Subsidies, Subsidies and More Subsidies for Solar Scams Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Subsidies, direct, indirect and hidden, are the dirty little secret of the corporatist world of solar scams and are about to raise New York electric prices.] People ask
Read More...Heat Waves Show Electric Grids Cannot Rely on Solar and Wind ... … … [Editor’s Note: Heat waves in Texas and Europe are exposing the foolhardiness of electric grid reliance on subsidized solar and wind, as it wrecks havoc with energy economics.] It doesn’t matter if it is California, Texas or Europe. Electric grid operators
Read More...Wind and Solar Do Nothing for PJM’s CO2 Emissions Gregory Wrightstone Executive Director, CO2 Coalition Gordon Tomb Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition … [Editor’s Note: RGGI has subsidized wind and solar with no net effect on emissions; demonstrating government can only make a mess of things and raise prices paid by citizens.] As the imposition
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – June 11, 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: Germans Pay the Price for Energiewende! The Controlled Demolition of American Anergy! Stop Frying
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...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The potential for renewable fortune making trillions off ratepayers and taxpayers is driving both energy policy and environmentalism. Anyone who has followed this blog at all over the last eight years knows what most people following energy policy and environmentalism today don’t want to know; that it’s really
Read More...… … … [Editor’s Note: The CLEAN Future Act is yet more green eggs and scam designed to benefit the prosperous with EV perks at the expense of taxpayers.] In early March, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee
Read More...biodiversityTom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. [Editor’s Note: It’s about the land and the species that depend on it, including our. Biodiversity demands we increase energy density to use less land.] Far too much of the campaign against fossil fuels and for renewables such as wind and solar in the name of fighting global
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. [Editor’s Note: Electric vehicles are trendy but not very Earth-friendly, affordable or emission-free, for that matter; no, they’re just taxpayer-subsidized virtue signaling.]. Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or
Read More...So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: This is a long overdue analysis of who is getting the big energy subsidies from taxpayers and it isn’t fossil fuels. No, green goes to green.] In an executive order, President Biden directed federal agencies to “eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as consistent with applicable law.” It was not
Read More...David Wojick, PhDIndependent Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Solar and wind get a lot of attention but its gas fired generation that is producing more and more of our electricity in this country.] The subsidies that never die — for wind and solar power — are back. With Christmas coming on the Lame Duck
Read More...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
Read More...... … … Editor’s Note: It’s unclear if Joe Biden has a clear idea about anything, but he certainly doesn’t understand energy or anything about how it’s produced. In his debate with President Trump on October 22, Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would rid the nation of oil and gas—“over time, over
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. Citizens Must Speak Out Against Dangerous Energy Bill I was pleased to be quoted in this piece about the latest monster
Read More...John Droz, Jr.Physicist & Citizen AdvocateAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions … John Droz effectively lays out the ugly nature of S.2657, an especially bad Senate bill epitomizing the smell of the Federal swamp. This is a simplified tale of how good intentions were cleverly hijacked by self-servingspecial-interest parties — with little publicity, and to the
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