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Fossil Fuel Political Backfire (AEI’s Teixeira explains)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 6, 2024

In his Free Press article “How Progressives Blew It,” Ruy Teixeira of the American Enterprise Institute, explained how the anti-fossil-fuel narrative of the Left backfired.

“Telling people fossil fuels are evil and they must stop using them was a terrible idea, and voters hate it,” he began

Since the days of Barack Obama and an “all of the above” approach to energy production, progressives have embraced a radical approach to energy issues. They promulgated the view that climate change is not gradually advancing, but is already a crisis evident in extreme weather events. It threatens the existence of the planet without immediate, drastic action. That action must include the immediate replacement of fossil fuels by renewables, which are cheap and can be introduced right now with sufficient resources. 

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Climate: Losing Politics (time to end the futile, wasteful crusade?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2024

Nat Cohn identified climate/energy transformation as a losing strategy in “Why Are Democrats Having Such a Hard Time Beating Trump?” (November 2, 2024). “Whatever happens Tuesday, it’s fair to say this campaign has not gone as smoothly as Democrats expected,” he stated in New York Times‘s The Tilt. Some quotations follow.

“How is Mr. Trump still so competitive? The simplest answer is that the national political environment just isn’t as conducive to a Democratic victory as many might imagine.”

“Trust in the media, ‘experts’ and scientists plunged. Younger Americans took to social media — perhaps with the help of algorithmic changes — to vent their frustrations with an aging president, high prices, lost opportunity and anger at a system that wasn’t working for them.”

“[Democrats] enacted much of this agenda over the last 16 years, but many voters still aren’t satisfied with the state of the country.”

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Will “Green New Deal” Failures Elect Trump?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 4, 2024

Ed Note: With the U.S election demonstrating 1) the impotency of climate alarmism and 2) bad experience with wind, solar, and batteries, this is a timely repost from earlier this year. To update, substitute Kamala Harris for Joe Biden.

“A Clean Energy Transition should be occurring but not with the RECKLESS STUPIDITY enhancing the possibility of Trump Again!” (Robert Bibbo, below)

Robert Bibbo, self-described environmental energy analyst and observer, lamented a while back on the growing popularity of Trump relative to President Biden. He stated:

This New York Times Poll Shows Trump Leading in 5 Battleground States. A Point In Time Not Election Day Certainty. Nevertheless! Never Ever Trumpers Should be Concerned.

Bibbo then brought in some historical analysis:

In 2016 The Democratic Brain Trust saddled Hilary with a Clean Power Plant 1 War on Coal.

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Trump for President: AEA Endorsement

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 31, 2024
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Rising Electricity Rates under Biden (Texas wholesale up 200%)

By -- October 30, 2024
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Libertarian Party Platform: Energy and Climate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 29, 2024
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Energy & Environmental Review: October 28, 2024

By -- October 28, 2024
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Industrial Wind Turbine Noise: A Summary

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 25, 2024
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The Party For Socialism and Liberation (another Left choice for the U.S. election)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 24, 2024
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Climate Protest Fail (Westervelt on defense)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 23, 2024
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