Tag: gas
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How Dare YOU – Doom Pixie and Your Political Pals!?!
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Aug. 30, 2026) —Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to fossil-fuel-fueled climate change. Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it. “How dare you?”…
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Mine, Baby, Mine!
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2025 (Jan. 25, 2025) — President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant. The USA already produces more oil and gas than any other nation, and he intends to unleash its full potential – for energy and for petrochemical feedstocks for 6,000+ pharmaceutical, plastic, paint,…
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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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The Left Declares War on Gas
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Mar. 6, 2021) — The so-called CLEAN Future Act just introduced by the Democrat leaders of the House Energy Committee calls for the elimination of gas-fired electric power generation, some immediately, some by 2023 and all by 2035. That is just 14 years from now. Coal-fired power will also be…
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No End in Sight for the Biofuel Wars
BIOFUELS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE IN EVERY WAY, BUT STILL DEMAND – AND GET – PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Dec. 15, 2019) — The Big Oil-Big Biofuel wars rage on. From my perch, ethanol, biodiesel and “advanced biofuels” make about zero energy, economic or environmental sense. They make little political sense, either, until you recognize…
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The Big Green Job-Killing Machine
ENVIRONMENTALISTS WIELD POWERFUL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT TO KILL JOBS, IMPOVERISH FAMILIES by Ron Arnold, ©2016 (Apr. 1, 2016) — The abuse of environmentalist power to hurt people never stops. “Another one gone,” began the Lost Coast Outpost’s report in late January. A.A. “Red” Emmerson, chairman of Sierra Pacific Industries, announced the permanent closure of its…
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The Tip of the Climate Spending Iceberg
HOW YOUR TAX AND CONSUMER DOLLARS FINANCE CLIMATE CRISIS, INC. AND HOBBLE AMERICA by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Mar. 28, 2015) — Lockheed Martin, a recent Washington Post article notes, is getting into renewable energy, nuclear fusion, “sustainability” and even fish farming projects, to augment its reduced defense profits. The company plans to forge new ties with…
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I Come to Bury Renewable Fuel Standards
NOT TO PRAISE ETHANOL MANDATES THAT KILL JOBS, RAISE FOOD COSTS, AND HURT POOR FAMILIES AND WILDLIFE by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Feb. 2, 2015) — They say politics makes strange bedfellows. In a perfect example, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) are cosponsoring the “Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act,” to abolish the corn…
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Climate Alarmism: Our Sanity and Wallets Need a Break
BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE DISRUPTING OUR POLITICS, SCIENCE, ENERGY POLICIES AND ECONOMY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Sep. 16, 2012) — Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the…
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Trying to Snooker Smucker
CLIMATE ALARM CAMPAIGNERS MAKE PITIFUL CASE THAT MANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS COFFEE by Paul Driessen, ©2011 (Sep. 15, 2011) — It’s a common tactic among groups promoting climate alarmism and anti-hydrocarbon policies. As evidence mounts that manmade catastrophic climate change is not imminent, extreme weather events cannot be linked to human activities, and developing nations will…