Tom Wolf Wants Pennsylvania in RGGI and Higher Electric Bills

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf arrogantly demands Pennsylvania join RGGI to pay 50% higher electric bills like the rest of the Northeast states in the suicide pact.] Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf vetoed the state legislature’s bill that would prohibit new taxes without legislative approval and ordered his staff to continue with the implementation

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 7, 2020

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. We’re Finally Done with the Paris Accord,Which Accomplished Nothing Compared to Natural Gas Good riddance. We’ve already done better by ourselves.

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Wind Power Trap Threatens to Make the UK the New California

 ... … … Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson, who rejected fracking, now wants to take the United Kingdom right into the wind power trap just like the idiots in California. Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has, to get net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, pledged that offshore wind will power every home

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Medicine Hat Swallows Bitter Solar Pill While Trying to Grin and Bear It

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Medicine Hat, Alberta, threw a cool $12 million into a solar facility that still cannot compete with natural gas; it’s bitter medicine. This one is a pitch perfect illustration of the foolishness that is the premise green energy can compete with natural gas. It has to do with

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Biden’s Plans Regarding Energy Are Simply Not Doable

 ... … … Editor’s Note: Biden’s plans to recreate the entire U.S. energy system beginning with electricity over the next 14 years will result in enormous costs. Joe Biden’s climate and energy plans mandate a carbon-free generation sector by 2035. Since new nuclear and carbon capture and sequestration technologies are not economically competitive, subsidized wind

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Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan Is Disaster in Progress

Sterling BurnettSenior Fellow, Energy and Environment, The Heartland Institute … … [Editor’s Note: The real Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan is far more dangerous than their equivocating political statements this October.] Pundits have regularly opined about the possibility of an “October Surprise,” in the 2020 election race, a Hallowe’en trick that could change Presidential fortunes for one

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California and New Jersey Buy EV Poison Pills from Biden

 ... … … Editor’s Note: EVs are PC in places such as California and New Jersey where Democrat governors are eager to buy into Joe Biden’s electric vehicle scheme. New Jersey is following California’s lead in banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 in line with Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden’s push for

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NYSEG Leads Lansing Into A Cold and Dark Never Never Land

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Lansing is the dying part of Planet Ithaca where no one can get the natural gas they need thanks to NYSEG and pipeline opponents. What is happening in Lansing, NY is absolute insanity possible only in the political correct worlds of places such New York and, especially Planet

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Fracking No Longer A Swear Word in Media As Biden Gets Pushback

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Something remarkable has happened thanks to Joe Biden, whose fracking debacle has gotten pushback and much deserved media attention. Our former guest blogger, Dan Markind, has moved on to writing some excellent energy columns for Forbes magazine. Dan was always an observer par excellence when it came to

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“Clean Energy Awards” Don’t Matter Near As Much As Fracking

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The 76West competition has spent millions to promote and build clean energy in New York, but it still doesn’t matter near as much as fracking. Governor Cuomo announced this year’s winners of the 2020 76West Clean Energy Competition on October 19, 2020.  This post discusses

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Joe Biden, If Elected, Would Ruin America’s Energy System

 ... … … Editor’s Note: It’s unclear if Joe Biden has a clear idea about anything, but he certainly doesn’t understand energy or anything about how it’s produced. In his debate with President Trump on October 22, Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would rid the nation of oil and gas—“over time, over

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Biden Plans for Green New Deal Offer Devastating Future

Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. ….  Joe Biden, while denying it, has proposed a Green New Deal that would be nothing less than disastrous for Americans and others. Some 90% of all US wells are now hydraulically fractured. Fracked wells in shale formations open up vast supplies of oil, natural gas and petroleum

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New York Times Climate Hype Isn’t Helping But Natural Gas Does

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  The New York Times has turned into a demagogic trash newspaper peddling outright hype about climate while ignoring the benefits of natural gas. The New York Times writes for those who wish certain things to be true and has been reliably wrong on so much. Who can forget

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 3, 2020

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. Citizens Must Speak Out Against Dangerous Energy Bill I was pleased to be quoted in this piece about the latest monster

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Andrew Cuomo: America’s Absolute Worst Governor

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Andrew Cuomo has from the very beginning been one America’s worst governors but now he’s proven to be the absolute worst, the bottom feeder. Some just released data from the Census Bureau confirms it; Andrew Cuomo, Governor Cuorruptocrat, is, by any definition, the absolute worst governor in the

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