Energy Realism over the past week highlighted two primary areas: concerns about America’s power grid and the need to best utilize our energy abundance, especially as it pertains to natural gas. Tony Clark explains why California’s power grid has been struggling to provide the energy required for the state to fully function. In fact, California’s recent blackouts should serve as a wake-up call for the other states seeking to incorporate huge amounts of renewables and battery storage systems. We already know that the U.S. power grid is becoming more vulnerable. Paul Steidler believes that China and “probably one or two other” countries could shut us down with a single cyber attack. We must now prioritize leading the world in manufacturing transformers and other grid components. Fortunately, David Holt offers some good advice: we need to view our energy future from a viewpoint of abundance, rather than a just-say-no platform that will only raise costs and lower reliability. To illustrate the possibilities, Emily Folk advocates for a cleaner form of methane that would help improve the sustainability of the natural gas industry. Frank Lasee also argues for more natural gas, perhaps the most versatile and affordable fuel that we have. Forcing the use of electricity instead of gas in buildings and homes, for instance, would come with exceedingly high costs, negligible benefits, and limited choice for consumers. Indeed, cleaner, abundant, and cheap, Energy Realism caps things by outlining a report that claims natural gas as “The Real Fuel of the Future.” In the News Maggie Miller, The Hill Judith Kohler, Times-Call Reuters, The New York Times Gregory Meyer, Financial Times Charles Creitz, Fox News Tim Quinson, Bloomberg Michael Katz, Chief Investment Officer James B. Meigs, New York Post Tomi Kilgore, MarketWatch Joe Bastardi, CFACT Dan Walters, The Orange County Register Brian Croce, Pensions & Investments Wayne Duggan, Benzinga Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Price Dan Brouillette, The Fayetteville Observer Fox Business Texas Rep. Brian Babin, Republican member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, joins Elizabeth MacDonald on 'The Evening Edit.' Real Climate Science This is my most concise expose of climate fraud. Please pass it around to everyone you know and your elected officials. The video is short, but cuts right to the heart of the matter. Fox Business U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette discusses California’s energy policies, energy security in America, jobs in the fracking industry, and potential green energy sources. |