41 Inconvenient Truths on the ‘New Energy Economy’

Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.” He’s right.


A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have fueled societies for centuries. Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined with scale realities make it clear that there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future. Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.”

He’s right. So, in my recent Manhattan Institute report, “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking,” I did just that.

Herein, then, is a summary of some of the bottom-line realities from the underlying math. (See the full report for explanations, documentation, and citations.)

1. Hydrocarbons supply over 80 percent of world energy: If all that were in the form of oil, the barrels would line up from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, and that entire line would grow by the height of the Washington Monument every week.

2. The small two-percentage-point decline in the hydrocarbon share of world energy use entailed over $2 trillion in cumulative global spending on alternatives over that period; solar and wind today supply less than two percent of the global energy.

3. When the world’s four billion poor people increase energy use to just one-third of Europe’s per capita level, global demand rises by an amount equal to twice America’s total consumption.

4. A 100x growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million on the roads by 2040 would displace five percent of global oil demand.

5. Renewable energy would have to expand 90-fold to replace global hydrocarbons in two decades. It took a half-century for global petroleum production to expand “only” ten-fold.

6. Replacing U.S. hydrocarbon-based electric generation over the next 30 years would require a construction program building out the grid at a rate 14-fold greater than any time in history.

7. Eliminating hydrocarbons to make U.S. electricity (impossible soon, infeasible for decades) would leave untouched 70 percent of U.S. hydrocarbons use—America uses 16 percent of world energy.

8. Efficiency increases energy demand by making products & services cheaper: since 1990, global energy efficiency improved 33 percent, the economy grew 80 percent and global energy use is up 40 percent.

9. Efficiency increases energy demand: Since 1995, aviation fuel use/passenger-mile is down 70 percent, air traffic rose more than 10-fold, and global aviation fuel use rose over 50 percent.

10. Efficiency increases energy demand: since 1995, energy used per byte is down about 10,000-fold, but global data traffic rose about a million-fold; global electricity used for computing soared.

11. Since 1995, total world energy use rose by 50 percent, an amount equal to adding two entire United States’ worth of demand.

12. For security and reliability, an average of two months of national demand for hydrocarbons are in storage at any time. Today, barely two hours of national electricity demand can be stored in all utility-scale batteries plus all batteries in one million electric cars in America.

13. Batteries produced annually by the Tesla Gigafactory (world’s biggest battery factory) can store three minutes worth of annual U.S. electric demand.

14. To make enough batteries to store two day’s worth of U.S. electricity demand would require 1,000 years of production by the Gigafactory (world’s biggest battery factory).

15. Every $1 billion in aircraft produced leads to some $5 billion in aviation fuel consumed over two decades to operate them. Global spending on new jets is more than $50 billion a year—and rising.

16. Every $1 billion spent on data centers leads to $7 billion in electricity consumed over two decades. Global spending on data centers is more than $100 billion a year—and rising.

17. Over a 30-year period, $1 million worth of utility-scale solar or wind produces 40 million and 55 million kWh respectively: $1 million worth of shale well produces enough natural gas to generate 300 million kWh over 30 years.

18. It costs about the same to build one shale well or two wind turbines: the latter, combined, produces 0.7 barrels of oil (equivalent energy) per hourthe shale rig averages 10 barrels of oil per hour.

19. It costs less than $0.50 to store a barrel of oil, or its equivalent in natural gas, but it costs $200 to store the equivalent energy of a barrel of oil in batteries.

20. Cost models for wind and solar assume, respectively, 41 percent and 29 percent capacity factors (i.e., how often they produce electricity). Real-world data reveal as much as ten percentage points less for both. That translates into $3 million less energy produced than assumed over a 20-year life of a 2-MW $3 million wind turbine.

21. In order to compensate for episodic wind/solar output, U.S. utilities are using oil- and gas-burning reciprocating engines (big cruise-ship-like diesels); three times as many have been added to the grid since 2000 as in the 50 years prior to that.

22. Wind-farm capacity factors have improved at about 0.7 percent per year; this small gain comes mainly from reducing the number of turbines per acre leading to a 50 percent increase in average land used to produce a wind-kilowatt-hour.

23. Over 90 percent of America’s electricity, and 99 percent of the power used in transportation, comes from sources that can easily supply energy to the economy any time the market demands it.

24. Wind and solar machines produce energy an average of 25 percent–30 percent of the time, and only when nature permits. Conventional power plants can operate nearly continuously and are available when needed.

25. The shale revolution collapsed the prices of natural gas & coal, the two fuels that produce 70 percent of U.S. electricity. But electric rates haven’t gone down, rising instead 20 percent since 2008. Direct and indirect subsidies for solar and wind consumed those savings.

26. Politicians and pundits like to invoke “moonshot” language. But transforming the energy economy is not like putting a few people on the moon a few times. It is like putting all of humanity on the moon—permanently.

27. The common cliché: an energy tech disruption will echo the digital tech disruption. But information-producing machines and energy-producing machines involve profoundly different physics; the cliché is sillier than comparing apples to bowling balls.

28. If solar power scaled like computer-tech, a single postage-stamp-size solar array would power the Empire State Building. That only happens in comic books.

29. If batteries scaled like digital tech, a battery the size of a book, costing three cents, could power a jetliner to Asia. That only happens in comic books.

30. If combustion engines scaled like computers, a car engine would shrink to the size of an ant and produce a thousand-fold more horsepower; actual ant-sized engines produce 100,000 times less power.

31. No digital-like 10x gains exist for solar tech. Physics limit for solar cells (the Shockley-Queisser limit) is a max conversion of about 33 percent of photons into electrons; commercial cells today are at 26 percent.

32. No digital-like 10x gains exist for wind tech. Physics limit for wind turbines (the Betz limit) is a max capture of 60 percent of energy in moving air; commercial turbines achieve 45 percent.

33. No digital-like 10x gains exist for batteries: maximum theoretical energy in a pound of oil is 1,500 percent greater than max theoretical energy in the best pound of battery chemicals.

34. About 60 pounds of batteries are needed to store the energy equivalent of one pound of hydrocarbons.

35. At least 100 pounds of materials are mined, moved and processed for every pound of battery fabricated.

36. Storing the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil, which weighs 300 pounds, requires 20,000 pounds of Tesla batteries ($200,000 worth).

37. Carrying the energy equivalent of the aviation fuel used by an aircraft flying to Asia would require $60 million worth of Tesla-type batteries weighing five times more than that aircraft.

38. It takes the energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil to fabricate a quantity of batteries that can store the energy equivalent of a single barrel of oil.

39. A battery-centric grid and car world means mining gigatons more of the earth to access lithium, copper, nickel, graphite, rare earths, cobalt, etc.—and using millions of tons of oil and coal both in mining and to fabricate metals and concrete.

40. China dominates global battery production with its grid 70 percent coal-fueled: EVs using Chinese batteries will create more carbon-dioxide than saved by replacing oil-burning engines.

