we have deep and abiding question marks surrounding how much harm we can credibly attribute to each ton of greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy
Solar Microgrid Failure in India
“In the first three years, it worked well and people were using it. But after three years the batteries were exhausted and it was never repaired.”
Electricity Shortages: Brace for Impact
The consequences of massively building wind turbines and solar panels, while forcing the closure of fully-operational power plants burning coal, oil and natural gas is dire.
An Energy Policy Wake-Up Call
Under the Trump administration, the United States became energy independent—a goal that U.S. governments wanted to reach for decades. The Biden administration’s anti-oil and gas policies are undoing these gains.
Fact Checking Jen Psaki on U.S. Energy Production
Press Secretary Jen Psaki did as good a job as she could do to spin the Biden administration’s anti-energy agenda.
Prices of Commodities That Russia Produces Expected to Rise
Biden’s anti-oil and gas policies are causing energy prices to soar, harming consumers and aiding Putin to take advantage of Ukraine.
Biden’s Anti-Energy Policies and Increasing Natural Gas Prices
Natural gas prices have escalated because of President Biden’s anti-oil and gas policies that are limiting pipeline infrastructure and increased production on federal lands, while the promise of pending regulatory actions add uncertainty to investments.
Despite Russia’s Attack on the Ukraine, Biden Will Hold Back U.S. Energy Production
Due to Biden’s anti-oil actions, the United States is no longer energy independent and Russia is now vying with Mexico as the number 2 supplier of oil imports to the United States.
Democrats’ Gas Tax Holiday Proposal Contradicts Biden’s Energy Policies
The hypocrisy of that move is almost laughable given that it is President Biden’s energy policies that are causing the high gasoline prices
Net-Zero Emission Targets?
There is an alternative strategy for businesses to deal with climate change: one that is based on facts and human wellbeing (as opposed to no human impact on the planet) as the standard.
Biden Energy Plans, House Reconciliation Bill Have a Reality Problem
The United States, like Europe, is in the process of unilaterally disarming itself in terms of its energy and economic security.
As Nuclear Plants Close, Biden’s Net-Zero Electric Sector Becomes More Difficult
Going carbon-free will be difficult without the U.S.’s largest source of carbon-free electricity: nuclear energy.
Biden’s “Clean Energy” Means Higher Electricity Bills for Consumers
Germany’s similar experiment with an energy transition has been going on much longer than the time period under President Biden’s proposal, and that has led to skyrocketing electricity prices for residential users equal to three times what Americans pay.
Regulation and Legislation Are Set to Increase Energy Costs
This new proposed natural gas tax is a punitive tax designed to artificially raise the price of natural gas.
On The Unjust Punishment By The U.S. Government of the Incredibly Life-Giving Oil and Gas Industry
Alex Epstein’s testimony for a hearing by the House Natural Resources Committee on May 19, 2021.
Go Nuclear
It’s particularly absurd that Earth Day’s activists rarely mention the form of energy that could most quickly reduce greenhouse gases: nuclear power.
Inside the Church of Climate
Philosophy, not only economics and political economy, matters in the global warming/climate change debate. Start by checking your premises—and those of your intellectual opponents.
Net-Zero Carbon Plans Against Fossil Fuels Ignore Reality
The Canadian government’s net-zero 2050 plan has been aptly criticized for not being feasible because it ignores reality: the lack of necessary technology and the increasing demand for affordable and reliable energy in developing countries around the world.
Thank You Fossil Fuels
Without fossil fuels, much of the world would freeze in the dark. We just don’t yet have enough alternatives.
To Dream The Fossil Fuel Free Dream
Pandemic or not, the dream of abandoning fossil fuels is just a dream—a suicidal one
Climate Alarmism, Fossil Fuels and Apocalyptic End of the World Scenarios
With climate alarmism and “extinction” protests now in the mainstream, it is no wonder that most people consider the alleged man-made catastrophic climate change an established fact, and advocate curtailing carbon “pollution” or even banning fossil fuels altogether.
California’s Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Electricity Woes: Political Failure, Not Market Failure
Californians are right to feel dismay in this situation. Basic services like electricity should be the norm, despite dry weather and upticks in wind speed. Their ire would be best directed not at PG&E, but at the regulated monopoly model that Californians themselves have maintained through their state government.
Free the Power Grid From Government Created Electric Monopolies
Competition and the profit motive will encourage competing utilities to criss-cross the country with a more robust transmission grid, providing safer and cheaper electricity to all.
The New Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
For the last five years, Alex Epstein's 2014 New York Times bestseller, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, has been one of the most important books in the world of energy policy, influencing leading politicians, executives,...