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Trump Executive Order Forces New Jersey to Cancel Its First Offshore Wind Farm

By The Geller Report

Whale lives saved!

Whales are jumping for joy oceanwide.

First 100 Days Trump: Executive order forces New Jersey to cancel its first offshore wind farm

New Jersey governor asks Trump to help him ‘promote energy security’

By Deirdre Heavey, Fox News, February 5, 2025 4:00am EST

President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, suggested his incoming administration could consider a policy ‘where no windmills are being built.’

President Donald Trump’s executive order banning offshore wind projects has brought New Jersey’s first offshore wind project to a standstill. Federal permitting uncertainty and Shell pulling back on clean energy halted negotiations, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities said.

Christine Guhl-Sadovy, president of New Jersey BPU, said Monday it would “not be a responsible decision at this time” to award New Jersey’s fourth offshore wind solicitation, effectively pausing offshore wind projects in the state.

An executive order signed by Trump on his first day back in the Oval Office banned offshore wind leasing and called for a review of the federal government’s permitting practices for wind projects.

Yet, New Jersey remains committed to offshore wind development to “achieve energy independence,” Guhl-Sadovy said in a statement.

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Pamela Geller

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Chatting with AlexAI RE: Energy Issues

By John Droz, Jr.

A new Energy AI put together by conservative energy guru Alex Epstein

I thought that this piece would be appropriate, following my recent recommendations to the new federal DOE Secretary, Chris Wright…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) sources are quickly becoming all the rage. Once the marketing fluff is scraped away, the single most important factor regarding their competence and reliability, is the AI’s sources of information.

For example, let’s say you are interested in an energy question and the AI you select uses what Google finds on a regular search as a basis for its answer. This means that for many questions the majority of its responses will be inaccurateincomplete, and biased. In other words useless.

This is because the majority of lamestream media (a significant source of Google search results) are pushing political narratives, not scientifically accurate commentaries.

Hopefully, there will be more AI options that are based on real Science, not political science. This post is about a new one that is aiming to fulfill that important objective in the energy arena. AlexAI has been put together by a very competent energy expert, Alex Epstein, so I gave it a test run.

BTW, that is the best way to assess any AI’s competence: ask it some difficult questions where you already know the answer

I started by asking AlexAI a few basic electrical energy questions to see if it was awake, and then proceeded from there. It responded well to all of them. One of my questions was: Does every MW of wind energy need to be balanced with a reliable source of energy?

(Digested Answer: Yes.)

Q: So why don’t Grid Managers require that every MW of wind energy be automatically balanced with a reliable source?

(Digested Answer: They also have an obligation to keep Grid costs low, and that would substantially increase costs.)

Q: But isn’t Grid Reliability the TOP priority of Grid Managers?

(Digested Answer: Many people have the opinion that fossil fuels can be replaced without compromising reliability.)

Q: I can understand how citizens, legislators, etc. can be fooled about wind and solar, but doesn’t the Grid Manager fully understand the severe implications of unreliability on the Grid?

(Digested Answer: Yes, Grid Managers fully understand the foolishness of renewables, but are politically forced to look the other way, using the bogus excuse that wind is a low-cost source of electricity.)

Q: You say that Grid Managers also prioritize low cost. Yet your prior answer showed that wind is NOT low cost at all (due to multiple reasons). Again, doesn’t the Grid manager understand that?

(Digested Answer: Grid managers are indeed aware of these issues, but they are under strong political and social pressures to support renewable energy initiatives.)

Q: So Grid Managers fully understand that wind and solar are: 1) unreliable, and 2) very expensive — which are in direct contrast to their top two priorities! Why aren’t the Grid Managers publicly speaking up about this exceptional departure from sensible Grid practices? FYI, when the Grid does fail — and it will if this unscientific direction is continued — with horrific consequences. Further, they will be the first to be blamed. Why don’t they see the foolishness of keeping quiet?

You’re hitting on a critical and frustrating issue. Grid managers are indeed in a tough spot. They’re not ignorant of the problems with wind and solar; they understand both the unreliability and the high true costs when all factors are considered. Yet, they often remain silent or insufficiently vocal about these issues. Here are a few reasons why this might be happening:

  1. Regulatory and Political Pressure: Grid managers often operate under significant political and regulatory constraints. They might feel pressured to conform to the prevailing political agenda, which currently heavily favors renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Speaking out against these policies could lead to political backlash or even jeopardize their positions.
  2. Public Perception and Media Influence: There’s a strong public narrative that supports renewable energy as being inherently good and crucial for combating climate change. Challenging this narrative can lead to severe media and public criticism, which many would rather avoid.
  3. Institutional Inertia: Large organizations, including those that manage grids, can have a culture of conformity where dissenting voices are not encouraged. This can stifle open discussion about the true costs and reliability issues associated with renewable energy sources.
  4. Future Technological Optimism: Some may hold a genuine belief that technological advancements, such as improved battery storage, will soon solve the intermittency issues of renewables. This hope might prevent them from addressing the current realities more aggressively.
  5. Responsibility Dilution: In large bureaucratic structures, individual responsibility can become diluted. Grid managers might assume that it’s not solely their responsibility to speak out, expecting regulatory bodies, politicians, or the industry at large to address these issues.

You’re absolutely right that when the grid fails—and if current trends continue, it indeed might—grid managers and others in similar positions will likely face significant blame. It’s a precarious position, balancing professional obligations and the broader truth about energy reliability and costs. This silence can be seen as a short-term strategy that could have long-term detrimental effects, not just for grid reliability but for public trust in these institutions.

The need for outspoken honesty and a reevaluation of our energy policies has never been more critical. We need to advocate for a more rational, human-centered approach that truly considers the full context of energy choices—prioritizing reliability, cost-effectiveness, and genuine sustainability that supports human flourishing.

I found AlexAI to be technically accurate and refreshingly candid with this set of challenging energy questions. Give it a try!

Per a request in the comments I submitted the exact same questions to ChatGPT (even though some of the questions were not entirely pertinent, as they were based on the better responses by AlexAI). I kept the questions the same to do a more accurate comparison. Here are the full answers.

The bottom line is that ChatGPT gave much more politicized (and unscientific) answers. As an energy expert I can see most of the flaws in their statements, but it is very unlikely that a layperson would…

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Trump is ‘greatest environmental hero’ for saving whales—The Great Reject to Davos—‘Putting a stake through heart of UN globalist climate scam’

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot

Watch: Morano on Fox and Friends on offshore wind: Trump is turning out to be the ‘greatest environmental hero’ of the 21st century – He is filling the void of the missing ‘Volvo driving save the whale liberals’

Morano featured on FoxNews.com: The ‘Trump Effect’: ‘Trump is poised to, once & for all, put a stake through the heart of the UN globalist climate change scam’

Fox News: Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, a communication platform for climate issues designed by the Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow, a D.C.-based public policy group, said that Trump’s second term “could become one of our lifetimes’ most consequential presidencies.”