41. One would no more use helicopters for regular trans-Atlantic travel—doable with elaborately expensive logistics—than employ a nuclear reactor to power a train or photovoltaic systems to power a nation.

This article is republished with permission from Economics 21.

AUTHOR

Mark P. Mills

Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a McCormick School of Engineering Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University, and author of Work in the Age of Robots, published by Encounter Books.

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PROPAGANDA WATCH: MSNBC, CNN, PBS Echo Biden’s Lie that Putin Caused Gas Price Hikes

“Gas prices have risen 59% since Biden took office — prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”


These are not news outlets, and have not been for a long time. They exist in order to propagate the socialist globalist line, and to act as a PR arm for the Democrat Party.

MSNBC, CNN, PBS embrace Biden rhetoric on inflation, gas price hike: ‘Putin’s price hike a great’ message

by Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, March 17, 2022 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Liberal pundits and journalists have claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the true catalyst behind the rising cost of American goods, including gasoline, all while deflecting criticism aimed at President Biden and his administration.

Despite the possible impact of the White House’s rampant spending and progressive energy policies, many outlets brushed and laughed off criticisms levied against the Biden administration, instead bending over backward to link inflation and the cost of oil explicitly to the turmoil in Ukraine.

Last Thursday, Biden said the recent inflation report is representative of the negative impacts Americans are feeling as a result of Putin’s actions.

“Today’s inflation report is a reminder that Americans’ budgets are being stretched by price increases and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike. A large contributor to inflation this month was an increase in gas and energy prices as markets reacted to Putin’s aggressive actions,” Biden said in a written statement.

NBC was responsible for a number of attempts to tie the recent war in Europe to price hikes hitting Americans, in many cases even repeating Biden’s newly coined “Putin price hike” phrase.

“Well, here at home, the toll of the war is having an ever greater impact on the U.S. economy. With soaring inflation and gas prices, Americans are paying more,” co-host Savannah Guthrie said at the top of a Friday NBC “Today” segment.

That same day on “3rd Hour Today,” co-host Craig Melvin provided an intro reminiscent of Guthrie’s words.

“Meanwhile, that war in Ukraine having quite the impact here at home, where just about everything is costing more these days, in some cases a lot more,” said Melvin, before asking correspondent Morgan Chesky about the “driving forces” behind the price increases.

“…the Biden administration is very much calling this ‘Putin’s price hike,’ with this war ongoing, there will be a significant impact going forward,” Chesky responded.

During MSNBC’s “MTP Daily with Chuck Todd,” chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell said that calling inflation “Putin’s price hike” was a “great way” to message the issue.

The show’s host, Chuck Todd, also hopped on the “Putin price hike” bandwagon during the segment and added that Biden’s commitment to keeping the war in Ukraine, by utilizing sanctions, was another possible way for the president to portray the issue positively to the American people.

Many show hosts, as well as their guests, also urged viewers to ignore Republican claims that Biden is responsible for rising gasoline costs and instead instructed them to blame Putin and American energy companies.

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On March 10, “CNN Newsroom” co-host Alisyn Camerota engaged in a discussion on inflation with global economic analyst Rana Foroohar.

“Politicians act as though it’s President Biden that caused inflation and that he can fix this,” Camerota said as Foroohar laughed….

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Net-Zero and ESG are Worsening the Energy Crisis – and Weakening the West

The day after President Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, a group of eleven powerful European investment funds that includes Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, outlined plans to force Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second largest bank, to cut its lending to oil and gas companies. The juxtaposition of these two events dramatizes the fundamental disunity of the West. At the same time as the Biden administration is sanctioning Russian oil and gas producers, Western investors are sanctioning Western ones. Under the banner of ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, the West’s capital is being deployed to create an artificial shortage of oil and gas produced by its companies and reward non-Western oil and gas producers such as Russia and Iran with higher prices. In doing so, the West is undermining its own security interests.

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, energy markets were already extremely tight. In the past, high oil and gas prices stimulated a supply-side response leading to increased output and to prices falling back. This relationship has broken down. According to analysts at JP Morgan, capital spending by S&P Global 1200 energy companies peaked in 2015 at just over $400 billion and shrank to around $120 billion last year – less than half its previous trough of $250 billion in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, even though global demand is now around 15% higher than it was then.

Over the past decade and throughout the pandemic, investors could earn higher returns elsewhere, such as in tech – but with soaring prices, that assumption doesn’t hold any longer. In remarks to oil executives at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston last week, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm pointed the finger at Wall Street. “Your investors are demanding climate action,” she told an audience filled with executives of energy firms. To ESG investors, climate action means deliberately starving oil and gas producers of capital for non-financial reasons, leading to under-investment and rising prices.

Granholm is being a lot more honest than Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). “The current high energy prices are nothing to do with net zero,” Birol told The Guardian last month. “This is not a clean energy crisis, or a renewable energy crisis. These claims are irresponsible and are being used to attack public support for the net zero transition.” In fact, it is Birol who is being irresponsible. He understands as well as anyone that the net zero transition involves ramping up investment in renewable energy and throttling investment in new oil, gas, and coal production down to zero. He knows this, because in May of last year, the IEA released its Net Zero by 2050 roadmap for the energy sector, arguing for exactly this.

The IEA’s net zero scenario for 2050 relies heavily on “ever-cheaper” wind and solar. Nuclear barely gets a look in, and the IEA magically solves the intermittency problem of wind and solar by not mentioning the word “intermittency” once in the report’s 224 pages. By ignoring the inherent limitations of weather-dependent electricity generation, the IEA gave its imprimatur to a green fantasy of near 100% renewable electricity generation, with fossil fuels playing an insignificant role in keeping the electrical grid stable and the lights on. This fiction was necessary to justify the report’s most quoted passage. “Beyond projects already committed as of 2021, there are no new oil and gas fields approved for development,” it said of its net zero pathway, meaning that “the focus for oil and gas producers switches entirely to output – emissions reductions – from the operation of existing assets.”

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FACT: All Electric Vehicles (EVs) Are Powered by Coal, Uranium, Natural Gas or Diesel-Powered Energy

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There are three facts about the climate (weather): 1. the climate changes, 2. the changes in the climate follow natural cycles (i.e. summer, fall, winter, spring), and 3. there is nothing mankind can do to change these natural cycles.” – Dr. Rich Swier, Ed.D.


One of the greatest persistent, persuasive and unrealistic myths is the idea that the United States must abandon coal, fossil and nuclear fuels in favor of windmills and solar panels. This persistent, persuasive and unrealistic myth is now public policy!

The The Biden-⁠Harris Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan states,

President Biden has united automakers and autoworkers to drive American leadership forward on clean cars, and he set an ambitious target of 50% of electric vehicle (EV) sale shares in the U.S. by 2030. Now, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will supercharge America’s efforts to lead the electric future, Building a Better America where we can strengthen domestic supply chains, outcompete the world, and make electric cars cheaper for working families.

