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Amy Myers Jaffe Disses Oil, Gas, and Houston

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 31, 2022

“Amy Meyers Jaffe, Chris Tomlinson, Jeffrey Sachs–so confident, so angry, so wrong about energy. In psychological terms, they are in denial about climate exaggeration and the verdict from energy density for consumer wants and necessities.”

“Other (pre-Jaffe) ‘Kodak Moments’ dissing fossil fuels have been published in 2015 here; 2016 here; 2018 here; 2019 here and here; and 2021 here. Idea plagiarism?”

CERAWeek 2022 was a rude comeuppance for the hyper-critics [haters?] of oil and gas, who found themselves marginalized not only by world events but also by the Biden Administration itself. Drill, baby, drill was the word from DOE’s First Lady. [1] But Houston Chronicle business editorialist Chris Tomlinson had to get his punches in, embarrassingly so given his strong emotions and elephantine conflict of interest.…

UK Energy Reset! (GWPF/Net Zero policy primer)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 29, 2022

“Renewables must be put on the same footing as other generators, with no subsidies and no preferential dispatch, and eventually wound down.”

“… the government should be candid with the public and focus relentlessly on replacing the older combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) with new models that are more thermally efficient (and thus cheaper and cleaner) and on increasing UK production of natural gas onshore and offshore.”

The United Kingdom (and EU more generally) is ground zero is the failed war against consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral mineral energies. Energy sustainability is affordable, reliable, plentiful energy–and wind and solar are not that.

Net Zero Watch of the Global Warming Policy Foundation is doing yeoman’s work in identifying the UK/EU energy fail in real time. Their latest is “Taking Back Control: Addressing Britain’s Energy Crisis.”…

Industrial Wind Turbines: Report from Ground Zero

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 24, 2022

“Is there anyone, literally ANYONE, who lives near one of these turbines who has publicly shared that their living experience near a wind turbine is “great”? Or even NOT significantly, negatively impacted?”

Hundreds of wind and solar projects in the U.S. have been delayed or blocked by effective grassroots opposition, according to Robert Bryce. Real environmentalists, the keepers of rural life, have every reason to complain against the government-enabled intrusion into their quiet lives: noise, flicker light, land degradation, lowered property values.

MasterResource has previously reported on the growing anti-wind zoning ordinance movement against industrial wind; the “avian mortality’ problem; and the on-the-ground work by such environmentalists as Kevon Martis; and the negative health effects. Solar projects are also attracting serious local opposition.

Add Larissa Plagge of Environmentalists Against Wind Turbines to the list of determined opponents of industrial wind.…

Kansas Wind Subsidies: Senator Thompson’s Protest

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 23, 2022

CERA vs. WPC: Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle) Digs In

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 22, 2022

Help Us, Surrender, and Submit: DOE Secretary Granholm at CERA

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 21, 2022

Dear Emma Marris: Check Your Premises (self-righteous anger at ‘fossil-fuel capitalism’ is self-deprecating)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 18, 2022

Build Back Bad: Wounded Climate Agenda Seeks Traction

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 17, 2022

A Free-Market Energy Letter to Biden (Americans for Prosperity)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 16, 2022

Pro-Production Energy Politics: Check Your Premises

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 15, 2022