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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Oil Price Hikes Hit Poor Countries the Hardest
by Vijay Jayaraj March 15, 2022The victims of higher energy prices are economic growth and the long-running fight against poverty, which translates into harder lives for billions of people struggling to fend off malnutrition and disease.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Decarbonization Cannot Manufacture Products Demanded by Civilization
by Ronald Stein December 28, 2021The Green New Deal only plans to generate intermittent electricity, but no plans to replace crude oil, the only fossil fuel that is NOT used for electricity.
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Cities, Countries, and Economies were Built with Derivatives from Oil, Not by Electricity
by Ronald Stein April 8, 2021Intermittent electricity CANNOT provide the oil derivatives that are the basis of thousands of products that have benefitted humanity for more than 200 years.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Plugged Suez Canal Will Result in Californians Being Plucked at the Pumps
by Ronald Stein March 30, 2021As Governor Newsom faces a recall election, the Suez Canal blockage has further exposed the vulnerability of Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies that are racially biasing high energy costs upon those that can least afford it.
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
California Public Advocates Office enters a “common interest agreement” with the Sierra Club to help the CPUC ban the use of natural gas
by Ronald Stein December 2, 2020California’s high cost of electricity is already fifty percent higher than the national average for residents
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPoliticsScience
The dark side of Governor Newsom’s gas-powered vehicle ban
by Ronald Stein October 19, 2020Humans have been utilizing metals since at least 6000 BC where Neolithic pottery kilns have been discovered that melted tin and copper
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyPolitics
Craig Rucker commentary: Potentially powerful pipeline precedents
by Craig Rucker August 31, 2020Those fixated on alleged climate dangers from fossil fuels don’t care
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyPoliticsScience
Study On Gas Appliances Misleads Californians, Exemplifies Public’s Misconceptions
by Steve Goreham August 20, 2020Californians will experience the shock of rapidly rising electricity prices as more renewable energy is added to the power system.
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Illinois state representative Camille Lilly recently sponsored a bill to restrict self-service gasoline stations. New Jersey and Oregon already ban self-service gas, although Oregon exempts rural counties. Would creating jobs for gas station attendants be good economics?
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The Alabama legislature kicked off its new term with a special session to increase the gas tax, a result which seemed foreordained. Nonetheless, the gas tax raises interesting economic and political considerations.
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And the global warming apocalypse is not nigh. Real-world evidence certainly supports him.
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Environment/Energy
Fossil Fuels Have, and Should Continue to Benefit Humanity
by H. Sterling Burnett January 28, 2019Contrary to assertions made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent report, it’s time to praise and expand the use of fossil fuels, not restrict them.
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Insane “eco” proposition would all but shut down oil production – and set bad national precedent.