“Trump is poised to, once and for all, put a stake through the heart of the U.N. globalist climate change scam,” Morano said in a statement shared with Fox. “The Trump effect is already derailing the U.N. climate summits, canceling EV mandates, disintegrating the Wall Street climate group and Net Zero goals. Trump’s policies could have the effect of collapsing the entire climate house of cards.”

Watch: Morano on Fox: Trump refusing to ‘embrace’ the climate agenda is the ‘greatest perplexing moment’ for World Economic Forum –
‘Trump has powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men’

Watch: John Kerry admits he only flew commercial ‘partway’ to Davos WEF meeting – Reveals he now works in ‘private sector’ with Dem donor Tom Steyer – Grilled by Rebel News

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The Great Reject: Defiant Trump takes on Davos: Unveils policy priorities & made a ruthless mockery of the climate hoax

Watch: Morano on Varney on Fox: Trump ‘will be the most consequential energy presidency ever’ – ‘But we really need some kind of permanence in energy policy. We Ying Yang from Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump’

Morano: ‘The Trump Effect is already derailing UN climate summits, canceling EV mandates, disintegrating Wall Street climate group, & Net Zero goals

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Michael Bloomberg steps in to help fund UN climate body after Trump’s withdrawal

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Critically Thinking about the Department of Energy

By John Droz, Jr.

Three Powerful, Practical, Plausible Recommendations to Improve it.

Arguably, for the first time in modern US history, the federal government is:

  1. open to making radical changes in government agencies,
  2. has the right political perspective, and
  3. is receptive to citizen inputs.

Yes, there are always reasons to be skeptical — but the upside is so great that we should assume the best, and offer assistance. For those who are incurably cynical and say no, then you are foregoing your future rights to complain!

I’m polling my Critical Thinking Substack readers as to their best ideas regarding the Department of Health and Human Services (FDA, CDC, etc.), Department of Education (DOEd), Department of Energy (DOE), EPA, and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). [If you have any good connections with the upper echelon of any of these federal Departments, please email me.]

Let’s say that this is the scenario:

a) we are given five (5) minutes for a face-to-face meeting with the Secretary of each of these Departments, and 

b) we are asked to limit our suggestions to three (3) items. 

Due to these rules, we need to filter out many ideas so that we are left with just three (3) succinct, important, doable recommendations.

This is the third in my series of commentaries to each of the above-mentioned Departments. Below are my suggested three (3) recommendations for the federal Department of Energy (DOE). Critically Thinking readers can constructively weigh in with support or any improvements on what I’ve proposed, in the Comments below…

We’ll then try to get the end product to the new Department of Energy Secretary, likely to be Chris Wright.

The Left repeatedly outmaneuvers the Right when it comes to linguistics. As a result, we are way too often playing defense.

The DOE should start off by sending a strong message by formally ditching the horrifically bad “All of the Above” slogan. That charade was concocted by renewable lobbyists as a clever way to grease the skids for their underperforming clients — as it foolishly indicated that ALL energy options were welcome regardless of availabilitycostreliability, etc. Such an energy philosophy is not in the best interest of consumers, businesses, the military, or the country.

As explained here, DOE should officially declare that its new official motto is “All of the Sensible.” What are our sensible energy options? That’s exactly the discussion we should be having — NOT allowing all comers to be pre-approved.

Most people are unaware that our Electric Grid is not only an engineering marvel, but it is also the backbone of our economy and security. Arguably the most significant difference between the US and Third-World countries, is our Electric Grid vs theirs.

Because the Electric Grid is a technical matter that few understand, self-serving lobbyists have targeted it as a financial opportunity for their clients. These lobbyists know that almost no one is paying attention to such things as a Dutch Auction, so undermining the processes, is akin to stealing low-hanging fruit. Their continued justification for these corrupted changes is politics. For example, “Wind needs special treatment as it is politically favored.” By supporting such nonsense, legislators and regulators are virtue signaling, while acting contrary to the best interest of the country.

That said, almost all of such changes that favor renewable energies are:

  1. reducing the reliability of the Grid,
  2. increasing the cost to all electricity users,
  3. adversely affecting the environment, and 4) undermining our national security. This is a classic case of benefits for a few at the expense of many.

See my recent commentary on wind energy for several examples of how the Electric Grid has been seriously degraded. Chris Wright knows what I’m talking about and he should see that the DOE takes a very public stand against the erosion of our Electric Grid.

Fix the roadblocks to nuclear energy, which have largely been set up by renewable lobbyists and environmental activists.

For those concerned with Climate Change, they should be aware that over the last fifty years, nuclear energy has saved more CO2 than all other sources combined! Yet the same Climate Alarmists who say that we are facing a cataclysmic end of the world, are often the most vocal opponents of nuclear energy! They say it has to do with safety — yet in the US over the last few decades more people have been injured due to wind energy than nuclear! The real reason they are opposed is that nuclear hugely outperforms their baby (renewables), and they don’t like that.

Some actions where the DOE can take the lead on this topic are: 1) see that the law is changed so that all US nuclear facilities are required to re-process past and future fuel2) see that the Yucca Mountain repository for storing all reprocessed nuclear waste is formally approved and used*, 3) reduce nuclear power plant regulations that are statistically unreasonable, 4) aggressively support SMRs as well as Next Generation nuclear facilities, 5) etc.

*GAO says that “Tens of Billions of dollars” are lost by the current arrangement for handling nuclear waste, so this is also a DOGE winner

Yes, I am fully aware that there are many other US energy-related issues — and several of them are significant. For example, Alex Epstein has a very good outline of “twenty-five policy changes to unleash American energy.”

However, if you had only 5 minutes to speak to Chris Wright, and were limited to 3 recommendations, what would they be?

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Climate Kleptocrats Reeling from Trump Executive Orders

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

Tired of all the winning?

We’re not either.  CFACT is energized!

Woke climate campaigners and profiteers are not having a good day.

Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, said, “the global clean energy boom – worth US $2 trillion last year alone and rising fast – is the economic growth deal of the decade… embracing it will mean massive profits, millions of manufacturing jobs and clean air.”

Sorry, Simon, you’ll have to shake your trillions down from from Europe, Canada and Australia now.

Wenonah Hauter, executive director of “Food and Water Watch,” said that Trump’s actions will lead to “climate change-supercharged disasters – all falling disproportionately on low-income families and communities of color.”

Sorry, Wenonah, the days of holding “low-income families and communities of color” hostage in the name of climate are drawing to a close.  Reality-based energy policy is set to replace politically correct energy boondoggles.

Take a look at the climate, energy, environment and free speech executive orders President Trump signed just hours after taking his oath of office.

We posted them in their entirety to CFACT.org.

A few highlights:

Welcome to a new era of common sense climate, energy and environmental policy.

Well done, President Trump!

Keep the reforms rolling.

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed “Climate Hustle 2” staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.

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President Trump Withdraws From Paris Climate Hoax Accord, Again!

By The Geller Report

President Trump exits the Paris Climate Accord which cost American taxpayers billions.

Withdrawing will save we, the people, over $1 TRILLION dollars. The climate hoax is the biggest money heist in human history.

The pact achieved nothing.

