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. 🤪😵🤪
Was just reading an article on the Dailysceptic.org (https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/13/buy-woke-go-broke-the-failure-of-esg-investing) and this quote seemed appropriate to Irina’s article today. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” Milton Friedman
...the affliction has been identified and even has a name - it’s called “more money than brains disease…..”
...good article Irina....