[ … ]

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes the most transformative investment in electric vehicle charging in U.S. history that will put us on the path to a convenient and equitable network of 500,000 chargers and make EVs accessible to all Americas for both local and long-distance trips. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $5 billion in formula funding for states with a goal to build a national charging network. 10% is set-aside each year for the Secretary to provide grants to States to help fill gaps in the network. The Law also provides $2.5 billion for communities and corridors through a competitive grant program that will support innovative approaches and ensure that charger deployment meets Administration priorities such as supporting rural charging, improving local air quality and increasing EV charging access in disadvantaged communities. Together, this is the largest-ever U.S. investment in EV charging and will be a transformative down payment on the transition to a zero-emission future. [Emphasis added]

Read the full plan here.

QUESTION: What exactly will charge the chargers and the batteries in these clean cars?

EVs Are Not So Green

A reader send us a link to this post on Reddit:

Not so Green

This is an excellent breakdown.

Batteries, they do not make electricity – they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid.

Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?”

Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.

There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.

Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.

All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.

In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle single-use ones.

But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive production costs.

A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.

It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just – one – battery.”

Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”

I’d like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being ‘green,’ but it is not. This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why.

The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled.

Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades.

There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions.

“Going Green” may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth’s environment than meets the eye, for sure.

The Bottom Line

EVs are neither carbon-neutral nor powered by batteries. The batteries in EVs are all powered by other energy sources. The truth is that mankind cannot become carbon neutral without hurting mankind itself.

We have long recommended that America go all nuclear power. Nuclear power is clean, carbon free, reliable and cheap.

As we wrote in our column “America’s Energy Future: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear“:

America’s power lies in its ability to provide power to the engines of our current and future economic growth.

Starving America of power, makes America powerless. Starving our citizens of cheap and reliable power is a direct threat to our fiscal and national security.

To be powerful America needs powerful sources of energy. Nuclear, oil (for gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels) and natural gas are the best and most accessible means to energy independence.

Energy independence translates into life, liberty and the pursuit of our collective happiness.

Without cheap and reliable power sources the lights in that city on the hill will most certainly go out – for everyone.

Powerup America.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

International Energy Agency Urges Energy Lockdowns Due to Russian War — Bans use of private cars on Sundays, SUV tax

‘Banning use of private cars on Sundays…Reducing highway speed limits…more working from home…cutting business air travel’ & SUV ‘tax’. – IEA Report 


IEA report ‘A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use’ excerpts:

“Reducing highway speed limits by about 6 miles per hour; more working from home; street changes to encourage walking and cycling; car-free Sundays in cities and restrictions on other days; cutting transit fares; policies that encourage more carpooling; cutting business air travel; and more.” … “Governments have all the necessary tools at their disposal to put oil demand into decline in the coming years, which would support efforts to both strengthen energy security and achieve vital climate goals.” …

Restricting private cars’ use of roads in large cities to those with even number-plates some weekdays and to those with odd-numbered plates on other weekdays

Car-free Sundays in cities: Banning the use of private cars on Sundays

‘Tax’ SUVs: “Sales of SUVs also keep increasing…policies to address the rise in sales of such vehicles – such as specific registration and road taxes – are key.” … Ban installation of new oil boilers

Climate Depot’s Morano: 

“COVID 2.0 has arrived?! The 2022 International Energy Agency’s (IEA) report sounds an awful lot like an energy version of COVID lockdowns. Instead of opening America back up for domestic energy production, we are told to suffer and do with less and are prescribed the same failed lockdown-style policies we endured for COVID.

It is odd how COVID ‘solutions’ also allegedly helped the climate and now the same solutions are being touted to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  As a bonus, IEA tells us these measures will also help ‘achieve vital climate goals.’

Let’s simplify this: The proposed ‘solutions’ to climate change, COVID, and now the Russian war are all exactly the same — hammer the poor and middle class with more restrictions on travel, less freedom, and even more surrendering of power to unelected government regulators.

This new 2022 report from IEA comes follows their 2021 report urging a form of climate lockdowns to battle global warming. The 2021 IEA report called for ‘behavioral changes’ to fight climate and ‘a shift away from private car use’ and ‘upper speed limits’ and thermostat controls; limits on hot water & more!.

From COVID Emergency to War & Back to ‘Climate Emergency’: House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’

By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot – March 18, 2022 11:16 AM

Via Axios

Russia crisis spurs push to cut oil use

By Ben Geman

The International Energy Agency just unveiled ideas for quickly cutting oil demand at a time when Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine could bring substantial loss of Russian barrels from global markets.

Why it matters: The 10-point plan comes amid IEA warnings that the war could become the biggest supply crisis in decades as countries look to isolate Russia.

  • It’s part of a wider reckoning in Europe — Russia’s largest market — and elsewhere over how to curb reliance on Russia while keeping markets supplied and avoiding even greater economic shocks.

Zoom in: The plan says that “immediate actions” in advanced economies could reduce global oil demand by about 2.7 million barrels per day within four months.

They include…

  • Reducing highway speed limits by about 6 miles per hour; more working from home; street changes to encourage walking and cycling; car-free Sundays in cities and restrictions on other days; cutting transit fares; policies that encourage more carpooling; cutting business air travel; and more.

The big picture: Russia is the world’s largest combined exporter of crude and oil products combined and the second-largest crude exporter.

  • The plan arrives two days after IEA projected that Russian exports could fall by around 2.5 million barrels per day next month and maybe more “should restrictions or public condemnation escalate.”

Our thought bubble: This all seems … maybe hard to imagine? The idea of coordinated adoption of mass behavioral changes on a compressed time frame sounds like an uphill climb.

IEA PRESS RELAEASE: Emergency measures can quickly cut global oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day, reducing the risk of a damaging supply crunch

In the face of the emerging global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the IEA’s 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use proposes 10 actions that can be taken to reduce oil demand with immediate impact – and provides recommendations for how those actions can help pave the way to putting oil demand onto a more sustainable path in the longer term. …

If fully carried out in advanced economies, the measures recommended by the IEA’s new 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use would lower oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day within four months – equivalent to the oil demand of all the cars in China. This would significantly reduce potential strains at a time when a large amount of Russian supplies may no longer reach the market and the peak demand season of July and August is approaching. The measures would have an even greater effect if adopted in part or in full in emerging economies as well. …

The new report also includes recommendations for decisions to be taken now by governments and citizens to transition from the short-term emergency actions included in the 10-Point Plan to sustained measures that would put countries’ oil demand into a structural decline consistent with a pathway towards net zero emissions by 2050. …

The short-term actions it proposes include reducing the amount of oil consumed by cars through lower speed limits, working from home, occasional limits on car access to city centres, cheaper public transport, more carpooling and other initiatives – and greater use of high-speed rail and virtual meetings instead of air travel.

Most of the proposed actions in the 10-Point Plan would require changes in the behaviour of consumers, supported by government measures.

The new report also includes recommendations for decisions to be taken now by governments and citizens to transition from the short-term emergency actions included in the 10-Point Plan to sustained measures that would put countries’ oil demand into a structural decline consistent with a pathway towards net zero emissions by 2050.