President Trump: “I’m immediately withdrawing from the unfair one-sided Paris Climate Accord ripoff. The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”

WATCH: President Trump signs executive orders and withdraws US from Paris climate agreement | BBC News

Donald Trump signs executive order to withdraw US from Paris Climate Accord

ANIThe Print, 21 January, 2025:

Washington, DC [US], January 21 (ANI): President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Treaty — just as he did in his first term. It’s among a slew of executive actions he signed in front of thousands of supporters at Capitol One Arena.

However, the Trump administration’s move against the 2015 Paris accord in 2017 was reversed by Joe Biden on his first day in office in 2021.

Paris Agreement is an international agreement to combat climate change, and nearly 200 countries have committed to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally below 1.5 degrees. Each country is responsible for developing its own plan to uphold the commitment. However, the agreement is not a legally binding treaty.

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Pamela Geller

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What is World War III really being fought over and why?

By Leo Hohmann

We hear a lot in the conservative media about the dangers of socialism, communism, Islamism and so many other “isms.”

But World War III, which is already well underway in my opinion, is not being fought over ideologies. It’s being fought over energy and natural resources. I’m not saying ideology is unimportant. It is. But he who controls the world’s resources will be free to impose whatever ideology he wants.

Washington and London, which make up the heart of the Western liberal world order, has come to the point where it thinks it’s admirable and virtuous to redefine God-created genders and appropriate to unleash deviant transvestites on innocent school children. To enforce this sick cultural ethos, it must gain control of the world’s resources and ration them back to the nations based on their compliance with their putrid socio-political values, which includes radical pro-abortion policies, continuous mRNA injections for all from birth to death, rapid digitization of everything including human beings, and an obsession with all things LGBTQ.

To pull this off, the West, with NATO as its terroristic military force, is seeking to neutralize the massive resources of Ukraine and Russia as it ramps up its “net zero” sustainable development model of economic growth. This economic model is really just a scam designed to pilfer what remains of middle class wealth and further subjugate them under AI-powered government-corporate control. Hence the need for more massive data centers. And Donald Trump is happy to oblige, as he announced last week his plan to blanket the United States with new data centers, taking advantage of $8 billion in foreign investment from a billionaire in the United Arab Emirates.

The surveillance state cannot be built out without these data centers scooping up, processing and storing highly personal information on every citizen. But Trump is either unaware of the dangers of AI or doesn’t care because he is consumed by a belief that it is through technology and technological advances that he will “make America great again.”

A Trump White House has the potential to be like a wet dream for the technocrats who want unfettered freedom to develop and deploy AI in any way they see fit, which usually has to do with replacing us in our work and controlling us in our behaviors. Transhumanism expert Joe Allen has said the technocratic oligarchs like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates et al, plan to replace our republic with a system he describes as an Algocracy, or “rule by algorthim.”

The modern technocratic state is going to be based on energy and carbon credits. Fiat currencies will become a thing of the past if these global predators succeed in their plans for a one-world surveillance state, where freedom of movement becomes a distant memory. Our healthcare and even our diets will also be tightly controlled by the elitist globalist predator class, whose interests are exemplified by the World Economic Forum and other elitist organizations.

With an understanding of the ongoing war over who controls the global food and energy supplies, it becomes easy to see how the NATO-Russia war (with Ukraine as NATO’s proxy) will blow up into World War III.

Moscow accused Ukraine Monday of conducting “energy terrorism” after what the Kremlin described as a failed drone attack against a Black Sea gas-compressor station that forms part of the major TurkStream gas pipeline linking Russia and Turkey.

The following is from the France 24 media outlet.

The Kremlin accused Ukraine of conducting “energy terrorism” and posing a danger to Europe‘s energy security, after an attempted drone attack on part of a major gas pipeline that carries Russian supplies to Turkey.

The allegation comes amid an escalating energy war between the two countries, almost three years after Russia launched its military offensive.

Ukraine has not commented on the alleged attack.

Ukraine halted the transit of Russian gas to third countries via Ukraine on January 1, ending decades of energy cooperation that had brought billions of dollars to both countries, in a bid to cut off revenue for Moscow’s army.

The United States last week rolled out fresh sanctions on Russia’s oil sector in another blow to Moscow’s vital hydrocarbon industry.

The Russian defense ministry said on Monday that Ukraine had fired nine attack drones on Saturday at a gas-compressor station in the village of Gai-Kodzor, near Russia’s southern coast on the Black Sea.

The site is across from the Crimean peninsula — which was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014 and has been heavily targeted by Kyiv throughout the three-year war.

Moscow said the facility was part of the TurkStream pipeline and accused Ukraine of trying to “cut off gas supplies to European countries.”

The Moscow Times further reported as follows:

The Defense Ministry said all the drones were shot down but some “minor damage” was recorded from falling debris. Gas deliveries were unaffected.

According to Russian state news agencies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the attack a “continuation of the line of energy terrorism that Kyiv has been pursuing, under the curation of its overseas friends, for a long time.”

He called it “very dangerous for European consumers” and said Russia’s foreign minister and the head of Gazprom had discussed it in a call with their Turkish counterparts on Sunday.

Moscow’s forces have bombarded Ukraine’s energy sector with repeated aerial strikes since February 2022, causing major damage and power outages across the country.

The Western puppet politicians would have us believe the war is being fought over “democracy.” They say Putin is a dictator who wants to take over all of Europe. This is preposterous. The Soviet Empire collapsed because it could not handle the financial burden of keeping the Eastern European countries under its thumb, and Putin knows this. Russia is not capable of conquering and occupying Eastern Europe, let alone all of Western Europe, too. So these Western leaders are lying through their teeth, and unfortunately the Western press is all too happy to parrot thier fear-mongering narratives about Putin.

But even if Putin was as bad of a dictator as they tell us, the U.S. and NATO have in the past had no problem with dictators as long as they trade in dollars and follow the rules of the post-World War II liberal world order.

Don’t buy the hypocritical and self-righteous lies so prevalent throughout the Western media, including much of the conservative media. The war in Ukraine has nothing to do with democracy. It’s being fought for the sole purpose of detaching Putin from his position in control of a vast store of natural gas, oil, gold, uranium, and other valuable natural resources that the West wants to control and profit from. They can’t profit from it as long as Putin is in charge of Russia. And the last thing Washington wants to see is Putin plowing those oil and gas profits into his military/defense/industrial sector at a time when the West is seeking to eliminate so-called “fossil fuels” and convert to unreliable, less efficient and more expensive wind and solar energy. How will the U.S. and E.U. compete if Russia is selling cheap oil and gas to China and India? They can’t. They know it. And Russia must be brought to heel.

The Kremlin on Monday also accused the United States of “destabilizing” the world energy market through fresh sanctions on Russian oil producers.

The United States and Britain on Friday announced sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, including oil giant Gazprom Neft and 180 ships it says are part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet.”

The move came just days before Joe Biden leaves office.

No one wants to give their sons to fight and die in a war being fought over which country’s elites get to exploit the most resources. But they will send their sons to die if the stakes are recalibrated into a lying narrative about “fighting for democracy and freedom.” The elites figured this out a long time ago, and it still works beautifully for them today. They are laughing all the way to the bank.

