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Inflation Reduction Act will hinder EV growth
Dependance on lithium mining in America to qualify for subsidies, will further negatively impact the lithium supply chain for batteries and stagnate the mandated transition to EV’s.
Summary: The lithium supply chain for EV batteries is being challenged internationally due to the mining effects of environmental degradation to communities around the world, the health hazards to humans, and the contamination to local water supplies.
Published August 24, 2022, at CFACT
Both are doing great jobs of killing the economy. More working but unable to keep pace with inflation and shortages.
Summary: California Governor Newsom and President Biden are so focused on emission reductions, they have lost touch with the negative impact on the world’s population without fossil fuels, and the shortages and inflation inflicted upon all.
Published August 9, 2022, at CFACT
Before we rid the world of crude oil, is there a backup replacement?
We know what the decarbonized world of the 1800’s was like, so how about proving the new parachute, i.e., the replacement for crude oil, works before we jump out of the plane?
Summary: Clean energy is only clean ELECTRICITY from intermittent breezes and sunshine. Wind turbines and solar panels, i.e., renewables, CANNOT manufacture anything for society.
Published July 22, 2022 at Heartland
Oil exporting and poorer countries have lower costs for gasoline
The wealthy countries that have chosen to go “green” have the highest cost of gasoline and electricity.
Summary: The wealthy countries of Germany, UK, Australia, and the United States, that are focused on being “green”, are providing their citizens with high energy costs, along with shortages and inflation for the foreseeable future.
Published July 21, 2022, at CFACT
America’s dependency on imports may be stagnating its economy
America has chosen to meet society’s demands for products by continually increasing supplies from foreign sources, but those choices are backfiring on the American economy.
Summary: With no contingency plans or alternative sources of supply, placing greater reliance on foreign support may not be in the best interest for society.
Published July 12, 2022, at CFACT
An Introduction To The Pulitzer Prize Nominated Book “Clean” Energy Exploitations
Published July 8, 2022 in Oilman Magazine July/August
Government is the benefactor from the sale of fuel, not the oil companies!
Drivers should be aware of the reality that every time they add 16 gallons of fuel to their vehicle, they are contributing $20 per tank to government programs.
Summary: Government’s share of California gasoline is around 20 percent today, but if and when fuel gets down to $4.00 a gallon, then they collect more than 30 percent for each gallon.
Published July 6, 2022, at California Political Review
Dark Clouds on the horizon for Electric Vehicles
The lithium supply chain for electric vehicle batteries may be in question as well as insurability of cargo ships to bring EV’s to America
Summary: EV automobiles need a reliable and cost-effective supply chain of lithium for the batteries, and a method to transport them to America safely and cost effectively.
Published June 29, 2022, at CFACT
Shortages and inflation to be the new norm as refinery closures outpace new construction
Refinery closures are outpacing new construction over the next five years and will significantly reduce the supply of items manufactured at refineries to meet increasing worldwide demands and place tremendous pressures on continuous shortages and inflation.
Summary: With worldwide refinery closures outpacing new construction, shortages and inflation are likely to be the new norm that inflicts regressive expenses upon those that can least afford it, as control of the worldwide refining industry shifts to Asia and Europe.
Published June 22, 2022, at Heartland Institute
Merchant Ships and Planes needed to support the world’s eight billion
Divesting in fossil fuels will negatively impact the heavy-weight, long range infrastructures needed to maintain economies and the health of the world’s population.
Summary: Since wind turbines and solar panels can only generate electricity, where is the backup plan for something to replace oil that will be able to make the products and fuels demanded by society?
Published June 17, 2022, at CFACT
Divesting in crude oil that provides products and fuels for continuously increasing demands by consumers, guaranteeing shortages and inflation on society.
Summary: When Biden campaigned that “we are going to get rid of fossil fuels” he was guaranteeing shortages and inflations”. We’re experiencing exactly what he promised!
Published June 13, 2022, at Heartland Institute
Is it ethical to purchase an EV lithium battery powered vehicle?
With most of the exotic minerals and metals to build EV batteries being mined in developing countries, is it ethical to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in developing countries?
Summary: Environmentalists are never going to support the landscape degradation associated with lithium mines in America. Is it appropriate to support “blood minerals” being exploited from developing countries?
Published June 7, 2022 at CFACT
The Looming Energy Catastrophe
A must view 5-minute energy literacy briefing video for every driver being ripped off at the gas pumps.
Summary: When Biden campaigned that “we are going to get rid of fossil fuels” he was guaranteeing shortages and inflations”. We’re experiencing exactly what he promised!
Posted June 2, 2022 at Daily Clout
Stockholm+50 attendees need to address the impact on the world without fossil fuels.
Efforts to cease the use of crude oil could be the greatest threat to civilization’s eight billion since everything that needs electricity is made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, there will be nothing new to power without crude oil!
Summary: Ridding the world of fossil fuels will lead us back to the decarbonized world of the 1800’s without the electrical power needs of iPhones, defibrillators, or televisions, as they are all made from products manufactured from crude oil.
Published May 23, 2022, at Eurasia Review
Without fossil fuels there is no need for electricity
Since everything that needs electricity is made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, there will be nothing new to power without crude oil!
Summary: Ridding the world of fossil fuels will lead us back to the decarbonized world of the 1800’s without the electrical power needs of iPhones, defibrillators, or televisions, as they are all made from products manufactured from crude oil.
Published May 11, 2022, at Heartland Institute
China and Russia rejoice at America’s quest to go green
The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment community is divesting in crude oil that provides products and fuels for consumers that did not exist in the decarbonized world of the 1800’s and before.
Summary: Ridding the world of fossil fuels will lead us back to the decarbonized world of the 1800’s without the electrical power needs of iPhones, defibrillators, or televisions, as they are all made from products manufactured from crude oil.
Published May 6, 2022 in the May/June issue of Oilman Magazine
China and Russia rejoice at America’s quest to go green
America’s unabated movement toward electricity from breezes and sunshine have transferred the countries’ energy demands onto foreign countries.
Summary: The silence is almost deafening from China and Russia about their gratitude as America rids itself from the same fossil fuels that made America so great.
Published May 6, 2022, at CFACT
Sportfishing Boats may suffer from new California Air Resources Board ruling
CARB regulations may sink the family owned Sportfishing Industry
Summary: CARB’s proposed regulations to Tier 4 diesel technology threatens to put the family-owned businesses of sportfishing and whale watching boats out of business while global emissions are exploding in the coming years and decades ahead over the population and economic growth of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, and Africa.
Published May 2, 2022, at California Political Review
How many of the world’s 8 billion will survive without fossil fuels?
The world’s population grew from 1 to 8 billion AFTER the discovery of coal, natural gas, and crude oil.
