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Weather Modification, Another Way to Starve Americans
By Kelleigh Nelson “Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.” — Thomas Jefferson “Government has within it a tendency to abuse its power.” — John C. Calhoun “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with […]
Hurricane Risk is Real For Offshore Wind
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The danger from too much wind. My regular readers know that I have been fussing about the threat of hurricanes destroying proposed Atlantic coast offshore wind arrays. The issue arises because the offshore wind industry is based in Europe, which does not get hurricanes. My focus has been Dominion’s […]
Reducing CO2 Hurts the Planet and Humanity: Time to Reconsider Massachusetts v. EPA
By Dr. Rich Swier “This August marks the 15th anniversary of Massachusetts v. EPA. We believe it is time for the Supreme Court to reconsider their ruling given the vast amount of science now available on CO2 and its impact on climate change.” — Dr. Richard M. Swier In the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, […]
Germany’s ‘Green’ Energy Disaster Is A Warning To The United States
By The Geller Report “No nation has anything approaching a clean energy economy. And those that have promised to build one are all struggling.” By: David Harsanyi, The Federalist, June 21, 2022: As gas hit historic highs, leftists keep arguing it’s a perfect time to transition to a “clean energy” economy. “Now is the moment to double-down, […]
An Interesting Take on Electric Cars from a Conversation
By Save America Foundation If electric cars do not use gasoline, they will not be paying a gasoline tax on every gallon sold for automobiles, which was enacted to maintain our roads and bridges. They will use the roads and bridges, but will not pay for their maintenance! As an engineer I love electric vehicle […]
Why are gas prices so high? It’s the oil refineries stupid!
By Dr. Rich Swier Today American’s are seeing the highest gasoline prices in their lifetimes at over $5.00 a gallon on average. QUESTION: Why is this happening? ANSWER: It’s the oil refineries stupid! In 1982 there were over 250 operating crude oil refineries in the United States; that number declined to 132 by 2019. As of […]
Chevron CEO: There May Never Be Another Oil Refinery Built in U.S. Again
By The Geller Report The Democrats are systematically destroying this nation with unimaginable speed. Oil, in some form, is in almost every product that is made. The government is out of control – run by traitors and scoundrels. One commenter queried, “Do you think that it is a coincidence that we Americans are being conditioned […]
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Today’s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the “anti-impact framework”—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media’s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and […]
Biden in 2020 Unequivocally Stated He Planned to ‘End’ the Fossil Fuel Industry! He’s wrong to do so!
By Dr. Rich Swier Watch this segment of the Democrat debate for POTUS and candidate Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s statement on fossil fuels. Joe Biden in 2020: “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period. It ends.” pic.twitter.com/90MVJevPmv — […]
Backup Battery Cost Fantasies Abound
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The only technologically feasible way to make renewables reliable at in the foreseeable future is with massive amounts of grid scale batteries. Whether this is even remotely feasible depends on the cost and here things get truly strange. On the one hand we have real utility reports of the […]
Tips on Pumping Gas that Will Save You $$$!
By Scott Adams I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline…. but here in California we are paying up to $5.75 to $7 per gallon. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every gallon: Here […]
Russia and Iran Conclude Major 20-Year Energy Deal
By Jihad Watch Both Russia and Iran are running rings around Old Joe on the global stage. Meanwhile, this will help finance a good bit of Iran’s global jihad adventurism. Biden humiliated as Russia and Iran strikes major 20-year energy deal by Antony Ashkenaz, Express, June 3, 2022: Amid the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has expanded its […]
Questions the Climate Police Won’t Answer
By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US A number of articles have appeared recently raising really good questions the climate police can’t or won’t answer. Here are just some of them: How much battery storage will be required to handle a worst-case scenario of a solid week when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine after […]
NYT praises inflation as way ‘to drive welcome change for the planet’ + Prince Charles backs face masks for cows!
By Marc Morano Economic chaos is GOOD for climate?! NYT column praises inflation for its ability ‘to drive welcome change for the planet’ ‘Adjust what we eat to save both our pocketbooks & our planet’ Culture & lifestyle journalist Annaliese Griffin writing on June 2, 2022, in the New York Times: “Inflation has the potential to drive […]
AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.
By 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 and Energy Policies: Watch Western Sanctions On Russia Boomerang: […]
Men are Women and California Judges Rule Bees are Fish
By Jihad Watch We live in a wondrous new age in which men can be women. So why can’t bees also be fish? What if they identify, or their lawyers rather, identify them as fish? They say that the law is an ass, but in this case it may also be a fish. Or a […]
Silence of the power engineers? NERC does nothing!
