EnergyCommentary
GREEN GRIFT: Renewable Energy’s Inefficiencies, Subsidies for Rich
“We’re building a clean energy future,” says President Joe Biden. Who is “we”? Well, you pay for it. He and his “green” cronies do most… Read More
Energy Analysis
Why China Wants You to Drive an EV
China’s economy is struggling: Many young people can’t find jobs, the nation’s real estate market is in trouble after two major property development companies failed,… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Why Climate Activists’ Push for Renewable Energy May Backfire
Renewables such as wind and solar are intermittent and largely unpredictable energy sources, with rapid swings in output from one minute to the next. This… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Potential Environmental Benefits of a Second Trump Presidency
A second Trump administration would benefit the environment. There’s no better proof of that than Friday’s decision by the Biden administration to stop future exports… Read More
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Mounting Evidence That ‘Net-Zero’ Carbon Emissions Isn’t Achievable
Arizona State University President Michael Crow believes we are in such danger that we should amend the U.S. Constitution to empower the government to deal… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Biden’s ‘War on Fossil Fuels’ Out of Step With Geopolitical Realities, Energy Policy Analysts Say
With the Russia-Ukraine war and the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel underscoring the urgent need for renewed U.S. oil and gas development, now would be… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Woke Duke Energy Jacks Up Electric Rates to Pay for ESG, Zero Carbon Mandates
Duke Energy has thrown consumers under the proverbial (electric) bus to make their operations carbon neutral by 2050. As a result, electricity prices in North… Read More
Commentary
Post-Postmodern America, Meet Mao’s Cultural Revolution
When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous. Take the following examples of woke craziness and… Read More
EnergyCommentary
UK’s Onshore Wind Scheme Could Backfire, With Far More Potent Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Shortly after naming Claire Coutinho as secretary of state for energy security and net zero on Aug. 31, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Biden’s Incoherent Energy Policy Continues
President Joe Biden says he wants a carbon-free future for the United States and acknowledges that to realize that future, nuclear energy is essential. Judging… Read More
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California Transportation Policy Is Not for the Free
MIDLAND, Texas—Here in Texas oil country, your Uber is more likely to be a pickup than a Prius. Daniel, who works in the oil pipeline… Read More
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Hot Weather Does Not Mean Climate Change
As Ambassador Rahm Emanuel once said as chief of staff to President Barack Obama, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Hillary… Read More
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Germany’s Irrationality Against Fossil Fuels Has Made It More Dependent on Them
Governments around the West are currently scrambling toward adopting more and more renewable, environmentally healthy energy sources—with the notable and regrettable exception of nuclear energy—and… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Biden Blows Smoke on Prospects of Wind, Solar Replacing Fossil Fuels
Except for a modest number who go by ferry, almost everybody who travels between Marin County, California, and San Francisco does so by crossing the… Read More
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Michigan’s Proposed ‘Green Energy’ Policy Threatens to Slam the Door on Manufacturing Renaissance
Michigan is on the rise once again. When we think manufacturing, we think Michigan. As one of America’s leading manufacturing states, it stands in the… Read More
Commentary
Biden’s Latest Dim-Bulb Idea: Military Electric Vehicles
America’s commander in chief just laid another egg. President Joe Biden wants all Pentagon vehicles to be electric by 2030—in just six years and seven… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Here’s the Problem With Biden’s Wanting to Ban Cars That Don’t Run on Batteries
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has announced an aggressive new auto tailpipe emissions rule that would ban most new cars and trucks that don’t… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Emissions-Free Electric Vehicles Are a Fantasy
Come 2032, if President Joe Biden has his way, most Americans who want new cars may have to buy electric vehicles. While the administration insists… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Left’s Lightbulb Ban: Welcome to the Age of Unlightenment
According to an essay by historian Matthew White, the Enlightenment was the great “Age of Reason” where exploration, individualism, tolerance, and scientific endeavors helped create… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Germans Are Getting Mugged by Reality of Green Energy
When one of us (Mackenzie Fries) visited Germany last month, she saw firsthand the cost of the nation’s environmental policies, and it was staggering. Germans… Read More
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A Promising Sign for Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom
Is the Nuclear Renaissance real this time around? Of course, that question is impossible to answer, but reports from the United Kingdom at least show… Read More
Shaheen–Portman’s Forced Energy Efficiency Hurts
The Senate is expected to vote next week on the Energy Savings and Industrial and Competitiveness Act, sponsored by Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Rob Portman,… Read More
10 Wasteful and Unnecessary Energy Spending Programs in the Omnibus
We’ve written several times that the Omnibus legislation includes Department of Energy spending that needlessly squanders money away on activities that should occur in the… Read More
All the Energy Technologies You’ll Be Propping Up in 2014
Heritage experts worked through the night to comb through the massive spending bill Congress just released. One of the big disappointments they found is a… Read More
License to Kill: Unintended Consequences of Picking Winners in Energy
The Department of Interior (DOI) on Monday published a final rule extending the time period energy companies can be permitted to kill, injure, or otherwise… Read More
Wasteful Spending Programs at the Department of Energy
With the next budget battle looming, there will be attempts to undo sequestration, and proponents of a bloated budget will argue that very little if… Read More
Generating German Energy Poverty
What began as a daring endeavor to bring Germans more renewable energy and wean the country off nuclear energy by 2022 has turned German energy… Read More
Carbon Regulation: Time for America to Learn from Australia’s Mistake
Australia’s new Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who won a landslide victory earlier this month, vowed to promptly scrap the nation’s tax on carbon emissions. He… Read More
Energy: As Mexico Finally Enters the 21st Century, Obama Parties Like It’s 1938
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto recently announced the first, very timid steps to take Mexico’s energy sector—famously nationalized in 1938 by then-President Lázaro Cárdenas—forward into… Read More
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Keystone XL Jobs vs. Subsidized Green Jobs
President Obama criticized the job estimate numbers from the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in an interview with The New York Times over the… Read More
