Joe Manchin, Democrat Senator from West Virginia, blasted President Biden over Biden’s speech attacking coal, the bedrock of WV’s economy. As Charles Lipson writes in the Spectator, Sen. Manchin was furious over Biden’s promise to shut down all of America’s coal-fired power plants. Joe Manchin didn’t just criticize Biden. “He blasted him full-bore, and threw the lifeless […]
Will This Be the Winter of Our Discontent?
Sounding the Alarms Are you alarmed that, as a New Englander, you may not have enough fuel to stay warm or to avoid blackouts this winter? Well, you are not alone. The CEO of Eversource, an energy company offering retail electricity and natural gas and water services, also is sounding the alarm. Joseph R. Noland, […]
Impossible to Use Only Green Energy to Power the World?
Have you ever considered what the toll of trying to produce electric batteries to power green cars might be? How about what it will take to manufacture the components of the future green energy utopia that Joe Biden and his fellow Progressives are promising? If you don’t know, don’t worry because the Manhattan Contrarian does […]
The Intentional Dismantling America’s Energy Security
America’s energy security is being dismantled by what Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian, calls a “seemingly endless litany of one intentionally destructive policy after another.” Menton relies on the work of energy consultant Joseph Toomey, author of the book An Unworthy Future, in making the case that Joe Biden is at the center of blame […]
Who’s to Blame for California’s Rising Energy Prices?
Hint: it’s not Moscow. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering calling a special session of the state legislature to address the state’s highest-in-the-nation gasoline prices, including a possible new tax on oil industry profits, reports The WSJ’s Christine Mai-Duc and Benoît Morenne. From Gov. Newsom: “Greed and manipulation, that’s all this is,” “All this” is […]
Driving Off the Cliff with Green Energy
One Smartphone takes as much energy to produce as one refrigerator. In the WSJ James Freeman introduces readers to Mark Mills. Mr. Mills (Manhattan Institute) asks readers to consider: “Years of hypertrophied rhetoric and trillions of dollars of spending and subsidies on a transition have not significantly changed the energy landscape.” Civilization still depends on […]
“Billgate” and the Marketing of “Green” Socialism
Charge 3X as Much as Normal From President Joe Biden: And I’m about to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law, one of the most significant laws in our history. Let me say from the start: With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost. The American people won and the special […]
Auto Industry Lobbyists Want Americans to Subsidize Chinese Battery Production
Lobbyists for the auto industry are scrambling to justify to Senators and Congressmen why American taxpayer dollars should be used to subsidize the production of lithium, nickel, and cobalt in China. If that seems odd to you, you’re not alone. What on earth are they thinking? In their disastrous “inflation reduction” bill, Democrats actually managed […]
Demand a Declaration of a Climate Emergency?
Help for Self-Respecting Climate Alarmists With the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA on June 30, the bureaucracies in the “climate” space, along with all the environmental activists, have been thrown into a tizzy, writes Francis Menton. The Supreme Court just declared that the bureaucracies have no power to fundamentally transform the use […]
Catastrophic Consequences to Climate Extremely Remote
Many climate alarmists today insist that government “does something.” As Francis Menton asks, like what? Ron Brownstein tries to provide answers in The Atlantic magazine. What makes this piece funny, according to Francis Menton, is that Mr. Brownstein seems to have completely lost track of, or failed to follow, what has happened and continues to […]