Why “Green” Energy Is Futile, In One Lesson
Image: New York Eco-Extremists Versus The Middle Class “Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.” – Top Google engineers “We get a tax credit if we […]
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Heartland: Special Edition Devoted to the Green New Deal
“Green jobs” = Government (taxpayer) financed “jobs”, i.e. bigger government and higher taxes. Reposted from The Heartland Institute By H. Sterling Burnett The much-hyped Green New Deal (GND) is being […]
Carbon Tax Ignorance
By Craig Rucker ~ PA Pundits – International There’s a new push on to institute a carbon tax in America. This is folly. Bi-partisan folly. The carbon tax folks have compiled […]
The Green New Deal: It’s Worse Than You Think
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ PA Pundits – International The New Year is off to a rollicking start with a partial government shutdown in Washington affecting 800,000 federal workers, riots all across France, […]
Funding The Climate-Industrial Complex
By Tom D Tamarkin Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens of thousands of new businesses worldwide. The total Climate-Industrial Complex is […]
Preening Macron is learning to his cost that you can’t save the planet on the back of the poor
By Paul Homewood – NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOWS THAT A nice, concise piece by Ross Clark (at least until the final paragraph!) What a wonderful irony that, […]
‘GREEN’ Energy Poverty : Thousands Dying Because They Can’t Afford Heating Bills
Why is one older person dying every seven minutes during the winter? | Dawn Foster | Society | The Guardian “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent […]
France is Scrapping Global Warming Taxes that the UN Thinks Should be Doubled – The World Is Losing Interest In The Climate Scare
Limiting CO2 is limiting life, a new way for the Communists to achieve mass murder and genocide without having to put up all those pesky gulags. Of course, the […]
The Carbon Tax Scam – Energy And Environmental Newsletter – December 3rd 2018 by PA Pundits – International
Anyone who questions the validity of Bruce Yandle’s Bootlegger and Baptist theory of Public Choice needs to look no further than the Climate Leadership Council and its carbon dividend […]
Unplug Electric Vehicle Subsidies And Let Consumers Decide
“The subsidies accrue to carmakers and America’s wealthiest households, which can also afford an electric vehicle without any help from other taxpayers,” writes Nicolas Loris. (Photo: EXTREME-PHOTOGRAPHER/Getty Images) By Nicolas […]
RET Regrets: Nothing to Show for Wind & Solar Surge Except Rocketing Prices & Supply Chaos
Image: Climate Alarmism Meets Energy Realism: Climate Scientists Reject Wind & Solar & Demand Nuclear Powered Future By Stop These Things Thanks to an obsession with wind and solar Australians […]
What Next For U.S. Climate And Energy Policies?
By Paul Driessen ~ The “Blue Wave” never really reached shore, the U.S. Senate is still in Republican hands, the House of Representatives flipped to Democratic control, Trump era deregulation and […]
Green Energy is the Perfect Scam – Energy And Environmental Newsletter – November 12th 2018
Image: Federal renewable energy subsidies reduce reliability, hinder the market By Norman Rogers Green energy is an incredible money-making scam. The promoters of green energy make billions of dollars promoting […]
Twilight of the Green Follies
By Alex Alexiev For more than two and a half centuries, human kind has lived under an irreconcilable dichotomy – the benevolent revolution we call the enlightenment, and the inevitable […]
The U.S. is in a geopolitical mess over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
By Todd Royal Since hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has upended geopolitics with record exploration and production of shale reserves in the United States (US), the Trump administration is now able to confront […]
The economy behind California’s green curtain
By Ronald Stein California’s role as a supposedly global climate leader took center stage during the Global Climate Action Summit hosted by Governor Jerry Brown in San Francisco in […]
GREEN ENERGY POVERTY: Volunteer Knitters In High Demand As Soaring Power Prices Leave People Cold
‘GREEN’ Energy Poverty “WE were the cheapest electricity market in the world, and now we’re one of the dearest. It’s insanity that this has occurred in a market that is so well-blessed in resources.” […]
The United States is now the largest global crude oil producer
Image: Report: U.S. World’s Largest Crude Oil Producer Are you tired of winning yet?? Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook The United States likely surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia […]
100% “renewables” will fuel poverty and homelessness in California, – California’s government flunks basic math.
