EV Mandates Equal Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind Child Labor Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The cruel reality of EV mandates and other “green energy” schemes is that they depend on out-of-sight, out-of-mind child labor in the poorest parts of the world.] Global cobalt demand soared with the advent
Read More...Offshore Wind: The Great Stampede Over the Long Island Cliff Mark Stevens NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: New York is nothing if not politically correct and its offshore wind virtue signaling amounts to a stampede over the cliff for New Yorkers who pay the bills.] The stampede to build offshore wind turbines
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 1, 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; the horror of Congo mining to produce EVs, the Inflation Explosion Act, Black Rock withdrawals
Read More...India, Like China, Ignores Climate Goals and No One Cares? ...… … [Editor’s Note: India and China perfectly illustrate the reality of the climate scam—that it’s about corporatism and power—not the climate or enviros would call foul on both.] Recently, India asked its utilities not to retire their coal plants until 2030 and the country
Read More...Fertilizer Politics Reveal the Childishness of Many Enviros Paul Driessen Senior Policy Analyst, CFACT …. …. [Editor’s Note: Fertilizer made with natural gas and the other necessities provided via fossil fuels are the objects of scorn by obsessive enviros who ache for primitive life.] Many eco-activists (and too many legislators, regulators, judges and journalists) have
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...Coal Thrives Due to Childish European Green Energy Fantasies ...… … [Editor’s Note: Europe pursued anti-fracking green energy fantasies that made it vulnerable to Russia and without its own natural gas at low prices also made coal king again.] Coal generation worldwide is expected to increase to a new record in 2022, driven by robust
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – October 29, 2022 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; California EV fairy tales, German coal mining and Democrats who want to nationalize oil
Read More...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
Read More...Copper Issues of the Metal Type Make EVs A Poor Choice David Blackmon Editor, Shale Magazine Co-Host, The Oil Patch Radio … … [Editor’s Note: EVs are certainly no bargain for either consumers or taxpayers but copper issues are certain to make them even more pricey and less practical in the future.] As the world
Read More...natural gas now 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. Bit Coin Mining Use of Flared Natural Gas to CancelEmissions Shows Why Fractivists Will Never Outwit the Industry
Read More...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. Guy Who Brags He “Cares About the Planet” Breathed“Sigh of Relief” When Cuomo Killed the Southern Tier John Szalasny, the fellow
Read More...Fossil Fuel Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. [Editor’s Note: Fossil fuel hatred is rampant among elites and true believers who have abandoned science for ideology, power and corporatist green energy money-making scams.] Environmental activism was already nasty and lethal when I wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death 18 years ago. It’s
Read More...germany … …[Editor’s Note: Biden wants us to depend on foreign sources (e.g., China) for rare earth minerals necessary to his green eggs and scam scheme.] President Biden continues to change his story to Americans—this time to miners. Rather than mining critical metals domestically, Biden intends to import them. He is caving to environmentalists who oppose mining,
Read More...Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: China is on a mission to leverage its dominance in rare earth minerals production to put the U.S. into a vice with its “green energy” plans.] Prompted by a worldwide chip shortage already impacting automobile production, President Biden in February signed an executive
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