Summary: The climate is changing, as it has been for 4 billion years, and will continue to change, and yes, there will be fatalities from the coming climate changes, but those fatalities will be small in comparison to a world without fossil fuels, that revert to its decarbonized status in the early 1800’s and before.
Published April 26 at Eurasia Review
Will California buyers be mandated to purchase the forthcoming oversupply of EV’s?
Until the current elite owners can demonstrate to the middle-income and those on fixed incomes that their EV’s are the family workhorse vehicle, the average citizen may not be receptive to be mandated by Newsom into an EV.
Summary: Newsom’s Executive Order to ban the sale of gasoline cars is imposing a mandate to all Californians, regardless of financial stability, to change their lifestyles to EV’s.
Published April 18, 2022, at California Policy Center
It’s time for transparency of the embedded costs of going “green”
Supplies to support “green” inflict environmental degradation, humanity atrocities, and increases in emissions, not transparent to the green movement.
Summary: The green electricity movement has yet to identify the replacement for crude oil that is the basis of more than 6,000 products in our daily lives that did not exist before the 1900’s, and the fuels to move the heavy-weight and long-range needs of more than 50,000 jets and more than 50,000 merchant ships, and the military and space program.
Published April 12, 2021, at CFACT
Biden’s Crude Oil Policies May Be The Cause of Shortages and Inflation
With no known replacement for crude oil, Biden and the ESG believers need to be careful about eliminating “all” 3 fossil fuels!
Summary: Biden appears to lack a basic understanding of what crude oil is used for, as he tinkers with the supply chain of crude oil that supports the lifestyles and economies that did not exist in the decarbonized 1800’s.
April 5, 2022, Commissioned article for Daily Clout
Are The Environmental Impacts and Human Atrocities Worth an EV Battery?
EV owners lack transparency to the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in developing countries that are mining for battery materials
Summary: EV buyers should be aware that they may be contributing to the pursuit of “blood minerals” to achieve their efforts to go green.
Published March 28, 2022, Commissioned Piece By The Dakota Reader
Newsom, by continually decreasing in-state oil production, has the state dependent on the maritime sector for importing foreign oil that adds, every year, more than twice the annual GHG emissions than the entire Californian transportation sector!
Summary: Utilizing excessive maritime emissions to justify reductions of in-state oil production may not be in the best interest of the world’s environment.
Published March 27, 2022 at Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
Until a solution to shipping potentially flammable EV batteries to American ports is resolved, and the current elite owners can demonstrate to the middle-income and those on fixed incomes that their EV’s are their primary family workhorse vehicles, may all be a prelude to a financial crisis brewing for the auto industry.
Summary: Liability exposure to transport EV’s via cargo ships from countries far removed from American ports, could be an economic disaster in the works.
Published March 22, 2022 at Eurasia Review
“ESG” efforts to rid the world of fossil fuels will drive humanity back to medieval times
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) divesting in fossil fuels, the “demons of the world” is leading society back to the decarbonized world of the 1800’s and before.
Summary: People never voted to give banks this sort of control over our world that will take us back into the 1800’s, before the discovery of crude oil, when we had a “decarbonized” world with no coal or natural gas power plants, and none of the thousands of products made from oil derivatives that facilitate today’s lifestyles and economies.
Published March 15, 2022 at CFACT
Biden’s “we are going to get rid of fossil fuels” is a primary cause for shortages and inflation
The world was previously decarbonized in the 1800’s and earlier, but Biden lacks a basic understanding of what crude oil is used for, as he tinkers with the supply chain of oil that supports the lifestyles and economies for the world’s 8 billion.
Summary: The world has already experienced a decarbonized world just a few centuries ago, before the discovery of crude oil, when we had no products made from oil, and no coal or natural gas power plants. Life was hard and life expectancy was short. Today, we have no clone to replace crude oil that provides thousands of products that facilitate lifestyles and economies.
Published March 10, 2022, at Eurasia Review
For Texans and Australians, it’s breezes and sunshine, or no grid at all
With their ban on nuclear and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) divesting objectives to divest in coal, natural gas, and crude oil, all their eggs are on breezes and sunshine for electricity.
Summary: Both are obsessed with “nameplate” capacity of wind turbines and solar panels to provide electricity from intermittent and unreliable breezes and sunshine. And both are willing to incur the consequences of the elimination of products and fuels manufactured from crude oil that support their lifestyles and economies.
Published March 6, 2022, at Committee for A Constructive Tomorrow
Biden’s continues to flip-flop on crude oil policies
Biden appears to lack a basic understanding of what crude oil is used for, as he tinkers with the supply chain that supports the lifestyles and economies that did not exist in the decarbonized 1800’s.
Summary: Back in the 1800’s, before the discovery of crude oil, we had a “decarbonized” world with no coal or natural gas power plants, and life expectancy was short. Today, we have no clone to replace crude oil that provides thousands of products that facilitate lifestyles and economies.
Posted Feb 28, 2022 at Eurasia Review
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency favors more energy costs for all
U.S. EPA’s current actions to tighten the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) would increase energy imports, generate higher worldwide emissions, and increase energy costs for all Americans.
Summary: Efforts, at any expense, to further reduce emissions in America, the most environmentally controlled country in the world will lead to the more expensive electricity and fuels for those that can least afford expensive energy, those with low incomes and those retirees on fixed incomes.
Posted Feb 23, 2022 at California Political Review
Crude oil is virtually useless, unless it’s manufactured into usable products for societies and economies by the hydrocarbon processing industry
Summary: Today, there are more than 250 leading-edge, hydrocarbon processing licensed refining technologies used by the more than 700 refineries worldwide that service the demands of the 8 billion living on earth with more than 6,000 products made from the oil derivatives manufactured out of raw crude oil at refineries. None of these products were available to society before 1900.
Published Feb 22, 2022, at Heartland Institute
The similarities between ESG and fascism are scary
Time Magazine was enthrawled with Adolf Hitler in the 30’s, and endorses similar results from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) divesting objectives.
Summary: Allowing banks to collude to reshape economies and energy infrastructure so that they are in line with the preferences of investment institutions is a very dangerous precedent. The ESG movement scarily looks like Hitler’s fascism era over 80 years ago as the American people never voted to give banks this sort of control over our country.
Published Feb 14, 2022 at Eurasia Review
Biden is disconnected from American’s reluctance to be regulated out of fossil fuel prosperity
Biden said, “we’re going to get rid of fossil fuels”, but American’s demands for virtually all the products that support their lifestyles resulted in fossil fuels production reaching Record Highs
Summary: The public is not about to be regulated away from the fossil fuel products that are part of their comfortable lifestyles, nor are they going to be mandated into electric vehicles.
Published February 5, 2022 at CFACT
Of the 3 fossil fuels, crude oil is the only one primarily used to manufacture products for society that are the basis of the economy.
