Learning from the energy lessons of history
A more likely candidate for the greatest risk to our prosperity, freedom and security is neither terrorism nor warming temperatures.
A more likely candidate for the greatest risk to our prosperity, freedom and security is neither terrorism nor warming temperatures.
Temperatures have not warmed as predicted by the models over the last 18 years. And extreme weather events have not been more frequent or more intense than in the 20th century.
The newly adopted standard, which has been pending since 2011 when the White House yanked back the rule at a cost of $90 billion annually, joins at least 20 other EPA rules of unprecedented scope, stringency and cost promulgated under the Obama administration.
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, beneficial, and natural gas lacking any characteristics of a pollutant.
The agency apparently has concluded that building new natural gas plants will delay achieving the ultimate goal of decarbonization, an objective casually asserted by President Obama.
There is no wiggle room for give and take on the EPA’s seizure of the electric power sector.
For the first time in 50 years, world oil markets are beginning to hover around the U.S. rather than OPEC.
Such prosperity also led to dramatic environmental improvements. Sustained economic growth enabled huge investment in technologies that have dramatically reduced pollution.
As the twentieth century so tragically demonstrates, 'common plans' inevitably enforced through totalitarian polity lead to environmental squalor, poverty, and denial of inherent worth of the individual.
Our president repeatedly asserts that climate change – which now apparently means little more than bad weather - is the greatest and more immediate threat to humanity.
Average electricity prices for companies spiked across the EU — 54% in Germany, for instance, over the five years 2009-2013 because of costs passed along as part of government renewable energy mandates.
Recently, the Texas legislature devoted two days of hearings to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed last June. This rule aims to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide from existing power plants by 30 percent. Although opinions widely vary in the testimony, one thing was clear: the EPA’s plan assigns to Texas a regulatory...