The “Consumption Interventions” Mayors Have Planned for You! David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Is there any more devious, threatening, Orwellian term than the “consumption interventions,” the World Economic Forum and its big city partners want to impose?] Following the news last week that the the former mayor of
Read More...Subsidies: The Mother’s Milk of Corporatism and Grifting David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: The big lie is that green energy is getting cheaper all the time, but the truth is that none of these schemes are profitable all. They depend on your subsidies.] Everyone should read and think
Read More...Club of Rome Still Running Things and Boiling Frogs? David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: As hard as it to believe, the completely debunked Club of Rome report from a half-century ago is being cited by today’s gentry who seek to control all of us.] I have written for
Read More...Birol Bloviates and Gaslights to Perpetuate Green Lies David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Fatih Birol is the chief propagandist for the International Energy Agency which is telling tall tales to promote green eggs and scam under the cover of climate. Speaking to the Columbia Global Energy Summit in
Read More...Scotland Says Climate Political Correctness Trumps Us All David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Scotland today would reject Braveheart and tell him to just keep his head down and go along, as its cowardly submission to climate political correctness so vividly shows us. My fellow traveler on The Energy
Read More...Rationing Is the Tactic: Control Is the End Game David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Climate cultists are increasingly speaking truths and telling us exactly what they’re all about—control of us—and they’re asking for rationing as their tactic. As is always the case with the denizens of the radical
Read More...BP Admits European Green Energy Policies Are, Well, Loony David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: BP has been all on-board with loony European energy policies. It has had a bad case of Energiewende envy, but now a CEO ironically named Looney, is backing off. The Wall Street Journal reported
Read More...Galicia Goofs Up As Foz Fights Becoming A Windy City David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Galicia mandates a power plant that has to be five times the normal size required for reliability because it will also be required to use only wind for energy. There are so many
Read More...Fuel Oil Saves the Day for New England Virtue Signalers Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: New England politicians have made the region’s grid vulnerable to blackouts and dependent on fuel oil due to their pig-headed virtue signaling obsession.] We came “this close” to a major electricity blackout
Read More...Renewable Energy Propaganda from CNBC Fails Smell Test! David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: CNBC is hardly a reliable truth teller but, as David Blackmon notes, its story this week on renewable energy offers more distortions than a fun house mirror. It would take a good 5,000 words to
Read More...Europe Goes Back to Antiquity on Energy, Led by EU Gurus David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Europe, led by EU geniuses and gurus, has taken the continent not to the future but back to an antiquity of stripping forests and digging peat to survive the cold. The ongoing
Read More...Heating Is the Coming Crisis, Brought on by Green Stupidity Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: The heating crisis is already here and will quickly get much worse as temperatures drop. It is Western energy policy, stupidity really, that’s bringing
Read More...Copper Issues of the Metal Type Make EVs A Poor Choice David Blackmon Editor, Shale Magazine Co-Host, The Oil Patch Radio … … [Editor’s Note: EVs are certainly no bargain for either consumers or taxpayers but copper issues are certain to make them even more pricey and less practical in the future.] As the world
Read More...Biden War on Oil and Gas Yields Record High Energy Prices David Blackmon Editor, Shale Magazine Co-Host, The Oil Patch Radio … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden is an angry flailing zombie shoved into a Presidency he can’t handle. His oil and gas policies reflect it, portending apocalypse ahead for consumers.] Seemingly determined to repeat
Read More...Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: China is on a mission to leverage its dominance in rare earth minerals production to put the U.S. into a vice with its “green energy” plans.] Prompted by a worldwide chip shortage already impacting automobile production, President Biden in February signed an executive
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