[ … ]

The short-term actions it proposes include reducing the amount of oil consumed by cars through lower speed limits, working from home, occasional limits on car access to city centres, cheaper public transport, more carpooling and other initiatives – and greater use of high-speed rail and virtual meetings instead of air travel.

[ … ]

Several of the measures can be implemented directly by other layers of government – such as state, regional or local – or just voluntarily followed by citizens and corporates, enabling them to save money while showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine. …

The IEA report notes that reducing oil use must not remain a temporary measure. Sustained reductions are important not only to improve countries’ energy security but also to tackle climate change and reduce air pollution. Governments have all the necessary tools at their disposal to put oil demand into decline in the coming years, and the report sets out the key ones to achieve this goal, including hastening the adoption of electric vehicles, raising fuel economy standards, boosting alternative fuel supplies, accelerating heat pump deployment, and producing and consuming plastic more sustainably.

Full Report: A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use

Alternate private car access to roads in large cities Using high-speed and night trains instead of planes where possible Avoid business air travel where alternative options exist
Reinforce the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles Banning the use of private cars on Sundays
[ … ]

Restricting private cars’ use of roads in large cities to those with even number-plates some weekdays and to those with odd-numbered plates on other weekdays is a measure with a long track record of successful implementation. During the first oil shock, the Italian government substituted car-free Sundays with an odd/even number plate policy. Since the 1980s, such schemes have been deployed in many cities to tackle congestion and air pollution peaks, including Athens, Madrid, Paris, Milan and Mexico City. …
But governments must also consider accelerating their clean energy transitions and building on their net zero emissions strategies. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, oil demand in advanced economies in 2030 must be more than 15 million barrels a day lower than in 2021.

[ … ]

Yet sales of SUVs also keep increasing, with the vehicles accounting for nearly 10% of oil use in advanced economies. Policies to address the rise in sales of such vehicles – such as specific registration and road taxes – are key to achieve steady overall fuel economy progress and oil savings …

Accelerate the replacement of oil boilers with heat pumps and ban installation of new ones:

  • Alternate private car access to roads in large cities
  • Using high-speed and night trains instead of planes where possible
  • Avoid business air travel where alternative options exist
  • Reinforce the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles

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Google & Big Tech now treating Russia like climate skeptics: ‘Google has now suspended monetization on YouTube for all users in Russia’

“Google has now suspended monetization on YouTube for all users in Russia. Applies to other services, as well.”

Climate Depot Morano: “Big Tech does not differentiate between Russia & climate skeptics. (See:Google has demonetized skeptical meteorologist Dr. Roy Spencer’s website for allegedly ‘unreliable & harmful’ climate information)To all of you cheering on Big Tech and corporations banning and de-platforming anything ‘Russian’ right now, you may want to think again. If you ever find yourself on the wrong end of the official state narrative on climate, war or COVID policies, this could be your free speech and your personal bank cards being banned. The coordination and speed of the censorship cancel culture are frightening and will be used against anyone including private citizens who dare dissent. Will electric car drivers one day have their vehicles ‘deactivated’ if their views diverge from the official government claims?!” (See: Elon Musk urged to deactivate all Teslas in Russia, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine)

Alert! Covid 2.0?! Biden urged to ‘essentially nationalize private industry’ to ensure lower energy prices & ‘a tool to combat climate change’ – ‘Invoke Cold-War Powers’

Climate Depot’s Morano: “Here we go again! Wartime emergency powers granted to the executive branch to battle a ‘crisis’ without the messiness of market forces or democracy. Can anyone say more Chinese-style one-party rule?!”
Watch: Morano on One America TV: ‘Intended consequences’ – ‘John Kerry & Biden admin aren’t that upset that Americans & Europeans are getting hammered with’ high prices

Nation Mag: ‘The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency’ – ‘There is no greater emergency’

From COVID Emergency to ‘Climate Emergency’: House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’

Celebrate?! War can help solve climate change! Biden Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm: War in Ukraine ‘creates a moment,’ an ‘urgent moment’ to transition to ‘clean energy’

©Marc Morano. All rights reserved.

VIDEO: Sometimes Conservation is a Bear

How do we find the best solutions for both bears, and people too?

That’s what Gabriella Hoffman set off to find out on the latest episode of CFACT’s Conservation Nation series. Hoffman traveled to Montana and Wyoming to interview stakeholders and find out what’s really going on with Grizzly and Black Bear conservation.

Watch the full episode.

Environmentalists would have you believe that to properly conserve nature, humans must have zero interaction with it. Nothing could be further from the truth. When people are properly managing lands and wildlife, both people and animals thrive. That’s exactly the point those on the ground in Big Sky Country working with the bears had to say.

Listen to their stories for yourself!

Hoffman also brought this “conservation is conservative” message to several college campuses as well, including Florida State and Appalachian State University in North Carolina. Speeches at Michigan Technical University, George Mason University, Boston University, and the Ohio State University are also scheduled.

Students got to hear about how hunting and fishing helps drive conservation efforts, and why proper use of our federal lands (by allowing energy production on them!) helps fund National Parks and drive energy independence.

If only some representatives from the Biden Administration could have attended and learned something!

Finally, every week, CFACT promotes a commonsense conservation message through Hoffman’s District of Conservation podcast, sponsored by CFACT. Check out some of the latest episodes, like this one that covers how Virginia is now open for hunting on Sundays, and this one that lambasts Biden’s energy and land use policies for playing into Putin’s hands when it comes to gas prices.

Share these videos and podcasts with a friend, and let’s spread the word that real conservation requires humans to be involved through free markets, smart ideas, and local stakeholders.

Author

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.

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Energy Expert and Congressional Candidate, Niki Conforti, on Biden’s Energy Policies

WHEATON, Ill. /PRNewswire/ — As a candidate for Illinois’ 6th Congressional District and an Energy Consultant, I feel compelled to speak out on the current state of energy in America, because America’s energy policy is a matter of National Security.

Being energy dependent as a country, as we are today, is not only costly to the American people, it weakens America’s position on the world stage.

By subverting our own energy suppliers, the Biden administration and their policies have put us at the mercy of foreign oil. It shifts the power structure away from America to countries like IranVenezuelaChina – and RussiaRussia’s invasion of Ukraine is just one adverse effect of this transfer of power.

Regaining energy independence will again tip the scales of the world power in America’s favor. America is the largest force of good in the world. A strong America will keep tyrant countries in check and benefit the whole world.

At home, being energy independent will lower the price of gas to fill our tanks and heat our homes. Lowering prices will temper inflation – which is at a 40 year high today.

As an off set to this, the current Administration is pushing renewable energy and electric vehicles. According to one executive order signed by Biden, the US is to achieve 100% carbon free electricity by 2030 and 100% electric vehicles by 2035.

This is not feasible. Renewable energy is not the sole solution for American energy as advocated by this administration.

