Clayton’s Corner

First things first – my next car will either be all electric (EV) or at least a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle  (PHEV). There are several reasons I support electric cars, the most significant of which is that electric cars utilize resources we have a surplus of (especially natural gas) in lieu of something we have […]

The proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada is stirring up controversy.  While this mine would become the largest lithium mine in the US and provide feedstocks for tens of thousands of electric cars, citizens groups and NGOs have risen up in strong opposition to the mine.  There are three main reasons: (1) Proximity

Cars on roads clogged with refugees crawl at a snail’s pace across the Ukraine border into Poland and Slovakia.  Moving past them at a faster pace are barrels of oil flowing through the Druzhba pipeline on their way to central Europe.  Meanwhile, the West has imposed an assortment of economic sanctions on Russia and has

The libertarian-leaning economist Russ Roberts has published at length about the merits of deregulation and the harms of unnecessary government intervention.  At the same time, he tells of the limitations of laissez-faire economic attitudes and acknowledges legitimate arguments in favor of government regulations.  In what I will refer to the Parable of the Hockey League

Right now, Germany’s gas imports from Russia largely get delivered via pipelines that traverse Ukraine.

What has transpired in the last few weeks with supplies of both oil and natural gas has been described by many analysts as a “perfect storm”.