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Biden May Not Hold Any Offshore Oil And Gas Leases Until The End Of His Term, Industry Group Says
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The American Petroleum Institute (API), a leading industry group, said the next offshore oil and gas lease sale likely wouldn’t come until early 2024 following the latest Biden administration update. The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced Thursday that it would issue an updated proposed program plan for offshore lease sales by June […]
Does Biden’s $5B Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Plan Put Government Totally in Control of Charging Your Car?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Recently we received a link to a study on all electric vehicle (EV) charging stations (EVSEs) in the San Francisco Bay Area. The study was titled “Reliability of Open Public Electric Vehicle Direct Current Fast Chargers” done by David Rempel, Carleen Cullen, Mary Matteson Bryan and Gustavo Vianna Cezar from the […]
Biden’s Secretary of Commerce: American children ‘having clothes comes second to the existential threat of climate change’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier We have lived through a period that went from mankind cannot control the weather to environmental alarmists first warning about global cooling, then global warming and now the “existential threat” of climate change. Now we learn from Biden’s Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo that American children having clothes comes second […]
Global Warming Was Going to Destroy Skiing, Then the Snow Fell
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Vail, Colorado concluded its skiing season on May 1 a year after the Denver Post warned that “climate change is shrinking the Colorado ski season.” It’s almost as if some higher power has made a point of mocking doomsday predictions by climate pagans who think the weather can be changed by raising taxes and […]
U.S. Faces Electricity Shortages Heading Into Summer, as Grid Operators Warn of Limits of Green Energy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Evidence shows America’s power grid is increasingly unreliable and struggling to keep up with energy demand. With more than 25 years of executive experience in the utility industry, people tend to listen when MISO CEO John Bear talks about energy. And the message he’s sending about electricity shortages as Americans head […]
Fuel Prices Hit Record Highs After Biden Promised To Lower Costs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The average price of gasoline in the U.S. shot up to a new all-time record Tuesday, less than two months after President Joe Biden guaranteed lower prices. The average pump price nationwide surged to $4.37 per gallon early Tuesday, the highest since March, according to AAA data. In February, Biden said he would “work like […]
Climate True Believers Should Doubt Their Faith
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US Beyond the Left’s climate change chants lie big problems, big enough to destroy the faith of any climate change true believer who accidentally pays attention to reality. We can start with exploding electric buses. Two caught fire in France, one exploded. Not a pretty picture – public buses engulfed in flames. […]
AWED NEWLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections. Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media. Particularly note the *** asterisked *** items below… — This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic — Ukraine: *** Germany will support Russian oil embargo after significantly […]
ABSURD: AG Merritt Garland’s New Office of ‘Environmental Justice’ yet another Marxist attack on science and free speech
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III My God, just when I thought it can’t get any worse, the Department of In-Justice and its Chief Arbiter, Marxist Merritt Garland announces a new Federal Agency the “Office of Environmental Justice.” This is yet another Marxist frontal assault on science and freedom of speech. Watch: The Office of […]
Biden Revoked Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda. Now It’s Coming Back To Haunt Him
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden’s decision to reverse a series of Trump administration energy policies have harmed American consumers amid the Ukraine crisis, former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said. Bernhardt, who led the Department of Interior (DOI) between 2019-2021, said Biden’s energy policies reflect activism rather than a coherent strategy to ensure low […]
PODCAST: GOP Grassroots demand bold action and Europe needs natural gas America could help
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Conservative Commandos Radio Show GUESTS AND TOPICS JEFF CROUERE Jeff Crouere is the host of, “Ringside Politics,” which airs weekdays on WGSO 990-AM in New Orleans. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on www.JeffCrouere.net. TOPIC: GOP Grassroots demand […]
NEWSMAX TV to Broadcast Climate Hustle 2
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow It is finally arriving. Grab the popcorn, gather your family. It will be a Mother’s Day to climatologically remember! The climate change debate is set to be rocked as CFACT’s skeptical film, Climate Hustle 2: The Rise of the Climate Monarchy, hosted by actor Kevin Sorbo, is set for it’s […]
While Americans Can’t Afford Gas, Biden Slashes Drilling
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch It’s not Putin’s price hike, it’s Biden’s. And he insists on reminding us of that every few days. The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump administration plan that would have allowed the government to lease more than two-thirds of the country’s largest swath of public land to oil and gas drilling. The Bureau […]
The Climate Change Doomsday Cult: ‘The end of private car ownership and of meat-eating’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Watch: Morano on TV explains how climate agenda is pushing ‘the end of private car ownership’ & end of meat-eating: Tipping Point with Kara McKinney on One America News – OAN – Broadcast April 26, 2022 Morano: “The whole climate agenda stripped bare is literally a self-immolation of your national security and […]
Elon Musk: ‘We should not shut down nuclear power plants, we should reopen the ones that we’ve shut down’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Elon Musk did a broad interview (below) that was published on IsraelUnwired.com’s website by Phil Schneider. Elon Musk discussed during the interview the need for nuclear energy and re-opening any nuclear plants that have been shut down. Watch: We fully agree with Elon. In our column America’s Energy Future: Oil, […]