One reason is the battery storage that is needed requires lithium, which is mostly produced in China. Beyond that, we would need to utilize much of today’s farmland and natural preserves for wind and solar fields to meet the demand for energy. Not to mention the problem with disposing of them and the costs involved.

Pushing renewables as the panacea to our energy needs will keep us dependent on foreign countries, like China, and lead to more problems down the road.

For More Information on the Conforti for Congress Campaign:

Contact: info@conforti4congress.com or call 630.296.4226 or visit www.conforti4congress.com

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Democrats want Biden to Declare National ‘Climate Emergency’ and Ban Oil Drilling on Federal Lands

There is one common thread running through every Democrat policy – it’s hurt Americans, destroy America.

And as one commenter points out, “What oil subsidies are there? Sorry there aren’t billions or trillions of subsidies going to fossil fuel producers. The last time I looked the only subsidies I found were for research into green energy and to burn the fossil fuels cleaners. What people are calling subsidies, are normal businesses expenses. Deducting employee wages and production costs are not subsidies.”

House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’ and ban oil drilling on federal lands

Democrats will also call on Biden to end fossil fuel subsidies

By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News March 16, 2022:

Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives are reportedly planning to publicly urge President Biden to ban oil drilling on federal lands amid record gas prices and a war in Ukraine that has disrupted oil markets.

According to a report from Politico,  the Congressional Progressive Caucus is planning to demand that Biden use his executive power to declare climate change an emergency and ban drilling on federal lands.

“Progressive Caucus member @JaredHuffman told me calling on Biden to declare a climate emergency is one of the ‘centerpiece’ actions to headline their EO plan,” Politico reporter Joshua Siegel tweeted Tuesday. “A draft of the plan I saw also calls for Biden to ban oil/gas drilling on public lands and end fossil fuel subsidies.”

Siegel added that House Democrats will also call on Biden to manufacture more heat pumps to “ease the strain in oil and gas markets that has been caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine.” Some of those heat pumps would be donated to Europe, according to the House Progressives’ plan.

The reported move drew immediate criticism on social media with many pointing out that gas prices have surged to record levels prompting Republicans to call for increased drilling to ease pain at the pump, not less.

A sticker of President Biden on a gas pump at an Exxon Station on March 9, 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado.  (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

“Dems want $10 gas,” Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted.

“The Democrats need to wake up,” Republican Sen. Steve Daines tweeted. “We must unleash American energy.”

“And Democrats wonder why people blame them for high gas prices,” a Twitter account associated with the National Republican Congressional Committee tweeted.

Americans are experiencing the highest gas prices since the 2008 financial crisis, with the national gas price average reaching more than $4 per gallon.  (Getty Images)

“We need to focus on building critical infrastructure and increasing domestic production, not jeopardizing North American energy security,” President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers Jay Timmons tweeted. “Manufacturers oppose this attempt to potentially further disrupt domestic energy production and drive up prices.”

The use of a “climate emergency” also raises constitutional concerns, as the nation eases out of emergency COVID restrictions imposed two years ago by governors and local authorities, which shut down businesses and destroyed millions of jobs nationwide.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.

The Biden administration has faced intense criticism in recent weeks for refusing to commit to increasing oil production in the United States as gas prices have surged roughly $1.50 per gallon since he took off in a crisis that has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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House GOP Demands Investigation into Russian Influence in U.S. Environmental Groups

Foreign actors have been funding the destruction of the American energy sector under the guise of green/clean climate hoax propaganda.

House GOP demands investigation into alleged Russian influence in US environmental groups

“Unlike the Russia hoax, Putin’s malign influence on our energy sector is real and deserves further investigation,” Jim Banks said.

As many Americans are seeking an increase in domestic energy output amid skyrocketing prices across the country, Republicans are calling on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to investigate if Russian money has financed American environmental groups that advocate against US fossil fuels.

The head of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has urged Yellen to launch an investigation into whether Russia has a secret funding scheme backing US green groups that have been a barrier to America’s bid for energy independence.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) spearheaded a letter Friday addressed to Yellen that cites a Washington Free Beacon report from 2015 that suggested that California-based Sea Change Foundation may be “a conduit for Russian oil interests in funneling money” to groups such as the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Sierra Club, and the Center for American Progress, according to a Fox News exclusive Saturday.

“Russia spent millions promoting anti-energy policies and politicians in the U.S.,” Banks declared in a press statement sent to Fox News Digital. “Now, thanks to Biden’s war on domestic energy, U.S. oil production has dropped 10%, pushing up prices and enriching and emboldening Putin before he invaded Ukraine.”

Banks said that unlike the “Russia hoax,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “malign influence on our energy sector is real and deserves further investigation.”

As the world “descends into another global conflict,” Banks said in the latter it is “imperative that the Unites States remains free from foreign manipulation.”

The list of requests outlined in the letter asks the Treasury Department to partner with the Department of Justice in establishing a select committee to probe illicit Russian influence operations if Russian manipulation is confirmed.

Fox News reported that the Treasury Department did not respond to email requests for comment on whether it would investigate the GOP’s concerns regarding Russian interference in American anti-energy funding.

The letter from Banks mirrors a similar effort from Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who are demanding select environmental groups disclose ties to a non-governmental organization, which GOP members claim are being used by Putin to impact America’s energy production efforts.

House Republicans on the committee have pointed to the LCV, the NRDC, and the Sierra Club, which they’ve alleged have connections with the San Francisco-headquartered NGO environmental organization Sea Change Foundation. Sea Change is known as a major left-of-center foundation whose grant-making focuses on supporting environmentalist think tanks and advocacy groups.

In a March 10 letter sent to the aforementioned trio, congressional Republicans inquired about the funding the groups have received from the Sea Change Foundation since 2006 and prompted a disclosure of whether the groups “are aware of concerns that Sea Change may be a conduit for Russian funding.”

Meanwhile, the Center for American Progress said the allegations have been “thoroughly debunked,” pointing to a 2018 Inside Philanthropy article where Sea Change founders Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons are quoted insisting they’ve received no outside funding and the foundation’s over $500 million in grants for climate and clean energy initiatives were based on family wealth.

“I wish to clarify that press reports speculating that Klein has received funding from outside sources are factually incorrect and have no basis. Neither Klein nor Sea Change Foundation has ever solicited or accepted contributions from non-family related sources,” Simons said in a statement include in the 2018 piece.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, the Center for American Progress called the recent moves by the GOP arriving amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict “a disgusting disinformation campaign by unpatriotic Republican extremists who have been actively cheering on Putin throughout the Trump years” and who are “now masking that disgrace with lies that have been thoroughly debunked.”

LCV, NRDC, and Sierra Club have also pushed back against the GOP’s claims in previous statements to Fox News Digital, with the NRDC calling the Republican Party’s allegations “false” and “rooted in a smear campaign orchestrated nearly a decade ago by fossil fuel interests and a right-wing think tank.”

