Biden Has ‘No Energy Plan Past November’ – ‘A senior energy policy insider speaks out’
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/biden-has-no-energy-plan-past-november?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By Michael Shellenberger The global energy crisis is worsening. The world’s largest chemical company, BASF in Germany, just announced it would further cut ammonia production due to high and rising natural gas prices, which could result in shortages of the ingredient used in many items including fertilizers, plastics, and carbonated beverages. Energy bills are expected to […]
Europe at risk of civil unrest unless it returns to fossil fuels, EU warns
https://mailchi.mp/8c61d2f1ed12/europe-at-risk-of-civil-unrest-unless-it-returns-to-fossil-fuels-eu-warns-189899 Europe at risk of civil unrest unless it returns to fossil fuels, EU warns 1) Europe at risk of civil unrest unless it returns to fossil fuels, EU warns The Guardian 8 July 2022 2) Rising social unrest over energy costs & food shortages threatens global stability David Blackmon, Forbes, 11 July 2022 3) […]
Austria to reopen closed coal-fired power station, despite climate goals
Austria chooses electricity over blackouts. The climate agenda is dead. https://t.co/mUVH968pHh — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 10, 2022 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/06/28/austria-to-reopen-closed-coal-fired-power-station-despite-climate-goals By Gregoire Lory Austria is preparing to reopen a coal-fired power station that closed in 2020, over fears of Russian gas supplies being cut due to the war in Ukraine. The EU imposed […]
Graph: Fossil Fuels Still Power The World
https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/hotlines/fossil-fuels-still-power-the-world/ Yes, we’ve said it umpteen times, but here is a graphic that hammers the point home. Green energy is a fool’s errand. We need an all of the above energy policy – including coal.
Dumb As It Gets: Germany Heads Into Winter Refusing To Let Badly Needed Power Plants Operate
https://notrickszone.com/2022/07/05/dumb-as-it-gets-germany-heads-into-winter-refusing-to-let-badly-needed-power-plants-operate/ By P Gosselin Into winter chaos without extending power plant operation By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated by P. Gosselin, one hyperlink added) There is another taboo law that the German federal government does not want to touch: the nuclear phase-out law. Most people in Germany have seen through the inane statements of […]
Britain faces ‘cataclysmic’ energy crisis this winter
https://mailchi.mp/81486b667875/britain-faces-cataclysmic-energy-crisis-this-winter-189827?e=0b1369f9f8 View this email in your browser Britain faces ‘cataclysmic’ energy crisis this winter Ultimately, there is a risk that climate policies will do to Europe what Marxism did to Latin America. A continent with all the conditions for widespread prosperity and a healthy environment will impoverish and ruin itself for ideological reasons. — Ralph […]
Rolling Blackouts, Once a Third World Problem, Loom for America as Summer Heats Up
https://www.nysun.com/article/rolling-blackouts-once-a-third-world-problem-loom-for-america-as-summer-heats-up By DEAN KARAYANIS “Extreme temperatures” could cause America’s “power grid to buckle,” the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warns, and if it does, President Biden won’t be able to shift the blame from where it belongs: environmental extremists who have cut energy production to the bone. NERC writes that millions of Americans are at […]
Al Gore tells NYT: ‘Fossil fuels pose a significant & ongoing threat to democracy’ – Warns of ‘a sense of climate despair’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/podcasts/epa-climate-al-gore.html?smid=tw-share By Lauren Jackson July 1, 2022 This week, in one of the most important environmental rulings ever, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for America to meet its climate goals. Yesterday’s decision limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants — which, as we covered on The Daily, is […]
‘Massive consequences’: Regulator urges Germans to prepare for possible gas shortage – ‘Hot water could only be made available at certain times of the day’
https://twitter.com/FrankWi74044551/status/1543676966670180352 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/02/regulator-urges-germans-to-prepare-for-possible-gas-shortage.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar Regulator urges Germans to prepare for possible gas shortage Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases. Federal Network Agency President Klaus Mueller urged house and apartment owners […]
Can OPEC Save the USA?! Biden says he will ‘not ask Saudi Arabia individually to increase its oil production…but would instead encourage all Gulf States to increase oil output’
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-gulf-alliance-oil-production-144116008.html President Biden said Thursday he would not ask Saudi Arabia individually to increase its oil production on his forthcoming visit to the Kingdom, but would instead encourage all Gulf States to increase oil output. Speaking during a press conference at the NATO Summit on Thursday, the president said, “I’m not going to ask them” […]