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A Diesel in the Shed

By Viv Forbes -- April 24, 2017

You can have your solar panels … and your turbines on the hills;

You can use the warmth of sunshine … to reduce your heating bills.

You can dream you’re self-sufficient … as you weed your vegie bed;

As long as you make sure to keep …  a diesel in the shed.

When I was a kid on a dairy farm in Queensland, Australia, we relied on green energy: horses and human muscles for motive power; fire-wood and beeswax candles for heat and light; windmills to pump water; and the sun to grow crops, vegetables, and pastures.

The only “non-green” energy used was a bit of kerosene for the kitchen lamp, and petrol for a small Ford utility.

Our life changed dramatically when we put a diesel in the dairy shed.…

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Moral Foundations of a Free Society

By Richard Ebeling -- April 20, 2017

Free-market capitalism is the ethical highroad to human dignity and mutual prosperity. If its moral and related foundations can be successfully articulated to students in a persuasive manner, the totalitarian progressives can be met and opposed through the power of reason and a basic understanding of the connections between economic liberty, social peace, and mutual well being for a better future for all of mankind.”

“In the marketplace of the free society individuals learn and practice the etiquette and manners of respect, politeness, honesty and tolerance. This naturally follows from the fact that if violence is ethically and legally abolished, or at least minimized, in all human relationships, then the only way any of us can get others to do things we would like them to do for us is through reason, argument, and persuasion.”

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Grassroots Rising: Paris Agreement is America Last, Taxpayer Last, and Consumer Last

By -- April 19, 2017

“Some argue that we should remain in the Paris Agreement to keep our ‘seat at the table.’ However, the fundamental goal of the Paris Agreement is to drive participating nations toward emissions reductions that are mathematically incompatible with economic growth.”

The alligators are still in the climate swamp. Anti-industrial environmentalists, crony capitalists, Big Science, and even bought-off conservatives and ‘libertarians’ want to keep the US in the Paris climate agreement.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute wants to even this fight by engaging the forgotten men and women, the ones that are stuck with the bill for climate-policy activism.

Myron Ebell, director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment, invites mainstream America to sign a petition to ensure that President Trump’s stands strong and keeps his campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the heavy-handed Paris climate (non)treaty.…

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Global Greening in the New York Times (CO2 benefits contradict SCC)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 18, 2017
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Paris Agreement: Remember Enron to Rio to Kyoto

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 17, 2017
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Ford’s Electric Cars in China: Good News or Bad?

By Greg Rehmke -- April 13, 2017
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Properly Representing Wind and Solar in Electricity Systems: Electricity Generated (Part II)

By Kent Hawkins -- April 12, 2017
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Properly Representing Wind and Solar in Electric Systems: Generation Capacity (Part I)

By Kent Hawkins -- April 11, 2017
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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: April 10, 2017

By -- April 10, 2017
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Cornwall Alliance Fights Climate Ugliness

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 7, 2017
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