“We receive no funding from the governments of Russia or China,” said NRDC director of strategic engagement Bob Deans, calling the GOP’s allegations “a distraction” then and now. “We answer to our independent leadership, and we don’t do the bidding of any government – foreign or otherwise – in our work to advocate for commonsense environmental protections in the public interest.”

LCV said the “story is completely false and has been put to rest for years.”

“We have no connections to Russia, or China, and have been an effective advocate for environmental protection for over 50 years,” the American environmental advocacy group stated. “These false and poorly researched allegations are rooted in a nearly 10-year-old right-wing think tank and fossil fuel industry-funded smear campaign that gets revived every few years to serve as a distraction.”

Sierra Club’s legislative director Melinda Pierce labeled the collusion allegation a “false conspiracy theory” that’s “invented by the same deceitful front groups paid to do polluters’ and big tobacco’s dirty work, has been repeatedly debunked over its nearly 10-year existence.” Pierce maintained that the Sierra Club has “no connections to Russia or China, and proudly fights for clean energy and climate action because this is what our planet requires, our families deserve, and what the overwhelming majority of Americans across the country demand.”

As the Russian government seeks to expand its political influence as an energy superpower, Moscow has gone to drastic lengths to ensure Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and gas. The dependence has made it difficult for both the US and its European allies to counter Russia’s military aggression in the region.

Among critics blasting President Joe Biden’s energy policies at home, the Republican Study Committee, the largest group of conservatives in the House, claims that the commander-in-chief has stifled domestic oil and gas production and led to the U.S. buying Russian oil to fund Putin’s war against Ukraine.

Earlier in the previous week, Biden announced a ban on Russian oil imports, firing back at opponents accusing the Biden administration of holding back domestic energy production. “I’m sick of this stuff,” Biden told a Democratic retreat in Philadelphia in reference to questions of inflation. “The American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money. Simply not true.”

Yellen said in a Thursday interview that Americans will likely experience “another year in which 12-month inflation numbers remain very uncomfortably high.”

She also said she believes the war in Ukraine is “exacerbating inflation” as the situation would likely play a part in keeping prices on the upward trend.

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Biden and the Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’s Green Energy Agenda

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (AOC) is neither a climatologist or scientist. Before she was elected to Congress she was a bartender.

Nothing wrong with being a bartender but creating a program called ‘The Green New Deal’ is above her pay level.

Nevertheless the Biden White House is in the process of implementing AOC’s Green New Deal which was voted down by the Senate in 1979 by a vote of 57 Republicans against, and 47 Democrats voting present.

Not one Democrat Senator voted for it.

Can you think of any country other than the U.S. under Biden’s management that would vote to give up its energy independence?

Can’t think of one, because it never happened before.

Shortly after being sworn in as president Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline. While electioneering he promised to do so and promised to put the fossil fuel business out of business. Few people understood by going to war against oil and gas that the U.S. would no longer be energy independent; or that U.S. security would be compromised plus high inflation would follow.

Everything we eat, drink or use is affected by the price of energy.

Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, gasoline prices increased by about a dollar a gallon and natural gas rose as well. Biden’s claim that inflation is a result of the Russian-Ukraine war doesn’t wash.

We can thank AOC and the commitments Biden probably made to her to get her and the ‘Squad’  to support  his election has resulted in our current state of affairs.

The White House has been pleading with Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to pump more oil to make up for Biden’s monumental error. How does this help climate change considering the U.S. produces cleaner energy than either of these countries?

It is high time for Congress and the Senate to take action to make the U.S. energy independent again and end Biden’s war on energy and the American people.

©Robert Heller. All rights reserved.

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWSLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media.

Particularly note the *** asterisked *** items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

Ukraine:

*** Ukraine Bioweapon Labs

*** This Invasion Is Brought to You by…Western Environmentalists

Why Did the US Embassy Official Website Just Remove All Evidence of Ukrainian Bioweapons Labs?

Greenwald Slays ‘Fact Checkers’ After Nuland’s Ukraine Biolab Bombshell

Zelensky rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia

The end of the age of globalization

Russian Sanctions and sovereignty

Video: Making Sense of The War In Ukraine

Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly

Ukraine and Cyber Attacks:

Russia Threatens Cyberattacks Against The West

Hackers Successfully Penetrated 21 U.S. LNG Producers Just Before Ukraine Invasion

A Large Scale False Flag Cyber-Attack Is Now Imminent

Anonymous Claims More Than 2,500 Targets Hacked in First Week of #OpRussia Offensive

Ukraine and Energy Policies:

*** War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

*** The Green Immoralists

*** Ukraine and the Great Energy Reset

Short video: Horrific Decision

Biden Sells Alaska Back To Russia So We Can Start Drilling For Oil There Again

Biden White House Frantically Looks Abroad For Energy That Americans Can And Should Produce At Home

Democrats’ War on American Energy Hurts Families and Cuts Our Global Leverage

Russia warns of $300 oil, threatens to cut off European gas if West bans energy imports

Biden Bans Russian Oil, Blames U.S. Oil for Sitting on Sidelines

Ukraine — What You Can Do:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox

*** Place Your US Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** Video: Dr. Andrew Hill and Ivermectin Suppression Likely Killing Millions

*** Dr. Campbell video: Ivermectin in Florida and Brazil

*** Ivermectin and the Price of Life

*** Video: MD and Former WHO Consultant Exposes Takedown of Ivermectin

*** Data Show FDA Process for Emergency Authorization of Pfizer, Merck COVID Pills Not Based on Science

Nasal Spray Kills COVID-19

Omicron escapes the majority of existing SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies

Triaging “Ivermania” (some legal cases involving ivermectin)

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** MIT Study: Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19

*** Pfizer COVID Vaccine Has 1,291 Side Effects Reveals Released Documents

*** COVID infections in Britain are rising again, and 90 percent of the dead are vaccinated. Have mRNA jabs ruined our chance at herd immunity?

*** Dr. John Campbell has been red-pilled

*** Video: Dr. Campbell’s serious concerns re some of the Pfizer documents

Pfizer February 2021 “Post Marketing” Vaccine Side Effects Tally Raises AlarmsJudge Unseals 400 Pages of Evidence, Clears Way for Pfizer Whistleblower Lawsuit

Neurological Injuries Soar After Shots : Strokes, Bel’s Palsy, Paralysis, MS

Study: Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Goes Into Liver Cells and Is Converted to DNA

The federal government paid hundreds of media companies to advertise the COVID-19 vaccines while those same outlets provided positive coverage of the vaccines

Fox News & Newsmax took Biden Money to Push Deadly COVID Vaccines

Facebook Called Out For Vaccine Marketing Alliance

Official New Zealand Ministry of Health Data shows the Fully Vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

CDC/FDA Smoking Gun of Smoking Guns

17 Reasons why it is irrational to trust the medical community re the COVID vaccines

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

CDC Director Finally ‘Comes Clean’ on Covid Vaccine Mistakes

Critique of “What Economics Can Tell Us About Mandating Vaccines”

UK Deaths by Vaccination Status in 2021

Covid Deaths Continue to Decline in the Unvaccinated But Not in the Vaccinated

Correction, Mr. President: It’s a Deadly Pandemic of the Vaccinated Too

COVID-19 — Masks:

*** Short video: Florida Surgeon General — Masks do not save lives

*** Masks and performative pseudoscience

*** Instead of Admitting Mask Mandates Harm Kids, CDC Lowers Expectations for Speech Development

Study: Cloth masks allow 90% of particles to filter through giving them little ability to prevent  COVID transmission

New Poll Shows Most Americans Want Mask Mandates Gone

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** CDC Withheld Troves Of Critical Data To Suppress ‘Vaccine Hesitancy’

Study: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine among children…

How did 1± million US COVID-19 deaths become normal?

