California is once again struggling with an energy supply crisis, causing the state to look to natural gas power generation facilities to try to prevent blackouts and brownouts. As Politico recently reported, ”California scorns fossil fuel but can’t keep the lights on without it.” Officials have warned that up to 3.75 million homes – about
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 30, 2022 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: Come on Man, Elites Can’t Be Snobs If Anyone Can Just Buy A Car!
Read More...Heat Waves Show Electric Grids Cannot Rely on Solar and Wind ... … … [Editor’s Note: Heat waves in Texas and Europe are exposing the foolhardiness of electric grid reliance on subsidized solar and wind, as it wrecks havoc with energy economics.] It doesn’t matter if it is California, Texas or Europe. Electric grid operators
Read More...CNX Shows How It’s Done via Old Fashioned Capitalism Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: CNX is using carbon capture technology to make money generating biodegradable plastics through its investment in NewLight Technologies that produces “AirCarbon.”] CNX Resources has invested in a California company that makes a biodegradable
Read More...Carter Malaise Suddenly Looking Better Under Joe Biden! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Jimmy Carter was more or less destroyed by his “Malaise Speech” but some of his energy ideas were positively brilliant compared to Joe Biden’s dark age idiocy.] Just over 43 years ago, President Jimmy Carter made history when he
Read More...Climate “Scientist” Goes Wild and Glues Himself to Bank! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Climate “scientist” Peter Kalmus, part of NASA and the IPCC effort to build the case for a green eggs and scam ripoff and a socialist
Read More...The city of Los Angeles has joined the list of California municipalities banning the installation of most natural gas appliances like stoves and furnaces in the construction of new buildings. The policy from the city council will also direct departments to develop a plan by the end of 2022 “that will require all new residential
Read More...CEPP … …[Editor’s Note: The Clean Energy Performance Program or CEPP is yet another green energy hustle and will contribute little or nothing in the way of clean energy; just a con.] The Clean Energy Performance Program, or CEPP, would provide subsidy payments to electric utilities that increase their share of electricity generated from “clean” sources,
Read More...Last week, California requested that the U.S. Department of Energy allow it ramp up natural gas generating stations to maximum operating capacity in the face of the “electric reliability emergency” facing the state. California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which manages electricity across the high-voltage, long-distance power lines for 80 percent of the grid serving California,
Read More...federal land Paul DriessenCFACT …. …. [Editor’s Note: Biden wants to “preserve 30% of our land” with a Federal land grab while covering America with land gobbling, inefficient and intermittent green energy “farms.”] Via yet another decree (Executive Order 14008), President Biden has instructed government agencies to “permanently protect” at least 30% of all U.S.
Read More...electricity electric vehicles … …[Editor’s Note: China is expected to have more refining capacity than the United States this year, while Biden pushes a zero-carbon future.] As of April, 2021, the United States had 18.1 million barrels per day of petroleum refining capacity (i.e., operable atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity). U.S. refining capacity had reached a record high of
Read More...Citing the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California officials denied 21 fracking permits this week. What they didn’t mention was that the permit denials are more likely to benefit foreign oil producers than the environment. State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk cited climate change as the reason to deny the permits, as California
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. Guy Who Brags He “Cares About the Planet” Breathed“Sigh of Relief” When Cuomo Killed the Southern Tier John Szalasny, the fellow
Read More...electricity electric vehicles … …[Editor’s Note: There may not be enough electricity for my electric vehicle? Who knew? Well, everyone with an ounce of common sense saw this coming and that’s the point.] Gone are the days when you can use electricity as you want and when you want, at least if you live in
Read More...germany … …[Editor’s Note: There are so, so many awful governors with no moral compass other than political correctness and control. Gavin Newsom is among the worst.] California Governor Gavin Newsom recently ordered state agencies to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024 and to look for ways to phase out oil extraction by 2045, despite his
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