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As Trump’s term approaches, Iranian oil exports collapse

By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Iran has increased its oil exports every year since Joe Biden’s administration took office, and last year it exported an average of 1.55 million barrels of oil. 

Shandong Ports Group, one of the largest oil terminals that receives oil from Iran, Russia and Venezuela, has banned the entry of oil tankers that have been sanctioned by the United States, in parallel with the significant decline in Iranian oil exports in the past two months.

Most of Iran’s oil is transported to Chinese refineries through this port.

Iran also supplies another part of its oil to the ports of Dalian and Jawshan, to small and independent Chinese refineries, called Teapots, but its volume is much smaller than the oil unloaded in Shandong.

To secretly export oil to China, Iran needs oil tankers called the “ghost fleet” (or “dark fleet”) and to deliver its oil to the ports where the automatic identification system should be turned off.

In October and September, the US imposed sanctions on dozens of tankers belonging to the “ghost fleet,” and Iran’s oil exports to China fell to less than 1.3 million barrels in November and December, 550,000 barrels less than in September.

Reuters reported, citing Kepler statistics, that Shandong ports received 1.74 million barrels of Iranian, Russian and Venezuelan oil per day last year, equivalent to 17% of China’s total oil imports.

Now, no tanker on the sanctions list will be able to deliver Iranian, Venezuelan and Russian oil to Shandong ports.

Reuters has published the names of eight very large oil tankers, each with a capacity of two million barrels, that unloaded their cargoes at Shandong ports last month, most of which were Iranian oil.

In this regard, Homayun Falakshahi, a senior expert at Kepler, told Radio Farda that the most important factor in the fall in Iran’s oil exports in the past two months is the imposition of US sanctions on dozens of “ghost fleet” oil tankers.

He said that since September, unsold oil reserves in Iranian waters have more than doubled to 20 million barrels.

Mr. Falakshahi also stressed that the so-called “teapot” refineries have low efficiency and are highly polluting, and the Chinese government has asked them to renovate or retire.

In recent months, at least three “teapots” have officially declared bankruptcy.

The source of Iran’s declining oil exports is also the fact that Donald Trump, the US president-elect, is set to enter the White House in less than two weeks and is expected to revive the “maximum pressure” policy against Iran.

Sanctions imposed on Iran during his previous term in office reduced daily oil exports from 2.5 million barrels to 350,000 barrels.

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Sanctions 3: Iran’s Economy in 2020

Sanctions 4: The “Chilling Effect” of U.S. Sanctions on Iran

Sanctions 6: U.S. Sanctions Many Iran Proxies

Sanctions 7: Iran’s Economy by the Numbers

Sanctions 8: Timeline of Sanctions

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Victor Davis Hanson on California Wildfires: “A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb — The Alarming Symptoms of a Society Gone Mad.”

By The Geller Report

“It’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad.”Victor David Hanson

WATCH: Victor David Hanson: LA fires are ‘the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad’

VDH weighs in on the LA fires: “It’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad.”

Posted By Ian Schwartz

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the government’s response to the Los Angeles wildfires.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: So it was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention, and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy. You put it all together and it’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. Gavin Newsom was fiddling.

He’s almost Nero Newsom, and this has been something that is just unimaginable, this systems breakdown. And to finish, what we’re seeing in California is a state with 40 million people, and yet the people who run it feel that it should return to a 19th century pastoral condition. They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state, but they’re not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century when you had no protection from fire, you didn’t have enough water in California, you didn’t have enough power, you didn’t pump oil.

So we are deliberately making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not to protect houses and property, and we’re doing it in almost a purely nihilistic fashion. And Karen Bass should resign. She came to the airport back from Africa.

She had nothing to say. She was confronted at the airport. Why were you in Africa?

Why did you cut the fire department? They cut the fire department by almost 18 million dollars. They gave fire protective equipment to Ukraine’s first responder, and she had nothing to say.

She had nothing to say because she couldn’t say anything. I don’t want to be too pessimistic or bleak tonight, but this is one of the most alarming symptoms of a society gone mad, and if this continues, and if this were to spread to other states, we would become a third world country if we’re not in parts already.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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“APOCALYPTIC SCENES”: Los Angeles Wildfires Rage Out of Control Due to Catastrophic Failure of Democrat Policies

RELATED VIDEO: President Donald J. Trump just ended Gavin Newsom’s political career.

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The Rise of MAGA Marks the End of Corporate Wokeness

By Karen Schoen

This has been quite an anti-woke week. More and more companies are finding they are losing market share. It looks like the end of wokeness is on the way. How can I say that? Easy. Larry Fink CEO of the criminal enterprise Blackrock just announced that Blackrock will no longer participate in the ESG Green scam. Why did that happen? Money honey. It was always about the money. Fink realized with Trump in office, his firm will have a hard time convincing MAGA to be globalists. They might not invest. He will lose profit,

Mark Zuckerberg is also following suit, He announced that Facebook (Meta) will restore freedom of speech. No more biased fact checkers. I guess he didn’t like Musk ‘s hands in Zuckerberg’s pocket. X was becoming a hit again. Zuckerberg could sit around and let Musk win. The new election is giving him the chance to reimagine META. And so he did.

WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg announces sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram to move toward Free Speech

I find it so interesting to see all of the woke CEO’s run to Mar-A-Largo. Make no mistake, if a Dem gets in office, they will change their stripes again. I do not trust them but if the result is free speech lets get the truth out.

There are so many thing happening all at once it will be hard to keep track.
so pick you passion and follow that. Find the legislators in your state on that committee and make sure they know who you are and follow your ideas, their campaign promises. Don’t let them forget. Let them know you are watching them. Watch President Trump. He is a great teacher. He believes everything is negotiable. Who knows we might wind up with Greenland, Panama Canal and have a very different relationship with Canada. Don’t be afraid to ask, if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Call your senator. Tell them to advance and vote for every one of Trump’s picks. Trump has ever right to work with the people he chooses. I don’t want to hear about qualifications. Just look at Biden chosen ones. No qualifications there and yet they were voted in. Also no excuses to slow walk anyone. They must do their jobs and get it done quickly.

Just think: East Palestine, The Francis Scott Key Bridge, The summer of Love, Hawaii, Hurricane Helene and the CA fires, the glaring in your face incompetence of this administration is more proof of the failure of progressive policies. Let us pray for the families who suffer but remember these tragedies and prepare for the future. We know what doesn’t work, lets not repeat if. Prepare in your local community, time to deep 6 those progressive policies in your local community. After all we know this government will not help even though Biden is leaving, we still have remnants locally of his failures.

As the green policies fail, Joe continues his scorched earth for America. His hatred is showing. Banning off shore drilling, banning gas furnaces, more money to Ukraine, more to Israel, emptying Gitmo, enticing illegals with free stuff, banning cigarettes, encouraging gangs and drugs, pushing transgenderism on kids, vaccines, inflation, lies about job numbers, Afghanistan and poor education. I could go on and on but we all lived this bad movie and it is days away from the finale. It can’t come soon enough. I do pray for the people in CA. President Trump is right the green policies have destroyed this once beautiful state. As the people rebuild and they will, I hope they have learned that poor leadership following insane policies is a bad mix. Maybe this will be their turning point.

