Corporatism Is Killing Civil Society As We Are Distracted Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Corporatism, the merger of government and business for phony “profits” is invading every part of civil society and threatens its very existence. We must resist! Corruption has seeped deep into every major institution today. It is part ideological,
Read More...Climate Change Superfund Act A Clueless Cash Cow Exercise Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s proposed Climate Change Superfund Act is the latest of absurd, clueless, but politically correct, initiatives designed to kill fossil fuels and raise cash for green
Read More...Ethanol Mandates Resulting in Crazy Unintended Consequences Gregory Wrightstone Geologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Ethanol mandates are among the dumbest things trendy governments have ever done and the chickens of unintended consequences are now coming home to roost.] Expanded use of ethanol — enabled by President Biden’s lifting a
Read More...climate change Kevin MooneyThe Commonwealth Foundation … . [Editor’s Note: Kevin Mooney suggests climate change capitulation seems to be the current policy of oil and gas majors and is completely self-defeating; a dead-end policy that will achieve zilch.] ExxonMobil has not backed away from its commitment to carbon taxes contrary to what media reports built
Read More...Chinese Communists Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Totalitarianism has arrived and free speech is being erased by the actions of an unholy alliance of news organizations and a corrupt government and plutocracy. Whoever thought it would get this bad this quickly? Sunday morning we learned Southwest Airlines pilots had exercised their power not
Read More...Pipelines Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pipelines are needed to ensure energy supplies and avoid the crisis Europe has brought upon itself but elitist special interests have connived to thwart them.] According to a Bloomberg article, the energy crisis that’s led to electricity shortages and blackouts in Europe and
Read More...Chinese Communists Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. While many have strongly suspected Russia of underwriting American fractivism, that is speculation. What is not speculation is the role of Chinese communists. Three years ago, I testified at a public hearing regarding “Foreign Influence on the Pennsylvania Gas Industry.” I talked not only about the
Read More...CLCPA Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: “Vested interests have had their say, and public relations have taken precedence over engineering and economics” but CLCPA “winging it” cannot and will not work.] At the September 13, 2021 meeting of New York’s Climate Leadership and Community
Read More...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,
Read More...political correctness Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Political correctness is a breeze at the outset but extremely costly in the end, as Europe is learning the hard way. Green energy has become a fool’s errand. Political correctness is conformance to the desires, mores and whims of those who imagine they get to set
Read More...fossil fuels Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Those who wish to abolish fossil fuels need to start addressing the risks before plunging ahead because the danger to civilization without a safety net is huge.] We are being told of the world’s forthcoming demise with continued use of
Read More...Climate David Wojick, PhDJournalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: George Orwell long ago identified the problem with language that is crafted to mean the represent the opposite of what is implied. Climate Newspeak is here!] I am constantly entertained by the artful ways alarmists bend language to their will. This often
Read More...Wrightstone Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Greg Wrightstone just did a nice segment on the Candace Owens show about his book “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know.” it was a thorough pleasure to watch our friend and guest blogger, Greg Wrightstone be interviewed by Candace Owens yesterday.
Read More...oil and gas … …[Editor’s Note: Incredibly, Joe Biden, our White House occupant, is seemingly determined to wipe out our oil and gas even as China wraps its arms around its own energy industry.] While the U.S. government is doing all it can to keep our nation’s fossil fuels in the ground, China is investing
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. Well, well, well… The first thing you notice is the noise – a strange, low-octave hum growing louder
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