Energy Is the Coal Mine Canary for Economic Freedom

 Energy Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Economic freedom is the only thing that advances society and creates real wealth for all citizens. Big threats to this freedom are evident with energy today] Just months before The Declaration of Independence was

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Ecocide Reveals the Totalitarian Heart of the Climate Cult

 Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Ecocide is the latest effort by the Church of Climate, a/k/a the Climate Cult; a totalitarian movement out to control every single aspect of others’ lives.] The Climate Church of deep ecology has its hell-on-earth for nonbelievers–prison,

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Green Fraud and Why No One Wants to Talk About It

 Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley provides a review of Marc Morano’s new book: Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think.] “Let’s expose this dangerous charade. The Green New Deal is not green. It’s

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Industrial Wind Health Issues Aren’t Blowing Away Quickly

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley looks at the subject of industrial wind projects and their impacts on human health, using a Victoria, Australia example] MasterResource has followed the growing issue of negative health effects of industrial wind turbines.

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Global Warming Scare Tactics Are No Substitute for Facts

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley points out, with examples, that global warming is not an existential threat but something to be studied before acting rashly.] “Is there any more single-minded, simple pleasure than viewing with alarm,” asked ecological

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Energy Crisis Problem Solvers in Government Are the Real Problem!

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: We never seem to learn; every time government creates an energy crisis we look to government to solve it, letting our rulers fail upward.] Prior to World War 1, government intervention in energy markets was limited, outside anti-trust law. Capital markets were self-regulated, private contracts were the norm,

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Yergin and ‘The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations’

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Daniel Yergin has written another energy tome and Bob Bradley reviews it with a critical eye, finding it quite good as a whole.] Daniel Yergin’s tomes are fun reading and great cliff notes to the

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Renewable Energy Is A Losing Proposition: End the Subsidies

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Renewable energy subsidies have supported an industry that is completely uneconomic and unsustainable and the time is past to end them.] Four years ago, after the election of Donald Trump, I contacted the head of

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Capitalism, Nor Cronyism, Is What We Need; Especially in Energy

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crony capitalism or real capitalism? The answer is obvious yet too many companies in recent years, GE being the prime example, drifted toward the former.] A May 27, 2020, piece at EnergyWire (E&E News) reported the latest

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Climate Activists Demonstrate How Not to Win Friends and Influence

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Climate activists repeatedly engage in the dumbest tactics and, far too often, companies play along, but, thankfully, shareholders didn’t allow it this time.] Climate activists got beat in proxy voting at JPMorgan’s recent annual meeting, a good

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Trump Talks Energy Progress at the New York Economic Club

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. President Donald Trump made some interesting remarks at the New York Economic Club last week and laid out the Trump vision of energy progress, which is pro-shale. Last week, President Trump delivered a pro-energy speech at the Economic Club

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The Scary, Ludicrous and Simply Wrong Predictions of Neo-Malthusians

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Neo-Malthusians have wrecked havoc with environmental and energy policies. The failure of their outrageous predictions to come true has only emboldened them. Are free-market optimists the dumb ones who jump off tall buildings and report that everything

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