JD Vance claims Biden’s focus on green energy hurts the ‘industrial heartland’ states central to November
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) criticized the Biden administration’s focus on green energy, arguing that this attention is coming at the cost of the United States’s “industrial heartland.” The administration announced last week that it would place tariffs on $18 billion of imports from China in an effort to protect American workers and businesses. Vance, who […]
Navajo Nation Leader Says Biden, AOC Energy Policies Cripple Tribe’s Economy
Members of the Navajo Nation in the southwestern U.S. say the federal government is leaving their people behind with its energy policies, crippling their economy and leaving more people in poverty. Republicans on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are attempting to overturn such Biden administration policies, including the Department of Interior’s land withdrawal […]
Green Energy Transition Helped Create Higher Inflation Environment
On Friday’s Bloomberg “Surveillance” broadcast, Dr. Mohamed El-Erian, Bloomberg columnist, economist, president of Queen’s University, Allianz chief economic advisor, and former chairman of the Obama World Development Council, said that the transition to “sustainable energy” He said the project had contributed to the creation of “sustainable energy.” A world exposed to higher inflation than the […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Legacy Media Outlets Pounce on DeSantis For Protecting American Energy
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the series The energy bill was signed into law on Wednesday, causing an uproar from climate change activists and traditional media. Taken together, the new laws give less attention to climate change and prioritize energy affordability and reliability. This goal has been the main focus of power companies and grid […]
What do Biden’s tariffs mean for the energy transition?
“What Biden has done is emphasize that he prefers protectionism over decarbonizing the economy,” Robert Lawrence, director of the Trade Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, told The Hill. . Among the new initiatives announced this week: china battery export It will probably be one of the most destructive single tariffs of the new tranche. […]
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
A new profile at InfluenceWatch for the Opposition to Nuclear Energy movement lists eleven anti-nuclear nonprofits that each individually have annual revenue in excess of $50 million. As shown in a previous essay, there are hundreds of left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy, including nearly all of the nation’s largest climate/carbon alarmist groups. Their combined […]
Alaska lawmakers end their session with late bills passing on energy, education
Alaska lawmakers ended a four-month session early Thursday with a flurry of last-minute bills addressing priority issues such as energy and distance learning programs that are the focus of ongoing litigation. The spat over the budget has been quieter than in previous years, with Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and legislative leaders having twice failed in […]
The Cavernous Hole In American Energy Policy
In an abundant year for American energy policy ideas that are the equivalent of shooting the economy in the foot, one stands out for its simplicity: the giant, empty caverns known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). When gasoline prices surged in 2021, the Biden Administration first started tapping the SPR. It was just 11 […]
How it started… How it’s going: Home, energy, car bills way up thanks to inflation
“The Big Money Show” co-host Brian Bremberg looks at cost changes since January 2021 and the April CPI release. The cost of housing, energy, autos, and child care have all increased since President Biden took office, and inflation remains high with no end in sight. The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed that inflation […]
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 […]