“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.…

Ed. 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?…

” … it is time for an energy awakening – for the natural gas and oil supply chain and the government at all levels to open a new era of working together to ensure that essential energy resources are unlocked; to encourage investment opportunities and accelerate infrastructure development; and to strengthen global energy security, affordability and reliability.” (API, below)

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has represented the larger integrated oil companies since its founding just over a century ago. Much of its early mission was to standardize machinery specifications as well as accounting practices to modernize and streamline the industry. But API’s other major function has been politics, which became so great that the trade group moved from New York City to Washington, D.C. in 1969.

Often, the self-interest of the majors was the free market, particularly in the troubled 1970s.…

“Epstein focuses on the ‘big picture’ facts of how fossil fuels are helping the world’s populations to live longer, better, safer lives, while managing the side-effects of increasing CO2 emissions.”

After his successful book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014), philosopher Alex Epstein spent several years speaking at seminars, at corporate meetings, and in webinars to help people understand why the apocalyptical view of future climate and fossil fuels reliance are wrong. At the same time, Epstein zealously asked questions and listened to his “Energy Champions” to better understand how to break through the mainstream narrative with his sound intellectual case.

The result is a reframed energy/climate discussion in his 430-page tome, Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less, which challenges the “expert” opinion of impact of rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere in light of humanity’s huge gains from carbon-based energy usage.…