July 29th, 2026, in the Modern era, as the Wall Street Journal reports today’s news, the headlines are worth time-stamping as an archive — The politics (watch out for that left turn), and AI (oh open-source Anthropic), and historic wildfires in Europe (but nada about the clear and present security dangers of, uh, climate change) […]
Category: Oil/Gas
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Oil & Gas Companies Report New Profit Records
So for the oil/gas industry, judging by profits reported Q1 2023 for Q1 / Q4 2022, this past year was the best ever. Of course, the accounting doesn’t take ‘externality’ costs of emissions into account, nor does the accounting calculate the costs of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions
