“[Brian] Ross was stunned by his first look at a map of the Twin Cities region … show[ing] a hypothetical horizon in 2050 filled with new wind farms sprouting less than 40 miles from downtown Minneapolis…. Five other U.S. cities are similarly “mapped”…. ‘Holy moly,’ Ross exclaimed. ‘How on Earth are you going to get people not coming with pitchforks and tar to these siting meetings?'”
“Though [the Princeton] study concludes that ‘adequate land area exists’ to deploy enough wind and solar power … getting there will require building wind and solar units and power lines right now matching the highest annuals levels ever achieved in the United States. And development would only accelerate from there.” (E&E News, below)
Sometimes even the mainstream media gets an inconvenient fact out there amid the hype of a narrative.…
Continue Reading“When asked how people can object to the scientific findings, [John] Holdren said politicization of global warming started in the 1990s when the GOP realized Al Gore would be the nominee for president. ‘He was Mr. Climate Change … so the other party used it politically,’ Holdren said.”
– Frances Hohl, “Environmental Expert Offers Dire Climate Change Outlook” Steamboat Pilot & Today (July 17, 2019).
It’s a heavily scripted world around slow Joe Biden. The handlers are in control, pitching the nice guy as a front for his very bad energy and climate policies.
Have you noticed who is missing in all this? Where is Al Gore? It is as if “Mr. Climate Change” is hiding out with Hunter or in a bunker.
In fact, Al Gore is a PR liability, with his exaggerations and stiff style best closeted.…
Continue ReadingRobert Michaels has specialized in electricity and natural gas over the decades, in addition to antitrust law. Professor of Economics at California State University, Fullerton, Dr. Michaels is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and has contributed many posts to MasterResource.
Q. Robert, you have spent decades in the regulatory fields of antitrust and of energy. How did it all begin?
A. Like so many of life’s better stories, it started with randomness. Around 1980 I moved from Washington, DC to the reality of a southern California mortgage. At the time I was working on the industrial organization of the mainframe computer market for some academic publications to help me get tenure at California State University, Fullerton.
I got a call from a former classmate about my possible interest in expert work in what would turn out to be a major antitrust case regarding an electric utility.…
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