Energy Labor-saving Day

“Energy will do anything that can be done in the world.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Energy is the resource of resources, the master resource. This Labor Day weekend, give thanks to the dense, plentiful, affordable, reliable energies that have done much to improve living standards worldwide, while mastering the vagaries of extreme weather and climate. Think of it as Labor Saving Day. After all, eight billion consumers cannot be wrong.

The Old Days

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Taxpayer Subsidies for Chinese Batteries? Just Say No!

Ed. note: This letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and key members of Congress from Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and other free market energy groups is reproduced below. At issue is a legal loophole allowing Chinese-owned battery component manufacturers to receive taxpayer funded incentives. More information can be found here.

“American taxpayers should not finance the expansion of Chinese-controlled battery companies inside the United States.”

Dear Secretary Bessent:

Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and the undersigned organizations urge the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to fully enforce the foreign-entity restrictions enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and prevent Chinese-controlled battery companies from accessing American manufacturing and energy tax incentives, including the Section 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit and the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit, through U.S.…

Betsy “Code Green” Rosenberg: Emotional Climatism

“Rob Bradley the freedom to lie about our very real #climateemergency should be outlawed for crimes against nature- aka ecocide—as well as crimes against humanity.” (Rosenberg to Bradley. August 31, 2026)

“Please She/Her Rosenberg. Don’t assume, debate. Don’t pretend, research. Check the emotions and politics at the door and open your mind. There is good news about climate and energy if you are suffering from ‘climate anxiety’.” (below)

“It is a classic notion on the left in general, and of environmentalist zealots in particular,” noted Thomas Sowell, “that no one can disagree with them unless they are either uniformed or dishonest.” A salient example of this came with comments to a social media post by Laura Clarke, CEO of Client Earth, who wrote:

Today’s news from New Zealand is a significant setback for climate accountability.

Climate Majority Project: Scientists “Freaking Out”

Adapt, Europe (stop whining)

“We Don’t Have Time” (climate pity party)

Peak Gas, Peak Demand? McKibben in Fantasy Land

Renewables: Energy Addition, not Substitution (a retreating narrative)

AI: Peak Demand and Peak Supply Postponed (fossil future)

The 1970s Oil Crisis: Never Forget