Robert Bryce has been writing about energy, power and politics for more than 30 years. His first book, Pipe Dreams, spotlighted the rise and fall of Enron. His sixth and most recent is A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. He writes regularly on Substack.
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“Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet the United Kingdom refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the World.” Donald Trump said this month on Truth Social. It is, to use the President’s phrase, “Tragic!!!” But the necessity of oil hasn’t always been recognized. Back in 2008, while running for
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Trump has signalled that the Middle East war could be ‘over soon’ and pledged to lift sanctions after talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Freddy Gray is joined by Jacob Heilbrunn and Robert Bryce to discuss why Trump was potentially unprepared for Iran’s retaliation, what could come from the talks with Putin, and why Britain
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Just two years ago, Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors, declared: “We believe in an all-electric future.” She went on to claim that the challenges her company was facing in the EV market were merely temporary bumps on the road to net zero. But as Bob Dylan famously observed, things have changed. On January
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More than any conflict in history, the Russia-Ukraine war has been about electricity
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The offshore and onshore wind sectors are in full-blown panic mode