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, or NERC for short (rhymes with jerk), recently released a report warning of likely blackouts across much of America this summer. The report got lots of publicity, including this piece flagged by our own Climate Depot, titled “Report: Deadly Summer Blackouts Inevitable As […]
Biden’s Rollback of NEPA Reforms May Haunt Green Energy Projects
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Author Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Post, The […]
Elon Musk: Tesla to ‘Pause All Hiring Worldwide’ and Cut Staff by 10% has ‘Super Bad Feeling’ About The Economy
By The Geller Report Look what the Democrats have done to us. And you don’t have to be a clairvoyant to see how much worse it’s going to get as the Democrats continue to spend, spend, spend and vow to tax, tax, tax. Elon Musk now tells execs Tesla needs to ‘pause all hiring worldwide’ […]
High Gas Prices are Caused by Governments, Not Companies
By Jihad Watch When Governor Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met to announce a deal between the tiny country and the broken state, it was another example of California illegally enacting its own foreign policy. And a reminder of why California gas prices are so high. The memorandum had California promising to […]
Two-Thirds of the Country Face the Prospect of Blackouts this Summer
By Dr. Rich Swier We have written about the disasters of the green energy vs fossil fuels policies of the Biden administration and Democrat Party. We have written that green energy alone cannot power America’s current needs let alone its future needs. We have written that Biden’s policies are have a major impact on gasoline […]
4 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Never Came True
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Current climate predictions can be terrifying if you don’t know about the previous dire climate claims that amounted to nothing. If you’re under 50, there’s a good chance you’re expecting to see climate change create chaos and death in your lifetime. Scientists and pundits seem so certain we’re headed for global […]
These 10 States Had The Most Expensive Gas Over Memorial Day Weekend
By The Daily Caller As the national average for gasoline rose to a new record high of $4.62 a gallon on Memorial Day, prices varied throughout the country affecting drivers on one of the busiest travel days of the year. According to AAA, gas prices went up one penny since Sunday and gasoline is now […]
Globalists Collapsing The Energy Sector
By Save America Foundation Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF): is made from deionized water and a very pure form of urea. Urea is found in urine and is a refined form of the compound and is mostly used in the agricultural industry as a component of fertilizer. This could be a pot stirrer. Interesting information…received from […]
Every Time Biden Drained Strategic Oil Reserves, Prices Ended Up Higher. Here’s The Proof
By The Daily Caller President Joe Biden has raided the Strategic Petroleum Reserve three times, but the actions have had minimal impact on oil and gasoline prices, data showed. “Today, we’re launching a major effort to moderate the price of oil — an effort that will span the globe in its reach and, ultimately, reach […]
VIDEO: Marxist Reasons For Mandating All Electric Cars
By Graham Ledger The cost of integrating millions of electric cars into society (like California is mandating) is astronomical. It’s all about controlling your freedom of movement. We are doomed To Repeat Jimmy Carter…price gouging legislation is actually price controls. Please subscribe free to The Ledger Report by clicking here: www.GrahamLedger.com ©The Ledger Report. All rights […]
National Geographic Magazine Goes Woke And Falls For The Climate Change Myth
By Dr. Rich Swier “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy It appears that National Geographic has fallen for another climate […]
Welcome To The ‘Green’ Digital Gulag
By Center For Security Policy The convergence of the Communist and capitalist wellsprings of the new world order – and its ominous implications for Americans and others who love freedom – was on display in Davos, Switzerland yesterday. At the globalist World Economic Forum, the Chinese Communist Party’s tech giant, Alibaba, unveiled the next big […]
Truckers Speak Out over Proposed Rule That Could Impose Speed Limits as Low as 60 MPH on Rigs
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) If you’ve ever been stuck behind a transport truck on a highway, you know how annoying it can be. The worst part is when trucks are trying to pass each other. A line of cars builds up behind them as they drive side-by-side for what seems like an eternity. […]
Biden Soaring Gas Prices Are Part Of Green Agenda—Gas Stations Adding Extra Digit Expecting $10 a Gallon for Gasoline
By The Daily Caller President Joe Biden suggested record gas prices were part of an incredible transition away from fossil fuels Monday in Japan. At the press conference in Tokyo with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a reporter asked the president if a recession in the United States was inevitable. “When it comes to the gas prices,” the president stammered […]