Roughly 3.3 billion people—about 45 percent of all the people on the planet—live in places where per-capita electricity consumption is less than 1,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or less than the amount used by my refrigerator.
By 2017, more than 6,600 coal-fired power plants, with a combined capacity of about 2,000 gigawatts, were operating around the globe…. Not only that, coal’s share of global electricity production has remained nearly constant, at about 40 percent, since the mid-1980s. Why is this? For the simple reason that coal is cheap and widely available.
Americans are currently facing significant uncertainty over how the drop in oil prices, the COVID-19 virus, and governments’ response to both will harm the economy and their long-term prosperity.
However, the harm caused by governments that limit access to affordable and reliable electricity is well understood.…
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Richard Weaver, the Coronavirus, and the Strenuous Life
On Computer Models, Socialism, And Other Garbage
A pandemic is the wrong time to shut down NYC’s top source of electricity
Even Facing a Pandemic, NYS Remains in the Grip of the Green Movement
Green New Deal goes viral, and fails
Climate Models and COVID-19 Models
Modeling COVID-19 and the Lies of Multiculturalism
Continue Reading“… the rule plus the revocation of the California waiver is a huge win for auto buyers and drivers, but it should and could have gone much further in increasing consumer choice, especially in terms of safer vehicles, and still have complied with the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 that created CAFE standards.” (Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute)
“Demand destruction from the current Pandemic offers a new opportunity for demand construction. Letting the petroleum industry, from the wellhead to the pump, receive its rightful free-market demand in the car and truck market should be a ‘restart’ strategy of the Trump Administration. Full repeal of CAFE would be part of this.” (below)
The Trump Administration has rolled back Obama’s 2012 proposal to mandate a 5 percent annual fuel reduction per mile from covered motor vehicles.…
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