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The Russia/Bermuda Dark Money Subterfuge
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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?
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy 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
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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!’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
Republicans Probe Putin’s Alleged Effort To ‘Undermine American Energy Security’ By Funding US Green Groups
/in Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Catenacci Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced a probe into several green energy groups reported to have taken money from an allegedly Russian-funded foundation seeking to undermine U.S. energy security. The GOP committee members wrote to three groups Thursday — the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council […]
VIDEO: Sometimes Conservation is a Bear
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow How do we find the best solutions for both bears, and people too? That’s what Gabriella Hoffman set off to find out on the latest episode of CFACT’s Conservation Nation series. Hoffman traveled to Montana and Wyoming to interview stakeholders and find out what’s really going on with Grizzly […]
When ‘Emperors’ Preaching ESG Purport to Represent Millions of Us, a Lot Can Go Wrong
/in Environment, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Patrick Tyrrell The misappropriation of the economic freedom of millions of mom-and-pop investors by BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink has unintended consequences. “We have a new bunch of emperors, and they’re the people who vote the shares in the index funds,” Charlie Munger, business partner of philanthropist Warren Buffett and a big proponent of index fund […]
Democrats want Biden to Declare National ‘Climate Emergency’ and Ban Oil Drilling on Federal Lands
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report There is one common thread running through every Democrat policy – it’s hurt Americans, destroy America. And as one commenter points out, “What oil subsidies are there? Sorry there aren’t billions or trillions of subsidies going to fossil fuel producers. The last time I looked the only subsidies I found were […]
Energy Expert and Congressional Candidate, Niki Conforti, on Biden’s Energy Policies
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier WHEATON, Ill. /PRNewswire/ — As a candidate for Illinois’ 6th Congressional District and an Energy Consultant, I feel compelled to speak out on the current state of energy in America, because America’s energy policy is a matter of National Security. Being energy dependent as a country, as we are today, is not […]
House GOP Demands Investigation into Russian Influence in U.S. Environmental Groups
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Foreign actors have been funding the destruction of the American energy sector under the guise of green/clean climate hoax propaganda. “Unlike the Russia hoax, Putin’s malign influence on our energy sector is real and deserves further investigation,” Jim Banks said. As many Americans are seeking an increase in domestic energy output […]
Fact-Checking 3 Biden Claims on Gas Prices
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Fred Lucas President Joe Biden has insisted that rising gas prices are not a result of his administration’s policies. This week, he announced the United States would ban oil imports from Russia because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Biden also has suggested that U.S. oil companies are responsible in part for […]
Biden and the Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’s Green Energy Agenda
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Robert Heller Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (AOC) is neither a climatologist or scientist. Before she was elected to Congress she was a bartender. Nothing wrong with being a bartender but creating a program called ‘The Green New Deal’ is above her pay level. Nevertheless the Biden White House is in the process of implementing AOC’s […]
John Kerry: Putin’s Useful Climate Idiot
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rupert Darwall Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine marks the end of the West’s Era of Illusions. It was an era in which Western elites were obsessed with solving climate change because the climate crisis was far more dangerous than issues of war and peace and the stability of the international system. They even convinced […]
America Can Loosen Europe’s Russian Energy Noose
/in Education, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Larry Bell Western Europe’s self-inflicted abandonment of its own energy resources resulting in dependence on Russian oil seems to generally follow Lenin’s playbook when he reportedly quipped that “capitalists will sell us the rope by which we hang them.” The main editorial clarification to add here is that applies most directly to the crony […]
Deadly Incompetence
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Incompetence destroys. Weakness kills. The disastrous debacle in Afghanistan signaled to Vladimir Putin that the time to strike is while Joe Biden is in charge. Just yesterday, Biden blinked and declined Poland’s offer of fighter jets, leaving Ukraine struggling to defend its skies as equipment runs short. Biden continually […]
Organized Confusion
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Veit Sometimes the average person wonders whether what passes for Government is really just organized confusion. Consider the current situation involving Russia, Ukraine, and U.S. energy policy. The stated positions of the United States are: Climate change is an existential threat. Fossil fuels must be eliminated, and the energy industry shrunk. Russia is […]
Catastrophe in Progress: The Biden Presidency
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mark Wallace Almost all of America’s past presidents have had blunders occur on their watch. For Jimmy Carter, it was skyrocketing inflation and the Iran hostage situation. (Few people recall that when the “students” took over the United States Embassy in Tehran, it was the second seizure, not the first — yet Carter had […]
Gas Prices Hit All-Time High As White House Turns To Dictators For Help
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Catenacci The average price of gasoline surged to the highest level ever recorded in the U.S. on Monday as the White House scrambled to negotiate increased global oil production. The nationwide average price at the pump hit $4.104 per gallon, the highest level in U.S. history, according to energy analytics firm GasBuddy which […]
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. America’s Energy-Liar-In-Chief
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Featured /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. It’s simply not true!” – Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. There are lies and then there are damn lies. It appears that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is a damn liar. In fact he is America’s Energy-Liar-In-Chief. […]
Buttigieg and EPA Reveal Biden’s ‘Zero-Emissions’ Agenda Behind Skyrocketing Gas Prices
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch This is a real “Let Them Eat Cake” moment for Transportation Department top dog Pete Buttigieg, as most Americans can’t afford electric cars and the infrastructure isn’t there for them in all parts of the country, but Buttigieg here reveals the Biden agenda. He doesn’t care about skyrocketing gas prices because he […]
This Invasion Is Brought to You by … Western Environmentalists
/in Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dennis Prager For more than 40 years, the environmentalist movement has been warning that global warming is the result of mankind’s burning of fossil fuels and poses an “existential threat” to human and other biological life. This is one of the many grandiose lies the Left uses to reshape, if not destroy, Western civilization. […]
MORANO: ‘No ban on Russian energy until U.S. lifts sanctions on U.S. energy’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Morano: “How about this? No ban on Russian oil & gas until the U.S. lifts sanctions against U.S. domestic energy. Any Congressional bill to ban Russian energy should include lifting of all climate-related sanctions on U.S. homegrown energy! It’s time to stop the sanctions — against American domestic energy!” Former Obama U.S. […]
America’s Energy Future: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier America’s energy future is not in solar and wind power. Rather our energy needs are best met by oil, natural gas and nuclear power. Let’s look at the current numbers to see where Americans get their energy from. Here is a chart showing how much U.S. energy is produced by coal […]