As the title explains America is swimming in natural gas, but if you live in the northeast politics and lack of infrastructure starve the region of this precious source of energy. Stephanie Yang and Ryan Dezember report for The Wall Street Journal: Earlier this year, two utilities that service the New York City area stopped […]
American Fracking Debilitating to Russia
What is most important to Russia? Advancing Russia’s interests in the world through high prices for oil and gas. Thanks to the American fracking revolution, oil and gas prices have collapsed, which have contributed to the dramatic weakening of Russia, Francis Menton argues. … even the modest adventure in Syria has strained Russian military resources […]
Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport Day 4
Newport, RI has no natural gas, and the inside of homes here are hovering in the low to mid 40s. This has been National Grid’s second largest gas outage since Hurricane Sandy. And what’s odd is that it was supposedly created by a spike in demand and a faulty valve. If you’re in the heating […]
The Energy Chutzpah of the U.S.
In Katowice, Poland, last week and this, there was a gathering of 22,000 bureaucrats and functionaries. (You know, the one French President Macron hastily abandoned to deal with Yellow Vest rioting in Paris.) Their mission? To sound the alarm on the evil of fossil fuels and the need to transition to clean energy. The lead […]
Giving Thanks for Fossil Fuels (A.K.A. Fire)
This Thanksgiving season, the Manhattan Contrarian gives thanks for a number of blessings in his life, including one of life’s greatest joys, a new grandchild. Another particular blessing that “makes an enormous contribution to my well-being, productiveness, and enjoyment of life – and to everyone else’s well-being, productiveness, and enjoyment of life,” Francis Menton notes, […]
Alternative Energy Truth—Inefficient
With much of Florida in energy crisis mode after Hurricane Irma and frustrated Floridians struggling to find gas for cars and generators, Mark P. Mills’ article is particularly timely on the performance gap between energy from wind and energy from liquid hydrocarbons. “Even if engineers were able to double or quadruple battery efficacy, that still […]
Trump Lets the Energy Market Pick the Winners
Good news on the energy front. Donald Trump has signed an executive order which will reduce the government’s hand in determining the proper energy mix. One area where President Trump is notching early victories is unleashing American energy, which for years has been held hostage to progressive climate obsessions. On Tuesday Mr. Trump signed an […]
Saving the Environment … from Standing Rock Protesters
What are the Standing Rock Protesters about? Why saving the environment, of course. But there is a snafu from Mother Nature. The Missouri River is about to flood close to the protesters’ camp area and is forcing thousands of protesters to leave early. In the now abandoned makeshift village on the North Dakota prairie, semi […]
Obama/Clinton’s Energy Hypocrisy
The media has done its best to ignore a speech on energy recently given by Donald Trump. Mr. Trump campaign pledge: “From an environmental standpoint, my priorities are very simple: clean air and clean water.” (Not climate change!) Holman Jenkins in the WSJ writes about Donald Trump’s “sensible energy plan.” Mr. Trump, in his set-piece […]
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