With calls for a rapid and disorderly fossil fuel phase-out making headlines as we enter into COP28, a timely research report from Carbon Tracker shows just how dangerous such a transition would be for the Global South. Carbon Tracker, an energy transition think-tank, has today released a research report Petrostates Of Decline which finds that
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...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...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...Americans have identified reliability and affordability as top energy priorities, and are increasingly concerned about the potential impact on both from renewable-only energy policies, according to a new poll published by Morning Consult and conducted on behalf of the Electric Power Supply Association. Approximately half of the 2,205 respondents say their reliability unease has grown
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...Climate Bullies and Cultists Confronted by Unafraid Realist Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Global warming isn’t science for climate bullies. It’s a religious cult for these true believers and a sweet spot for the corporatist funders who enable them.] Here’s a scientific fact: Humans (indeed all animals)
Read More...Duck Curve Shows California Is Ducking Real Energy Issues Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: California’s “Duck Curve” shows us it is steering itself into future energy crises by blindly pursuing a transition that will only lead to ever more
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 27, 2023 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: it’s the civilization and not the climate that is in crisis, the AP goes
Read More...Gas Stove Ban to be Slapped on All New Yorkers by Elites … … New York has lost its bearings. In a fit of pointless global warming virtue signaling, its elites are doing a gas stove ban hurting its ordinary citizens. New York will become the first state to pass a law banning natural-gas and other fossil-fuel
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...Twin Metals Project Killed by Foreign Agent in White House ...… … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden has been a corrupt liar as long as he has been in politics but his decision to kill the Twin Metals Project suggests he is also a foreign agent.] The Biden administration blocked plans for a major copper, nickel
Read More...Natural gas has proven to be an essential resource to deliver reliable, on-demand energy to consumers during extreme weather events. In the most recent event, Winter Storm Elliot, natural gas power generation supported intermittent renewable energy sources and supplied residents with the space heating needed to weather the extended freeze. Despite this, state and local
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...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
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