Tag: natural gas
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The World Needs People Day More than Earth Day
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Apr. 22, 2025) — Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to “leapfrog dirty fossil fuels” and have wind and solar energy power industries, businesses, communications, transportation, and modern…
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Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters off our Coasts
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Aug. 25, 2024) — Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was scuba diving beneath it two decades later, the same production platform support structure once again hosted…
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EPA Proposes to Hammer Oil and Natural Gas with Crazy New Climate Rules
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Dec. 10, 2021) — EPA has posted a massive proposed rule making targeting the oil and natural gas industry, calling it a “climate review”. The full title is “Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review”…
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Joe Biden Made his Anti-Coal and Oil Bed, Now Let Him Lie in It
“52-CARD PICKUP” by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2020 (Oct. 27, 2020) — Joe Biden and his shrill, laughing, radical sidekick Kamala Harris don’t seem to understand. Words and actions or lack thereof have consequences. Biden must be in sheer panic as he goes in and out of his basement and virtual world after admitting to America…
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The Unholy Crusade against Gas Appliances
ECO DARLING NATURAL GAS GIVES WAY TO WIND, SOLAR AND BATTERY ELECTRICITY – AND SLAVE LABOR by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Mar. 7, 2020) — When Berkeley, California last year became the first U.S. city to ban the installation of natural gas lines to new homes, Mayor Jesse Arreguín proudly stated, “We are committed to the Paris…
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Could this “Ground-Breaking” Energy Form be a Game-Changer?
“THE INVENTIVE SPIRIT” by Stephen Thomas, ©2017 (Jul. 6, 2017) —[Editor’s Note: This article relates to another on the same topic published on March 31, 2017.] It seems as though there is not enough money, time, organization, and/or know-how to move a 19th-century technology into the 21st century. Last Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Mississippi Power…
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Why Big Mining Loves Big Green
FLOGGING THE DYING GREEN HORSE by Viv Forbes, ©2016, carbon-sense.com (Dec. 7, 2016) — The Labor/Green coalition in Australia has declared war on coal, oil and gas. So why is Big Mining not fighting back? BHP Billiton is a big producer of coal, oil, gas, iron ore, copper, nickel and uranium. Rio Tinto is a big…
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Fracturing Common Sense
COLORADO EXTREMISTS WANT TO BAN FRACKING, OIL, GAS, JOBS, REVENUES, PROPERTY RIGHTS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Aug. 21, 2016) — Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has given the USA and world centuries of new petroleum supplies, lowered energy prices for manufacturers, motorists and consumers, and altered geopolitics for the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela. New…
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Methane Mendacity – and Madness
RADICAL GREEN AND GOVERNMENT AGITATORS SLAM METHANE IN LATEST BID TO TERMINATE FOSSIL FUEL USE by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Apr. 10, 2016) — Quick: What is 17 cents out of $100,000? If you said 0.00017 percent, you win the jackpot. That number, by sheer coincidence, is also the percentage of methane in Earth’s atmosphere. That’s a…
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Banning Fossil Fuel Benefits
DOES THEIR ABYSMAL GRASP OF ENERGY AND ECONOMICS MAKE HILLARY AND BERNIE UNFIT TO GOVERN? by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 13, 2016) — “Natural gas is a good, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously intoned. (Psssst. Ms. Nancy, natural gas is a fossil fuel.) “If I thought there was…
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Insanity on Steroids!
ECONOMIES COLLAPSING, MIDDLE EAST IMPLODING – AND OBAMA & PALS OBSESS OVER … THE CLIMATE! by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Sep. 20, 2015) — The Middle East is imploding. Islamic State butchers are annihilating Christian and other communities. Putin is sending arms to Assad. Under the Obama-Iran nuclear deal, the mullahs will get $100+ billion to expand…
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The Climate Scare’s ‘Useful Idiots’
INDUSTRY LEADERS MUST STOP FEEDING THE FIRES THAT ARE BURNING DOWN THEIR HOMES by Tom Harris, ©2015 (Sep. 17, 2015) — A useful idiot is someone who supports one side of a philosophical debate while unaware of the overarching agenda driving the ideology they promote. The term was used during the Cold War to describe communist…
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Obama and EPA Imperil Minority Welfare
“CLEAN POWER PLAN” WOULD BRING IMAGINARY BENEFITS – AND REAL HEALTH AND WELFARE CHANGE by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek,©2015 (Jul. 7, 2015) — The Obama Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activists frequently claim that climate change will disproportionately affect poor and minority communities. In their view, this justifies unprecedented environmental regulations, like EPA’s pending…
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Putin and Buffett’s War on U.S. Pipelines
BILLIONAIRES USE SECRETIVE FOUNDATIONS TO FINANCE ANTI-PIPELINE PROTESTS – AND GET EVEN RICHER by Paul Driessen, 2015 (Jun. 6, 2015) — Abundant, reliable, affordable oil and natural gas empower people. They support job creation, mobility, modern agriculture, homes and hospitals, computers and communications, lights and refrigerators, life and study after sundown, indoor plumbing, safe drinking…
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Divestment Ethics and Realities
ELIMINATING FOSSIL FUELS FROM INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS HURTS COLLEGES, WORKERS AND POOR FAMILIES by Paul Driessen, ©2015, CFACT.org (Feb. 15, 2015) — College students who support divestment of fossil fuel stocks are passionate about their cause. Just look at their word choices. Though they could never function even one week without hydrocarbon energy, they call fossil-fuel companies…
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Methane Deceptions
DECEPTION, AGENDA AND FOLLY DRIVE LATEST OBAMA EPA ANTI-HYDROCARBON RULES. ARE FARMERS NEXT? by Paul Driessen, ©2015, CFACT.org (Jan. 26, 2015) — First they came for the coal mining and power plant industry, and most people did not speak out because they didn’t rely on coal, accepted Environmental Protection Agency justifications at face value, or thought…
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Where Do the Candidates Stand on Energy Independence? pb
“USING AMERICAN RESOURCES” by Anonymous (Nov. 3, 2014) — [Editor’s Note: In response to a video produced by T. Boone Pickens about U.S. energy production, a citizen composed the following email to be used by any eligible, registered voter.] I am writing as a constituent on the issue of energy, and the importance of using…
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The Obama War on Pipelines
EXPEDITE WIND AND SOLAR – BUT BLOCK COAL, OIL, GAS, PIPELINES, JOBS AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Nov. 1, 2014) — “This is not the same industry we had 15 years ago,” Natural Gas Supply Association VP Jennifer Fordham said recently. That’s an understatement. The oil, petrochemical and manufacturing industries are also far different…
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Breaking Russia’s Energy Stranglehold
EUROPE CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE ITS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICIES DICTATED BY PUTIN’S BLACKMAIL by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Sep. 30, 2014) — European Union nations want to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and providing the missiles that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. However, they are worried about biting the hand that…
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What Really Drives Anti-Fracking Zealots?
THEY WANT TO END FOSSIL FUELS AND CAPITALISM, CONTROL OUR LIVES AND IMPOSE ECO-UTOPIA by Paul Driessen, ©2014, CFACT.org (Sep. 21, 2014) — Recent news stories underscore the tremendous benefits brought by America’s fracking revolution. * The shale oil production boom could boost US crude production to 9.5 million barrels of oil per day (bopd)…