A Shocking Sight in Tucson
Something was seen in the city that is common in other cities but rare in Tucson. My wife and I saw a shocking sight on a recent trip to the Barnes and Noble bookstore on East Broadway Blvd. in the City of Tucson. The bookstore’s parking lot was crumbling, unkempt, and devoid of any landscaping. […]
Desperate Governors Beg For Offshore Wind Cost Relief
Six Atlantic shore Governors are begging the Feds to bail them out of a huge looming offshore wind cost overrun. They sent Biden a joint letter asking for a list of relief measures ranging from tax breaks to revenue sharing. The outcome is far from clear but my guess is the largess is unlikely to […]
Fossil Fuels Aren’t a Bad Habit We Can Just Kick. They’re a Critical Part of the Economy
Editors Note: Portions of an excellent documentary series on energy created by Erik Townsend called Energy Transition Crisis have been presented in The Prickly Pear video section. You should take the time to view the series. Townsend, an accomplished energy futures trader and the producer of the excellent podcast Macrovoices believes that mankind is causing climate […]
Will the UAW Strike Perpetuate the Death Spiral Already Mandated for the Automobile Industry?
Increased labor costs are potentially insurmountable and uncontrollable challenges facing the automobile industry for the government mandates in wealthy countries for lower emission EVs. The UAW strike that began September 14th by 146,000 UAW union members seeking a 46 percent pay raise, a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay, and restoration of traditional pensions will […]
The Dangerous Delusion Of A Global Transition To “just electricity”
World leaders continue experiencing a “dangerous delusion” of a global transition to “just electricity” that they believe will eliminate the use of the crude oil that made society achieve so much in a few centuries. Crude oil is the basis of our materialistic society, as discussed in an educational and entertaining 27-minute podcast interview between […]
Israel Must Eradicate Hamas And Accept Nothing Less Than Unconditional Surrender
Israel can look to Gen. Eisenhower’s Proclamation No. 1, issued when Allied forces entered Germany in 1945, as a guide in the coming war. The Western world awoke Saturday morning to war in Israel, images of Hamas terrorists slaughtering Israeli civilians in the streets, and Hamas rockets raining down on Israeli neighborhoods. Israeli families were […]
Zero Net EV Economic Or Climate Benefits And Government Admits It
Buried deeply in the bowels of a 56,342-page Federal Register Volume 88 — along with an environmental assessment accompanying the Department of Transportation’s newly proposed fuel standards — are some candid admissions that electric vehicle- (EV) promoting bureaucrats and subsidy beneficiaries aren’t anxious for any of us to know about. One is that “Net [social-economic] benefits for passenger cars […]
No, The Conflicts In Israel And Ukraine Are Not ‘One War
Neocons are twisting themselves into rhetorical pretzels to make the case for one big war — with the U.S. right in the middle of it. A memo must have gone out this week to all unreconstructed neocons directing them to propagate the idea that the conflicts in Israel and Ukraine are “one war,” and that […]
Investors Abandoning “green” Energy As They Realize It’s Never Going To Be Cheap
Kathryn Porter in The Telegraph, has compiled quite the list of failures as offshore wind projects get frozen around the world. Decisions are being delayed, contracts abandoned, auctions left without bidders and almost no new projects started. The awful truth of inflation, the maintenance cost shocks, and cable failures is all too much. Then there was the problem of needing 100 years of […]
The Federal Government Paid Media Outlets to Promote the Covid Vaccine
After releasing my three-part series earlier this year showing how multiple media outlets refused to platform dissent on the Covid vaccine, I was asked on multiple podcasts why this was the case. Ideological groupthink, fear of exacerbating institutional distrust, and financial motives were on my list of potential explanations, but I did not have concrete evidence. […]