Summary: Breezes and sunshine may partially replace coal and natural gas for the generation of electricity, but renewables CANNOT manufacture any of the products derived from crude oil.
Posted Jan 30, 2022 at California Political Review
We should not Compare Electricity Sources Using Nameplate Ratings | Co-authored with Tom Stacy
Misleading are the public relations efforts intending to make people feel good about weather dependent electricity from wind and solar “taking root” and “replacing” traditional continuous uninterruptable means of making electricity.
SUMMARY: Government entities, grid operators and especially news media are spouting GENERATING CAPACITY, i.e., nameplate rating, in comparisons with conventional generating technologies, but breezes and sunshine cannot be managed and converted to electricity on demand – and never will be.
Published January 29, 2022, at CFACT
Ottawa, Canada is following Germany’s Failed Climate Goals
The city’s government has learned very little from others that have inflicted huge costs for electricity onto their citizens
Summary: As the City of Ottawa pursues electrification of it grid from breezes and sunshine, and electrification of its vehicles, at any cost, it remains oblivious to the real world needs of its most vulnerable citizens to put their plans in place to achieve its “net-zero by 2050 target, regardless of its impact on the lifestyles of its citizens.
Published Jan 24, 2022 at California Political Review
“ ESG” = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) divesting goals are killing the golden goose of crude oil that changed the world after 1900 and guarantees shortages of products supporting societies and economies.
Summary: Tinkering with the supply chain of crude oil will promote shortages and inflation as wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of manufacturing any of the petrochemicals that currently make all the products for society.
Published January 17, 2022, at Eurasia Review
Imagine Electric Vehicle usage in inclement weather conditions
The limited mileage usage of EV’s in California’s EV “capital” of America is a reflection that EVs are a secondary vehicle, for those that can afford them, and not the family workhorse vehicle.
Summary: While most automobile manufacturers are going all-in to only manufacture electric vehicles in the future, until the current elite owners can demonstrate to the middle-income and those on fixed incomes that their EV’s are their primary family workhorse vehicles in all kinds of weather conditions, the less fortunate will most likely remain reluctant to buy into the EV evolution. Growing the supply chain for EV’s without a corresponding growth in demand, could be an economic disaster in the works.
Published January 10, 2022 at Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
Decarbonization cannot manufacture products demanded by civilization
The Green New Deal only plans to generate intermittent electricity, but no plans to replace crude oil, the fossil fuel that is NOT used for electricity.
Summary: Wind turbines and solar panels may be able to generate intermittent electricity from breezes and sunshine to decarbonize the electric grid, but those renewables cannot manufacture any of the derivatives manufactured from crude oil that are the basis of all the products used by modern society.
Published Dec 18, 2021, at Clintel
California imported crude oil ranks as a major emissions generator
Annual emissions from just 1 of the 180 foreign oil tankers delivering crude to California are equivalent to 50 million vehicles.
Summary: Governor Newsom deserves to provide an immediate explanation to the 8 billion residents on this earth as to why he is refuses to produce crude oil in-state and supports importation of crude oil via oil tankers that pollute annually, the equivalent emissions of 50 million vehicles from EACH of the 180 oil tankers arriving annually at California ports.
Published December 14, 2021, at Heartland Institute
Governor Newsom lacks understanding of crude oil’s contributions to civilization
Of the 3 fossil fuels, crude oil is the only one primarily used to manufacture products for society
Summary: Breezes and sunshine may partially replace coal and natural gas for the generation of electricity, but renewables CANNOT manufacture any of the products derived from crude oil.
Published December 7, 2021, at Bakersfield Opinion
Divesting in crude oil guarantees’ shortages and inflation
The movement to “net zero” shutters the crude oil supply that is responsible for thousands of products, assures a threat to civilization.
Summary: Tinkering with the supply chain of crude oil, the only fossil fuel that gets manufactured into a) the oil derivatives for thousands of products, and b) the fuels for the world’s heavy-weight and long-range business infrastructures, could be the greatest threat to civilization, not climate change.
Published December 6, 2021, at Eurasia Review
President Biden lacks understanding of crude oil’s contributions to civilization
Of the 3 fossil fuels, crude oil is the only one primarily used to manufacture products for society
Summary: Breezes and sunshine may partially replace coal and natural gas for the generation of electricity, but renewables CANNOT manufacture any of the products derived from crude oil.
Published Nov 30, 2021, at CFACT
Authors of ‘‘Clean Energy Exploitations” interviewed by Adam Torres at Mission Matters
The green energy exploitations are discussed in the book “Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy
Summary: : The mines and factories to extract and process the rare earths and exotic minerals needed for solar panels, wind turbines, and EV batteries are clarified in the short 3-minute video from Planet of the Humans. The video illustrates the exploitations occurring in developing countries with yellow, brown, and black colored skin residents to attain the “blood minerals” to support “clean” energy.
Published Nov 19, 2021 at Yahoo Finance
The Green New Deal (GND) has no plan to replace crude oil products
The GND is all-in for breezes and sunshine to replace coal and natural gas for electricity, but has absolutely no plans to replace the derivatives and transportation fuels manufactured from crude oil that support lifestyles and the world economy
Summary: Crude oil has contributed to the world populating proficiently to 8 billion. Just because two of the products manufactured from crude oil are gasoline and diesel for short-range light-weight vehicles of cars and trucks, the consequences of abandoning the derivatives and transportation fuels manufactured from crude oil that support lifestyles and the world economy and all the progress after the introduction of crude oil into society, could be the greatest threat to civilization, not climate change.
Published Nov 15, 2021, at CFACT
Without fossil fuel infrastructure we’re supposed to have an ENERGY CRISIS!
For decades, the ASCE Infrastructure Report Cards have taught us those infrastructures deteriorate with under-investment.
Summary: Socially responsible investing is decades old, but ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) considerations now propagating throughout the world continues to make firms reluctant to invest in oil and gas exploration and infrastructure which is destined to lead to deteriorated infrastructures. Tinkering with the supply chain of oil could impact the supply chain and shortages of thousands of products, and fuels, needed by current lifestyles and worldwide economies.
Published November 6, 2021 at CFACT
Crude Oil is seldom used for electricity, so why tinker with the supply chain?
Crude oil is primarily used to manufacture fuels and oil derivatives for society’s products and economies.
Summary: Coal and natural gas are two of the fossil fuels frequently used for the generation of electricity, but Biden’s plan to also rid America of crude oil, the “other” fossil fuel, is targeting the oil that is used to manufacture derivatives for thousands of products, and fuels for transportation infrastructures, but is seldom used for electricity generation.
Published November 3, 2021 at CFACT
Governor Newsom supports increasing oil imports from foreign countries
Increased emissions from foreign countries, and higher fuel costs for Californians are of no concern to Newsom.
