“The key to sustainable resource development is private property rights to the subsoil, not monopoly government deciding what public projects to undertake. The history of government and petroleum is clear on this.”
In a Council on Foreign Relations study, “Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate” (2024), authors Diana Roy and Amelia Cheatham wrote:
Venezuela’s ongoing descent into economic and political chaos is a cautionary tale of the dangerous influence that resource wealth can have on developing countries.
Calling Guillermo Yeatts and his case for privatizing the subsoil for mass wealth creation and democratization! But the authors work within the socialist, nationalist paradigm. Their Summary follows (verbatim):
Editor: Reuters’ warning that ending wind and solar subsidies will raise electricity prices is the latest version of a familiar argument. Lisa Linowes (WindAction) challenged this argument when it was used to defend the Production Tax Credit in 2012 (Wind Energy Without the PTC) and in 2014 (AWEA Spins Price Distortions to Save PTC). More than a decade later, Reuters is again defending the undefendable.
“Wind and solar developers naturally want the public to equate nameplate megawatts with reliable supply, subsidized bids with total costs, and rapid deployment with technical necessity. They are selling projects. Reuters should be doing something different. The press should test industry claims, not launder them into economic commonsense.”
Once again, a major media outlet is laundering the renewable-energy industry’s sales pitch through the authority of its news brand.…
Continue Reading“To further ensure vehicle affordability, it is the policy of my Administration that consumers should be able to fix their vehicles with affordable parts without being deemed to have circumvented emissions controls.”
You can fix your vehicle and not be presumed guilty until proven innocent. As simple as that sounds in a free society, a politicized U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has done the opposite–and might change course soon by instruction from President Trump,
As summarized in this White House Press Release:
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum expanding Americans’ freedom to fix their own vehicles.