Global Warming
New Zealand wants to tax cow burps
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, she of the gun bans and loonie left ideas, is back: On Tuesday, New Zealand’s government proposed a tax on farming emissions. Al Jazeera reports “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters the proposal would make New Zealand’s farmers not only the best in the world but the best for the world.” […]
PETA calls for sex strike against men
In a move reminiscent of the Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes, PETA is calling for a sex strike against all meat eating males. (Conspicuous by its limitations: it says nothing of boycotting sex with meat-eating women.) The German branch of Peta pointed to research last year from Plos One, a scientific journal, which showed men […]
Heavy US Gov’t influencers anti-fossil fuel group in Chinese pocket
Fox News reports that a major influencer of US energy policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, is an anti-fossil fuel group with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. They sued the Trump administration multiple times, excoriate fossil-fuel use, the Keystone XL pipeline – basically if it is fossil related, they’re agin’ it. Unless, of […]
Not enough Lithium to meet targets – Mining CEO
Keith Phillips, CEO of Piedmont Lithium, as an interesting view: Essentially, will we have enough lithium to meet our transportation needs? Sure. Eventually. Will we have it by the time all these ambitious goals like California’s “no-internal-combustion engines (ICE) by 2035” ? Uh, no. “Yes, we’ll [eventually] have enough, but not by that time,” […]
How’s That Again?
French President Emmanuel Macron Europe is in an energy crisis, and it’s entirely self-inflicted. Eschewing organic fossil and nuclear sources for green energy, the continent has depended on Russia for more than 40 percent of its natural gas imports, and large portions of its oil and solid fuels needs. Now Russia has choked off the […]
When a Recession is Not a Recession
“I did that.” An economic recession is a period of reduced economic activity, as one would imagine. It has been defined since forever as when the economic activities of a nation undergo what is euphemistically called “negative growth” for two or more quarters in a row. Here in the United States, the National Bureau of […]
Joe Biden’s pending executive actions on the ‘climate crises’
Senator Joe Manchin is reported to have made statements about not supporting a bill that includes energy and climate initiatives. This limitation is for the near term, before November 2022. He may change his mind after the elections. However, Joe Biden is not taking any chances. Biden announced future executive actions to help “fight” the […]
Good Idea Fairy Part Deux
California went in for solar in a big way. Starting 2006, they gave homeowners incentives and drove the cost of solar to previously unknown low levels. And with solar panels having an average lifespan of 25-30 years, had plenty of time to do something about end of life waste. Solar panels are mostly glass, but […]
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