Opinion
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Energy Literacy for Policymakers: Wind and Solar Do Different Things than Crude Oil!
Opinion -The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet, of which only one billion existed less than 200 years ago. -
“Cumulative Impact” Should Work Both Ways
Opinion -Maybe before issuing any new rules, federal officials ought to be required to account for their cumulative impact. -
The ‘Green Agendas’ of the Developed World Are Killing the Growth of Developing Countries
Opinion -The future of electricity in developing countries needs to focus on technologies that are efficient and effective. In developing countries, these are High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions (HELE) coal-fired, gas and nuclear power stations. -
Climate Change Weekly #521: Climate Journalism, Increasingly Bought and Paid For
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: Climate Journalism, Increasingly Bought and Paid For I have written a couple of times previously about the mainstream media’s outside-funded collaboration to promote climate alarm. For example, the Associated Press took millions of dollars from left-wing foundations specifically to cover climate change. Journalistic creed and ethics be damned, media outlets collaborated to […] -
PRESS RELEASE: Hurricane Milton Historic, Not Unprecedented
Opinion -Press Release -It is wrong to blame human activity and ‘climate change’ for strength of hurricane. -
Transparency at State Universities
Opinion -Government does not need to get more involved with education. It needs to leave this industry to the truly private sector and the full discipline of free markets. -
California’s High Energy Prices Will Be Coming to YOUR City if Kamala Harris Gets Elected
Opinion -Kamala is oblivious that economies need continuous and uninterruptible electricity and products demanded by our materialistic society. -
Climate Change Weekly #520: The Rich Really Are Different When Carbon Footprints Are Calculated
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -The great actual disparity in personal carbon footprints, however, is not accurately reflected in people’s perceptions about their personal and their economic class’s relative contributions of human CO2 to the atmosphere. -
Two Basic Facts Are Driving the Ignorance of America’s Forthcoming Energy Crisis
Opinion -Shockingly, energy policymakers do not understand that electricity and transportation cannot exist without products made from fossil fuels. -
Why Are Renewable Equipment Companies Such Poor Investments?
Opinion -Headlines promote renewable energy equipment companies as part of efforts to transition to Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Wind and solar system providers, electric vehicle manufacturers, green hydrogen producers, and other green equipment firms form a growing share of world industry. But renewable equipment firms suffer poor market returns, so investors should beware. […] -
It’s Time to Follow the Navy’s 50-Year Safety Record of Nuclear Power Generation
Opinion -Delivery of affordable, abundant, reliable, clean, and emissions-free electricity to customers is very important to modern quality of life. -
Making Computers Out of – Wind?
Opinion -The controversy over electric car mandates has become very divisive. -
Climate Change Weekly #519: Climate Negotiations on Hold, Pending U.S. Elections
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -No matter how big China’s economy has become, the United States is still the straw that stirs the drink on climate policy. -
Happy Constitution Day!
Opinion -Defense of the Constitution remains the foremost duty of American citizens. There are, alas, Americans who reject the document's principles. -
Are Americans Ready for Kamala Harris’s California Cost-Hiking, Business-Killing Policies?
Opinion -California’s de-carceration, de-prosecution, and de-policing have led to a toxic mix that has eroded public safety in the Golden State. -
The Golden State of California Is Turning Brown Without Continuous Electricity
Opinion -As a resident of California for more than six decades, I am aware that the availability of continuously generated electricity in California is deteriorating and will get worse! The “Green New Deal” and “Net Zero” policies in California that are supported by Governor Newsom and the Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris have led to the state’s most expensive electricity […] -
PRESS RELEASE: About Trump Highlighting Our Polls and Research Revealing Widespread Illegal Mail-in Voting in 2020
Opinion -Press Release -Trump is right: Results of a Heartland/Rasmussen poll found more than one-in-four mail-in voters admitted casting illegal ballots in 2020. -
Climate Change Weekly #518: The High Cost of the Biden/Harris IRA Climate Rules
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: The High Cost of the Biden/Harris IRA Climate Rules The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed on August 16, 2022, contained billions of dollars in spending on green energy initiatives intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to fight climate change. A new analysis of the literature by Tim Benson of The […] -
Capital Gains Taxes?
Opinion -Listening to our politicians talk about increasing capital gains taxes makes one wonder whether these politicians and their economic advisors do not understand modern economics and finance, or whether they just hope that education in these fields is so poor that most people do not understand what is going on. Modern capital gains taxes are […] -
New Heartland Institute Report: The 2024 American Health Care Plan (State Solutions)
Opinion -Press Release -In this paper, The Heartland Institute outlines reforms from which all states could benefit, several of which some states have already begun to implement. -
Climate Change Weekly #517: Net Zero Efforts Destroying Forests and Reefs
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: Net Zero Efforts Destroying Forests and Reefs Many of our readers are probably aware of the tremendous amounts of lithium and cobalt needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, among other supposedly green technologies. Climate Change Weekly has previously discussed the environmental destruction and human rights violations inherent in the production of these […] -
Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts
Opinion -Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was scuba diving beneath it two decades later, the same production platform support structure once again hosted a magnificent ecosystem with millions of anemones, mussels, starfish, crabs and […] -
The Pain of Inflation
Opinion -Inflation is a top concern of voters. Yet economists generally argue that the costs of inflation are exaggerated. Can we reconcile these views? To begin, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has fallen significantly since hitting 9.1 percent in June 2022. Inflation was 7 percent for all of 2022 but only 2.9 […] -
Americans Deserve to Know How Kamala Harris’ Energy Plan Stacks Up Against Trump
Opinion -The public deserves to learn about the differences in energy literacy between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris BEFORE the elected one is allowed to set energy policies for Americans. It is apparent that the architects of the ‘Green New Deal’ are clueless that “renewables” such as wind turbines and solar panels ONLY exist to generate […]