“Electrification is a primary motive behind the Green New Deal (i.e., to ban fossil fuels regardless of the impact on the American economy). If non-condensing furnaces are banned, it seems likely that DOE/EERE’s next step will be to move on with phasing-out condensing furnaces (i.e., all natural gas furnaces).”
“The good news is that the natural gas utility stakeholders along with consumer interest allies have already put DOE/EERE on notice that they will continue to resist in court (see here).”
The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE), is again planning to ban the manufacturing of non-condensing natural gas furnaces used in most American households. By intent, this will force consumers in the market for a new furnace to either purchase either a high-end condensing furnace or an electric heat pump.…
Continue Reading“The most important near-term action the Administration can pursue is to unequivocally take counterproductive policies and rhetoric off the table. Policies like export bans or windfall profit taxes may not only hamper the industry’s ability to fully supply the market, but also create the uncertainty that dissuades potential new investments needed to increase domestic energy production.”
“… accusations of profiteering and calling into question our members’ patriotism are not supported by the facts and do a disservice to the millions of workers who show up to work every day … to power the economy.”
It is good to see the leading oil and gas trade associations on the offensive against the Biden Administration’s anti-affordable-energy agenda. With the moral high ground and the attention of regular citizen/voters, there is every reason for these consumer-driven industries to stop playing defense and woke politics.…
Continue ReadingEd. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.
Greed Energy Economics:
Subsidized Wind & Solar Root Cause of Every Power Pricing & Supply Crisis
Renewables (General):
*** Report: No Emission Reduction Gained from Increasing Wind & Solar
*** Breakthrough in U.S. grid storage estimating
All Electricity Sources Pollute
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Maryland’s Offshore Wind is a $4 Billion Boondoggle
*** BOEM Comments re proposed Maryland Offshore Wind Project
*** Hurricane risk is real for offshore wind
*** SCC Asked to Put Offshore Wind Failure Risk on Dominion, Not Customers
Wind developer, environmentalists agree on ways to protect whales
Fears fishing grounds will be lost to fleet
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind turbines bound for landfill because of hefty recycling expenses
*** A No Wind Solution
*** Southern Idaho Ranches Threatened by Potential Wind Project Development
The Lava Ridge Wind Turbine Project
Report: Leading edge erosion and pollution from wind turbine blades
A land rush for renewable energy is transforming Eastern Colorado
Solar Energy:
In Pandering to the Green Left, Biden Is Underwriting China’s Genocide of Uyghurs
Nuclear Energy:
A More Reliable and Responsible Climate Plan for NY (and elsewhere)
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Study: “Climate Impacts“ of Fossil Fuels in Today’s Energy Systems
*** Diesel oil and engine oil is going from scarcity to non-existent
*** Yes, You CAN Blame Biden For High Energy Prices
Is The Global Climate Agenda Dead?…