EV Mandates Equal Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind Child Labor Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The cruel reality of EV mandates and other “green energy” schemes is that they depend on out-of-sight, out-of-mind child labor in the poorest parts of the world.] Global cobalt demand soared with the advent
Read More...Over the last three years, California lawmakers and regulators have struggled to balance energy security with the state’s aggressive decarbonization agenda. Nowhere is this more evident than California’s repeated attempts to remove – and then reinstate – natural gas from the state’s power generation mix, all at the expense of consumers. In the latest episode
Read More...Clean Car Rules to Force Us Into EVs Will Fail Miserably Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger delves into the absurdity of clean car rules proposed in New York, and to a state near you soon, that will try in vain
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 1, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: Sweden again bucks PC, solar threatens water sources, pizza perils and helicopter pilots threatened
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – June 3, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: neutron bombs of cash from a corporatist Congress, a foretaste of NY’s future, green
Read More...Duck Curve Shows California Is Ducking Real Energy Issues Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: California’s “Duck Curve” shows us it is steering itself into future energy crises by blindly pursuing a transition that will only lead to ever more
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 28, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Natural Gas Ban by Berkeley Bolsheviks Bites the Dust … … Berkeley’s latest generation of Bolsheviks enacted a natural gas ban that has been wisely overturned in Federal court. Biden and blue staters must take notice. In 2019, the City of Berkeley banned natural gas infrastructure in most new building projects—a ban that would effectively
Read More...CARB States, Groupthink, Useful Idiots and “Science” Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania is one of several CARB States. Who knew? Political groupthink, combined with useful idiots, is destroying science and not helping our lives.] The origin of the quip that “the beatings will continue until morale improves” is murky at best
Read More...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just overturned California’s first natural gas ban – an ordinance passed by the City of Berkeley in 2019 – ruling that it is preempted by federal law. “The panel held that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act preempts the Berkeley ordinance. The panel wrote that, in
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 14, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...EV Free Lunch Will End with More Taxes As Scam Forces Use Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The EV Free Lunch will be ending with a vehicle mileage tax or higher electrical rates for charging, or both, for road maintenance! It’s all about the scam!] California has
Read More...Gas Stove Ban to be Slapped on All New Yorkers by Elites … … New York has lost its bearings. In a fit of pointless global warming virtue signaling, its elites are doing a gas stove ban hurting its ordinary citizens. New York will become the first state to pass a law banning natural-gas and other fossil-fuel
Read More...EVs Aren’t Going Away, But They’re Hardly the Future! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: EVs have a role to play in transportation but will only serve as dreamy replacement vehicles until blackouts and parking and range restrictions force a wakeup.] It hasn’t gotten much coverage in the so-called mainstream media, but more
Read More...Six months after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California needed to address high gas prices and , details of the Governor’s plan are finally coming to light. Simply put, Newsom’s proposed “price gouging” crackdown would create new bureaucracy and punt the actual “price gouging penalty” to the brand-new agency for consideration. Meanwhile, the true reasons
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