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Why This Solar Company CEO Wants to Drill, Build Pipelines, and ‘Deploy All Types of Energy’
Drew Bond, co-founder and president of C3 Solutions, is a serial entrepreneur. Having founded several companies in the energy industry, he now leads an organization that helps conservatives counter the Left’s radical environmental ideas. “I would argue that many conservatives are, in fact, better environmentalists than many in the environmental community,” Bond tells The Daily… -
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Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 2: Upward Mobility for Poor Depends on Energy
Second of two articles. The first article can be read here. Here’s a reality-framing statement for the roughly 190 countries headed to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt that opens on Sunday: Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 appear to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, again, and yet, according to the U.N., greenhouse gas emissions… -
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How Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Becoming an Economic Crisis
Europe’s energy crisis is becoming an economic crisis. Skyrocketing energy prices are causing companies of all types across the region to cut thousands of jobs, dramatically roll back production, and in some instances, halt business altogether. In Western Europe, French glass company Arc International has made significant cutbacks due to rising energy prices. The company… -
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America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs
Last week, Saudi Arabia announced, in conjunction with OPEC+, that it would be cutting oil production in the face of dropping prices. That decision came in spite of the Biden White House’s lobbying in favor of increased production, which included a sycophantic visit by President Joe Biden to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In… -
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Europe’s Approaching Energy Crisis and Economic Winter
Europe is preparing now to suffer the consequences of the wrongheaded interventionist policies it has followed for more than a decade. Inflation, an energy crisis, and a perpetual economic stagnation are the expected outcomes of quantitative easing, unnatural negative interest rates, a ban of traditional energy sources without any feasible alternatives, massive debt, enormous government… -
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Rising Energy Prices Fuel Growing Angst Across Party Lines, Poll Finds
Economic data released recently reveals that the U.S. economy is still laboring under debilitating inflation. Rising prices for essential goods and services act as a drag on discretionary spending and will make our current recession all the more painful and long-lasting. Recent polling by TIPP/Insight provides useful insights into how Americans view the impact of… -
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The Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment Briefings: What You Need to Know About Gas Prices
Introduction to the ‘What You Need to Know About Gas Prices’ Series High gas and diesel prices have taken their toll on Americans, and despite Biden administration claims to the contrary, the high prices are not a “Putin Price Hike.” For example, retail prices for regular gasoline already had risen by 48% from the week ending Jan. 25, 2021, (when… -
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The Wrong Way to Respond to High Gas Prices
The federal government’s most sensible response to the high gasoline prices we are now experiencing is the exact opposite of what it is currently doing. Instead of gimmicky gas tax holidays and promoting expensive electric vehicles most families can’t afford, the government needs to help facilitate increased supply. That means leasing more federal land and… -
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Here Are the Factors That Affect Gas Prices
When gas prices are high, as they are right now, some policymakers will offer up myths, like price gouging, to explain what’s going on. But the reality is quite different. While harmful government barriers that limit supply are often to blame, there are also simple economics at play and challenges that exist across the oil… -
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9 Policy Objectives to Unleash Domestic Oil Production and Help Drive Down Gas Prices
Most good deceptions have a grain of truth. Presidents and politicians who have felt the political heat of high gasoline prices are often quick to say they have no control over prices at the pump. Reality is more complicated, as many factors contribute to the price of gasoline. But several of the most critical factors… -
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How Government Restrictions on Domestic Drilling Drive Up Gas Prices
The federal government’s restrictions on extracting and transporting oil and gas can play a huge role in driving up gas and diesel prices for American families and businesses, and the more power the government seeks to exercise, the more those impacts are felt by all of us. The following provides just some examples of how… -
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‘My Blood Still Boils’: Father Recalls School’s Secret Attempt to Transition Daughter
At the beginning of this year, Wendell Perez got a call that no father ever wants to receive—his elementary-aged daughter had attempted to hang herself in the school bathroom. Perez and his wife rushed to the school, where their daughter was whisked away by a police car to stay in a mental institution for a… -
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Biden’s Energy Policies Encourage Global Instability
When it comes to energy independence—a key component of global stability—the America of 2022 could learn a lot from the America of 1942. In that year, American energy dominance powered the Allied war effort of World War II, making production substantially cheaper and producing an abundance of war material: aviation fuel, gasoline, synthetic rubber, and… -
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What Europe’s Energy Crisis Means for America
While serving as a U.S. ambassador to Denmark during the Trump administration, my fellow ambassadors and I warned our European allies not to rely on Russian energy imports. We knew that Russia views energy as a commodity that can and has been weaponized, and we led diplomatic efforts with Copenhagen and other major European capitals… -
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California’s Grid Braces for Failure Just Days After Biden’s Energy Secretary Praises State’s Green Policies
California residents are at risk of experiencing blackouts on Tuesday, just four days after President Joe Biden’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, praised the state’s green energy policies. Granholm touted California’s green energy transition in an interview Sept. 3, only four days before California’s electrical grid operator, California Independent System Operator, issued a level 2 energy… -
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Europe’s Energy Crisis, Explained
Decades of bad policy decisions by European countries combined with Russia’s “weaponization” of its oil and natural gas resources are to blame for Europe’s ongoing energy crisis, one expert in energy security says. Energy prices this week reached new heights. Notably, in one benchmark Monday, Germany’s expected prices in 2023 peaked higher than 1,000 euros… -
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Biden’s Civil War on Energy Is Leaving Endless Collateral Damage in Its Wake
President Joe Biden has declared he will “end fossil fuel.” Presidents have declared war on everything from poverty to drugs, but his declaration is much more sinister. His is really a civil war. The combatants are heavy-handed bureaucrats harassing fellow countrymen who want to do nothing more than fuel their car, cool their home, or use their… -
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The Serious Lack of Good Governance and Economic Freedom: Root Causes of Sri Lanka’s Ongoing Turmoil
Sri Lanka’s spectacular political downfall over the recent days and ongoing downward economic spiral offers yet another unmistakable reminder: Good governance, both political and economic, matters. The overthrow by ordinary Sri Lankans of an irresponsible government that bears responsibility for decades of mismanagement wasn’t a revolution. It was instead the result of frustrated Sri Lankans’… -
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The End of the Gas Range and Fireplace? Local Governments Ban Natural Gas
Are you hoping for a shiny gas range in your new home? How about a fireplace as the main attraction of your new living room? If so, don’t move to Los Angeles, because the city is phasing out natural gas hookups in all new residential and commercial buildings effective Jan. 1, 2023. But LA isn’t… -
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Gascon Recall Effort Takes Big Step Forward in Los Angeles
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series have focused on the rogue prosecutor movement, focusing on prosecutors in Baltimore