Happy New Year from MasterResource

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 31, 2024

Seventeen years, 3,905 posts, 980 categories, 167 authors. And the contributions read as well today as when they were written, ‘as if led by an invisible hand’. That’s worth celebrating!

Here is to a healthy and prosperous new year to our many readers!…

Stop Out-the-Door Grants and Loans, DOE!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 30, 2024

This letter of December 4, 2024, to Jigar Shah (Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy) was from Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Chair, Committee on Energy and Commerce; Jeff Duncan: Chair, Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security; and H. Morgan Griffith: Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. A similar plea to Shah by solar executive David Bergeron is here.

Dear Director Shah,

We write to you concerning the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) and its push to rush out loans and loan guarantees in the closing days of the current administration.

Reportedly, the LPO is scrambling to close the $25 billion in pending loans under that program before President Biden leaves office. [1] The LPO has closed on eight loans in just over two months.…

MasterResource Turns 17

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 26, 2024

On this day in 2008, I launched MasterResource. The inaugural post, A New Energy Blog, read:

We are just getting started here, but some of us veterans of the energy debate from a private property, free-market perspective have teamed together to offer our thoughts on late breaking energy items. When I read my newspapers each day, I have some thoughts that I wish I could share with folks from a historical, worldview perspective. I think we all have something to add–and thus the inspiration for this endeavor.

We have a good core group of principal (and principled) bloggers, as well as a growing list of guest bloggers. We aim to post new material most every day. What we have to provide to the reader is frequent insight so that you visit us regularly.

There will be some trial and error, but this is the time to launch.…