Summary: The financial racial biasing of Governor Newsom’s climate policies against the poorest residents, particularly Latinos and African Americans is unconscionable, as he exposes the country to national security risks from countries that also have less environmental controls than America.
Published October 25, 2021 at California Political Review
Fossil Fuels are the Basis of the Medical industry and Food supply chains
Breezes and sunshine that generate intermittent electricity, cannot manufacture the oil derivatives that support the 8 billion on this planet.
Summary: Pursuing the elimination of fossil fuels would put billions at risk as renewable breezes and sunshine only generate electricity. With Biden apparently pro-humanity with his COVID vaccination campaign to save thousands, how dare he, a pro-humanity individual, support banishment of fossil fuels, when their banishment would be the greatest threat to civilization resulting in billions dying from starvation, diseases, and weather-related deaths?
Published October 7, 2021 at Eurasia Review
Harm from war on hydrocarbons exceeds harm from climate change
To date, “computer models” have avoided projecting the fatalities from starvation, diseases, and weather-related deaths to the 8 billion on earth without fossil fuels.
Summary: How dare pro-humanity individuals and governments support banishment of fossil fuels, when their banishment would be the greatest threat to civilization resulting in billions dying from starvation, diseases, and weather-related deaths?
Published October 7, 2021, at CFACT
EV buyer’s beware – fires, scarce charging times, and parking restrictions
The darker sides of EV ownership may not bode well for sales projections.
Summary: EV’s have some serious baggage that does not bode well for those optimistic sales projections, despite the Executive Orders from Biden, Newsom, and others, that want to abandon internal combustion engine vehicles.
Published Sept 30, 2021, at CFACT
Elimination of crude oil is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute
Without a safety net to replace all the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil, efforts to cease the use of oil could be the greatest threat to civilization, as “clean electricity” from breezes and sunshine cannot manufacture anything, as they just generate electricity
Summary: It would be great to eliminate fossil fuels and reduce the associated emissions, BUT where’s the safety net, before we jump off that cliff, to keep economies and lifestyles from the drastic changes that would be required without the products from those fossil fuels?
Published Sept 22, 2021, at CFACT
California voters give Newsom approval to continue regressive policies against the working class
With electricity and fuel costs among the highest in the country, Newsom is doing everything possible to increase energy costs and transfer emissions to developing countries.
Summary: Voters were inundated with Democratic ads that focused only on 2 fears: the fear of a Republican taking over a Democratic state, and the fear of unmasking during COVID. Newsom totally avoided conversations about renewable energy costs that are crushing the working poor.
Published Sept 16, 2021 at California Political Review
EV Battery Fires do not bode well for projected sales
Germany may be setting a trend by not allowing EV’s to park underground
Summary: EV parking may be restricted to outdoor areas easily reachable for fire departments. The vast amount of extension cords laying on the ground to charge the EV’s may be an attractive theft item for those in poverty to redeem the value of the copper.
Published September 3, 2021 at California Political Review
Company Headquarters Leaving California in Unprecedented Numbers
Governor Newsom’s leadership is fueling the exodus of California companies
Summary: The accelerating list of company headquarters exiting the state, and the financial harm to the states’ economy, does not bode well for Governor Newsom’s longevity as Governor of California.
Published Aug 24, 2021 at California Political Review
IPCC proposed banishment of fossil fuels would place most of the world’s population at risk
The oil derivatives and fuel manufactured from oil were the main reasons the world populated to 8 billion.
Summary: Fossil fuels are the gift to mankind that has allowed the healthy and wealthy countries to achieve prosperous growth, but the IPCC avoidance of the benefits to society, and just focusing on the negatives is irresponsible.
Published Aug 19, 2021 at Heartland
The working poor need workhorse vehicles
Trend setting California’s EV message to America – they’re not for working families!
Summary: The executive orders from California Governor Newsom and President Biden desire to have the masses change their lifestyles to live with EV’s, but the messages from the elite California users have been demonstrating that they are being used intermittently and are not the workhorse transportation vehicles for middle class families.
Published Aug 12 at Heartland
With half the state already bearing the burden of regressive costs onto the less fortunate, this is a must-read Op Ed for all Californians before voting
Summary: The gap between rich Democrats and the poor is getting wider every day that Newsom remains the Governor. The hypocritical Governor Newsom and his dysfunctional energy policies continue to inflict financial harm to most Democrats, and proliferates the growth of poverty and homelessness for those that cannot bear the growing regressive costs upon half the population. That represent the Hispanic and African Americans of the state.
Published Aug 11, 2021 at California Political Review
Comparing the world before 1900, to today
After 1900 we created various modes of transportation, a medical industry, and electronics and communications systems.
Summary: Before the healthier and wealthier countries totally jump off the “subsidizing cliff” for electricity from breezes and sunshine, it’s time to look back at the last couple of centuries and see what lifestyle changes they are about to give up, while the developing countries control emissions.
Published Aug 7, 2021, at CFACT
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District favors more energy costs for all Californians
BAAQMD actions on Rule 6-5 would increase energy imports, generate higher worldwide emissions, and increase energy costs, for all Californians
Summary: The Bay Area AQMD just approved another way to inflict more energy costs onto Californians, and “leak” the manufacturing for the states fuel demands to other supplying countries with significantly less stringent environmental controls. The gap between rich and poor Democrats is getting wider as the Governor and BAAQMD inflict heavy energy costs onto the less fortunate in California.
Published July 22, 2021 at California Political Review
Summary: According to Podcasters Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris of the America Out Loud Podcast Network, the new book, “Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping citizens understand the environmental and humanity abuses that support ‘clean’ energy” is the best written and researched book in years. If there is one book that you read this year, this book is a MUST read.
Jay and Tom encourage everyone to listen to their one-hour Podcast with the books authors Ron Stein and Todd Royal to learn how wind and solar power use rare earths and other minerals derived from child and slave labor in developing countries, and to check out their interview posting “Blood Minerals Behind Wind and Solar Power”.
The following is the book review by Dr. Jay Lehr posted at CFACT:
Published July 21, 2021 at CFACT
Melting Glaciers Revealing Ancient Tree Stumps from a Warmer Period
Forests once grew thousands of years ago before the most recent ice age covered the growth.
Summary: The latest reforestation of earth from the current warming cycle may be the same trees to be buried under the next cooling cycle that Mother Nature and the solar system will provide in the coming centuries.
Published July 12 at Eurasia Review
What is good for the climate geese is NOT good for the ganders.
Hypocritic billionaires possess huge carbon footprints but want everyone else to reduce emissions.
Summary: While most of the world lives in poverty, billionaires insist that we should limit poor countries future access to the products and fuels from oil that are lifesaving, and one of the best ways out of poverty.
