Sitemap - 2022 - Irina Slav on energy

It's a wrap

The BAB chat: Big banks and ESG

Phasing out the EU

Heat pump or fire

Reign of confusion

Woe is tanker insurers

The BAB chat: Investment in energy technology

The patriotism card and why it's not an ace

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: Plastic rights

Vanguard exits net-zero alliance

Unity, solidarity, and lots of wind and solar

Europe, the Coal Fairy

The BAB chat: Desperation

When the bough breaks

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: EV horror in Switzerland

A rock-hard landing

The breaking point of Big Business

The BAB chat: Looming diesel shortage

King LNG

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: Solar power for the win

Subsidies+windfall taxes

The price cap we have all been waiting for

Nothing but good news from Europe. Kind of.

The BAB chat: COP27

The end of the shale revolution

The blackmail pros

Stuck in the middle: EV makers' existential crisis

The BAB chat: World organisations and energy

Game of Credits

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: COP27

The good news of the year

Embarrassment as an art form

Cognitive dissonance starts taking its toll

The BAB chat: Oil prices, politics, and everything

Something freakish this way comes

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: If I were an oil CEO

Winter's around the corner What do you do?

Diesel cows, stable doors and bolting horses

Twist and squirm

"People will burn anything"

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: It's all the other guy's fault

The hardest lesson

The fools' parade

Darker diesel days

The BAB chat: The politics of energy

Double-standard trouble

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: The end of farming

Price caps and consumption cuts

A week of April 1sts

Europe's gas storage is full. So?

The BAB chat: Energy diversification

How to lose friends and fail voters

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: Sanctions work

War on art

The world as a sitcom

The BAB chat: OPEC, BRICS and new world order

Transitory transition

Gas will tear us apart

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: Gassy German business

OPEC blew the U.S. off. What next?

Climate playlist gets new hit

That awkward "can't-win" moment

The BAB Chat: OPEC and uncertainty

Winds! Winds!

Pipeline sabotage

The pits of despair

The metal that launched a thousand turbines

The BAB chat: A battle of narratives

The road to hell

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: Energy conservation

The best thing about electricity

18th December

On the Barricades interview

Down the drain we go

The BAB chat: The EU power grab

"There's no bailout coming" for Europe

Slav's Energy Stand-Up: Price caps

Energy conservation

Winter survival tips

Dark diesel days

The BAB chat: Price caps

Unity. Solidarity. Breakdown.

What is net zero

Facts, fiction, and Fatih

19 degrees of panic

The BAB chat: Sanctions backfiring spectacularly

Price caps all around

Introducing Slav's Energy Stand-Up

The pitfalls of selective sensory disability

The Blame Games

The BAB chat: Does Europe have a plan?

How to run yourself into the ground in 5 easy steps

Will Europeans take to the streets?

Let's all go mental

Decarbonise this

The BAB chat: sanctions and supply security

If you can't compete with it, ban it

The optimal energy mix

The big energy embarrassment

Crap, meet fan

The BAB chat: How ugly is shale, really?

The toxic side of the sun

Life with energy scarcity 101

Drillers just won't drill

The BAB chat: Energy disorganisation

Africa and the developed world's double energy standards

Who likes EVs?

Interesting times

Public opinion and how (not) to use it

The BAB chat: Wind, solar, and the rest of it

Out of copper, out of transition

How much renewable power is too much?

The greatest European gas show

The BAB chat: Evolution or involution

The joys and sorrows of friend-shoring

Week off

Spin until you crash

Energizing America podcast

The insurance trap

The BAB chat: Conflicts and strife

If

Who will suffer the most?

Recession and solar panels

A wind oddity

The BAB chat: ESG investing and changing times

Cold carbon feet

Where are we going to be in 5 years?

A 10-point plan for a better transition

The very worst oil scenario ever

The BAB chat: Premature transition

Transition, interrupted

How do we overcome the energy crisis?

So much for noble priorities

A symphony of panic

The BAB chat: Hidden strategies

Suppliers vs consumers: game on

Stupid or evil

The transition delusion

Interview: Brendan Long and the difference between energy facts and fantasy

Asking for blood from a stone

The BAB chat: Spare oil capacity

The curious case of the European ICE car ban

Masks on ruminants

Those whom the gods wish to destroy

The gas giant in the room

The BAB chat: OPEC, oil prices, and price forecasts

A carousel of consequences

The sanction countdown has begun

Battle of the sources

Interview: David Yager and the evolution of the energy transition narrative

It's embargo time

The BAB chat: Oil price forecasts and fundamentals

Game of responsibilities

Best energy joke

The race is on for most outlandish energy statement

The Barricade interview: EU energy policies and gas

From oil to eternity: unleash those renewables

The BAB chat: fun with ESG

Those pesky internal combustion engines

Has the energy-saving trend helped us use less energy?

How to lose voters and alienate everyone

Update: A word of appreciation and some news

To price-cap or to embargo, that is the question

The BAB chat: energy forecasts

John Polomny interview: Energy policies

Politicians got to the demand side of the energy equation. Lucky us.

Most ludicrous energy idea of the week

From arrogance to insanity: the EU path

A high level of scientific skill

The BAB chat: prices and shortages

Power. Renewable power.

Inflation: How much is too much?

You can't make this up: a week of energy headlines

Interview: Margaret P. Graham and the importance of reliable energy

Europe's LNG pipe dream

The BAB chat: Halving oil and gas demand

The Great Scolding

Planned obsolescence and resource overconsumption

Too proud for this gas

Liquefied natural wind

The BAB chat: Energy affordability

The horrors of energy reality

Energy education

EV makers challenge EU domination in long-term planning

The tough spot between wishful thinking and reality

The BAB chat: Energy diversity

The Interior strikes back

Don't drive, don't shower

Energy transition in agony

How the EU tried to pull a Biden on OPEC

Beware incompetents in power

Praise the EU gas replacement plan: Part 3

Praise the EU's gas replacement plan: Part 2

The BAB chat: Energy security

Praise the EU's gas replacement plan: Part 1

The wind-and-solar song keeps booming despite false notes

OPEC just had enough

Updated: Why planning ahead is a good thing and other lessons for 10-year-olds

The BAB chat: Supply chain transformation

A futility-scale experiment in metals and magic

The BAB chat: the conflict between state policies and actual needs

Cap in hand in the Middle East

Another week, another 10-point plan from IEA

The BAB chat: Decisions in the energy sector

It's raining energy taboos

Interview: Doug Sandridge and the hurdles to net zero

The BAB chat: IEA's Europe energy plan

Brussels, we have a land problem

More panic is exactly what the world needs right now. Let's thank the IPCC and the EU.

The BAB chat: Ukraine war implications for energy

Assumption: the mother of interesting times

Interview: Peter Bryant on the energy transition

The BAB chat: metals and minerals shortages

Green stick or green carrot. Or neither.

The BAB chat: energy shortages

The modern reality divorcees

The BAB chat: Big Oil and renewables

The green hydrogen dream and some realities

Weekly BAB chat: metals and the transition

ESG investment: virtue signalling at its best

The parallel realities of the energy world

Today, it's gas. Tomorrow, lithium.

The Power Hungry Podcast: Ideology, energy, and everything

The energy transition has a nutritional problem

Here's why everyone should watch Assassin's Creed - Part 2

Here's why everyone should watch Assassin's Creed - Part 1

The green commandments and some fun facts

Outrageous portions