“As our grassroots activists would attest, the current energy crisis demands a radical rethinking of the administration’s current energy policy. Higher energy costs will soon ripple through the economy and increase the price of nearly everything Americans buy.” (AFP)

“The government should burn its ‘club in the closet.’ It is disingenuous to believe that smiling Biden, Kerry, Granholm, Regan, Haaland, et al. have any intention but harming the fossil-fuel industries they are pretending to like in a desperate political hour.” (RLB)

People want affordable, reliable, accessible energy now and in the future. They do not want expensive, unreliable, government-chosen energies.

This simple energy-for-the-masses message was reiterated in a recent letter from Brent Gardner, Chief Government Affairs Officer, Americans for Prosperity, to President Biden.

AFP is a 50-state multi-issue grassroot organization composed of “millions of voices across the country united by the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence, who are committed to empowering every American to realize their American Dream and move our country forward together.”…

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:
*** Why “cheap” solar increases the price of power
Battery System Capital Costs, Losses and Aging

Wind Energy:
*** The shell game methodology behind America’s reported wind energy production
*** Changes to the regulation of wind turbine noise (Australia)
Do wind turbines change the weather? (See also here.)
Satellite outage knocks out thousands of wind turbines
Dominion’s deception hits new high with offshore wind

Solar Energy:
Brussels, we have a land problem
One of this year’s biggest Virginia solar bills is all about forests and farms
Duke’s proposed Net Metering 2.0 rule change in North Carolina meets opposition

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear, coal, gas: ‘no taboos’ in Germany’s energy about-face
America’s Energy Future: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear
Belgian Greens make U-turn to consider nuclear plants extension

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Climate Act War on Fossil Fuels Based on Enviro Fairy Tales
*** Recent USGS oil and gas estimate for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota
*** Peer-Reviewed Study: ‘Climate Impacts’ of Fossil Fuels in Today’s Energy Systems
Fossil Fuels Should Evoke Pride, Not Pandering, From Supporters
Biden Continues To Flip-Flop On Crude Oil Policies – OpEd
US Oil and Petroleum Imports from Russia Explained
Why Is New England Paying The Equivalent Of $180 Oil For Natural Gas?…

“Corporate policy makers entering the fray should be guided by two principles…. First, mandatory GHG programs should be rejected in favor of voluntary approaches….  Second, voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond win-win ‘no regrets’ initiatives. Control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders and politicize the issue of corporate responsibility.”

– Robert Bradley, “Climate Alarmism and Corporate Responsibility.” Electricity Journal, August/September 2000.

It was called corporate social responsibility (CSR). Today, it has morphed into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).

Upon the election of Donald Trump, the environmental Left redoubled its effort to politicize business on the climate issue. The subtitle to an early 2017 article in Yale Climate Connections, for example, “Business Leadership on Climate Seen as Key,” read: “With expectations of a much lower federal leadership role on controlling carbon emissions, key sectors of business community seen by some as maintaining momentum.”…

“While quiet transformers and inverters exist [to reduce pure-tone transformer noise], due to premium cost, it is generally not a specification point the solar facility designers are willing to consider…. There is a real need for acoustic evaluation and noise control with respect to nighttime operations of solar energy components.”

“Clark County regulators have substantiated 37 of the 49 complaints they have received about the project from the public. ‘Can’t breathe from all the dust coming off the solar field!!!!!!,’ one person wrote to the county on Sept. 15. ‘Someone need to take care of this it happens way to often.’”

Anti-fossil-fuel environmentalists, when pressed, will state that all energy choices have environmental drawbacks and tradeoffs. But they do not take this seriously when it comes to wind and solar power, which have infrastructure requirements (including land and power lines) that are a multiple of other choices on a per kWh basis.…