Published July 10, 2021 at Natural Gas Now
Wind and Solar are the Most Environmentally Destructive Energy Sources
Op Ed boost for: Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy
Published July 7, 2021 at America Out Load
Podcast: “Clean” Energy Exploitations
Summary: According to Podcasters Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris of the America Out Loud Podcast Network, the new book is the best written and researched book in years. If there is one book that you read this year, this book is a MUST read. They encourage everyone to listen to the one-hour Podcast, how wind and solar power use rare earths and other minerals derived from child and slave labor in developing countries, and to check out their interview posting “Blood Minerals Behind Wind and Solar Power”.
Posted July 7, 2021 Podcast at America Out Loud
Investors are backing uranium for reliable emission free electricity.
Smart money is not being fooled about weather dependent wind and solar being able to meet the world’s electricity needs.
Summary: Investors are betting that zero-emission electricity generation from nuclear is the trend to meet the world’s growing needs for electricity.
Published June 28, 2021 at CFACT
Blame oil for the world populating to 8 billion
Oil was the cause of transportation, medical, and communication infrastructures.
Summary: After the discovery of oil a few hundred years ago, we created various modes of transportation, a medical industry, and electronics and communications systems. The oil that reduced infant mortality, extended longevity to more than 80+ and allowed the world to populate to 8 billion, is now required to provide the food, medical, and communications to maintain and grow that population.
Published June 13, 2021 at at Eurasia Review
Newly released book helps citizens understand the environmental degradation and humanity abuses that support “clean” energy.
Summary: Just for the opportunity to generate intermittent electricity dependent on favorable weather conditions, the wealthier and healthier countries like Germany, Australia, Britain, and the U.S. continue exploiting the most vulnerable people and environments globally. Now available on Amazon and eBook version.
Published June 13, 2021 at CFACT
Ridding the world of fossil fuels will drive humanity back to medieval times
The products from oil that have reduced global deaths are now the “demons” of the world.
Summary: Just by observing the world’s poorest countries, the healthier and wealthier countries can see what lifestyles are like without the thousands of products from oil derivatives and the fuels for transportation.
Published June 10, 2021 at CFACT
Diablo Canyon nuclear plant closure will escalate energy poverty
Increasing electricity prices in perpetuity remains the catalyst to homelessness.
Summary: Shuttering the last zero emission generating plant in California will necessitate importing more expensive electricity from neighboring states, further increasing electricity costs to consumers, and growing the homeless population.
Published June 2, 2021 at CFACT
Governor Newsom silently supports importing aviation fuels to Northern California.
The local Bay Area AQMD district considers actions that will reduce supplies of aviation fuels, as the Governor remains silent.
Summary: Consistent with Newsom’s actions that continually increases the costs of electricity and fuels for residents (costs that are already among the highest in the nations), he silently supports importing the aviation fuels needs for the military and airports at SFO, OAK, and SJC from halfway around the world and exposing America to a national security risk.
Published May 26, 2021 at California Political Review
More Racially Biased Energy Costs Favored by BAAQMD
BAAQMD actions on Rule 6-5 would increase energy imports, generate higher worldwide emissions, and increase energy costs, for all Californians.
Summary: With California already having the highest cost for fuels in the nation, the Bay Area AQMD is proposing new ways to inflict more energy costs onto all 40 million residents of the state, and “leak” the manufacturing for the states fuel demands to other supplying countries with significantly less stringent environmental controls.
Published May 23, 2021 at California Political Review
A burst to the EV growth projections may be in the making
The California warning signs may be verification about the drawbacks of EV’s
Summary: The highly educated and financially well off are currently the primary owners of EV’s. Their usage of EV’s being slightly more than 5000 miles a year is a reflection that the EV is a second vehicle and not the family workhorse vehicle. Then, the growing percentage of EV owners that are switching back to gasoline cars, is a message that may deflate EV growth projections.
Published May 21, 2021 at CFACT
PART II – Governor Newsom’s mathematical shortcomings are his recall challenges
Facing a recall based on his financially destructive policies, he blames the Republicans, but is incapable of understanding that there are not enough Republicans to vote him out. The recall is all about the financial and homeless disasters he has created.
Summary: With the “recall” of California Governor Newsom officially on the ballot, the Governor, and all of his supporters, will be bombarded for answers to his mathematical shortcomings, dysfunctional energy policies, and Executive Orders that have inflicted financial destruction into the California economy and continues to feed the growth of poverty and homelessness.
Published May 9, 2021 at California Political Review
PART I – Governor Newsom’s mathematical shortcomings are his recall challenges
Facing a recall based on his financially destructive policies, he blames the Republicans, but is incapable of understanding that there are not enough Republicans to vote him out. The recall is all about the financial and homeless disasters he has created.
Summary: With the “recall” of California Governor Newsom officially on the ballot, the Governor will be bombarded for answers to his mathematical shortcomings, dysfunctional energy policies, and Executive Orders that have inflicted financial destruction into the California economy and continues to feed the growth of poverty and homelessness.
Published May 3, 2021 at California Political Review
California Governor and Mayor of Los Angeles make a great homeless team
Governor Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies help the state achieve some of the highest costs for electricity and fuel, perpetuating energy poverty, and Mayor Garcetti spends billions solving the homeless problem.
Summary: The double whammy of California Governor’s dysfunctional energy policies is that it not only inflicts more energy poverty onto those that can least afford it, but it also promotes increases in world emissions as he wants the states’ energy demands to be met from countries halfway around the world that have significantly less environmental controls than California.
Published April 26, 2021 at California Political Review
EV’s not family workhorses, but short range second cars
Range Anxiety: California study may be a downer for EV excitement as it shows that EV’s are driven half as much as internal combustion engine vehicles.
Summary: California, with half the EV’s in the America, may be sending a downer message to the world’s commitment to EV’s, as the highly educated, and well compensated EV owners are not using them for the family workhorse, but using them as low mileage cars and often as second vehicles.
Published April 21, 2021 at CFACT
The “hockey stick” curve obscures Earth’s CO2 history
Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago knew a world with five times more carbon dioxide than is present on Earth today.
Summary: Feeding the world’s hungry ranks among the greatest difficulties humankind has experienced. Greenhouse growers in America and China, are enhancing plant growth as they intentionally increase CO2 levels to around 1,500 ppm, or 4 times today’s CO2 levels to boost plant yield by 25 to 65 percent for the plants they are growing, to produce greater amounts of vegetables and crops for humanity.
Published April 16, 2021 at Eurasia Review
The Senator’s Bill SB 467 is racially biasing more expensive electricity and fuels onto the less fortunate that will worsen poverty, which remains a bigger challenge than minor local environmental issues.
Summary: The California Senate Natural Resources Committee could put an end to Senator Weiner (D) efforts to pursue unethical racial biasing of increasing energy expenses upon the less fortunate and increasing the states dependency on other states and foreign countries for the energy needs of California.