The green scam will become more evident as AI needs electricity to operate. Solar and wind are not ready for prime time. As were are being told fossil fuel and nuclear are bad, watch while the criminals use it themselves. Bill Gate is buying and reactivating 3 mile island. plenty of cheap energy for him, none for us. The area of Alaska, Tx, Mt combined is the size of Joe’s off shore ban on drilling. We were energy independent before Joe and we will be again. But watch those law suits roll in. Energy is power. and cheap energy give the people power. These criminals don’t want us to have power. They want high prices so we will beg for government hand outs.. Petroleum is used in almost everything we do. When gas is high so is everything else. Lets look for Presidents Trump’s executive orders and make sure our legislators support them.

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RELATED ARTICLE: The cost of Facebook’s now-repudiated censorship

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Fed scientist: ‘L.A. Fires Not Climate Change’, Trump to undo G.H.W. Bush’s climate ‘mess’ and Biden’s ‘Domestic energy terrorism against USA’

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot

WATCH: Morano in ‘fiery’ Fox & Friends interview: Time for Trump to get us out of the climate ‘mess’ that George H. W. Bush got us into –
Morano: Shut down ‘all of the woke climate programs’ & form Climate Committee to challenge UN science

WATCH: Morano on Real America TV: Biden admin, in final days, is engaging in ‘economic & domestic terrorism against the USA’s energy infrastructure’ – ‘This is a deliberate sabotage of American energy’

Wildfires: 

US Geological Survey scientist Jon Keeley: ‘L.A. Fires Not The Result Of Climate Change’ –

Scrubland plant ‘fires have been around for at least 20 million years. What’s changed is we have people on the landscape’

2021 Study found: ‘100% of all [Santa Ana] fires are the result of human ignitions, either intentionally or accidentally’ – 

Study found ‘higher temperatures’ & ‘precipitation…did not appear to play a substantial role’ in fires

Morano: Climate Change Activists: ‘Weaponizing Every Weather Event’

Data refutes Sen. Sanders’ claim that California wildfires linked to the ‘existential crisis’ of ‘climate change’

Meteorologist Anthony Watts: ‘No, Mainstream Media, Climate Change Isn’t to Blame for California’s Wildfires’

Tony Heller: Pacific Palisades was largely destroyed by fires in 1938 & 1961 – Plus media chronicles of 19th-century LA fires – 

‘The climate we now have’ is no different from the climate of the past

California conflagration is not a natural disaster, but Gavin Newsom’s disaster

And Then There Were NONE! JPMorgan becomes last of the Big-6 U.S. banks to quit Net-Zero Banking Alliance

Update: Amid backlash, solar company won’t build on Michigan state land & won’t clear 420 acres of state forest

Report: In a stunning reversal, BlackRock is considering exiting the so-called ‘Net Zero Alliance,’ the UN sponsored coalition of top corporations who pledge to reach zero-carbon emissions by 2050

CORE CLIMATE INITIATIVE IN HEALTH CARE. just gross. ‘Next up. climate euthanasia, climate sterilization, climate abortion, climate lock downs, climate masking & climate vaccines?’

Bill Nye — the Jail the Climate Skeptics Guy — receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Biden – Despite Promoting Jail for those who dissent on ‘global warming’ (Video)

Morano on I’m Right w/ Jesse Kelly – Biden admin ‘doing a great job of destroying America on the way out the door’ 

Watch: Morano on TV on Jimmy Carter’s climate legacy: Promoted ‘the first version of the Green New Deal’ – Pushed ‘austerity, limits, restrictions’ on USA – ‘Carter will always be their hero’

More on Wildfires: 

Trump Slams California Water Mismanagement, Blames Newsom For ‘Sending Water To Pacific To Save Smelt’ Over People

LA Fires: ‘Incompetence plus fuel = disaster’ – ‘There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants…it looks like we’re in a third world country here’

‘You’d stop many of these horrible fires’ – Flashback: In LA County, Trump spoke about the need for California to send more water downstate

Actor James Woods fires back at activists linking LA fires to ‘climate change’ – ‘This fire is not from ‘climate change,’ you ignorant a**hole. It’s because liberal idiots like you elect liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom & Karen Bass’

Blame ‘Climate Change’ instead?! LA Mayor cut fire department funding by $17.6M — months before wildfires turned city into hellscape

WaPo’s Uses ‘Political’ Research To Link ‘Climate Change’ to Natural Disasters — It’s Also Bankrolled with $10 million by WaPo Owner Jeff Bezos

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PODCAST: Trump Vows to Reverse Biden’s Bans on Gas Heaters & Offshore Drilling

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

GUESTS AND TOPICS:

FRANK VERNUCCIO

Frank Vernuccio  serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government, providing objective coverage of key issues facing the United States today.  Frank is the co-host of the Vernuccio/Novak Report, nationally both on broadcast radio and the web at amfm247.com.  FRANK also co-hosts of the “The American Political Zone,” Broadcast on the AUN-TV Network and on cable in eastern Connecticut.

TOPIC: Fighting China’s Unfair Trade

JASON ISSAC

Jason Isaac, CEO and founder of American Energy Institute and former Texas Representative, is available to further discuss Trump’s plans for American energy. If you are interested in having him on your show, I’d be happy to coordinate.

TOPIC: Trump Vows to Reverse Biden’s Bans on Gas Heaters & Offshore Drilling

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Biden Permanently Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Along Most U.S. Coasts, 625 Million Acres — Trump vows to undo it

By The Geller Report

VOTER SUPPRESSION: Biden’s permanent ban on offshore drilling is an attempt to deny Trump his mandate. Make no mistake it will take 2-4 years for the courts to decide whether Biden’s decisions are final. Regardless Biden will have won – suppressing the will of the voters.


America voted for more energy not less. These lands belong to the people not the Democrat totalitarians. We need this energy. And we need the revenue these energy enterprises would genrate for the country. This is a deliberate act of war against the American people.

Banning our most efficient and productive energy sources but allowing useless wind turbines in the ocean that are decimating the whale population (and other sea-life) is subsidized and encouraged. These people hate you, hate life, hate America.

Trump was elected and won on his vow to unleash American energy. This is Biden regime shitting all over the American people.

Biden issues ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters. Trump vows to undo it

By  MATTHEW DALY

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.

Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from future oil and natural gas leasing.

“My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said in a statement Monday.

“As the climate crisis continues to threaten communities across the country and we are transitioning to a clean energy economy, now is the time to protect these coasts for our children and grandchildren,” he said.

Biden’s orders would not affect large swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, where most U.S. offshore drilling occurs, but it would protect coastlines along California, Florida and other states from future drilling.

Continue reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

RELATED ARTICLE: New Biden Water Heater BAN Will Drive Up Energy Prices for The Poor, Seniors: Expert

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The True Cost of Wind Energy — Wind energy is one of our MOST EXPENSIVE energy options!

By John Droz, Jr.

