2024 was another record-breaking year for the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. From production to consumption to providing energy security for our allies abroad and reducing emissions – energy producers delivered. This was all accomplished despite significant hurdles, like the politically motivated pause on LNG export permits, restricted federal leasing and increased costs for
Read More...As Democrats continue to push debunked “price gouging” accusations at oil and gas companies, two recent hearings on Capitol Hill examined how the Biden-Harris Administration’s energy policies are the real cost drivers behind high energy and consumer costs. Representing a wide variety of vital industries within the American economy, witnesses at a House Budget Committee
Read More...Offshore Wind Projects Violate Marine Mammal Protection Act? David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: The offshore wind debacle continues as government ignores project developers who may well be violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act and killing whales.] New evidence says that offshore wind sonar surveys may have committed
Read More...Electricity Cannot Be A Matter of Dogma or Wishful Thinking! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Electricity is a miracle, but it cannot be allowed to become a matter of dogma or wishful thinking by the naive, the compromised or those who would be dictators. Our friends at the CO2 Coalition have shared
Read More...Poll: Only 4% of NY Puts Environmental Threats at the Top Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Net zero hits rock bottom as stunning Sienna College poll shows only 4% of New Yorkers agree environment threats should be the primary concern of
Read More...Wind Debacles Drive Northeast Blowhards to Beg Biden David Wojick, PhD Journalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Six blowhard governors from the Northeast who are stuck with offshore wind debacles are begging Joe Biden for our money to rescue themselves from their bragging.] Six Atlantic shore Governors are begging the Feds
Read More...Natural Gas, Which Saved the Day, Blamed by NERC? Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: NERC, the North American Energy Reliability Corporation, has put out a report that seems to blame natural gas for an almost blackout last year but it isn’t so.] Less than a year ago,
Read More...China Coal Story All About Protecting the Grift! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Reuters, the international news company, published a very silly story suggesting China was helping the climate (which needs no help) by building coal plants. Why? Our friend Ed Ireland has a wonderful post on his “Thoughts About Energy and
Read More...Biden Shamelessly Attacks Oil and Gas on Over 150 Fronts! … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden has relentlessly attacked the American consumer by relentlessly attacking oil and gas. Scan this IER list for the more than 150 ways in just 970 days.] Joe Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder
Read More...Weather Isn’t Climate and Climate Isn’t Weather! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Climate advocates are constantly utilizing weather, rather than science, to rationalize their essentially political positions regarding global warming.] A couple of articles came to my attention recently that exemplify
Read More...If I Wanted to Plunge America Into Darkness and Despair Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … We’re changing our name; NaturalGasNOW is transitioning to Energy Security and Freedom. We’re also changing our location to: energysecurityfreedom.substack.com Our Sunday newsletter readers already know about this but let me bring the rest of you up to
Read More...RGGI Tax on Pennsylvanians Spiked Again in Huge Victory Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvanians have been spared again from the RGGI tax that Democrats want to impose on them for the sake of worthless but dangerous green virtue signaling.] Thanks to the good work of Pennsylvania’s
Read More...UAW Strike and EV Bust Threaten to Kill Our Auto Industry Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The UAW strike, combined with foolish pursuit of the EV dream and then bust, are strangling our American auto industry. Workers, once again, will pay the price.] In today’s world,
Read More...Natural Gas: The Indispensable Fuel for Energy Security Ed Ireland Energy Economist and Writer at edireland.substack.com … … [Editor’s Note: This is a guest post regarding indispensable natural gas from our friend Ed Ireland at “Thoughts about Energy and Economics.” It is a reader-supported publication, so please go there, “Like” it, share it with friends
Read More...Save Our Cars Coalition Will Fight for Freedom to Travel … … [Editor’s Note: The faceless foes controlling Joe Biden are attacking our freedom to travel. A Save Our Cars Coalition is fighting back with the facts to preserve our choices.] The Institute for Energy Research and 31 other national and state-based organizations have launched
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