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Video: An amazingly detailed history the COVID-19 virus

*** Video: Dr. Naomi Wolf Interviews Edward Dowd

*** Return to Normal Driven by Politics, Not “The Science

*** Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough Accuse CDC of Scientific Fraud

*** Doctor: Public Relations has created the current state of medicine

Maternity wards are shuttering across the US during the pandemic

Sweden REMOVED all restrictions. Covid infections COLLAPSED

WHO is World Government. Power grab scheduled for May 1, 2022

Study: A Third of People Report Lingering Symptom 6-12 Months After COVID-19

New Book: Covid-19 – The Great Deception

Banned Film Exposes the Real Reason for the COVID Pandemic

Short Video: SNL COVID Skit

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Why “cheap” solar increases the price of power

Battery System Capital Costs, Losses and Aging

Wind Energy:

*** The shell game methodology behind America’s reported wind energy production

*** Changes to the regulation of wind turbine noise (Australia)

Do wind turbines change the weather? (See also here.)

Satellite outage knocks out thousands of wind turbines

Dominion’s deception hits new high with offshore wind

Solar Energy:

Brussels, we have a land problem

One of this year’s biggest Virginia solar bills is all about forests and farms

Duke’s proposed Net Metering 2.0 rule change in North Carolina meets opposition

Nuclear Energy:

*** Nuclear, coal, gas: ‘no taboos’ in Germany’s energy about-face

America’s Energy Future: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear

Belgian Greens make U-turn to consider nuclear plants extension

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Climate Act War on Fossil Fuels Based on Enviro Fairy Tales

*** Recent USGS oil and gas estimate for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota — an enormous amount!

*** Peer-Reviewed Study: ‘Climate Impacts’ of Fossil Fuels in Today’s Energy Systems

Fossil Fuels Should Evoke Pride, Not Pandering, From Supporters

Biden Continues To Flip-Flop On Crude Oil Policies – OpEd

US Oil and Petroleum Imports from Russia Explained

Why Is New England Paying The Equivalent Of $180 Oil For Natural Gas?

Boris Johnson’s ‘climate change pass” for natural gas welcomed

German operators prepare for extending runtime of decommissioned coal plants

Biden’s ‘We Are Going to Get Rid of Fossil Fuels’ is a Primary Cause For Shortages and Inflation

Misc Energy:

*** 33 controversial conclusions about energy, environmental, and climate issues

*** Biden’s new deal with Iran is more dangerous than the original

*** A Serious Proposal on US Energy

Why Rust Batteries May Be the Future of Energy – Iron Air Battery Technology

Green Is Dead: EU Energy Roadmap Has Shifted From Decarbonization To Energy Security

America’s Deteriorating Energy Grid Will Be Major Driver In Great Reset

High Energy Prices Are the Fruits of A Biden Sellout

Manmade Global Warming — The IPCC’s Latest:

*** A Stunning Lack of Evidence for Shocking Claims

*** The IPCC goes all in with implausible scenarios and political exhortation

*** There is no Climate Crisis

Global Warming And Pandemic: Two Scams Seen Merging To Try To Scare Us To Death

U.N.’s New Climate Change Report Underwhelms

Ian Plimer details the latest IPCC climate change data

Climate Risk, Climate Policy, and the Ukraine Crisis

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** The astronomical costs of pursuing a Net Zero utopia

*** The end days of climate hysteria

Carbon Dioxide Is Life, Not A Pollutant

Union of Concerned Scientists: Hub of Rational Inquiry or Political Activism?

Russia Funneled Cash to Anti-Fossil Fuel Climate Extremists: 2018 Report

Short video: CO2 And Tornadoes

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** The Supreme Court Should Rein in the EPA

*** Putin blows up NetZero and the green reset

*** The Strategic Threat from Net-zero Emissions

Major Update: Sample Books on Climate Change

New Book: The Great Climate Change Debate

Climate Cleanup at the Supreme Court

Big Troubles at 350.org

New Comic Book for Children about CO2 (written by realists)

Study: Infrared Forcing by Greenhouse Gases

Free online book: The Rational Climate e-Book

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** High-powered group targets Trump lawyers’ livelihoods

*** We are still in need of the qualities of great leadership

Economic concerns hurt Biden’s approval, keep Democrats in peril ahead of midterms

US Election — Arizona Issues:

*** Election Report on Mesa County (AZ) Electronic Machines

ETI Applauds AZ Legislature for Sending Commonsense Voter I.D. to the Nov Ballot

Defend and Decertify 2020 AZ Elections! Secure ‘One Man, One Vote’ Now!

US Election — Wisconsin Issues:

*** Did You Know Green Bay’s Election Was Run From A Hotel Room?

*** Wisconsin Special Counsel Alleges Massive Misconduct in 2020 Election

Wisconsin Special Counsel Finds ‘Widespread 2020 Election Fraud’ in Nursing Homes

Wisconsin’s Voting Machines Were Connected To The Internet During The 2020 Election

US Election — Other State Issues:

Heritage’s Election Integrity Take Action Page (by State — with more to come)

*** VoterGA Provides Conclusive Evidence Showing Fulton 2020 Election Results Were Electronically Manipulated

Florida Continues to Lead the Nation in Strengthening Election Integrity Laws

Florida Legislature Passes Election Integrity Legislation

Texas Sees Higher Voter Turnout After Election Integrity Law

Texas county finds 10,000 uncounted ballots from last week’s primary

Dominion Kicked out of Tennessee County…

Tenessee Election Integrity Group Releases Key Timeline in Their Attempts to Work with Local Election Officials…

Analysis of Supreme Court’s Response to NC Gerrymandering Case

The tale of Tina Peters (Colorado), and the dark days ahead for whistleblowers

Other US Politics and Related:

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*** Report: An Eleven Point Plan to Rescue America

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Democrats Demand Big Tech Censor Trump’s Truth Social

The Curious Case of Stefan Halper, Longtime ‘Zelig’ of American Scandals Who ‘Crossfired’ Trump

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Five for Freedom: A Simple Message For Reclaiming America

*** Short video: How to End Systemic Racism

President Trump answers Bill Barr

Misc Science:

*** Science Needs Honesty, Not Affirmative Action

*** Confronting the threat to compounded hormone therapy

The Biden Administration’s Shocking Scientific Abuses at EPA

Federal Govt (2005): Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review

FEMA: In case of a nuclear explosion ‘maintain social distancing’ and ‘wear a mask’

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Protest Against “After School Satan Club” for 5-Year-Olds

Boise real estate agent accused of running $82M Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors

Russia’s Putin distorts shared Christian roots to justify war

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*** Short video: Marissa Streit — Why I Dedicate My Life to Saving America

*** School System Reform: How and Why is a Price-less Tale

Careers without College

Academic Freedom

Law Student Complains about a Question; Professor Sentenced to Re-education Camp

Even With ‘Defund the Police’ Discredited, Some Schools May Still Shun the Police

Misc Matters:

*** The Media Are Children Behaving Badly

The Creation of Silicon Valley

Former CNO Thomas Hayward Remembered For Professionalizing Navy, Taking on Soviets


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Deadly Incompetence

Incompetence destroys.

