“A New Energy Blog” (from 2008)

Ed. Note: The repost of the first post at MasterResource (from 12/26/2007) marks the 16th anniversary of the free market energy blog site. In this period, MR has posted more than 2,700 posts from more than 300 authors.

“… our blog name is inspired by the late Julian Simon (1932–1998). He labeled energy the master resource because it is the resource needed to bring other resources from a state of nature to one of human usefulness. Simon also used the term the ultimate resource to describe human ingenuity.”

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.…

Happy Holidays from MasterResource

As if to give a resounding ‘bah humbug’ to climate alarmists and resource pessimists, tens of millions of Americans are brightening up their homes and businesses with electric lights. This social offering is a positive externality in the jargon of economics, an unpaid benefit from many to all.

A Three-University Conspiracy? (Or eight billion supporting fossil fuels)

“This conspiracy theorist needs to check his simplistic, authoritarian, emotional views. Eight billion consumers desiring the most affordable, reliable, plentiful energies is the reason why fossil fuels are winning. The real enemy in terms of human betterment is the climate industrial complex, the industrial wind developers, the solar cronies, and EV/battery elites. Mid-course correction needed, Mr. Carlevale.”

Edmund Carlevale, self-described as Transdisciplinary Communications, MIT whistleblower, City-based Sustainability Strategies, with a following of 25,000 on social media, has a very simple explanation of the crisis behind the climate crisis. He offers a crude theory behind “the failed strategies of marching in the streets to end fossil fuels, the endless horror stories of the environmental horrors in our future, and the unending technical debunking of scams like #carboncapture.” It is a conspiracy theory that mangles cause-and-effect.…

Grassroots Opposition to Wind/Solar Projects: Martis Testimony in Michigan

COP28 Reality: Rejecting the Narrative on the Left (Part II)

COP28 Wish-Wash: What is a Climate Alarmist to Do? (Part I)

An Exchange with PUC Candidate Patty Durand: Question Climate Alarmism

African Energy Chamber to COP28: We Want Fossil Fuels!

Al Gore’s Tiresome Crusade: So Long, So Wrong

GHG Forcing: Diminishing Returns (bad mitigation math)