Germany and the European Union answered calls to sign on to a pact calling for a fossil fuel phaseout during preparatory talks on COP28 this week with a resounding “no”, delivering a blow to efforts calling for the immediate and hasty scale down of essential oil and gas resources. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC),
Read More...Europe Awakens to Net Zero Nonsense As Biden Sleeps Away … … [Editor’s Note: Europe is coming off its drunken night of net zero partying and waking up with a massive hangover, but Joe Biden is still sleeping as his minions keep partying.] Europe’s plan to slash carbon emissions and reach net zero carbon by
Read More...Europe Getting Cold Feet on Global Warming As Biden Jumps In … … [Editor’s Note: Yes, Europe is getting cold feet with respect to its rush to net zero on behalf of the world’s corporatists and other elites. It seems the people don’t like it!] Beginning decades ago, Europe went wholeheartedly into “net zero carbon
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 13, 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: will Net Zero lead to famine, is the Federal Reserve admitting global warming is no
Read More...European Union Opts for Civilizational Suicide … … The unaffected elites of the European Union, already sworn to replace its population with Mideast immigrants, have now decided to force economic suicide, too. The countries in the European Union approved major changes to the region’s carbon trading scheme and emissions laws, making industrial carbon emissions more
Read More...The European Union continues to place its confidence in natural gas, announcing it will increase its number of LNG import terminals from 27 to 35 by next year. The recent announcement by Vice-President of the European Commission, Maroš Šefčovič, will significantly increase the EU’s regasification capacity from 178 billion cubic meters a year (bcm/year) to
Read More...Italy Refuses to Gift China and Commit Economic Suicide … … Italy, one of the world’s great car makers, is refusing to go along with politically correct edicts issued by the unaccountable EU regarding transition to EVs! Italy intends to vote against European Union’s plans to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars
Read More...Europe Energy Crisis Proves Stupid Is As Stupid Does ... … … [Editor’s Note: Europe has pursued a green energy show of its superiority only to demonstrate the stupidity of relying only upon renewables and Russia for its energy needs.] According to an author who defends the “green transition” writing in Seeking Alpha, “There are
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...New England Facing A Bleak Dark Energy Future? Allen Brooks Energy Securities Analyst, Publisher, Energy Musings … [Editor’s Note: New England, the politically correct corner of the United States, has emulated Europe’s energy policies and, as a direct result, faces possible energy disaster.] Europe is facing an existential crisis – having sufficient affordable heat
Read More...Coal, Ironically, Is the Winner in the Green New Deal Game ... … … [Editor’s Note: Coal is the winner in the Green New Deal sweepstakes because politicians have bought into the global warming grifting scam, which has destroyed energy security.] Politicians and environmentalists claim an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but in
Read More...With the current energy crisis worsening, the United Kingdom and Europe are looking to winter with trepidation and an increased focus on building up energy inventories. LNG imports – particularly from the United States – are filling the gap for Europe’s immediate energy needs and storage demands ahead of the cold season, causing price increases
Read More...Europe Energy Policy A Bug, Not A Feature; So, Don’t Imitate ... … … [Editor’s Note: Europe is facing a massive energy crisis precipitated by absolutely insane, but perfectly politically correct, energy policies that should never be emulated.] But that is exactly what President Biden is doing. Europe’s move toward decarbonization 30 years ago has
Read More...Energy exports from the United States are securing Europe’s energy future and will only continue to grow following the European Parliament’s vote to classify certain uses of natural gas as a green, or a climate-friendly, energy source, in its taxonomy of sustainable activities. The vote is a tidal shift in Europe’s view of natural gas,
Read More...American LNG exports to Europe are all the more essential since dwindling natural gas stockpiles and lower-than-anticipated wind generation have caused energy prices to spike. Energy prices in Europe and the United Kingdom are surging in the wake of a shortage of natural gas and have reached levels not seen in a decade. This has
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