Published April 8, 2021 at California Political Review
Cities, Countries, and Economies were built with derivatives from oil, not by electricity
Intermittent electricity CANNOT provide the oil derivatives that are the basis of thousands of products that have benefitted humanity for more than 200 years
Summary: Without the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, societies and economies that developed since 1900 would be drastically different without the more than 6,000 products that are the basis of lifestyles, economies, and prosperity.
Published April 8, at Heartland Institute
America pursues expensive electricity while much of the world lives in energy poverty
Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st century. We should not take energy for granted…
Summary: The wealthier countries like America, Germany, and Australia, with some of the highest costs for electricity and fuels in the world, continue with increasing regressive expenses that takes up a lot bigger chunk of the budget of a lower middle-class family than it does an upper middle-class one.
Published April 6, 2021 at CFACT
Plugged Suez Canal will result in Californians being plucked at the pumps.
California is the only state in contiguous America that relies on most of its oil demands from 10,000 miles away.
Summary: As Governor Newsom faces a recall election, the Suez Canal blockage has further exposed the vulnerability of the Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies that are racially biasing high energy costs upon those that can least afford it. He needs support from those racially biased targets to survive the recall.
Published March 30, 2021, at NewGeography
Opinion “No Silver Bullet on the Energy Issue”
Understanding the pros and cons of energy options from hydro, renewables, fossil fuels, and nuclear, for the world’s diverse population, would be best for the future of society.
Published March 30, 2021 at Eurasia Review
Humanity survived previous warming cycles.
Projects that forecast dire effects from the current warming receive Government funds, but no funds for answers about the causes of previous warming cycles that occurred before the Industrial Revolution 1760 – 1840.
Summary: Today, chances of getting government funding for environmental proposals is directly proportional to how seriously applicants portray the threat of current global warming. Former President Eisenhower pointed out 60 years ago, that scientists eager to keep the government funds flowing might take control of public policy to benefit their own careers.
Published March 20, 2021 at CFACT
California Governor Newsom’s Energy Policies are Racially biased against those that voted for him.
The most expensive electricity and fuels in the nation are being borne by those that can least afford living in “energy poverty.”
Summary: Rather than doing everything possible to reduce the costs of electricity and fuels for the residents of California, Governor Newsom continues to racially bias more energy costs onto the less fortunate, many of which voted for his leadership, who are already paying among the highest energy costs in the nation.
Published March 18, 2021 at The Heartland Institute
America’s Light Usage Reveals Insanity of Relying on Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar.
Renewables have underperformed in temperate climate California, resulting in the states’ need to import electricity from the adjoining Northwest and Southwest states.
Summary: The bulk of America’s population are in areas of the country that incur the most erratic weather patterns that have proven to be disruptive to the already intermittent electricity potential from renewables.
Published March 8, 2021 at CFACT
Biden’s actions are encouraging supply chain dependencies from foreign sources.
President Biden is finally beginning to recognize national security concerns to the American economy by depending on foreign supplies for oil and for the greening of America.
Summary: Foreign countries with virtually non-existent environmental regulations and minimal labor laws already dominate the supply chain of ‘green’ minerals and metals, and like California does for their state’s energy demands, Biden’s actions will have America dependent on oil from foreign countries.
Published March 4, 2021 at Eurasia Review
Those millions of new ‘green’ jobs are going to China and India.
Without government subsidies, Germany and Australia have been unable to compete with the “green’ manufacturing in China and India, and neither will America.
Summary: China and India not only control the supply chain of materials for solar panels, wind turbines, and EV batteries, but also have the least stringent environmental controls for the mining of those materials, and minimal labor laws for their low-cost labor supply. Developed countries that wish to go green at any cost are unable to compete with manufacturing in China and India.
Published February 24, 2021 at CFACT
Weakest link to EV growth is the material supply chain.
There may not be enough minerals and metals in the world to achieve the planned EV growth.
Summary: With less than 8 million EV’s currently operating on the world’s highways, a Cambridge University study showed that replacing all the United Kingdom’s 32 million light duty vehicles with next-generation EVs would require huge quantities of materials to manufacture 32 million EV batteries. It is becoming more and more obvious as States and Countries jump onto the EV train, that there may be insufficient materials in the world to complete those EV dreams.
Published February 16, 2021 at Eurasia Review
Nor’easters would be disastrous to a Green America.
Most of the country cannot survive and flourish with intermittent electricity.
Summary: Most of the nation needs more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar, they need continuous and uninterruptible electricity from natural gas, nuclear, and coal to support the health and economy in their state to survive extreme weather conditions year-round. California, with its temperate climate conditions year-round, can survive dysfunctional energy policies that have resulted in the least reliable electrical power systems in the nation.
Published February 8, 2021 at CFACT
Governor Newsom’s Recall Challenges.
Summary: The Governor promotes the state’s high cost of energy and the rapid growth of “energy poverty” that has led to some of the highest unemployment, overcrowding, homelessness, and poverty rates in America for the 18 million (45 percent of the 40 million Californians) that represent the Hispanic and African American populations of the state.
Published February 3, 2021 at New Geography
Biden’s climate plans are energizing national security problems.
Emulating California’s energy mistakes will weaken America as the country will be increasing its demands from foreign countries for crude oil supplies and for the materials needed to support the electrification of America.
Summary: Biden’s climate plan may be energizing national security problems with his efforts toward discouraging U.S. energy independence and place the country’s reliance, like California has done, on foreign countries for America’s energy needs. And, as he moves to electrify virtually everything, America’s needs for the exotic minerals and metals that China controls, to support wind, solar, and EV battery construction, will have America beholden to China and other developing countries for our “clean” energy supplies.
Published January 26, 2021 at Eurasia Review
Biden should help clean up the developing world’s exotic mining tragedy.
Emission reductions in America cannot be based on environmental degradation and humanity atrocities in the foreign countries that are supplying the exotic minerals and metals to support wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries.
Summary: The enormous amounts of money being allocated for solar and wind — and the never-ending extensions of the tax credits for them — shows that energy policies in Washington and California continues to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities in the foreign countries that are supplying the exotic minerals and metals to support wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries.
Published January 9, 2021 at CFACT
NIMBY’s are making more noise than wind turbines.
NIMBY’s around the world are rejecting those noisy monstrosities.
Summary: “Clean” electricity by 2035 faces two major hurdles: 1) the cost of trillions to turbocharge the clean energy economy so that it relies solely on “clean” electricity by 2035, and 2) resistance from NIMBY’s that are successfully halting those noisy and esthetically obnoxious wind farms from generating their intermittent electricity.
Published January 4, 2021 at Heartland Institute
With California’s already bearing among the highest cost of electricity in the country, this agreement will inflict more costs onto those that can least afford more expensive utility costs as electricity is four times more expensive as natural gas on an energy-equivalent basis.
