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The Green Con Job on Energy Independence: Their Dream is Our Nightmare

By Neland Nobel If there is one thing we can expect from the Green Movement is that it will do its best to mislead the public with very clever public relations. But a lie is a lie, even if cleverly told. This has manifested itself in two ways rather recently. First, they continue to claim […]

German Chemical Giant Warns Of “Total Collapse” If Russian Gas Supply Cut

By Tyler Durden CEO of Germany’s multinational BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical producer, has warned that curbing or cutting off energy imports from Russia would bring into doubt the continued existence of small and medium-sized energy companies, and further would likely spiral Germany into its most “catastrophic” economic crisis going back to the end of […]

Biden Pledges His U.S. Penalized Energy to Europe

By Larry Bell Biden’s energy policies are even worse than gunning acceleration of a car in stop-and-go traffic … more like trying to move forward with one foot jamming the gas pedal and the other simultaneously clamping down on the brake. What you wind up with is lots of smoke, a burned-out engine, and a vehicle […]

Biden Wants More Oil from Canada — But He Killed The Keystone Pipeline That Would Bring It

By 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… […]

Is The Oil & Gas Industry To Blame For Unused Leases?

By Gabriella Hoffman In wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is refusing to cut its reliance on foreign oil and gas despite plenty of reserves available here at home. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, reserves of U.S. crude oil and leases stand at 38.2 billion barrels as of 2020. However, […]

A Tesla Model 3’s CO2 emissions is equal to 1.4 years of driving a Gas-powered Sedan

By 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

By 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 […]

Climate Change Is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment

By William Kocacs The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a diversion tactic by the government, the radical Left, and their mainstream press. The many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the rise of the oceans or heal the […]

How ’emergency declarations’ & crises are being used to bypass democracy to implement Green New Deal

By Marc Morano Watch: Morano on Tucker Carlson on how ’emergency declarations’ & crises are being used to bypass democracy to implement Green New Deal Morano on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight: “They know the Green New Deal won’t pass…The solution to the Russian invasion is the same solution to climate change, it happened […]

Environmentalists Want Us to Freeze, Starve, and Die

By Jihad Watch Every now and then someone pipes up to point out that if environmentalists really want to lower carbon, they’re going to have nuclear. And they’re promptly buried in a tsunami of outrage (nuclear, do you want us all to die) and spin (look at this blog post sponsored by a solar panel […]

8 Commonsense Proposals to Alleviate Climate Change

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Climate change is real, but you should be skeptical of lawmakers who refuse to repeal legislation that is contributing to the problem. Here’s a thought: Let’s start addressing climate change by ending government policies that make it worse. Let’s repeal laws and regulations that force people and companies to […]

VIDEO: Biden Irresponsibly Taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow  President Biden announced that he will tap into America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and will consume one third of it in an attempt to control rising gas prices. This is as irresponsible as it is dangerous. Following the Arab oil embargo of the 1970’s, the SPR was built […]

Would You Trust Biden to Sell You Your Next Car?

By Dr. Rich Swier Joe Biden Car Salesman? Yep, Uncle Joe is determined to get you to buy all electric cars (EVs), even if you can’t afford one. Watch:  Here Uncle Joe says that an EV will save $80 a month more than your current internal combustion engine care. But wasn’t it Uncle Joe […]

A Defining Moment

By Bruce Bialosky We are coming off two years of lockdowns that were countered with government programs spending billions and billions of dollars to offset the effects of those government-imposed restrictions. We are then hit with a burst of inflation at levels not seen in America for forty years. Additionally, one of the world’s largest […]

Democrats Look To Sustainable Investing Craze As Means For Pushing Climate Agenda

By Thomas Catenacci Democrats have increasingly pushed their expansive climate agenda through the financial sector and legal system as Congress has failed to implement Green New Deal reforms. “Congress is really unwilling to impose much in the way of costs and to address climate change,” David Kreutzer, the senior economist at the Institute for Energy […]

The Great Food Reset: Expect ‘real’ food shortages

By Marc Morano The Great Food Reset: Expect ‘real’ food shortages, Biden declares – Meanwhile, Bill Gates & China buy up U.S. farmland. Climate Depot’s Morano: “If the Davos crowd of the World Economic Forum were looking for a better global environment on which to enact their central planning vision of a Great Reset, it would […]

AWED Media Balance Newsletter: We cover COVID to Climate to Ukraine, 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: *** Report: 8-Year CIA Program Helped Provoke Russian Invasion […]

Climate Change Poses No Existential Threat. Nada. Not Any.

