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Why are gas prices so high? It’s the oil refineries stupid!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
Why Expand Your Business If the Government Will Soon Close It Down?
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Progressives seem to be confused about inflation. Inflation is an increase in the supply of money and credit at a rate faster than the rise in the production of goods and services. It is monetary on the one hand and a supply issue on the other. Therefore, the solution lies in restricting […]
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
Is It Ethical to Purchase a Lithium Battery Powered EV?
/in Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ronald Stein With numerous state governors have issued executive orders to phase out the purchasing of gasoline-driven cars within the next decade or so, and the automobile manufacturers’ efforts to phase into only manufacturing EVs here’s some food for thought about the lack of transparency about “Clean Energy Exploitations”. The top image is an […]
On the Road Again
/in Environment, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky As we approached the start of our annual trip to foreign lands, we were excited that the mask mandate for airplane flights was ending the day before our departure. We did not believe the Biden Administration would be foolish enough to extend it; then they did. We were thoroughly dejected. Then we […]
Biden in 2020 Unequivocally Stated He Planned to ‘End’ the Fossil Fuel Industry! He’s wrong to do so!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
What are ESG Scores?
/in Economy, Environment, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel And why are so many advocates of liberty deeply concerned about them? Klaus Schwab and a growing list of powerful global economic and political elites, including BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and President Joe Biden, have recently committed to a global “reset” of the prevailing school of economic thought. They seek to supplant […]
Arizona to Spend $76.5 million in EV Charging Stations on Highways
/in Environment, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce Editors’ Note: The following article amply shows the power of Federal subsidies to bend even a conservative state like Arizona to do the bidding of the Federal Government. It is up to private companies to provide the infrastructure to produce and distribute fuel for gasoline-powered cars, but Federal dollars and Arizona state […]
Germany’s Green Energy Fixation Should Teach U.S. a Lesson
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Larry Bell Germany’s new Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government vice chancellor and economic minister Robert Habeck, a leading member of his country’s Green Party, has experienced a rude lesson regarding the disastrous consequences of his years of naïve opposition to fossil fuels. After tasking his top officials to assess the energy security implications of Germany’s dependence […]
How to Alleviate the Looming Global Hunger Crisis
/in Economy, Environment, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bjorn Lomborg A global food crisis is looming, so policymakers everywhere need to think hard about how to make food cheaper and more plentiful. That requires making a commitment to producing more fertilizer and better seeds, maximizing the potential offered by genetic modification, and abandoning the rich world’s obsession with organics. Russia’s brutal war in […]
Tips on Pumping Gas that Will Save You $$$!
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
Stockholm+50 Attendees Need[ed] to Address the Impact on the World Without Fossil Fuels
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ronald Stein Efforts to cease the use of crude oil could be the greatest threat to civilization’s eight billion people. The Stockholm+50 in Stockholm, Sweden, will commemorate the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and celebrate 50 years of failed global environmental action. The meetings on June 2nd and 3rd will follow months of […]
Questions the Climate Police Won’t Answer
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment /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 and Energy Policies: Watch Western Sanctions On Russia Boomerang: […]
Men are Women and California Judges Rule Bees are Fish
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
The Electric Vehicle Bad Dream
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Duggan Flanakin While some are certain of the inevitability of the impending demise of the internal combustion engine (ICE), others are far less certain. Cristian Agapie points to market pressures due to increased demand for electric vehicles have raised prices and operating costs as well. Another writer calls out electric vehicles, even Tesla’s, as just boring to drive. One thing […]
Silence of the power engineers? NERC does nothing!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]