Summary: Seems that the Public Advocates Office which is an independent organization within the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that advocates solely on behalf of utility customers and has a statutory mission to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels has become as dysfunctional as California’s energy policies.
Published December 6, 2020 at CFACT
Podcast: The Dark Side of Electric Vehicles.
Summary: A fast paced 20-minute Podcast discussion with David Forsyth of Freedom Adventure about the ramifications of the gas-powered vehicle ban on the residents of the state, the impact on the countries needed to support the exotic mineral and metals of the green movement, and the VMT that will be needed to replace current road taxes from fuels.
Podcast Posted November 23, 2020
How would life without fossil fuels impact society?
The world has had almost 200 years to develop clones or generics to replace the crude oil derivatives that are the basis thousands of products for societies and economies.
Summary: Before moving too quickly into the GND, anti-fossil fuel protesters should take the time to answer the question: How can we avoid the undisputable science that renewables can only generate intermittent electricity, but CANNOT manufacture any of the oil derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products that are the foundation of societies and economies around the world, as it would result in adjusting to lifestyles that regress us back to a time when wealthy countries had no access to those thousands of products used by industries that were not in existence before the 1900’s, such as the medical industry, communications, airlines, merchant ships, transportation infrastructures, and the military?
Published October 25, 2020 at CFACT
Biden’s quote “We’re not getting rid of fossil fuels for a long time… probably 2050”.
Biden has yet to comprehend the limitations of just electricity from renewables to support worldwide economies and lifestyles.
Summary: Biden and the world need to comprehend that energy is more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar. The world we know today, demands thousands of products made from oil derivatives that are essential to our medical industry, electronics, communications, transportation infrastructure, electricity generation, cooling, heating, manufacturing, and agriculture—indeed, virtually every aspect of our daily lifestyles and economies.
Published October 27, 2020 at Breitbart
The dark side of Governor Newsom’s gas-powered vehicle ban.
Support for the green vision “leaks” human rights abuses and environmental degradation to other countries.
Summary: The worldwide environmental damage from strip mining enough metals from some of the worst ecological and human rights offenders that exist on earth, to replace gas-powered cars and all electrical energy generation in California is the exact opposite of green.
Published October 19, 2020 at CFACT
Washington State blows away Wind fantasies.
A Public Utility District’s scientific data supports “no more wind”.
Summary: The Benton Public Utility District commissioners believe intermittent electricity from wind will unnecessarily contribute to increases in northwest utility retail electricity rates, and silently support the environmental degradations and humanity atrocities occurring around the world to supply exotic minerals and metals required by wind, solar, and EV batteries. They also believe the best long-term, sustainable, more cost-effective, potentially less risky, and environmentally responsible strategy toward meeting the CETA goal of 100% clean electricity in Washington State by 2045 could be to transition coal power to natural gas and then natural gas to nuclear.
Published October 14, 2020 at New Geography
Ramifications of California Governor Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles.
Jumping onto the EV train without a plan will be devastating to the California economy.
Summary: The Governor’s ban on gas-powered vehicles by 2035 is a green new car wreck that doesn’t account for half the residents that cannot afford new cars which incentivizes re-registration of older polluters that will have California replacing CUBA as the vintage car capital of the world , trying to charge EV’s with a dysfunctional electrical system, the loss of fuel taxes for road maintenance, and keeping a secret about a vehicle mileage tax (VMT) to replenish lost fuel taxes, and the list goes on.
Published October 3, 2020 at CFACT
Podcast: The California Energy Conundrum
Discussions about California’s energy policies for an “energy island”
Summary: In this week’s Energy Cast Podcast, California’s recent energy policies are discussed with author Ronald Stein. Special thanks to CFACT’s Craig Rucker and Michael Goetz for setting this up. A fast paced 23-minute discussion about California’s energy policies, blackouts and wildfires, energy poverty, and the ramifications of a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
Posted September 29, 2020 at Energy Cast
Newsom promotes California to be the Vintage Car Capital
Encouraging re-registrations for those that cannot afford new vehicles.
Summary: With Governor Newsom’s latest actions to phaseout the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 it will most likely result in California looking like Cuba in the decades ahead with vintage gas-powered vehicles being continuously re-registered each year, that are less fuel efficient, and bigger emission polluters. The California population is 45 percent (a whopping 18 million) Hispanic and African American, and they may not be in a financial position to procure new vehicles.
Published September 25, 2020 at Eurasia Review
California’s Energy Scorecard Fails on the World Stage
While the growing world’s population pursues continuous uninterruptable electricity, California pursues intermittent electricity from wind and solar.
Summary: As the world keeps adding natural gas and nuclear power plants to provide continuous uninterruptable electricity, California is eliminating natural gas and nuclear and relying on wind and solar for intermittent electricity and importing electricity from neighboring states – a dysfunctional failing grade for an energy policy on the world stage.
Published September 19, 2020 at CFACT
Newsom vows to fast track toward Germany’s failed climate goals.
He wants an electrical grid of intermittent electricity free of fossil fuels before 2045.
Summary: California promotes the growth of fuel for the next forest fire, continuously shutters in-state power plants, and has no plans to replace the capacity of the shuttered plants with intermittent electricity from wind and solar. Germany’s failed climate plan has resulted in the highest cost of electricity tin the world for its residents. The dysfunctional energy plan to “leak” emissions to other states for California’s electricity needs, to help achieve in-state emission reductions, is also based on the hopes that other states will be able to generate enough to replace the shuttered California power plants and will have the extra capacity to support the 5th largest economy in the world.
Published September 14, 2020 at Fox & Hounds
The GND would ground Air Force One
Just intermittent electricity will ground transportation and commerce.
Summary: The healthier and wealthier countries of today need more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar to support the medical industry, electronics, communications, militaries, transportation infrastructures, and the space programs.
Published Sept 2, 2020 at CFACT
KUSI TV Interview – Aug 24, 2020 San Diego’s KUSI TV Morning News interview with Ronald Stein
Lauren Phinney at KUSI TV in San Diego interviewed Ron Stein about the New Book that brings Clarity to a World without Fossil Fuels.
TV Interview Summary: California’s intermittent electricity from wind and solar has being unable to provide continuous uninterruptable electricity in-state. At the same time, the states “green” religion continues to shutter in-state natural gas and nuclear power plants with no plans to replace that lost generating capacity. California imports more electricity than any other state because of “leakage” to other states from them to generate emissions for the generated electricity needs of California. The state remains adamantly against in-state coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro power plants. Can you see the conundrum the state is in?
Broadcast August 24, 2020 on KUSI TV
California’s Dysfunctional Electricity Policies may lead to more Blackouts –
Shuttering of in-state power plants, “leaks” the generation and emissions to other states.
