Earlier this year, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) launched Fueling America: 250 Years of Energy Innovation. A major part of this project is brief biographies on major and lesser-known industry pioneers. One biography was done on J. Howard Marshall II, whose book Done in Oil was published in 1996 by Texas A&M Press.
Unfortunately, Texas A&M Press had a woke, humorless editor (she is now a Deacon at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Austin). A dozen sections were taken out that somewhat compromised the factual, tell-it-like-it-was book. The removed excerpts follow for posterity (and yes, the book itself is worth reading for an inside-out look at the oil industry from the 1930s to the 1960s).
Preface, p. xiii
“One of the corporate giants who really ran his oil company was Charlie Jones of Richfield Oil.…
Continue Reading“I’ll take my chances with energy freedom. I fear the energy dystopia of Climate Big Brother.”
Grist, “an independent nonprofit newsroom that’s spent 25 years telling the truth about our planet,” is now in the climate fiction business. Imagine 2200 is premised on “a core belief: The world we need has to be imagined before it can be built.” Grist’s Image 2200 Creative Manager Tory Stephens continues:
… Continue ReadingWe are living through a moment where the stories being told about the future are shrinking, and the space to imagine something different is being crowded out by fear and despair. Imagine 2200 is an antidote: a global climate-fiction initiative in which writers from more than 90 countries have imagined new futures, shaped by justice and resilience, and informed by the real-world solutions already in motion.
Ed. Note: This manifesto by Claire Coutinho from last year is reprinted in light of the raging UK debate over “Net Zero” policies pursuant to the Climate Change Act of 2008. A former Cabinet member as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and currently an elected member of the Conservative Pary, she has changed views to trenchantly oppose Net Zero.
“I can promise you this. When it comes to energy policy, our priority won’t be ideology, it won’t be vested interests, it won’t be fake promises we can’t deliver. It will be cheap, reliable, abundant energy.”
In the last few decades, we’ve lost sight of a simple truth. Energy is a good thing.
Conservatives know that great eras of British growth and prosperity happen when we have an abundance of cheap, reliable energy.…
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