By H. Sterling Burnett A refreshing article in the Washington Examiner demonstrates what I have repeatedly said for more than a decade: climate change does not pose an “existential threat.” In fact, that’s the title of the article: “Climate change is not an ‘existential threat.’” In discussing the energy crisis that has arisen during Joe Biden’s brief […]

Water Vapor, Not Mankind, is the Greatest Contributor to Green House Gases

By Dr. Rich Swier It seems over the past decades there’s been the notion that mankind has been the largest contributor to green house gas emissions. While green house gases do come from things developed to help mankind grow and prosper like: factories, plants that produce energy, cars, trucks, railroads, airplanes, they combined are not […]

The Russia/Bermuda Dark Money Subterfuge

By Lawrence Kadish If there is one thing you can say about the Russians it is that they stick to their proven playbook no matter what carnage they inflict on the innocents or how greatly they deceive the gullible. During the height of the Cold War, they sought to stop America’s introduction of sophisticated weapons […]

Biden’s Dream of ‘Clean Cars’ is Turning Into a Lithium Nightmare

By Dr. Rich Swier Lithium is often dubbed as “white gold” for the development of electric vehicles. The cost of lithium needed to make electric car batteries is up 472% just in the past 12 months and 850% since Biden took office. Biden, Harris, Buttigieg and Democrats want America to go all green and want […]

Did You Ever in Your Wildest Dreams Think They Could Mess Up Things This Much This Fast?

By Bruce Bialosky Whenever I have lunch or dinner with someone – especially with recent events — I ask a very straightforward question. “In your wildest dreams did you ever believe they would muck things up this bad, this fast?” I use more vivid language, but I am against using such language in a public […]

Democrats Can’t Solve Energy-Related Problems Because They Don’t Understand They Are Causing Them

By H. Sterling Burnett With oil prices topping $125.00 per barrel and gasoline prices averaging $4.17 per gallon nationwide for regular as I write, the White House and Democrats in Congress persist in the delusion that the economy can rapidly transition completely to green energy. Their belief that wind, solar, batteries, and electric vehicles can […]

SEC Unveils Sweeping Climate Requirements For Public Companies

By The Geller Report The left’s climate hoax wrecking ball is taking down our markets – the financial foundation of this once great nation. SEC Unveils Sweeping Climate Requirements For Public Companies By: Thomas Catenacci, Daily Caller, March 21, 2022: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules Monday that would force companies to publicly […]

The Biden/Buttigieg Solution To High Gas Prices: ‘Take The Bus!’

By The Geller Report The Biden regime contemptuously commands Americans to ‘take the bus’ in the wake of Biden-created obscene gas pricing. The 2022 version of ‘let them eat cake.’ Literally. Actually cake is better. Pete Buttigieg’s Solution To High Gas Prices: Take The Bus/Trainhttps://t.co/APXkS32e1u — Mr Producer (@RichSementa) March 16, 2022 “If you don’t […]

Poll: Americans Want More Domestic Energy Production

By Casey Harper The increased pressure on the U.S. oil supply and soaring gas prices have left the vast majority of Americans calling for more domestic oil production. Convention of States Action along with The Trafalgar Group released new polling data that showed that 77.3% of surveyed American voters say that, “in the wake of […]

PROPAGANDA WATCH: MSNBC, CNN, PBS Echo Biden’s Lie that Putin Caused Gas Price Hikes

By Jihad Watch “Gas prices have risen 59% since Biden took office — prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” These are not news outlets, and have not been for a long time. They exist in order to propagate the socialist globalist line, and to act as a PR arm for the Democrat Party. by Nikolas Lanum, Fox […]

Net-Zero and ESG are Worsening the Energy Crisis – and Weakening the West

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The day after President Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, a group of eleven powerful European investment funds that includes Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, outlined plans to force Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second largest bank, to cut its lending to oil and gas companies. The […]

FACT: All Electric Vehicles (EVs) Are Powered by Coal, Uranium, Natural Gas or Diesel-Powered Energy

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.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy “There are three facts about the climate (weather): 1. the climate changes, 2. the changes in the climate follow natural cycles (i.e. summer, […]

International Energy Agency Urges Energy Lockdowns Due to Russian War — Bans use of private cars on Sundays, SUV tax

By Marc Morano ‘Banning use of private cars on Sundays…Reducing highway speed limits…more working from home…cutting business air travel’ & SUV ‘tax’. – IEA Report  IEA report ‘A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use’ excerpts: “Reducing highway speed limits by about 6 miles per hour; more working from home; street changes to encourage walking and […]