Summary: As a result of California’s intermittent electricity from wind and solar being unable to provide continuous uninterruptable electricity in-state, California imports more electricity than any other state because of “leakage” to other states from them to generate emissions for the generated electricity needs of California. At the same time, the states “green” religion remains adamantly against in-state coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro power plants. Can you see the conundrum the state is in?
Published August 20, 2020 at Heartland Institute
New Book brings Clarity to a World without Fossil Fuels
Before 1900 and the products from petroleum, life was hard and dirty and life expectancy was short.
Summary: The release of ‘Just GREEN Electricity’ brings simplicity and clarity about understanding a world without fossil fuels. The inventions of the automobile, airplane, and the use of petroleum in the early 1900’s led us into the Industrial Revolution and victories in World War I and II. The ‘aha moment’ for every green advocate is that intermittent electricity from wind or solar cannot produce any of the more than 6,000 products manufactured from petroleum derivatives that did not exist before 1900, that are the basis of lifestyles and economies worldwide.
Published August 15, 2020 at CFACT
California loses thousands of jobs and crucial fuel as Marathon Martinez refinery goes idle.
40 million residents of California will see higher costs for fuels.
Summary: California’s energy island just lost a major supplier of its energy demands. For the folks that can least afford more expensive energy in perpetuity, the latest COVID victim will make California’s economic recovery from the pandemic even more challenging.
Published August 4, 2020 at CFACT
Alex Epstein’s video interview with Ronald Stein about California’s Dysfunctional Energy Policies
Energy literacy of lawmakers may avoid following several international failed ‘green’ programs.
Summary: The 50-minute video interview addresses many aspects of California’s dysfunctional energy policies directed toward the oil and natural gas industry that was virtually non-existent before 1900. California Electricity from renewables are incapable of providing the fuels and petroleum derivatives that “make products and move things” to support worldwide economies.
Video Posted at CFACT July 30, 2020.
Aha! – ‘Renewable Energy” is only renewable ELECTRICITY
Solar and wind cannot manufacture the thousands of products modern societies demand.
Summary: An “aha moment” that every green advocate should experience. The inventions of the automobile, airplane, and the use of petroleum in the early 1900’s led us into the Industrial Revolution. The healthier and wealthier countries of today now have more than 6,000 products manufactured from petroleum derivatives that did not exist before 1900, that intermittent electricity from wind or solar cannot produce.
Published July 24, 2020 at Eurasia Review
50-minute Podcast about a Sound Energy Policy Without Destroying the Economy or Environment.
Summary: The various fuels and thousands of products made from petroleum derivatives are more than just intermittent electricity from renewables Summary: A major focus of Americas’ climate policies has been targeted toward the oil and natural gas industry that was virtually non-existent before 1900. Today, America has less than 5% of the world’s population (330 million vs. 8 billion). Electricity from renewables is incapable of providing the fuels and petroleum derivatives that “make products and move things” to support worldwide economies.
July 15, 2020 Podcast at Freedom Adventure
Democrats Clean Energy Climate Policy follows Germany’s Failed Climate Plan
Higher energy costs for Americans are eminent along with worldwide ecological degradation and human right abuses mining for wind, solar, and EV materials.
Summary: The Democrats’ Climate Policy is cloning the disastrous efforts first tried by Germany that has produced the highest costs of electricity in the world for Germany’s residents. With America representing a minuscule five percent of the world’s population the Democrats remain oblivious to the United Nations warnings about the negative consequences of the shift toward exotic minerals and metals for wind, solar, and EV batteries, which includes worldwide ecological degradation and atrocious human rights abuses.
Published July 9, 2020 at CFACT
Governor Newsom Supports an Energy Dysfunctional California
Residents continue to demand more energy while the State pursues increases for the costs of that energy.
Summary: Californians that can least afford the country’s most expensive energy are watching and listening to the Governor’s support of dysfunctional programs that will further increase the costs of electricity and fuels that will escalate the prices of everything else.
Published July 2, 2020 at Heartland Institute
The Green Delusion continues to Perpetuate Costs upon the Poor
By withholding disturbing data, the “Greenies” are convincing the public to financially support the climate cult.
Summary: It is not that COVID-19 and the economic meltdown that is occurred has resulted in the public ignoring climate policies, it is that the meltdown has put major emphasis on the extraction of exotic minerals to support wind, solar, and EV batteries that imposes social challenges, human rights abuses, and environmental degradations worldwide. The green climate cult continues to perpetuate costs upon the poor and suppresses any information that would damage their message that green is “clean, renewable and sustainable”.
Published June 27, 2020 at Eurasia Review
The Disparate Impact of California Climate Policies.
Racial Bias Perpetuates in Implementation of California Climate Policies.
Summary: California minority and low-income consumers are already paying the highest costs for electricity and fuels in the nation. The states’ climate policies disproportionately harm its poorest residents particularly Latinos and African Americans.
Published June 24, 2020 at New Geography
EPA Finally Considering Looking at Benefits and Costs of Rulemaking Processes
The poorest residents have disproportionately incurred the most financial harm from climate policies.
Summary: After five decades, the EPA is now seriously looking at the cost benefit ratio of future rulemaking processes in the Clean Air Act. As the homeless and poverty populations continue to grow in America it is becoming apparent that the unintended consequences of those stringent climate policies are costs that are racially biased and perpetuates onto the poorest in the implementation of those policies.
Published June 22, 2020 at Heartland Institute
Intermittent electricity alone cannot support infrastructures, the economy, or our lifestyles.
Summary: An opportunity to focus on rebuilding California’s economy with an inclusive and thoughtful approach, as the world economies have become reliant on the thousands of products made from the derivatives of petroleum, and reliant upon the numerous transportation infrastructures driven by the fuels manufactured from crude oil, all of which did not exist before the 1900’s.
Published June 19, 2020 at Eurasia Review
California Continues to Inflict More Costs onto the Energy Used by Residents
Rather than reducing demand, the state imposes more costs on the supply.
Summary: Importing the jet, diesel and gasoline fuels, and the derivatives from petroleum that are in the thousands of products used in our daily lives to meet the demands of the 5th largest economy in the world are more expensive than in-state manufacturing. Yet, lawmakers continue to add more laws, regulations, and litigation against the in-state suppliers. These extra costs onto the suppliers continue to be borne by the consumers that are already paying the highest cost for energy in the nation.
Published June 14, 2020 at CFACT
It is time for California to follow Mexico and pull the plug on Renewables.
With high costs for electricity, time to stop further increases.
Summary: Mexico, like the world, is trying to recover from the pandemic caused catastrophic costs to their economy, has boldly stepped up to stop the increases in the cost of electricity for their financially challenged population. California is already burdened with some of the highest costs for energy that other states are not shackled by that will severely limit the state’s economic base and its potential for improvement. It is time to align with the leadership in Mexico and pull the plug on subsidies to renewables to stop increasing the cost of electricity.
Published June 4, 2020 at Eurasia Review
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