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Lose It: Towards a Tax-neutral Energy Market

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 15, 2025

It’s happening. After decades of saying that they needed the special government help–but also that they were cheaper and competitive (!)–the economically incorrect energies and their technologies are facing a real free market. The chart below from social media lists some of the current deadlines for major energy subsidies.

And with the end of special government favor will come the clean-up. Expect wind/solar decommissionings and removal to begin outpacing replacement/new additions in the years ahead. Expect EV charging stations to be removed as demand contracts (“It is getting easier to find EV chargers in the U.S. just as the market for electric vehicles hits the skids.”) [1] Expect lawsuits as long-term rooftop-solar contracts are erased by company bankruptcies (how to exit such contracts is a cottage industry). Garbage in-garbage out.

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[1] Jennifer Hiller, “Growth in U.S.…

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DOE Secretary Chris Wright: Energy Exceptionalism Quotations

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 14, 2025

“… my passion for bettering human lives via improved access to energy is unwavering.” (- Chris Wright, below)

It is a topsy-turvy new energy world where reality bats last. With the physics of energy overcoming the ‘magical thinking’ of renewables and deep decarbonization, and with a push in the U.S. under Trump, the Paris Accord (‘a fraud really, a fake‘) is going the way of the Kyoto Protocol. The forced smiles of Climate Week in New York City last month will be harder to maintain at COP 30 in Brazil. Perhaps it will be the last one as more and more countries exit, just as businesses have from the decarbonization alliances.

The new reality and politics has a central world figure in Donald Trump. But behind Trump is the Secretary of the U.S.…

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Energy & Environmental Review: October 13, 2025

By -- October 13, 2025

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.

Greed Energy Economics:
Why Mid-Atlantic electricity prices are rising so fast

Unreliables (General):
*** Epstein: The “Levelized Cost of Energy” scam
*** Big Tech’s ‘Misleading’ Green Energy Claims May Plunge Nation into Blackouts, AGs Warn
*** The Pros and Cons of Utility Scale Battery Storage
Wind, Solar, Trade, Sanctions, H-1B

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Revolution Wind Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Japan’s Green Energy Failures Serve as a Warning to the US: Don’t Fall for the Climate Agenda
Strange We Haven’t Heard About These Offshore Wind Farm Accidents Before

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning

Solar Energy:
Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility in Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year
Obama-Era Mojave Desert Solar Plant Once Hailed As A Marvel Will Close As a Glowing Relic

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Lomborg: Green hype vs reality in China
*** How our “knowledge system” ignores the benefits of fossil fuels
*** How our “knowledge system” catastrophizes the side-effects of fossil fuels

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Nearly one-third of EV charging attempts fail, report finds

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** China Inc.

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Utility-scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “wind-down’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 9, 2025
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Federal EV Credit Out, Leaving Blue State Subsidies

By Kennedy Maize -- October 8, 2025
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Solar, Wind ESG/ETC Closures Accelerate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 7, 2025
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Net Zero Banking Alliance Terminated

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 6, 2025
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Thatcher & UK Politics: Up from Alarmism

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 3, 2025
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NRDC in Climate Denial (forced smiles at ‘Climate Week’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 2, 2025
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Finance vs. “Climate Finance” (Lisa Sachs’s Problem)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 1, 2025
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