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By Charles Battig -- March 5, 2019 3 Comments“[Business columnist] Chris Tomlinson fails to mention fascist governance as another possibility whereby the means of production are ostensibly in private hands, but serve actively to implement government policy. Crony capitalism comes close to that model as larger corporations do a mating dance melding government funding with government policy, and shut out the less well funded and connected smaller commercial entities, while the hapless public gets taxed to fund the charade.”
Chris Tomlinson‘s columns in the Business section of the Houston Chronicle opine on broadly defined energy issues, especially those with a perceived impact on Houston. He is dismissive of the central role of mineral energies for today’s standard of living and refuses to question climate alarmism (the Dessler effect?). He sees government correction as automatic, as if there were not “government failure” in the quest to address “market failure.”…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: February 11, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- February 11, 2019 2 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Short Anti-wind video by Ohio citizens
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
Abstracts for upcoming 8th International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise
PhD Letter re Turbine Health Impacts
German citizen anti-wind effort results in installations slump
Electoral Platitudes = Energy Trauma for Citizens
Goodbye to a misguided war on coal
Hot Day in Australia results in massive blackouts
Study: Grid Scale Electricity Storage Can’t Save Renewables
The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a leftist politician’s worst enemy
Green New Deal: The Devil Is in the Details
Green New Deal: Looks Like A Dem Parody Bill
The Green New Deal is a Prescription for Poverty
Greenhouse-warming theory does not appear to even be physically possible
Physicist: Don’t fall for the argument about ‘settled science’
Revised: Deficiencies In the IPCC’s SR15 Special Report
Why the Left Loves and Hates Science
Greed Energy Economics:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
The Three Major Problems with a Carbon Tax
Study: Tax Abatements and the Texas Wind Industry
Short video: Texas town has $30M burden after going “100% renewable”
Green Energy Being Abandoned As Economics Go Red
The foolishness of Canadians paying a Carbon Tax
The Myth of the Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
Carbon Taxes Aren’t Working Any More
Wyoming takes its yearly look at raising a tax on wind energy
PG&E may shed $40± billion worth of renewable contracts
Could PTC rush jeopardize U.S.…
Continue ReadingEnergy, Economic Upheaval to Address “Climate Change” (626-group letter exposes much)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 4, 2019 6 Comments“[Our groups] look forward to working with you to address the gravest environmental crisis humanity has ever faced, to protect all present and future generations around the world, while centering the rights of those communities and workers most impacted.”
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute called it the “Back to the Dark Ages Manifesto.” It is so drastic and far-reaching that major environmental groups do not dare to touch it, much less sign on. (The smart Statists know not to reach too far too fast, instead taking gains incrementally and preparing for the next run up the Hill.)
Too much, too soon (as in a carbon tax) loses in a democracy where voters are energy users, and fossil-fuel scares in a distant future compete with here-and-now problems.
But the January 10, 2019, letter from 626 Left groups is a remarkable “coming out” moment for the fringe, anti-energy, anti-industrial, anti-freedom cabal.…
Continue ReadingGreenpeace Resurrects “Peak Oil” (an exercise in intellectual misdirection)
By Michael Lynch -- January 22, 2019 2 Comments“Depletionists believe that once a production peak is reached, there can be no recovery. This is simply not true when the history of oil production in many regions is examined.”
“Such is the state of Greenpeace ‘scholarship’ where it seems that the Peak Oil choir, out of songs, needs anything to sing. I’ll let you know when this dead horse tries to run again.”
Incredibly, in these days of an oil glut, Greenpeace published a piece by its co-founder Rex Weyler titled Will Peak Oil Save Earth’s Climate? “Given the slow pace of climate action,” he states, “some ecologists have wondered if peak oil production might arrive in time to forestall runaway global heating.”
Others have worried that peak oil and gas would mean higher coal usage and thus more carbon emissions, a question for another day.…
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