I have always preferred to focus on specific policy issues and not get too involved in personalities and relative character. In my feuds with David Boaz, Tom Palmer, and Steve Horwitz over Donald Trump/TDS, utter distain, even Hate, seems to trump public policy.
Trying to understand this better, I recently visited the website of The UnPopulist, which describes itself as in favor of “liberal democracy” as opposed to “intolerant populist nationalism, including in the United States…”
I immediately read a piece by Steve Chapman, “Kamala Harris Might be Less Injurious to the American Economy than Trump.” It can with the subtitle: “Neither is exactly a devotee of Milton Friedman but at least Harris won’t use fiscal and economic policy to settle personal scores and violate the rule of law.”…
An eternal thanks goes to Bruce Wells and the American Oil & Gas Historical Society. His fascinating look back at major industry events of the last 150 years is both educational and inspirational. It is upon the backs of our ancestors that we enjoy today’s high-energy civilization.
“Petroleum history provides a context for understanding modern energy challenges,” the Society explains.
AOGHS preserves U.S. petroleum history, which provides an important context for understanding the modern energy industry. This history, which began in August 1859 with the first commercial U.S. well in Pennsylvania, can help make informed decisions about meeting future energy needs. AOGHS offers education resources, including links to community oil and gas museums, county historical societies, libraries, and others dedicated to material preservation. Please join our effort.
The latest edition covers September in Oil & Gas History News, Vol.…
“A Jill Stein Administration will advance the ecosocialist Real Green New Deal that the Green Party made its signature issue in the 2010s.” (Green Party Platform, below)
The Green Party’s candidate Jill Stein (with running mate Butch Ware) is taking climate more seriously than Kamala Harris. In the Presidential debate, Harris did not dare pronounce the climate-change issue as an “existential threat” as done by her boss, Joe Biden. No mention of a domestic CO2 tax; border tariffs to prevent “leakage”; or global climate governance either. No reference to California, the leading climate state with gasoline prices 50 percent higher, electricity rates double, the national average. And Harris even bragged out the increase in domestic oil and gas production, even though this positive development occurred despite, and not because of, Biden-Harris policy.…