Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 16, 2023

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 16, 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’s natural gas best picks: CCP gets grift from us,  there is no climate emergency,

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Corporatism 101: Why It’s Massive Reform Now or Never!

Pathocracy Has Arrived with Climate Politics Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Corporatism is ruining America and the West. The merger of big business and government is fascist by definition and is prevalent throughout society today. Corporatism and its variants are killing us. Ideology merely serves it and is not the principal problem

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The “Consumption Interventions” Your Mayor Has Planned for You

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

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 7, 1923

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 7, 1923 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what

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Gas Stove Ban to be Slapped on All New Yorkers by Elites

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

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 24, 1923!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 24, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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Electric Vehicles Are the Future of California? Well, No…

Electric Vehicles Are the Future of California? Well, No… Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Everyone in electric vehicles is the dream of California’s pretty-boy, rich-kid governor. But, is it practical? No. Of course not and it’s a feature, not a bug. The California Insider has put out a great video from Mark

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Flatten the Curve? Again? Yes, Control Is What They Want!

Flatten the Curve? Again? Yes, Control Is What They Want! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  “Flatten the curve” is a bad reminder of the disaster that was the government COVID response. Now, the ruling class wants to do it again with energy lockdowns. Europe is facing an energy crisis of its own

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 19, 1922!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 19, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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CEPP Will Cost Utilities $16 Billion and Accomplish Nothing

CEPP … …[Editor’s Note: The Clean Energy Performance Program or CEPP is yet another green energy hustle and will contribute little or nothing in the way of clean energy; just a con.] The Clean Energy Performance Program, or CEPP, would provide subsidy payments to electric utilities that increase their share of electricity generated from “clean” sources,

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Still Waiting: Illinois Sees Bipartisan Support For Expanding Natural Gas Service But Governor Has Yet to Sign

Communities and states across the country are analyzing the best paths forward to lower emissions, while ensuring consumers have access to affordable, reliable energy. In Illinois, lawmakers came together and showed strong, bipartisan support for natural gas as a part of that future amid policies that would transition the state away from fossil fuels. At

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 17, 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. You Can Just Hear the Fractivist Screams… We just know already how this will be received don’t we? It takes away

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Illinois Landowners Could Offer DRBC A Lesson on Regulatory Takings

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Illinois landowners have gotten some attention with their Petition to the Supreme Court for Certiorari and the DRBC should be worried. The DRBC has spent a decade frustrating the efforts of landowners in the basin to develop their natural gas resources. It has done so with an illegal

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1200 MW Chicago-area Gas-Fired Power Plant Begins Construction

Artist rendering – click for larger version A gas-fired power plant project near Chicago not previously on our radar screen has just begun construction. Jackson Generation, a subsidiary of J-POWER USA, has begun construction of a huge new 1,200 megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle facility in Will County, Illinois. In something of a change from

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