Category: fossil fuels

We Are Entering an Energy Crisis of Our Own Making

Commentary The great green transition from fossil fuels is collapsing as the world enters an energy crisis of its own making. India and China are scouring the world for coal stocks to burn, while Germany is offering its citizens tutorials on how to cook without electricity in anticipation of power failures. Prices for natural gas, crude…


Smokestack Fighting: Carbon Capture Promises to Slash Emissions, and Greens Hate It

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have designed a pioneering project to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the existing Mustang natural gas power plant in West Texas. If built, the project could help kickstart an industry to clean up America’s energy sector after a decade of false starts. The protest against carbon capture…


Laguna Beach to Provide Its Own Utility Services

Laguna Beach, Calif., moved toward joining a community choice energy program (CCE) July 13, with the goal of gradually replacing traditional power sources with green energy. CCEs are locally-controlled energy providers that would take the place of existing energy providers, such as Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric. The CCE would still use existing infrastructure for the transmission and distribution of energy to…


California, World’s Fifth-Largest Economy, Scrambles to Find Reliable Energy

California is looking for help keeping its lights on this summer as it seeks to procure additional energy resources in preparation for coming heat waves. “We are concerned about the level of imports available,” California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) vice president Mark Rothleder said during a recent press briefing. “During these high temperature conditions, we are experiencing…


Criminal Collusion on Wall Street Through ESG Investing?

Commentary Is a criminal conspiracy going on in plain sight? Major banks and investment firms are conspiring with radical environmentalists to deny lending and investments to fossil fuel companies—jeopardizing our economy, energy future, and the rule of law. A new white paper from Ambassador C. Boyden Grey for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Life:Powered project…


Biden’s ‘Gas Tax’ Is a Pain at the Pump

Commentary One of my early memories, and not a happy one, is sitting in gas lines in the 1970s. My parents would rustle me out of bed early on frigid February mornings, and we’d pack into the Ford and speed over to the gas station. When we got there, there would often be six or…


The Truth About Sea Levels and Fossil Fuels

Commentary Environmental activists, mainstream media outlets, and many scientists routinely claim governments must take drastic action to prevent rapidly rising seas. They claim unless humans are forced to stop using fossil fuels, low-lying islands and coastal areas will soon be swamped beneath the waves. To back up their claims, they cite statements (pdf) from the Intergovernmental…


The Big Green Lie

Commentary Public discourse about climate change often degenerates into personal attacks. Those of us who point out the many holes in the allegedly “scientific basis” of global warming alarmism are denounced as “deniers.” As I wrote in my article, “Who Are the Ideologues?,” the heart of alarmism is a radical political agenda—namely, for a socialistic,…


Biden’s Green Energy Plan Declares War on American Energy

Commentary Am I the only one who finds it head-scratching that President Joe Biden, who wants to spend $2 trillion of taxpayer money on “infrastructure,” is the same president whose first act in the White House was to kill a multibillion-dollar oil and gas pipeline that would create some 15,000 jobs? The Keystone pipeline that…


Andrew Forrest Vows to Make His Iron Ore Operations Carbon Neutral by 2030

Australian iron ore mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has announced that his Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) plans to get into the green energy business and aims to become completely carbon neutral by 2030—ten years earlier than its original target. To achieve this, FMG will develop a range of green electricity, green hydrogen, and green ammonia projects in…