By Ronald Stein In pursuit of the emissions crusade, the Governor, Senate, and Assembly have demonstrated their lack of understanding of basic math, with Governor Brown signing Senate Bill […]
California Lawmakers To Vote For Major Renewable Energy Shift
California lawmakers are preparing to vote on a sweeping renewable energy bill, but critics question whether the legislation can feasibly be implemented. The California state legislature could vote on […]
Trump Says Conserving Oil No Longer A Concern As US Becomes Energy Dominant
Image: Trump to Call for U.S. Oil ‘Dominance’ (2017) The Trump administration says the U.S. no longer considers conserving oil economically important as President Donald Trump seeks to weaponize […]
Why Russian oil — and not Canadian — will keep fuelling the U.S. Pacific Northwest
The fact is that if Canada doesn’t provide oil, someone else will — even if that someone is Vladimir Putin.Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Oil tankers coming in and out of the […]
Finally! Some fuel economy common sense. But Greens go apoplectic over rule change that would have no climate or other benefits
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards were devised back in 1975, amid anxiety over the OPEC oil embargo and supposedly imminent depletion of the world’s oil supplies. But recall, […]
GREEN EUROPE STAGNATES, INDIA GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR SHALE REVOLUTION
By Tsvetana Paraskova – OilPrice.com India’s cabinet approved on Wednesday a policy to allow companies to explore and exploit unconventional oil and gas resources such as shale oil and gas and coalbed methane under […]
Massive U.S. Wind Farm Gets Cancelled After Regulators Question Its Benefits
A wind farm project has been nixed entirely following mounting controversy from locals and a unanimous rejection from state regulators in Texas. American Electric Power (AEP), a major U.S. […]
Oil prices could skyrocket as Saudi Arabia bans exports through Red Sea straits after their oil tankers were bombed by Iranian-backed Yemeni rebels
By CIARAN MCGRATH IRAN-BACKED Yemeni rebels aligned have launched an attack on two oil tankers passing through the strategically important Red Sea shipping lane of Bab al-Mandeb – prompting […]
Tom Steyer’s plan to force renewable energy on Arizona ratepayers is falling apart
By Jason Hopkins Despite enjoying millions of dollars from a Tom Steyer front group, a campaign aiming to increase Arizona’s renewable energy mandate is fumbling. Clean Energy for a Healthy […]
L. A. Times touts globally irrelevant Ca. AB 32 emissions target – ignores huge emissions growth from world’s developing nations
By Larry Hamlin – WUWT The Los Angeles Times published a story touting California meeting its AB 32 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal in 2016 versus the target year of 2020 […]
Kiwi Pension Fund Loses $50 Million in Ogin Ducted Turbine Fiasco
By Paul Gipe New Zealand’s Superannuation Fund has written down its $47.5 million (NZ) investment in ducted turbine promoter Ogin. The Kiwi pension fund’s release on 21 April said it wrote down […]
Energy Group: Highest-Ever U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Liquids Production
The American Petroleum Institute (API) released its monthly statistical report on Thursday, revealing the highest-ever production of U.S. crude oil and natural gas liquids in June. During that month, […]
Snow White Gas Refinery
Image: Produksjonsstopp på Snøhvit (Norwegian) Snøhvit (Snow White) is the name of a natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, situated 140 kilometres (87 mi) northwest of Hammerfest, Norway. The […]
Whatever Happened To Fears Over ‘Peak Oil’?
By Michael Lynch Very few people realize that the entire concerns about peak oil were based on misinformation or junk science. A decade ago, the media was filled with […]
Advanced Nuclear Reactors Safer reactors designed in the U.S. and Europe make their power grid debuts in China
Photo: SNPTC Nine years after construction began at China’s Sanmen nuclear power plant, the world’s first AP1000 unit has connected to the grid. Call it the world’s slowest photo […]
The Most Overlooked Renewable Energy Source
By Tsvetana Paraskova – Oilprice.com Battery-powered electric vehicles have been stealing the spotlight from fuel cell vehicle technology, despite the fact that the latter has been around for a decade or […]
Experts Give Earth Another 20 Years Till Doomsday After Last Year’s Deadline Passed
Sustainable alarm, an unending hoax. Commentary at Germany’s ‘Die Welt’: Why has the climate-last-chance alarm been blaring 30 years long now? And why has the planet today “suddenly” just been […]
The Social Benefits of Fossil Fuels Far Outweigh the Costs Inexpensive power enables technological marvels, and even global warming has positive effects.
An offshore oil platform in Huntington Beach, Calif. PHOTO: LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS By Joseph L. Bast and Peter Ferrara As several cities continue their suit against oil companies, The People of the State of […]
500 days of unleashing our economic engine – Amazing growth – while protecting environment, health and welfare from actual threats
The “mainstream media” remains riveted on alleged Trump-Russian collusion and how the Trump-Kim Jong Un deal will fail. But it mostly ignored reports on Russia-environmentalist collusion and China-environmentalist collusion – and milestones reached […]
Green loans dry up as lenders target “low hanging fruit”
A DEARTH of renewable energy loans has been blamed on over-zealous lenders chasing “low hanging fruit” and an end to a government-backed subsidy programme. In May, Assetz Capital closed its […]
Germany pours cold water on EU’s clean energy ambitions
German Minister of Economy and Energy Peter Altmaier arrives for a Council meeting of European Energy Ministers in Luxembourg, 11 June 2018. [EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND] By Frédéric Simon Voters across Europe […]
If Wind and Sunshine are Free, Why Is It That Wind & Solar Power Are So Expensive?
