Tag: blackouts
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National Suicide – a Rejection or Just a Reprieve for the USA?
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (May 7, 2025) — “Poor Jud is dead. A candle lights his head! He’s looking oh so pretty and so nice. He looks like he’s asleep. It’s a shame that he won’t keep. But it’s summer and we’re running out of ice.” In Oklahoma! Curly McClain almost succeeds in convincing Jud…
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Leading the Green Lemmings
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Jun. 21, 2022) — Australia’s new ALP/Green/Teal government has a Zero Emissions plan, putting them on track to be world leader of the Green Lemmings. John Kerry of USA was a strong contender to win the Green Lemming race. But he was given a stiff handicap…
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The Gasoline Rocketship and Democrat Stupidity
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jun. 13, 2022) — As background, when President Trump left his first term in office – hint… hint… – your humble servant could fill the 18-gallon gas tank in his car for around $40. Today, your humble servant paid $96.25 for 17.6 gallons of gas for the same car. Ouch. The…
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Old Reliable Coal
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 14, 2022) — For days now in SE Queensland, it has been cloudy, rainy and largely windless. No sun electrifies the solar panels, intermittent winds play with the prayer wheels, and backup batteries are going flat. For a while on some afternoons, wind and solar…
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Energy Transition Disruption Might Bite the SEC
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Apr. 3, 2022) — The SEC has proposed that the companies it regulates start reporting what it calls “climate related risks.” In addition to the speculative physical risks from supposed climate change, these risks include the very real damage that the so-called energy transition could cause. “Transition risks” are specifically…
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CA Electric Power Chief Says Serious Problems Lie Ahead
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Apr. 19, 2021) — The head of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) recently gave a revealing interview, in an obscure outlet he probably figured would not travel. It is “Yale Insights” published by the Yale School of Management. Elliot Mainzer, President and CEO of CAISO is a Yalie, so…
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The Green Road to Blackouts
“THE SICKLY GREEN TWINS” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Aug. 31, 2020) — To download this article with all illustrations click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/green-blackouts.pdf California leads the way to electricity blackouts, closely followed by South Australia. They both created this problem by taxing, banning, delaying or demolishing reliable coal, nuclear, gas or hydro…