Department of Energy

The ongoing, rolling fact is – “green energy”…is neither green nor energy.

There are no free markets in electricity generation, and subsidies are contagious.

Renewable energy workers produce relatively little power.

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage.

When it comes to renewable energy, there truly are numerous myths that perpetuate throughout the media and culture that are not supported by any fair reading of the available data.

President-elect Donald Trump is from all appearances looking from Day One to very rapidly go very “big league.”

If Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, one of the changes you can expect is an invasion of industrial wind development in your community that has the potential to severely damage your property values, ruin the viewshed, impact your sleep patterns, and cause your electricity rates to “necessarily skyrocket”—all thanks to your tax dollars.

Give me leaders who put America first!

An electric truck manufacturer that was awarded $32 million from President Obama’s stimulus program has informed one of its investors that it is on the verge of bankruptcy, if it did not raise $4.5 million by Friday and $10 million by the end of October.

The Ex-Im bank, which is currently being considered for re-authorization, has been a taxpayer-funded boon to at least one green energy company with friends in high places.

In a May 23, 1977 column for Newsweek, titled “A Department of Energy?” the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman wrote: “Do not be misled into supposing that the energy problem is a purely technical problem that engineers can solve.”

A nation without adequate energy production is a nation in decline and that has been the President’s agenda since the day he took office in 2009. He even announced his war on coal during the 2008 campaign even though, at the time, it was providing fifty percent of the electricity being utilized.

As Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced last week a renewed push to provide $16 billion in taxpayer-backed loans for “clean” technology vehicles, more bad news emerged from another stimulus-funded electric vehicle company over the weekend.