Category Archives: Energy

Opinion Activism On News Page: GOP Hurries To Slash Oil And Gas Rules

Reason #45986758677984232 that the Credentialed Media has lost trust, as the NY Times publishes what is essentially an activist opinion piece by Eric Lipton on page A1 of the Sunday NY edition. This might as well have been written by the office of Nancy Pelosi G.O.P. Hurries to Slash Oil and Gas Rules, Ending Industries’ […]

Democrat AGs Really Want Trump To Keep Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Most of these Attorney Generals are also involved in harassing Exxon and lots of private organizations, demanding all their correspondence on a fishing trip to intimidate them and shut down their 1st Amendment Rights, such as NY AG Eric Schneiderman, who has had multiple suits thrown at him (NY1) State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is […]

Man Who Uses Massive Amounts Of Fossil Fuels Bans Drilling

Last time we checked, Mr. Obama and family had just taken a massive fossil fueled (and partially taxpayer funded) trip from D.C. to Hawaii for his annual (partially taxpayer funded) vacation. Just like all the rest of us are able to do. And while he’s enjoying the golf and 1%er accommodations, he did this (Washington […]

UK Could Face Blackouts For Christmas 2017

What happens when people practicing a pseudo-religion/political movement push to replace reliable old school power with different old school methods which have been made unreliable? (I’m shocked that this was allowed to be published in the far left Cult of Climastrology supporting UK Guardian) Risk of Christmas electricity blackouts next year, warn MPs Coal power […]

Liberal Cities Are The Only Hope For Climate Change Action Or Something

This is supposed to be in rebuke to soon-to-be-inaugurated President Trump, but, it really says something different America’s Cities Are the Only Hope for Climate Change Action Last week’s U.S. election makes clear that subnational actors—especially cities—are America’s only hope now in terms of climate action. Climate policy cannot take a sabbatical and wait another […]

How Green Is “Green Energy”?

It’s an excellent question (Daily Caller) Wind and solar power aren’t as environmentally friendly as green energy activists often claim, according to a new study by scientists at Uppsala University in Sweden. Researchers noted that wind turbines and solar panels are made of non-renewable resources that have to be dug out of the ground. Both solar and […]

Renewables Beat Coal In 2015 Or Something

I caught a few big stories from the Cult of Climastrology where they are pimping the notion that renewables surged past coal for energy production. Um, no (Breitbart) CNBC viewers are being snookered. The business news network featured an article in the “Sustainable Energy” section of its Website that proclaimed: “Renewables surged past coal in […]

Obama’s Clean Power Plan Hits The Court Today

This could be a very big deal depending on the outcome. The oral arguments are on Tuesday (Daily Caller)  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments Tuesday in West Virginia v. EPA, the legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s signature global warming initiative, the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The […]

Trump Releases Pro-Growth Plan

Here’s the question: do you you believe he would attempt to do what’s in the plan? For all the things that I might give him grief over, the man does know how the private business sector works. And, no, he’s not perfect. ​FACT SHEET: DONALD J. TRUMP’S PRO-GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY WILL CREATE 25 MILLION JOBS […]

Good News For Warmists: Americans Are Willing To Pay $1 A Month More To Solve ‘Climate Change’

That’s about as good as it gets, though (you can see the poll overhead here. There are many links, the one with topline results has the full metrics) (Newsmax-AP) Most Americans are willing to pay a little more each month to fight global warming — but only a tiny bit, according to a new poll. […]

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