Energy Realism this past week discussed the gaping holes in Joe Biden’s green plan. And we asked: why are electric cars being forced onto people that don’t want them? Benton Arnett explains the contradictions in the Biden energy-climate agenda: the administration’s own policies are blocking development of cleaner resources. The recent release of the first-ever national clean hydrogen strategy and roadmap aims to “leverage all our nation’s energy resources” to increase domestic clean hydrogen production by a whopping 400% in less than 30 years. However, uncertainty remains over related policies that would incentivize largescale investments in the burgeoning sector, making the path to a clean economy more perplexing and challenging than ever. Phillip Rosetti wants such needed reform to also come to carbon markets, which have a vital role to play in our climate goals. There is far too much fraud in the “going carbon neutral” business. Because of low-quality carbon offsets, the market is flooded with credits that were practically free to produce, so the sellers are willing to take any price, no matter how low. And Greens must know the hard reality: oil and gas are not going away anytime soon. Republicans and other supporters of these vital fuels must look at making the industry as sustainable as possible. Dan Eberhart looks at carbon capture, utilization, and storage. Ours is a good fight, and Louisiana might just be the battleground. Yet to be sure, there are limits to how far that we should go. Levi Russell, for instance, argues that “going green” has become code for attacking the freedom of Americans to move about. Thankfully, the public is catching on to the totalitarian plan to end our freedom of movement in the name of “fighting climate change” and significantly increase the cost of food and other necessities. Centered in California, Duggan Flanakin thereby gives us the EV Kool-Aid Acid Test. Riddled with practical problems that supporters just conveniently ignore, the euphoria of electric car zealots is rarely ever challenged directly by little things like facts – like the fact that the vast majority of people just do not want one. This forces us then to cycle back to our Essential Reading reality check: from a physical energy delivery perspective (i.e., energy density), EVs are nowhere near as powerful as oil-based ICE engines, which explains why they already lost the transportation race. Today at just 2%, 40% of the U.S. automobile fleet in 1900 was electric. Original Posts Mark P. Mills, Manhattan Institute The “energy transition” continues to receive thunderous applause from numerous politicians and “green energy” groups, an exercise in groupthink fantasy amazing to behold. For those with actual lives to live and demanding affordable and reliable energy, the energy transition is a massive shift, wholly artificial and politicized, from conventional energy to that which is expensive and unreliable. In the News Daniel Turner, RealClearEnergy Pinar Cebi Wilber, RealClearEnergy EPRINC RealClearEnergy Michelle Lewis, Electrek Arshad Mansoor, RealClearEnergy Nicholas Ballasy, Just the News Piers Morgan Uncensored Robert Bryce Lana Ferguson, MSN Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian EIA Tilak Doshi, Watts Up With That? Financial Times Laura He, Mark Thompson, CNN BreakThrough News From smartphones to electric vehicles, all lithium-ion rechargeable batteries made today require cobalt, a unique mineral that is almost exclusively mined in the Democratic Republic ... The Economist If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it... RealClearEnergy Andy Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants and a senior fellow at Pepperdine University, discusses how corporate boards should respond to demands by activists and shareholders that t... Sky News Australia A record heat wave in Texas is showing no sign of easing. The warm temperatures are lingering due to an effect known as a "heat dome". Yahoo Finance Yahoo Finance markets reporter Ines Ferre joins the Live show to discuss the impact of the Wagner mutiny on oil markets. CNBC Television Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth shared that the company “intends to be a leader in advancing a lower carbon future” through investments in renewables, hydrogen, and carbon captur... Shawn Ryan Show David Tice is a geopolitical strategist and producer / director of the eye opening documentary ‘Grid Down, Power Up.’ David came on to tell us about the unbelievable vulnerabilities ... |