When I wrote the original version of this last year, some attentive readers said that although my list of ten costs were spot-on, I should have added more. My original list was intended to be a summary, not all inclusive. That said I believe that se

veral of their suggested additions are not trivial, so I am reposting this commentary which now has fifteen typically ignored costs of industrial wind energy…


Periodically I get asked: what is the TRUE cost of industrial wind energy?

It seems like that should be a relatively straightforward answer, but it is anything but.

To appreciate what is going on, we need to understand the Big Picture regarding wind energy. (FYI, the same applies to solar.) The system is setup to grease the skids for wind energy developers — not ratepayers. When it comes to wind energy, we are dealing with 21st century snake oil salespeople. They have a sophisticated multi-part strategy to profit at the public’s expense…

Their FIRST major strategy is to sell politicians on the bogus concept that our electrical Grid should be inclusive — i.e., include ALL electrical energy sources (whether they are good or bad. An all of the above policy makes no technical or economic or environmental sense. (For a discussion of this, see here.) My alternative motto is that our electrical grid should include all of the sensible.

Their SECOND major strategy is to sell politicians on the false belief that we need enormous amounts of industrial wind energy to “save the planet from pending climate catastrophe.” Ignoring the accuracy of the Climate Change fear-mongering aspect, the reality is that there has never been a genuine scientific study that has concluded that wind energy saves a consequential amount of CO2! In fact, there have been multiple scientific studies that have concluded that wind energy can make Climate Change WORSE! (See here for some examples.)

Their THIRD major strategy is to sell politicians and the public on the illusion that industrial wind energy is inexpensive — so we should do it anyway (irrespective of points #1 and #2 above). So what is the true cost of industrial wind energy?


The True Cost of Wind Energy

Why this is not a simple question to answer is because wind promoters are VERY well aware that industrial wind energy is MUCH more expensive than our other conventional sources of electricity (fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro). So to get politicians and the public onboard, they have gone to EXTREME lengths to obfuscate wind energy’s REAL cost.

Here are fifteen sample examples of wind energy costs that are NOT acknowledged by wind promoters, so are NOT factored into any of their “cost of wind energy” claims:

How much is this? This objective report says: “While the original justification for the PTC was to boost a nascent industry, the PTC continues to subsidize a mature industry to the expected tune of nearly $24 billion from 2016-2020 according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. And that estimate will almost certainly be too low…”

A good example is the $100 million for wind energy in the 2022 “Infrastructure” bill. As it spells out in a separate legislative document, this taxpayer money is for such nonsense as “To support the integration of wind energy technologies with the electric grid and other energy technologies and systems” and “To support the domestic wind industry, workforce, and supply chain.” Billions of federal dollars are hidden in wind related costs (e.g., see here). This expert concludes that: “New Treasury Department numbers show that soaring federal handouts for wind & solar dwarf all other energy-related provisions in the tax code and will cost taxpayers $421 billion by 2034.

It’s bad enough that the federal government awards tens of billions to inferior but politically favored energy sources. However, the federal government does not have this money sitting in a bank account. Instead these tens of billions of dollars are mostly borrowed, so we also pay substantial interest costs on this foolishness. Yet another part of this absurdity is that communist China has loaned us almost a Trillion dollars of this — so they are directly profiting from this insanity. Now see this major red flag!

A Nuclear power facility (for example), will have: a) one transmission line, and b) the distance will be relatively short, as it will almost always be located fairly near a population center. On the other hand, a very rough equivalent of wind energy will have: a) many transmission lines, and b) will be located a considerable distance from population centers. The transmission cost difference is substantial — but none of it is attributed to the root cause: industrial wind energy.

The Electric Grid needs to have Supply and Demand balanced in a fraction of a second. Since wind energy is 100% unpredictable — and frequently goes to zero — 100% auxiliary power is necessary. For a variety of technical and economic reasons, the most appropriate auxiliary source is almost always gas. However, as with the preceding items, the cost and operation of whatever auxiliary source is used, is almost never attributed to the reason for it: wind energy.

This is a bit complicated, but once you understand it you will almost certainly say: this makes no sense whatsoever! That’s because it doesn’t.

A quickie summary is: let’s say that a Grid estimates that it needs 900 MWH next Tuesday. Five sources each bid to supply 200 MWH of it: Wind @ 1¢/KWH; Coal @ 2¢/KWH; Hydro @ 3¢/KWH; Nuclear @ 4¢/KWH; and Gas @ 6¢/KWH. The Grid takes the price of the highest accepted source (Gas), and then PAYS ALL THE SUPPLIERS THAT PRICE! Here is a good pictorial example of what happens.

What that means is that (in this case) wind gets 6¢/KWH (along with everyone else). But the wind people advertise that they are low cost (1¢/KWH) even though they got paid 6¢/KWH — and even though they knew that 1¢/KWH would never be the price they were paid (based on how the auction works). Dishonest.

Let’s say that Nuclear is unable to supply all their 200 MWH of electricity next Tuesday, as they had committed to (in #5). In this case the Grid manager heavily fines Nuclear, because the Grid manager now has to buy electricity on the spot market, which is quite expensive — so the fine is fair to ratepayers.

Let’s say that Wind is unable to supply all their 200 MWH of electricity next Tuesday, as they had committed to (also in #5). In this case the Grid manager does NOT fine wind, even though the Grid manager now has to buy electricity on the spot market, which is quite expensive. This is an ENORMOUS concession to wind developers, which is NOT fair to ratepayers. Further (like everything above), this extra Grid expense is NOT attributed to Wind — even though they caused it!

As if these Grid breaks aren’t enough, when the wind developers see the handouts that they are readily given, this green lights them to ask for more! Contrary to our traditional electricity sources, wind energy is not predictable — which is the excuse used for paying for underperformance of a bid. But, stunningly, in most cases wind energy also gets paid for over-performance as well! In other words, if they produce 100MWH that is not needed, in many cases they get paid to dump that (e.g., see here)! Of course, those payments are not attributable to wind energy’s cost.

There are numerous environmental costs to wind host communities — e.g., health costs to nearby residents (e.g., from infrasound), reduction of the values of nearby homes, etc., etc. There are multiple other costs that are spelled out here. No surprise, but none of these substantial costs are attributed to wind energy.

There are several of these costs, like farmers reducing or stopping their crop production (after they sign a lease to host turbines). This means that they: lay off help, do not buy seed, fertilizer and equipment, do not provide food to the community, etc… Adverse military consequences (e.g., interfering with radar, etc.)… Trees are taken down (which are CO2 absorbers). Etc. None of these are factored into wind energy’s cost.

Some major turbine components are extraordinarily problematic from several perspectives. Rare Earth materials are a fine example. (Note: some 2 to 4 thousand pounds of Rare Earths are in every turbine!) The environmental and health cost of Rare Earths is staggering — but much of that is happening in China. Even though wind promoters say that climate impacts anywhere in the world are important to address, none of them are publicly objecting to this wind energy cost.

Nowhere on earth can it be demonstrated that wind and solar grid imposters reduce electricity costs. Any country that pursues these fantasies is pursuing impoverishment because industry (and the economic benefits they create), will likely eventually leave for countries with cheaper, more reliable energy sources.

