Natural Gas Now Best Picks – January 14, 2023
Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.
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Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week; whales vs. wind, green energy vs. brown coal and natural gas stove bans vs. monitors.
Look for these stories below, including links to the original articles!
The climate scam consumes its own as environmental extremists, used as shills to advance “clean energy” boondoggles advanced by corporatists raiding our government lines of credit, turn on their enablers:
Tire tracks in the sand marked the burial ground of a massive humpback whale Monday.
The dead 30-foot female whale washed up ashore Saturdayand two days later lay buried underneath, leaving behind a decaying rotten smell.
North Atlantic Right Whale and calf
“What a sad end to an animal in the prime of her life and an endangered species,” Cindy Zipf, executive director of Long Branch-based non-profit, Clean Ocean Action, told NJ Advance Media while walking on the beach. “The federal government should have been here with busloads of people really doing an examination if they were taking this seriously.”
Zipf was in Atlantic City on Monday afternoon — after the sixth dead whale was found on the New York-New Jersey coastline in 33 days — to ask the federal government to investigate if the whale deaths and work being done for offshore wind turbines could be to blame. She called the string of deaths “unprecedented.”
This is what invariably happens when dishonest people advance dishonest schemes using dishonest memes.
Hat Tip: R.N.
“We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts!”
Germany has, with its failed Energiewende, buried itself economically and made itself vulnerable to Russian blackmail; a fact more clear with every passing hour.
Throughout German history, reality has been a nuisance to be dealt with, not a fact to be faced. As the philosopher Hegel once quipped, “if facts contradict to my theory, the worse for the facts”.
This tradition continues to this day. At the time of writing, members of the Green Party are protesting the expansion of coal mining around the village of Lützerath, demanding an end to the use of coal for energy production. The expansion of mining, however, was approved by the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck — who is of course himself a member of the Greens. Confronted with this contradiction, and the argument that the expansion of coal was necessary to compensate the decline of nuclear energy, a Green member of the German Bundestag clarified that the party base wants neither coal nor nuclear.
Garzweiler lignite coal mine – click image to see just how massive these machines are that mine the dirty brown coal Geramns are forced to use by their own “green energy” foolishness
Germany wants to shift quickly to EVs and replace heating via fossil fuels with heat pumps — proposals that will massively increase the demand for electricity. According to the Federal Association of Energie- and Hydroeconomics, Germany will need 700TWh of electricity by 2030, which is an increase by 20% compared to 2021.
To sum up, Germany is faced with the prospect of reducing electricity supply by almost 40% while demand is estimated to increase by 20%. So how does the government plan to solve this problem? According to recent reports, by doubling gas firing capacity (from currently 15% to 30%), which of course begs the question of where that gas will be coming from. Supposedly LNG will be the answer, but it is questionable whether Qatar, the US, and other LNG exporters will be capable of satisfying this increasing demand, given the ambitious timetable put forward by the German government. As analysts like Tracy Shuchart of Hightower Resource Advisory have pointed out, at current export capacity the US cannot even fulfill the LNG export contracts that Europe has already signed.
There is, however, an alternative that currently nobody dares to speak of. This alternative, of course, is Russia. How long would it take for Berlin to restart Russian gas imports if a Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire was agreed? The energy question at least partly explains Germany’s lacklustre support for Ukraine. But the true irony is that the party most supportive of Ukraine’s struggle against Russia’s aggression could be responsible for forcing Germany back into the Russian embrace. In a sense, the Green Party and their policy of contradictions have made them the quintessential German party: Hegel would be proud.
Yes, Germany’s green energy foolishness is now apparent to all, yet this is the future Joe Biden, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg and other members of the ruling class, always unaffected by their own actions, want for all of us with “The Great Reset.” Germany should have fracked for natural gas and is now fried.
Hat Tip: S.H.
What the Natural Gas Stove Ban Proposals Are Really About: Control
The natural gas stove ban proposals of Biden and Hochiul, two of America’s tr=uly dumbest leaders, are, most likely, really about something else.
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger.” But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about.
Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more “smart” monitoring technology into your home…
Earlier this week near-identical articles from the National Review,Bloomberg and CNN detail how the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will be opening “public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter.”
…So, will they ban them?
Actually, probably not.
Considering that, according to Bloomberg, some 40% of US homes use gas stoves to cook, an outright ban would be impractical to the point of madness. You can’t criminalise 40% of the country. It would be almost unenforceable.
Perhaps they might try a “phasing out.” as they plan for petrol cars in California.
But most likely of all is that this was never really about banning stoves in the first place…
As part of “backing down” from the stove ban, they will introduce a new bill which sees “smart air monitors” become mandatory in all new-build houses, hotels and rented accommodation.
Just like smart electricity meters, smart air monitors would almost certainly be used to harvest huge amounts of data and give states or corporations the ability to control your home.
If your “indoor air” isn’t “clean” enough; if you use your stove too much, burn too many scented candles or emit too much co2, expect to get penalized in some fashion until you learn how to be more responsible.
More smart technology, more monitoring, and ultimately more control.
So, while it’s possible the gas stove ban talk will resolve itself into the cliche new tax or fines or some other petty scheme for bilking the many out of their wages, the signs are certainly there it might be something more sinister.
Meanwhile, expect to keep seeing reports on gas stoves damaging the climate, or stories about poor indoor air quality making covid worse.
The author of this piece demonstrates an unusual ability to grasp how government really operates, working with special interest groups and a media that no longer views its role as challenging government but has instead become a PR front for the powerful. Read the whole thing!
Hat Tip: D.S.
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