Biden’s Wind-Solar-Powered U.S. Economy is a Dangerous Myth
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier In a Gatestone Institute column titled “A Mostly Wind- and Solar-Powered U.S. Economy Is a Dangerous Fantasy” Francis Menton wrote: When President Biden and other advocates of wind and solar generation speak, they appear to believe that the challenge posed is just a matter of currently having too much fossil fuel […]
Twitter Bans Science and Knowledge to Promote Climate Change ‘Consensus’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “SCIENCE: Knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method.” – Merriam-Webster Dictionary. “CONSENSUS: General agreement; the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned.” – Meriam-Webster Dictionary. Twitter has take off the gloves for Earth Day by […]
18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day In 1970. Expect More This Year.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong. CLICK HERE TO VIEW INFOGRAPHIC: ANNUAL CO2 EMMISSIONS IN THE U.S. FROM ENERGY CONSUMPTION, 1992 TO 2017 Today (Sunday, April 22) is Earth Day 2018 and time for my annual Earth Day post….. In the May 2000 issue […]
Will solid-state batteries bail out electric vehicles? Electric cars currently have rather combustible batteries!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Recently, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a recall for electric-vehicle batteries made by LG Energy Solution of South Korea. Fires have been caused by some of these batteries, which are used in Mercedes, Hyundai, and General Motors products, among others. The problem is that rare manufacturing defects can cause […]
The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The story of a resurgent polar bear population deserves to be told and applauded. Many of us watched the viral video in horror. A starving polar bear scavenging for food on barren land, his ribs visible beneath a jaundiced white coat. “This is what climate change looks like,” said National […]
PODCAST: Blood on the blades! Are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for ‘clean’ energy!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Conservative Commandos Radio Show GUESTS AND TOPICS PAUL DRIESSEN Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and author of articles and books on energy, environmental and human rights issues. TOPIC: Don’t Look Up! by Paul Driessen GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist, Executive Director of the […]
Woke investors threaten the West’s security
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Since Russia attacked Ukraine two months ago, Western governments have been learning the hard way about the critical importance of energy to their national security. Germany’s 20-year, trillion-dollar “Energiewende” (Energy Transformation) has made its economy totally dependent on supplies of Russian natural gas and paralyzed its response to Russian aggression. French […]
Bidens’ Stupidity on Gas Continues!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Save America Foundation “This above all: to thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare Joe Biden, the usurper occupying, in my mind, the White House illegally, continues trying to pretend to be doing his best to get gas prices down. Remember, it’s an election year and he is about to get annihilated! Anyway. […]
How Mask Mandates Make a Mess of Things—Literally
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Government-driven litter can quickly become pollution. The mask mandate for all airplanes and public transit in the US was set to expire on April 18. But on Wednesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended it for 15 days, citing an uptick in cases, especially of the “BA.2 omicron subvariant.” […]
‘Lockdown’ Europe [again] to punish Putin!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Report urges Europe to ‘ban all business flights, private jets & internal flights…ban car use within cities…reducing heating in buildings’ Lockdown 2.0: The “Switch Off Putin” RePlanet report: “We propose bans on all business flights, private jets and internal flights within Europe to save oil, and bans also on car use within cities,” […]
VIDEO: The Batwa paid the ultimate price to save gorillas. Do environmentalists care?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Which is more important: human beings or exotic species? The Batwa are a group of pygmy people who have lived in central Africa for millennia. Their homeland spreads across what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shorter in stature than other Africans, they dwell in […]
Climate Campaigners Recommend Europe Ban Inter-Continental Flights and Car Use to ‘hurt Putin’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch The only people who will be hurt by this are the Europeans who have no easy way to travel. The Western intelligentsia seems bent on committing civilizational suicide. If they aren’t able to force that suicide in response to Putin, they’ll find another angle. Ban European flights and car use in cities […]
Biden Wants More Oil from Canada — But He Killed The Keystone Pipeline That Would Bring It
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report America hating lunatics are running the country. From the story: Biden administration officials are seeking ways to boost oil imports from Canada, people familiar with the situation say, but with one big caveat—they don’t want to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline that President Biden effectively killed on his first day in office… […]
A Tesla Model 3’s CO2 emissions is equal to 1.4 years of driving a Gas-powered Sedan
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier A friend sent us some information about the CO2 emissions of all electric vehicles (EVs) compared to the CO2 emissions of a gasoline powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. We wanted to see which type of vehicle emitted the most CO2, you know that greenhouse gas that the EPA wants to […]
The Environmental Downside of Electric Vehicles
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) An electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a comparable internal combustion engine vehicle, according to the International Energy Agency. At one time, “Saving the Environment” and “Fighting Climate Change” were synonymous. That is no longer true. The quest for Clean Energy through electric vehicles (EVs) epitomizes […]