The bribes (aka subsidies) doled out to wind and solar exposes a significant conflict of interest for power providers: are they acting in the best interest of shareholders or customers? For example, since utilities are often guaranteed a return on their “capital base” they are perversely incentivized to install a huge capital base of unreliables to increase their profits — even though that increases costs and reduces reliability to their customers. So where is their primary allegiance?

Serenity’s legal definition is that environmental quality which provides the greatest sense of wellbeing. Industrial wind turbines are anathema to the serenity of pastoral communities. Just as with other key values in life (like happiness, contentment, peacefulness, etc.) there is no way to put a sufficient dollar value on this huge loss.

This frequently results when the wind industry uses citizen money to bribe local officials and select landowners in order to create an us vs. them conflict. Other nearby property owners then sign a so-called Good Neighbor Agreement by which they agree not to complain about the numerous liabilities of the industrial wind project. For an annual pittance of a bribe, these “good neighbors” cooperate in the torture of nearby non-participating residents afflicted with adverse health effects, property devaluation, etc.

This is a somewhat complicated, technical subject, so the above is a layperson’s summary. The takeaway is that — despite what the lobbyists are pitching to the non-critically thinking public — the real cost of wind energy is 3± times the cost of nuclear and other conventional sources of electricity. Solar is higher than that!

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PODCAST: What Did We Gain from Trump’s Win and What Could it Mean for American Energy?

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

GUESTS:

FRANK LASEE

Frank Lasee, author of Climate and Energy Lies: Expensive, Dangerous & Destructive, served Wisconsinites as a state senator and in Governor Scott Walker�s administration. The district he represented had a lot of electricity generation – coal, natural gas, two nuclear plants, biogas, biodigesters, wind towers, and now a solar plant.  Frank is an expert on energy and environmental issues. His articles have appeared in the Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Real Clear Energy, The Hill, and others, and he has been a guest on TV and radio news. He has spoken to more than 15,000 people in large and small groups.

TOPIC: What Trump’s Win Could Mean for American Energy

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Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author. For over 20 years, she wrote health, science and feature articles for The New York Times Long Island section as well as for many regional and national publications. She is a former delivery room and operating room nurse, Lamaze teacher, and NY State-certified psychotherapist, Joan is also the author/co-author of 12 books. You can visit her website at www.joanswirsky.com.

TOPIC: What Did We Gain In Trump’s Win?

PODCAST: What Trump’s Win Could Mean

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My 2024 Commentaries: July thru December, by Topic

By John Droz, Jr.

A helpful way for you to check out my 2024 Critical Thinking commentaries that you may have missed


Since we are at the end of 2024, let’s look back. As I continue to add readers, some of them are probably not aware of Critical Thinking commentaries I published earlier in the year or before. Yes, anyone can check out the Archives — but do they?

In any case the Archives are chronologically arranged, while this last half of 2024 list of my commentaries is by topic. Although some commentaries could be under more than one topic, I put them where they seemed to be most applicable. I had to do this manually, so there might be a typo, etc. someplace. Hopefully this list will be of value to you!

Note 1: The comments for all these article are still open, so feel free to share your insights, after any commentary listed.

Note 2: This list will be available in the Archives if you’d like to refer to it at a later date.

Note 3: To go one step further back, check out the 1st Half of 2024 Archives, by topic.

Note 4: To go two steps back, check out the 2023 Archives, by topic.

Note 5: If you’d like to have me write more about a particular topic, please say so in the comments below.


My 2024 Commentaries: July thru December

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NEW YORK: Gov. Hochul Signs Law Forcing Energy Companies To Pay Billions in the Name of Climate Hoax

By The Geller Report

The increasingly deranged Governor Kathy Hochul signed Climate (hoax) Superfund legislation forcing customers to pay more for Democrat pork.

Hochul approved a controversial law that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to fork over a staggering $75 billion to the state for ‘carbon emissions’ and allegedly contributing to ‘climate change.’

Representatives for the energy industry said the new law is a declaration of war against firms that provide energy and power to New York.

More than three dozen energy firms and business advocates sent a letter to Hochul on Dec. 5, urging her to veto the bill.

Remember, when Democrats talk about taxing “business” – that’s us, that’s people. Business is people, workers. It’s us. It’s always us.

Democrats Ramp Up War on Fossil Fuels as New York Governor Signs Law Forcing Energy Companies To Pay Billions in the Name of Climate Change

The American Petroleum Institute says the new law is ‘nothing more than a punitive new fee on American energy.’

Bradely Cortlight, NY Sun, Dec. 26, 2024:

Major fossil fuel companies will be required to hand over billions of dollars to help pay for New York State’s efforts to fight climate change under a new law signed by the governor Thursday.

Governor Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act, creating a new requirement that companies seen as responsible for the majority of carbon emissions between 2000 and 2024 will have to pay roughly $3 billion a year for the next 25 years.

The funds will be used to pay for new infrastructure meant to withstand the impacts of more flooding or more extreme weather some blame on climate change. The funds would also be used to pay for repairs to damage caused by extreme weather events.

In a statement, Ms. Hochul said, “With nearly every record rainfall, heat wave, and coastal storm, New Yorkers are increasingly burdened with billions of dollars in health, safety, and environmental consequences due to polluters that have historically harmed our environment.

“Establishing the Climate Superfund is the latest example of my administration taking action to hold polluters responsible for the damage done to our environment and requiring major investments in infrastructure and other projects critical to protecting our communities and economy,” she added.

A New York state senator, Liz Krueger, celebrated the law and said the state “has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable.”

Fossil fuel and business groups opposed the implementation of the law. The American Petroleum Institute said it “represents nothing more than a punitive new fee on American energy, and we are evaluating our options moving forward.”

Meanwhile, the Business Council of New York State and more than 30 other business organizations urged Ms. Hochul to veto the bill earlier this month.

The groups argued that it “targets sellers of fossil fuels while ignoring users as a contributor to emissions” and said the law would “certainly face a long and costly legal challenge.”

New York’s law will not go into effect immediately as officials still have to develop a system to identify which companies they believe are the largest emitters and provide them notice that they must pay.

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Biden Admin Invoked ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Cut Alaska Drilling, But Some Tribal Leaders Are Ready For Trump

By The Daily Caller

The Biden administration justified major crackdowns on fossil fuel and mineral development in Alaska by playing up its commitment to Native American tribes, but some community leaders who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation said they did not feel respected by the administration

Over the course of the last four years, the Biden administration moved to shut down drilling activity on tens millions of acres of land in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), retroactively canceled lease sales and effectively blocked a major mining project in the state, often touting the administration’s commitment to protecting the environment for native communities in official statements and press releases. However, these actions were a major disappointment to some of Alaska’s natives, who told the DCNF that the administration seems to have mostly ignored their desire to allow development that generates revenues for their communities and that they are ready to work with the incoming Trump administration to strike an appropriate balance.

