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...Lithium Battery Menace: The EV Peril No Wants to Talk About! … … [Editor’s Note: Lithium battery issues are very real and cast a pall over EVs that car buyers seem to understand but EV promoters are loathe to admit are a disincentive.] So far this year, there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 20, 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 Big Apple is sinking into the ocean, FERC is hitting the siren on
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...Upstate to Downstate: You Have No Damned Idea Who We Are! Chris Denton Attorney, Elmira, New York … … [Editor’s Note: Attorney Chris Denton from Upstate takes the New York Post to the woodshed over an insulting editorial from December 29th saying rules for thee and none for me.] Your editorial of December 29, 2022
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 31, 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; rollin’ blackouts, a billionaire battery minerals scam, the net zero lie and snowplowing by battery.
Read More...Climate Act Benefits Mostly Imaginary But Costs Will Be Real Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: A utopian “Clean Heat for All Challenge” plan advanced by New York agencies to implement the state’s Climate Act shows us benefits are few but costs are real.]
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 12, 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
Read More...Politicians in New York just can’t seem to break their climate lawsuit habit despite being dealt three devastating defeats in the past four years. The latest effort is from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio who, with just eight months left in his term, introduced a consumer fraud climate lawsuit aimed at several energy
Read More...Consumer Energy Alliance’s latest report has calculated a $25,600 price tag per New York City household if the city continues to follow short sighted goals of banning natural gas use in buildings. The cost to residents will be felt each winter and poses significant challenges to businesses recovering from the COVID pandemic in the short
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Pollution Justice Act is anything but environmental justice, whatever that is. There’s no justice in it for New Yorkers, in fact.] Just when I think New York politicians cannot do anything more stupid something comes out that proves me wrong. On
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Facebook is into brainwashing these days, labeling it as fact-finding and using phony excuses to hide its own very political agenda.] A friend recently posted information on Facebook that the Texas blackout situation was a “literal perfect storm test if an all-renewable energy
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: The New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act a/k/a CLCPA is going to make the Empire State go Texas with energy crises. Pay attention New Yorkers!] As I watched the Texas energy debacle unfold the last several days, I thought that I
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Peaking plants used in New York City are now in the gun sights of climate fanatics but shutting them all down is foolhardy nonsense.] On January 11, 2021 the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Power (CLCPA) Generation Advisory Panel met as part
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. Anti-Capitalist AOC Sells Shirts toFund the Green New Deal and Herself! Unless this is some stupid political stunt, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for
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