Image: Augenblicke 2009: Die Bilder des Jahres Facts tend to flummox renewable energy zealots, especially the way adding wind and solar sends power prices into orbit (see above). After all, […]
Trump Administration Looks Offshore For Next Energy Boom (+ 3 Other Articles About The “Green” Power Fraud Nightmare From UK., US., and Australia)
Corruption, subsidies and skyrocketing prices are the only things “green” energy installation can supply, but then again, – plenty of it. First article from Washington Examiner The Trump administration is […]
Oil Prices Are Sky-High: What Happened to Fracking?
Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Tug boats transport the Chevron Corp. Jack St. Malo semi-submersible drilling and production platform to the Gulf of Mexico from Kiewit Offshore Services in Ingleside, Texas. […]
Europe on the verge of ‘severe’ energy crisis
By Jason Hopkins Europe’s pivot away from traditional power sources without a proper contingency plan may be putting the continent at risk of a severe energy crisis, warns an energy […]
Biofuels Looking Worse, Not Better, Over Time
More than a decade after the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act imposed mandatory biofuel requirements on the American economy, even biofuel apologists acknowledge biofuels are falling far short […]
This Failed US Nuclear Project Cost 38 Times More Than Russia’s Successful One
By Michael Bastasch The Trump administration will abandon a nuclear energy project that was supposed to satisfy de-nuclearization treaty obligations with Russia and will instead bury diluted nuclear weapons underground. […]
New Stable, Artificial Photosynthesis Produces Clean Hydrogen Fuel
By Dan Newman University of Michigan A new, stable artificial photosynthesis device doubles the efficiency of harnessing sunlight to break apart both fresh and salt water, generating hydrogen that […]
The ethanol gravy train rolls on Opponents make compelling case but can’t derail or even slow this well-protected industry
By Paul Driessen Like most people I’ve spoken with, I have no innate, inflexible antipathy to ethanol in gasoline. What upsets me are the deceptive claims used to justify adding […]
Russian Efforts To Disrupt U.S. Energy Markets Exposed
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ The Kremlin has masterminded an elaborate scheme to undermine American fossil-fuel production and distribution, concludes a report by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. […]
NEW COAL BOOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Image: Oman evaluating proposals for coal power plant (2017) Countries in and around the Middle East will add 41 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power plants over the next decade. […]
Connecticut votes to end costly solar subsidies
By Jason Hopkins Connecticut is about to become the latest state to reform its expensive net metering program, saving money for the vast majority of electricity customers who do not […]
Will More States Mandate Solar?
Workers lift a solar panel onto a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California, U.S. October 14, 2016. Picture taken October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike […]
Downfall: Germany’s RE ‘Transition’ Leaves Grid on the Brink of Collapse
For those pumping the perceived merits of wind and solar power, the laws of nature can be a real bitch. Meteorology, physics, economics have all conspired against nature’s wonder […]
Chaos Reigns Supreme: Erratic Wind and Solar Destroy Australia’s Once Reliable Power Grid
Image: Wind energy, not cheap, not free, not green .. The natural result of plugging into wind and solar power is absolute chaos. It’s like inviting the Hells Angels […]
‘Green’ Energy’s Poisonous Legacy: Millions of Toxic Turbine Blades Destined for African Landfills
Environmentalists of the kind lovingly called ‘tree huggers’ (rather than wind turbine worshippers) are finally cottoning on to the fact that the wind industry is anything but the ‘clean, […]
Another Day, Another State Reduces Costly Solar Industry Subsidies
FILE PHOTO: Solar panels are seen in front of a natural gas power plant at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in McCarran, Nevada, U.S., September 16, 2014. REUTERS/Max Whittaker | […]
Foot-dragging by state regulators imperils energy infrastructure projects
Keeping America’s rapidly expanding economy humming along will require, among other things, a state-of-the-art energy infrastructure commensurate with the demands of technology-driven global competition. When we stand in our […]
Climate Euphoria, Climate Hysteria: Insights from the German Political-Media Complex
Image: Myths and realities of renewable energy Benny Peiser Interviews Dr Philipp Lengsfeld, German MP (2013-2017) Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld is a member of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), and […]
GREAT AGAIN! By Next Year America Will Become World’s TOP Oil Exporter
Did you ever think you’d live to see the day when America was no longer dependent on the Middle East for oil? Even better, did you ever think you’d […]
After Obama’s 8-Year Coal-Killing Reign, 2,500 Mining Jobs Were Created In 2017
The federal government’s latest jobs report shows 2,500 coal mining jobs were created in the last year, which is good news for coal country, but there’s still a long […]