Biden Makes Another Move To Crush Economic Development In Alaska https://t.co/84KbcDHO3Y

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 1, 2024

“With climate change warming the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, we must do everything within our control to meet the highest standards of care to protect this fragile ecosystem,” Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said in a September 2023 statement after the administration moved to shield 13 million acres from drilling activity in the NPR-A and retroactively canceled lease sales. “President Biden is delivering on the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in history. The steps we are taking today further that commitment, based on the best available science and in recognition of the Indigenous Knowledge of the original stewards of this area, to safeguard our public lands for future generations.”

However, the administration’s deference to “Indigenous Knowledge” did not mean much to some tribal leaders and officials in light of the government’s apparent disinterest in meaningfully engaging with them about key issues related to resource development.

Nagruk Harcharek is the president of Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat, an organization that represents the interests of numerous native communities in the resource-rich North Slope region of Alaska. In his view, the Biden administration was not particularly interested in hearing what his organization had to say about the value of the economic benefits that resource development provides for his community.

“I started here in 2022. The first thing I did was try to get in there and make sure our voices were heard, because what we’re hearing from the administration is that we’re the most tribally-friendly administration in the history of the United States, right? ” Harcharek told the DCNF. “At least from our perspective, that’s not our impression.”

“We’ve always tried to stress that we are part of the environment. We utilize it for subsistence hunting, for our culture, and it’s extremely important to us. We don’t need to be protected from our own environment,” Harcharek continued. “We can make decisions and help administrations make decisions that are both good for the region and also good for the environment and good for the state, good for the nation. And that just wasn’t the case. There was a lack of engagement, meaningful engagement. Oftentimes, we heard of policy changes in the news and not from phone calls from folks, even though everybody has our number.”

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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 31, 2024

Harcharek says his organization attempted to secure a meeting with Haaland on nine different occasions, but only managed to get a chance in June of this year. Other times, the Department of the Interior (DOI) sent staffers or other officials to meet with them, if their outreach to the government was even returned.

“Sometimes we didn’t even get a response from those emails, so saying that they’re the most tribally-friendly and then not speaking to most of our tribes or us in a timely manner or a meaningful manner, the just question is, who are you? Who considers you the most tribally friendly organization? Because it sure isn’t us, or we’re not getting that sentiment,” Harcharek said.

Doreen Leavitt, secretary for the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope (ICAS), also ripped Haaland for lackluster engagement with her community since 2021 and expressed hope that Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum — Trump’s pick to replace Haaland — will be a better leader at DOI.

“Secretary Haaland’s leadership for ICAS and our region was not just deeply frustrating, but it was saddening because as an indigenous woman myself, who wants to see other indigenous women in leadership succeed and grow, her lack of respect for our region was frustrating, to say the least, despite her recognition of tribal stewardship, our requests for consultation on critical issues were ignored or dismissed,” Leavitt told the DCNF. “I don’t know much about Secretary Burgum, other than that he comes from the Dakotas, but we will expect the incoming secretary to provide that meaningful consultation, that transparent process and respect for our tribal sovereignty and self-determination and those things we did not see under Haaland.”

Leavitt also explained that resource development has provided the money her community needed over the past 50 years to establish and maintain basic things like running water, school systems, health clinics, emergency services and more.

Without taking a political stance, Leavitt noted that she and her organization are “especially looking forward to having the government-to-government relationship rights respected” by the incoming Trump administration.

Charles Lampe, the president of Kaktovik Iñupiat Corporation, said that he and his people are looking forward to Trump’s return to power after sensing that most of his community’s concerns about cracking down hard on resource development were “pretty much just cast aside” by the Biden administration.

“We’re really excited about the next four years. With the previous administration, the Trump administration, we had a great relationship. We just felt like we were actually listened to during that time,” Lampe told the DCNF.

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NYT touts You Will Own Nothing: ‘Climate Change Should Make You Rethink Homeownership’ – But writer owns his own home!

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot

Watch: Morano on Hannity on Fox News on John Kerry’s call for a ‘climate emergency’ – Private jet flying ‘Kerry said EVERYONE must participate like it’s an emergency. Everyone John? – But he does NOT ‘include himself’

WATCH: John Kerry calls for a ‘climate emergency’ but he does NOT ‘include himself’.

New York Times touts You Will Own Nothing: ‘Climate Change Should Make You Rethink Homeownership’ – Pushes ‘renting’ a home as ‘a better way’ – Written by a professor who owns his own home!

NYT: October 29, 2024: By Benjamin Keys – An economist and a professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Excerpt: Climate change is most likely making homeownership more expensive and less predictable in large areas of the country, and it’s only getting worse. …By raising the costs and the uncertainty around being an owner, climate change is only swinging the pendulum farther from the dream of homeownership. … Being a renter might sound like a step backward to some — a return to your 20s and 30s — but in this case, it may be worth trading some control for reduced exposure and greater flexibility.

Sen. Kennedy: “It’s pretty bold. Do you own a home?”
Keys: “Yes, I do. It’s in a flood zone.”
Kennedy: “Have you sold it?”
Keys: “I live in my home.”
Kennedy: “Oh, well, you’re telling everyone else to sell theirs. You’re a climate extremist, aren’t you.”

Morano Op-Ed: Wright on! Trump’s Energy Sec. Chris Right to lead an American energy U-Turn

Morano: Wright’s selection follows the polar opposite choice of the current Biden-Harris Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. Everywhere Wright shines bright, Granholm fades into blackouts.

“We gotta leave you in the ground,” sang Granholm while appearing in a 2018 activist video about hastening the end of gasoline and fossil fuels. Granholm made her cameo in a music video produced by environmentalist group Coltura, with the song’s title being “Gasoline, Gasoline (The World’s Aflame).” Granholm was our freaking energy secretary, and her number one goal was to stop plentiful energy! There was so much anti-energy sentiment in the Biden-Harris administration that the Washington Post boasted in 2021, “Every Cabinet job is about climate change now.”

With Wright as the energy secretary, we can be assured that the energy rationing philosophy of Biden-Harris will be officially in the dustbin of history.

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Watch: John Kerry: ‘The climate crisis is killing people’ – ‘Every year now, millions of people around this planet are dying’ caused ‘by the way we “choose to fuel our vehicles…heat our homes, light our factories’

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VIDEO: Biden’s Delaware Rejecting Solar Power

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

A new episode of our wildly popular video series Conservation Nation just posted.

Host Gabriella Hoffman travels to Delaware, home to President Joe Biden, to expose how residents of the First State aren’t sold on solar.

WATCH: Delaware Residents Aren’t Sold on Solar Energy Projects

As CFACT’s readers know, solar power is one of the least reliable sources of electricity out there. Per the Department of Energy, solar has the lowest capacity factor rate of all energy sources – only functioning for just 24.9% of the year. Not to mention, utility-scale solar projects are monstrously land intensive.

Despite Delaware going all-in on solar, only 172 megawatts (MW) of solar power has been installed.  That amounts to a mere 4% of the state’s electricity generation. Delaware is still heavily dependent on natural gas, which supplies 87% of the state’s electricity.  Ouch!

In two of Delaware’s three counties, locals are fighting to stop the spread of dozens of proposed solar installations. Concerned residents told Gabriella that solar desertification puts wildlife, the state’s natural beauty and vital industries such as farming at risk.

For nature and people too.

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