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9/8/2020

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

Proposed Rules to Protect Power Grid Raise Concerns

Maggie Miller, The Hill

DOE Head: Oil, Gas Can Lead Our Economic Rebound

Judith Kohler, Times-Call

Unilever to Drop Fossil Fuels From Products by 2030

Reuters, The New York Times

New York’s Bold Green Plans Hit Opposition

Gregory Meyer, Financial Times

Rush Limbaugh: Biden's Fracking Flip-Flop

Charles Creitz, Fox News

Trump Plan to Block Green 401(k)s Stirs Fury

Tim Quinson, Bloomberg

ESG Becoming the New Normal for European Pensions

Michael Katz, Chief Investment Officer

4 Solutions Smarter Than the Disastrous Green New Deal

James B. Meigs, New York Post

Only 19% of Tesla Analysts Say Buy the Stock

Tomi Kilgore, MarketWatch

Rebuttal of Kamala Harris’s Unscientific Climate Tweet

Joe Bastardi, CFACT

California Has a Power Supply Problem

Dan Walters, The Orange County Register

DOL's Rule to Narrow Scope of Fiduciaries’ Proxy Voting

Brian Croce, Pensions & Investments

Is Tesla Stock the 'Largest Single Bubble' In History?

Wayne Duggan, Benzinga

US Natural Gas Power Generation Hits Record

Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Price

US Energy Secretary: Natural Gas Pipelines Key

Dan Brouillette, The Fayetteville Observer

Multimedia

GOP Rep Slams Biden's Shifting Stance on Fracking: Its Classic Double Speak

Fox Business

Texas Rep. Brian Babin, Republican member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, joins Elizabeth MacDonald on 'The Evening Edit.'

My Gift to Climate Alarmists

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.

US Energy Secretary Calls on California to Reverse Renewable Energy Policy

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.

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