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Government-enabled Nuclear: Trump Demures

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 19, 2024

Commercial nuclear power (fission) was a government-created industry in the 1950s that continues to hold false promise today. It is by far the most complicated, expensive, and fraught way to boil water.

President Trump seems to recognize the falsity of new nuclear capacity as the Hail Mary of the futile, false goal of “Net Zero”. As reported by E&E News:

Former President Donald Trump expressed significant reservations over American nuclear energy in his recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, a departure from other Republicans who have entirely backed the zero-carbon energy source.

Trump told Joe Rogan in an interview released Friday that he thought projects to build more of the large nuclear reactors currently on the grid, while “very clean,” have a tendency to be complex and to go over budget.

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Trump 45 vs. Green New Deal (Trump 47 will be better)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 18, 2024

This repost from May 2019 is reprinted as a remembrance of Trump’s first try at reversing Green New Deal policy. The second try promises to be much more systemic, coordinated, and better explained.

“The golden era of American energy is now underway.” (President Donald Trump, The White House, May 14, 2019)

… under the Green New Deal, they don’t like clean, beautiful natural gas. They don’t like anything. (President Donald Trump, “Remarks on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” Hackberry, LA, May 14, 2019)

Who has been the most free-market energy President in U.S. history? In modern times, Ronald Reagan comes to mind. He decontrolled crude oil and petroleum products in his first week of office (January 1981), although Jimmy Carter’s phase-out of such regulation had just six months to go.…

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DOE Efficiency Standards: Consumer Time?

By Mark Krebs and Tom Tanton -- November 14, 2024

“The Deep State is cancer-like in nature. Like cancer, it must be rooted out before it metastasizes—as it would have if subject to another four years of a Harris (Obama 4.0?) Administration.”

“It’s time to go big. Scrap DOE and part-out whatever missions are worth saving.  And whatever missions are deemed worth saving should be saved only with thorough scrutiny of zero-based budgeting.”

Our March 2017 post, DOE’s EERE: Reform Ideas for Secretary Perry, stated that while “a trace of consumer focus still exists,” the department’s heavy bias was towards society-wide electrification under the guise of “Net Zero”.

Whatever trace of consumer focus may be remaining within DOE is not worth salvaging. In fact, eliminating the pipe dream of an all-electric society would likely save US citizens $18 to 29 trillion in capital costs alone.…

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Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer

By Steve Goreham -- November 13, 2024
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COP29 Preview: Hot Talk vs. Reality

By Kennedy Maize -- November 12, 2024
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Energy & Environmental Review: November 11, 2024

By -- November 11, 2024
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The Climate Road to Serfdom in One Graph

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 8, 2024
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President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 7, 2024
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Fossil Fuel Political Backfire (AEI’s Teixeira explains)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 6, 2024
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Climate: Losing Politics (time to end the futile, wasteful crusade?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2024
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