OPEC readies for a showdown with Trump over his plans to boost US drilling
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/12/06/2024/opec-is-gearing-up-for-a-game-of-chicken-with-trump By Tim McDonnell The OPEC+ group of major oil producing countries held off on raising production quotas until at least April, setting up a showdown with President-elect Donald Trump over his plans to boost US drilling. Thursday’s decision was the third time since June that OPEC+ has postponed a planned production increase — it […]
‘Landman’: A TV Series That Tells The Truth About Energy – Billy Bob Thornton in two-minute clip offers a stirring defense of the American energy industry
Great clip from "Landman". Wind turbines are the worst nonsense foisted on humanity. Hugely expensive, short lifespan, never recoup the carbon used to install them, intermittent, destructive to the natural world & need fossil fuels to work. A total scam pic.twitter.com/UTq771Mig7 — Return of Rome (@return_of_rome) November 26, 2024 A TV Series That Tells The […]
Watch: Morano on The First TV talks UN’s COP29 climate con & Trump 2.0 Energy’s Plan – ‘A complete ying-yang to what we just went through with Joe Biden’ on energy
President Donald Trump is reportedly planning on bringing back the Keystone XL Pipeline. “This is going to be a complete ying-yang to what we just went through with Joe Biden,” says @ClimateDepot FULL SEGMENT: https://t.co/ETWKyUC1Wu pic.twitter.com/mFqM1n9CNY — The First (@TheFirstonTV) November 22, 2024 I’m Right w/ Jesse Kelly – The First TV – Broadcast […]
The so-called ‘green movement’ increases the world’s demand for crude oil – ‘Everything that NEEDS electricity is made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, coal, or natural gas’
Ronald Stein P.E.: Our energy “leaders” are oblivious that everything that NEEDS electricity is made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, coal, or natural gas, from the light bulb to the iPhone, defibrillator, computers, telecommunications, spacecraft, and medications. Without the products made from fossil fuels there would be nothing that needs electricity.
Electricity CANNOT exist without crude oil. All the parts and components for wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, hydro, and the mining equipment used to extract the metals and minerals to build clean “electricity” are made with oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil!
Our so-called “energy leaders” do not comprehend that electricity was developed AFTER the discovery of crude oil. Without the parts and components to be able to generate electricity such as insulation, copper wiring, computers, control panels, and air conditioning, there would be no electricity from any of the six methods used to generate electricity such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar.
Pres. of Azerbaijan roasts the West for double standards as COP29 goes off the rails
https://www.intellinews.com/aliyev-roasts-the-west-for-double-standards-as-cop29-goes-off-the-rails-353533/ By Ben Aris Aliyev roasts the West for double standards as COP29 goes off the rails Azerbaijan is being slated for failing to lead the COP29 summit, which was expected to disappoint even before it started. Given the job at the last minute as Ukraine and Russia’s supporters couldn’t agree on a neutral venue, the government […]
Azerbaijani president & UN climate summit host calls oil a ‘gift of God’ in COP29 speech – ‘The people need them’ – Slams Western ‘fake news media’
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, has accused Western “fake news media” and environmental organizations of a slander campaign against his country, in his address to fellow leaders…Aliyev repeated his controversial quote that Azerbaijan’s oil and gas reserves are a “gift of the God [sic].”
“Countries should not be blamed for having them and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market because the market needs them, the people need them,” he said. Oil and gas are natural resources, just like gold, copper, wind or the sun. “To accuse us that we have oil is the same like [sic] to accuse us that we have more than 250 sunny days a year in Baku,” he said.
Analysis: ‘Why wind & solar are the energy past, not future’ – ‘Fossil fuels are the energy present, & nuclear power is likely the energy future’
Via Energy Bad Boys – By Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling: It might come as a shock to lawmakers like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but nearly all the energy used by humans until a few hundred years ago was renewable, and life was not a utopian heaven on Earth. The graph nearby shows the amount of energy used by humans from 1800 through the present. In 1800, humanity used 452 times less energy than humans in 2019, and nearly all of it came from biomass. The “Low Energy” world humans lived in was no paradise. Average life expectancies were less than 40 years. In Germany, every second child died. People’s statures were shorter because poor nutrition and illness limited human growth. Life was indeed nasty, brutish, and short, and it remained this way until humans began using coal at scale in the 1800s.
