Wind and Solar Are Intermittent and Incapable of Meeting Our Needs

Ron SteinAuthor, Engineer and Founder of PTS Advance .. …. [Editor’s Note: Wind and solar may address demands for green virtue signaling opportunities but can’t truly meet the needs natural gas is able to satisfy.] Before world leaders move too fast to consummate their climate policies, they need to be cognizant of two “aha” moments:

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PJM Grid Subject to Texas Style Blackouts If We Go Too Green

Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. [Editor’s Note: The PJM grid is at great risk. It is threatened by the green virtue signaling of politicians such as Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf.] With Green New Dealers running Washington, D.C., and Gov. Tom Wolf pushing so-called green energy from Harrisburg, questions must be asked about the development

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Germany Plays Into Hands of Russia As Result of Its Energiewende

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Germany has, with its Energiewende, completely boxed itself into a corner where the big Russian Bear is able to relentlessly torment it. Our good friend, Dan Markind, has written a superb piece for Forbes that gets at everything that’s been wrong-headed about energy policy in Germany over the

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CLEAN Future Act Is All About Funding Perks for the Prosperous

… … … [Editor’s Note: The CLEAN Future Act is yet more green eggs and scam designed to benefit the prosperous with EV perks at the expense of taxpayers.] In early March, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee

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Biodiversity Destruction from Wind and Solar Being Ignored

biodiversityTom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  [Editor’s Note: It’s about the land and the species that depend on it, including our. Biodiversity demands we increase energy density to use less land.] Far too much of the campaign against fossil fuels and for renewables such as wind and solar in the name of fighting global

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Weymouth Kill Bill Demonstrates Just How Bad Government Has Become

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) A bill introduced by Massachusetts Senator-Demagogues Markey and Warren for the purpose of killing the Weymouth Compressor Station provides a pitch-perfect illustration of how utterly dysfunctional our government has become. Talk about using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. The two U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren and

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Offshore Wind Is Off the Charts Political Nonsense

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Offshore wind makes no economic or environmental sense whatsoever. It is pure politics intended merely to reward special interests.] The Biden administration has announced plans to vastly expand the use of offshore wind power along the U.S. East Coast. The plan sets a goal of deploying 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind turbines

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 4, 2021

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. Nice Win…for Now This is great news. It’s the latest such win. But, the lawyers hired by the Rockefellers won’t be

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Electric Vehicles: A Fantasy of the Rich Subsidized by the Rest of Us

Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. ….  [Editor’s Note: Electric vehicles are trendy but not very Earth-friendly, affordable or emission-free, for that matter; no, they’re just taxpayer-subsidized virtue signaling.]. Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or

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Environmental Justice? No, Pollution Justice Law Is Just Peak Stupidity!

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Pollution Justice Act is anything but environmental justice, whatever that is. There’s no justice in it for New Yorkers, in fact.] Just when I think New York politicians cannot do anything more stupid something comes out that proves me wrong.  On

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Natural Gas Industry Notes Its Product Is the Solution, Not the Problem

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Natural gas industry executives attending a global warming confab tell attendees natural gas is the solution, not the problem. Our friend and guest blogger, Mark Dye, has long been of the mind that the natural gas industry has been asleep at the switch in not aggressively pointing out

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Energy Crisis Problem Solvers in Government Are the Real Problem!

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: We never seem to learn; every time government creates an energy crisis we look to government to solve it, letting our rulers fail upward.] Prior to World War 1, government intervention in energy markets was limited, outside anti-trust law. Capital markets were self-regulated, private contracts were the norm,

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Fossil Fuel Fears Blind Those Seeking Green Energy Nirvana to Reality

Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. ….  The incoming Biden Administration is going whole hog with the Green New Deal and it promises to be an unmitigated disaster awaiting. The Biden Administration is using executive orders and regulatory diktats, while the Democrat-controlled House and Senate are legislating by one-vote vice presidential tie breakers. They’re

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 27, 2021

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. The More You Get, the More Costly It Gets! Some more great insights on Texas: On Thursday, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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Renewable Energy Is No Friend of Trade Union Jobs

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Renewable energy fantasies are destroying good-paying union jobs without accomplishing much of anything for the environment.] President Biden has declared climate change the nation’s greatest challenge and is supporting policies that could cost thousands of good-paying union jobs that will not be easily replaced with renewable energy. To

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