Weakness kills.

The disastrous debacle in Afghanistan signaled to Vladimir Putin that  the time to strike is while Joe Biden is in charge.

Just yesterday, Biden blinked and declined Poland’s offer of fighter jets, leaving Ukraine struggling to defend its skies as equipment runs short.

Biden continually tells Putin what America will not do.  Mister President, it is not wise to inform the criminals that the police will not be coming.  Particularly if it is likely they won’t.

How can we expect a President to stand up to Putin if he lacks the courage to even stand up to the Green-Left and unleash America’s energy might?

Look at this clueless tweet from the @POTUS:

“Tyrants like Putin” includes Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and the mad Mullahs in Iran.  Yet it is they whom Biden is asking to step up energy production.

Anyone who believes that purchasing gas and oil from tyrants rather than Americans will lower the temperature of the Globe does not understand energy, the climate, or freedom.

Have you seen White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s outrageous press briefings and her latest misinformation video?

Psaki keeps citing unused energy leases as evidence that all is well on the American energy front.  This is nonsense.

We posted a very detailed point by point debunking of Psaki’s energy leases political talking points by Kathleen Sgamma to CFACT.org.  Read it and arm yourself with energy facts.  As Sgamma clearly explains, the 9,000 leases figure is meaningless, “if permits aren’t approved (4,500 outstanding) & with myriad other delays the administration puts in the way of American producers.”

By the way, is Jen Psaki aware that the wind, solar and electric cars the Left so loves, are dependent on rare earths, metals and manufacturing from China and Russia?

The Greens, with China’s and Russia’s active funding and assistance, are blocking American mining as well!

Unleash American energy.  We won’t stop tyrants with daydreams of wind, solar and electric cars.

Pray for Ukraine.

For nature and people too.

EDITORS NOTE: This CFACT column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. America’s Energy-Liar-In-Chief

“It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. It’s simply not true!” – Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.


There are lies and then there are damn lies. It appears that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is a damn liar. In fact he is America’s Energy-Liar-In-Chief.

Biden’s Build Back Better energy strategy is to reach zero-emissions. Zero-emissions is a myth and can’t be done without dire consequences. In order to have zero-emissions Biden and his administration would have to eliminate all internal combustion engine driven vehicles, boats, ships and private and commercial aircraft and then mandate that every American buy only all electric vehicles (EVs).

From Covid mandates to energy mandates, where will this end, in 2024?

How do we know that Biden is lying? Simple, just listen to Pete Buttigieg, Biden’s Secretary of Transportation and Michael S. Regan, Biden’s Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency:

Biden’s No U.S. Energy Strategy

Biden doesn’t want to take responsibility for the dramatic rise in gasoline and diesel prices since his election. Why? Because Americans are feeling the pain at the pump. Each and every time people fill up their tanks they know that Biden did that.

So what is Biden’s solution to stop the rise in prices at the pump? Drill baby drill? Nope! It’s zero-emissions!

But wait, Biden has another brilliant solution: reach out to “petrodictatorships” around the world, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela. How does being dependent upon petrodictators sound to you?

Even some Democrats are saying enough is enough.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, argued,

The U.S. should “not be trading in one tyrant for another to meet America’s energy needs.”

“We need to blow a hole in the Russian economy. We need to lower gas prices for American consumers. Everything should be on the table. But I don’t support strengthening one dictator to hurt another. And I don’t think you’ll see us do that.”

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NY) lashed out at the Biden administration for turning to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro stating:

“Nicolás Maduro is a cancer to our hemisphere and we should not breathe new life into his reign of torture and murder,” Menendez said in a statement. As such, I would strongly oppose any action that fills the pockets of regime oligarchs with oil profits while Maduro continues to deprive Venezuelans of basic human rights, freedoms, and even food.”

A March 8th, 2022 Patriot Alerts article observed:

Biden came into office with the promise that he would restore America’s standing in the world. Instead, he has single-handedly squandered America’s energy independence, its ability to rein in regional aggressors like Russia, and has unraveled the gains in Russian, Chinese and Middle Eastern diplomacy that were achieved under President Trump.

The Bottom Line

Biden and his administration doesn’t care about skyrocketing gas prices because he wants to drive internal combustion engines out of existence anyway.

It’s part of the Green New Deal plan. The suffering he will cause by going “zero-emissions” is of little consequence to Biden, Regan and Buttigieg. For you see they won’t experience it but we the people already are!

We the people are experiencing it each and every day as we drive by our gas stations and see the prices steadily rising. We see it when we fill up our cars, SUVs, trucks, lawnmowers, etc.

America’s economy and its power comes from oil. By eliminating oil and its derivatives Biden is slowly but surely destroying  our economy, our futures and our nation.

On March 4th,2022 James Howard Kuntsler wrote:

Whoever is behind “Joe Biden” has done all they can to derail American Life, and the feckless leadership of Euroland has also seemed avid to trash its future. There is a welling movement, in America, at least, to resist all that, to sweep these degenerates out of power, and make a concerted course correction in the direction of sanity, rectitude, liberty, and generosity of spirit toward each other. An awful lot of trouble has already been set in motion by the idiots running things. There is a difficult slog ahead. Is your head screwed on? Where will you stand?

We ask you the same question: Where will you stand?

America’s power lies in its ability to provide power to the engines of our current and future economic growth.

Starving America of power, makes America powerless. Starving our citizens of cheap and reliable power is a direct threat to our fiscal and national security.

To be powerful America needs powerful sources of energy. Nuclear, oil (for gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels) and natural gas are the best and most accessible means to energy independence.

American Energy independence translates into life, liberty and the pursuit of our collective happiness.

Without cheap and reliable power sources the lights in that city on the hill will most certainly go out – for everyone.

Powerup America.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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He doesn’t care about skyrocketing gas prices because he wants to drive internal combustion engines out of existence anyway.

It’s part of the Green New Deal plan. The suffering he will cause by doing so is of little moment to Biden and Buttigieg; they won’t experience it. Neither will EPA top dog Michael Regan, who makes the plan clear.

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