To Save the Planet, Stop Exhaling Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. writes of the late Dwayne Andreas, longtime CEO of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Mr. Anreas told the WSJ’s opinion columnist, “It’s like we were an idiot country.” (Andreas) raised a question of enduring interest. Why does government persist in demonstrably failed and foolish efforts? It took billions of dollars […]
Reality Check: Unintended Consequences of Green Energy
Originally posted January 30, 2024. Axing Trees to Build Solar Farms If wind and solar projects make profound sense, why then would they need government subsidies and mandates? Even beyond the costs of inefficient power production, James Freeman notes, “There’s a question of whether alternative-energy cheerleaders yet have a handle on the environmental impact of […]
Biden Crumbles to Environmentalists on LNG Exports
Joe Biden has paused the licensing for any new LNG export terminals to appease the radical environmentalists that run his party. At the Cato Institute, Travis Fisher explains why this was such a bad idea. He writes: Economics aside, what business does the federal government have in dictating the direction of an industry that delivers […]
The Biden Cabal Wants to Stop the Use of Clean, Safe, Domestic Natural Gas
Joe Biden and the radical progressives he has planted in the White House want to end the use of clean, safe, domestic natural gas and move to less reliable, often Chinese-produced “green energy” production. This would be a massive mistake. At Forbes, Robert Rapier outlines America’s natural gas dominance, writing: The U.S. dominated global natural […]
Antiquated Regulation Kills Green Dreams
There is some irony in the idea that a big-government regulation, the Jones Act, has factored into the ongoing death throes of America’s offshore wind power efforts. Read more on the sad state of America’s offshore wind follies here: How’s That Offshore Project Going, Man Blowin’ in the Wind Energy Utopia? Windmills with a Side […]
A High-Speed Collision with Reality
A Government Road Trip: Even Less Fun Than It Sounds. James Freeman in the WSJ explains Americans’ increasing distress over public charging stations. Becoming worse are EVs’ glitchy, inoperable equipment at the stations. The WSJ’s Jennifer Hiller reports: … the U.S. government plans to launch a $100 million effort to try to tackle the reliability […]
Mad Cow Disease Threatens Ireland
Cow Farts Blamed for Killing the Planet How to get to the Holy Grail (Zero Admissions) of the eco-movement? First, tank the economy. Next, leave about 50,000+ involved in Ireland’s agrarian economy without jobs. In Spectator, Ian O’Doherty, explains the latest scheme to guarantee a fiscal, environmental, and political boondoggle. Ireland, a country with low-lying […]
A Green Energy Riddle – Arriving Briskly or Stalling Out?
Central Planning Needs Help In mid-August, the headline of an NYT article assured readers: “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think.” The sub-head enthusiasm continues: “The United States is pivoting away from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar and other renewable energy, even in areas dominated by the oil and gas industries.” […]
A Government Power Grab
Let No Emergency Go to Waste President Joe Biden boasted to the Weather Channel earlier this month that he has “in practice” already declared a national climate emergency. Pray this massive government power grab ain’t so. It would be scientifically fraudulent and invite draconian government control measures. Suppression of constitutional rights and other civil liberties violations […]
The World Ablaze
Originally posted August 1, 2023. Read almost any headline this summer, and it would be easy for you to think the world is in a cataclysmic burn. Despite what you are told, it is not, writes Bjorn Lomborg in the WSJ. The percentage of the globe that burns each year is on the decline. Has […]
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