Commentary Many Western countries are enacting policies to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to less reliable and costly “green” energy sources (mostly wind and solar) while ignoring the critical benefits that hydrocarbons provide. The outcomes will be nothing short of calamitous for more developed countries as their energy industries…
Critical Facts Ignored in the Climate Change Debate
November 4, 2022
admin
climate alarmismclimate changeenergy crisisenergy transitionfossil fuelsglobal warmingGreen Revolutionnet-zero emissionsOpinionViewpoints
0 Comment
Inflation by Design
November 2, 2022
admin
capitalismclimate changeenergy transitionfossil fuelsfree marketinflationOpinionrecessionU.S. economyViewpoints
0 Comment
Commentary Years ago, one of my high school teachers showed us the great essay by Leonard Read called “I, Pencil.” We used pencils in those pre-internet days, and my “young mind full of mush” (hat tip to Rush Limbaugh) was inspired by the essay’s message: the common pencil, in its components, is extraordinarily complex and the…
‘Zero Emissions’ From Electric Vehicles? Here’s Why That Claim Has Zero Basis
October 28, 2022
admin
climate changeCO2 emissionsElectric Vehiclesenergy transitionEVsfossil fuelsgreenhouse gas emissionsPolicies & ImpactsRenewable EnergyrenewablesSocial IssuesTechUSUS Newszero emissions
0 Comment
As California, New York, and other states move to phase out the sale of gasoline-powered cars, public officials routinely echo the Biden administration’s claim that electric vehicles are a “zero emissions” solution that can significantly mitigate the effects of climate change. Car and energy experts, however, say there is no such thing as a zero-emissions vehicle: For now and the foreseeable future, the…
Joe Toomey’s Searing Indictment of President Biden’s Energy Policies
October 28, 2022
admin
climate changeenergy crisisEnergy policyenergy securityenergy transitionEPAESGgreenhouse gas emissionsOpinionViewpoints
0 Comment
Commentary With the midterm elections just two weeks away, it seems almost too easy to pick on President Joe Biden. His approval ratings are bad (about 38 percent of those polled approve of his job performance) and candidates from his own party are staying away from him. As ABC News reported recently, “Democrats in make-or-break…
Learning All the Wrong Lessons From America’s Energy Crisis
October 26, 2022
admin
climate changeCO2 emissionsenergy crisisenergy transitionEPAESGfossil fuelsglobal warmingOpinionViewpoints
0 Comment
Commentary Self-inflicted wounds create teachable moments, but the architects of America’s current energy crisis are learning all the wrong lessons. Skyrocketing energy costs are one of America’s harsh post-COVID realities. And with one in four American households struggling to pay for their energy needs before COVID, policymakers should have set their sights on making energy more affordable…
‘Disingenuous’: Biden Says He Hasn’t Stopped Oil Production. Here’s the Reality
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he has not stopped or stalled oil production; despite this, the Biden administration has implemented policies that are derailing domestic fossil fuel output. Biden asserted that he wanted to “debunk some myths” about his energy policies and claimed that his administration has done the “opposite” of discouraging oil production…
Renewables Subsidies and the Institutionalization of Irresponsibility
October 7, 2022
admin
climate changeenergy transitionfossil fuelsOpinionrenewables subsidiesU.S. Virgin IslandsViewpointsWAPAWater and Power Authority
0 Comment
Commentary The joy of spending huge amounts of tax dollars—Other People’s Money—is a truth obvious and eternal, but the corrupting effects of a systemwide shift toward such subventions are more subtle, and vastly more destructive. That is a central implication of the massive policy favoritism now directed toward unconventional electricity—hugely expensive, unreliable, and environmentally destructive—yielding such utterly perverse…
Huge Investment Needed for Smooth Transition to Net-Zero: Energy Regulators
Significant investment and coordinated policy reform with a persistent focus on cost management is needed for Australia’s National Energy Market (NEM) to smoothly transition to net-zero. The Energy Security Board (ESB) released its annual Health of the NEM report after a tumultuous year, with surging wholesale energy prices and a temporary suspension of the entire…
Denying Access to Energy: The New Normal?
September 16, 2022
admin
climate changeenergy accessenergy costsenergy transitionfossil fuelsOpinionRenewable EnergyViewpoints
0 Comment
Commentary Whether it’s a hot Colorado summer or a cold United Kingdom winter, the misery of “green” policies becomes an everyday reality as hapless consumers are denied access to energy. When state lawmakers and energy providers choose to increase “renewable” technologies in their energy mix, the inevitable results are grid instability, power shortages, higher prices, and a whole lot of…
Energy Transition a ‘Dangerous Delusion’: Report
September 8, 2022
admin
ChinaClimate Policieseconomyenergy transitionEnvironmentfossil fuelsPolicies & ImpactsPoliticsScienceSOLARSpecial TopicsTech CompetitiontechnologyUSUS NewsUS-China relationswind
0 Comment
An Aug. 30 report argues that the idea of totally transitioning from fossil fuels is a “dangerous delusion.” “The lessons of the recent decade make it clear that [solar, wind, and battery] SWB technologies cannot be surged in times of need, are neither inherently ‘clean’ nor even independent of hydrocarbons, and are not cheap,” it…
US News
RSS Error: A feed could not be found at `https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-us/feed`; the status code is `200` and content-type is `text/html; charset=utf-8`