Wind as an energy source had first been used for sailboats in Mesopotamia. Until the first windmills were invented by the Persians to grind grain and pump water between 500 and 900 A.D., wind energy was primarily used for transportation. Windmills became widespread in Europe in the 17th century, and approximately 200,000 windmills operated at the peak of the technology. Of course, the disadvantages of wind we experience today were still present back then. Because wind power cannot be stored, it was used primarily to mill grain into flour, pump water into livestock tanks, and saw lumber into boards.
In fact, because wind energy was dependent on the weather and wasn’t reliable, horses were used as “backup” sources of power for milling grain during calm stretches in Europe, similar to how natural gas power plants “back up” wind turbines for generating electricity when the wind isn’t blowing on modern electricity grids. …
While each of the “renewable” energy sources above increased the human standard of living, they also had limited availability and reliability. It was the discovery and widespread use of coal that enabled humans to access vast supplies of reliable energy on demand and perform more work than ever before dreamed. This energy powered the industrial revolution.
The widespread use of oil for lighting was short-lived, however, because, in 1882, Thomas Edison built his first commercial electricity plant, ushering in the era of electricity. When it comes to energy, nothing is as powerful, versatile, safe, easy to use, or clean as electricity. …
Unlike other forms of energy, electricity is not a primary source of energy by itself. Instead, electricity is a secondary source of energy that must be generated by converting primary energy sources (such as coal, natural gas, oil, uranium, water, solar, or wind energy) into electric power.
Wind and solar don’t produce much power because they are unreliable and the exact opposite of energy-dense, requiring vast buildouts to produce only a small amount of electricity. As a result, they have an exceedingly low energy return on investment (EROI). …
In fact, if all the electricity you used for 70 years was generated at nuclear facilities, the amount of uranium used would fit inside a soda can. The high energy density of uranium is why nuclear power has the potential to someday generate electricity at a lower cost than fossil fuels and is why it is most likely the future of electricity generation. Unlike wind and solar, it produces carbon-dioxide-free electricity around the clock, so a grid powered by nuclear power won’t experience California-style blackouts.
Kamala Harris’s ‘Climate Engagement Director’ Accuses Oil & Gas Workers of Committing ‘Ecoterrorism,’ Weaponizing ‘White Supremacy’ & ‘Toxic Patriarchy’
Kamala Harris’s Far-Left ‘Climate Engagement Director’ Accuses Oil and Gas Workers of Committing ‘Ecoterrorism,’ Weaponizing ‘White Supremacy’ and ‘Toxic Patriarchy’ By Thomas Catenacci October 21, 2024 The Harris-Walz campaign’s climate engagement director has a long history of demonizing fossil fuels, going as far as to accuse oil and gas workers of committing “ecoterrorism” and advancing “individualism, […]
California oil refinery announces closure after Gov. Newsom signs more regulations
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/california-oil-refinery-announces-closure-after-newsom-signs-new-law By Danielle Wallace FOXBusiness The oil company Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it is closing its Los Angeles-area refinery by the end of 2025, pointing to concerns about the future market. The announcement comes days after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Monday that will set new regulations on the oil industry in the Golden […]
CNN: ‘Harris pledged to prosecute oil companies over emissions. Now, she’s praising their record US production’
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/harris-oil-companies-emissions-kfile/index.html By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Published 2:00 PM EDT, Tue October 15, 2024 CNN — When Kamala Harris ran for president in 2019, she repeatedly warned oil companies they should be prepared to face hefty fines and even criminal prosecution under a future Harris administration for their role in contributing to climate change. Now, as the Democratic nominee, […]