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...Battery Storage Fires Put A Different Face on “Green Energy” Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: Battery storage and the risks it involves are the dirty little secret regarding “green energy.” The fires are hellish and are a clear and present danger to all.] Due to the intermittent nature of renewable
Read More...Model T Lessons on Value Tell Us Why EVs Aren’t Selling Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Bob Tomaine compares the values of Henry Ford’s Model T with todays electric vehicles, which are neither new nor valuable and offer only political correctness.] Few would dispute that while Henry Ford was a mercurial eccentric,
Read More...Offshore Wind Promoters Paving the Road to Energy Hell Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: Off-shore wind via politically correct governors, is the world’s biggest boondoggle; it busts our budgets, ruins our shores and paves the way to energy hell.] The stampede to build offshore wind turbines to replace fossil fuel
Read More...Power Plants or Candles? The Stark Options for Non-Elites! Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: Using unsettled science, Joe Biden and Kathy Hochul want to shut down power plants, forcing a shift to green corporatist boondoggles enriching the already rich.] The EPA’s proposed rules for cutting emissions are so onerous that
Read More...Offshore Wind: The Great Stampede Over the Long Island Cliff Mark Stevens NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: New York is nothing if not politically correct and its offshore wind virtue signaling amounts to a stampede over the cliff for New Yorkers who pay the bills.] The stampede to build offshore wind turbines
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...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...Killing Whales and Never Having to Say You’re Sorry! David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Green energy scams are resulting in the Federal government directly allowing something — killing whales — that it would never tolerate under any other circumstance.] The recent deaths of seven whales off New
Read More...Speed Is No Issue Unless It’s About How Fast Liberty Is Lost Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Speed is the sprit of freedom and bureaucrats threatened by it once thought they could just con drivers out of it. Today, they’re trying to con drivers into EVs.] A speedometer by itself is not
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...Giant Wind Arrays Invade the Ocean As BOEM Spins the Story David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) spins like a wind turbine as it pretends not to know giant wind arrays are bad for the ocean and right whales.] The world’s biggest
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...Travel? You Want to Travel? Show Me Your Papers! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Our right to travel where we want is under attack by those who would make us serfs and restore feudalism, which is one of the primary goals of our ruling class.] Anyone who’s seen “The Perfect Storm” knows
Read More...Electric Car Pipe Dreams No Substitute for Reality Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: The idea electric cars can completely replace vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is – at its most innocent – a pipe dream. Too many believers in that dream are fooling nobody other than themselves.] There are times when laughing
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