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“Take Back the Truth” (Energy Transfer plays offense)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 6, 2025

“Opponents of oil and gas have increasingly targeted energy projects through misinformation, protests, lawfare and misinformation, hurting a strategic U.S. industry that employs more than 11 million Americans, and negatively impacting our country’s economic stability.” (Energy Transfer, below)

Pragmatic rent-seeking by crony capitalists is a major problem in the United States. Political capitalism allows “the worst of get on top,” while misallocating resources from consumer to governmental ends. Think of Ken Lay of Enron. James E. Rogers of Public Service of Indiana/Duke Energy. John “beyond petroleum” Browne … Ben van Beurden of Royal Dutch Shell… GE’s Jeff ImmeltT. Boone PickensJohn Hofmeister. The wind and solar crowd. Even Kelcy Warren, co-founder and chairman of Energy Transfer, the subject of this post.

As a Houston Chronicle editorial stated on Monday:

A few of Trump’s Texas-based allies and donors stand to make a killing off Biden’s climate law.

Whales and Offshore Wind: Trump Time (Wojick has built a case)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 5, 2025

“Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully ignored, an ongoing deception. Trump has promised action.” ( – David Wojick, CFACT)

The all-of-government approach to climate by Podesta-Biden-Harris covers the science agencies too. Climate hype, all the time, as well as nonstop cheerleading toward politically correct, economically incorrect government-enabled energies. It is now time for reversal, including with environmental issues concerning dilute, intermittent, fragile, and invasive wind and solar.

David Wojick, Ph.D., senior advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), [1] has chronicled the whale death/offshore wind connection since the issue arose in mid-2022. His “New Year’s retrospective” provides a listing of this work. He begins:

Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years.

Chris Wright: Guilty as Charged (DeSmog backfires again)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 4, 2025

“The energy and climate dialog is fraught with so many challenges. Let’s not compound the problem by using destructively deceptive terms like climate crisis, energy transition, carbon pollution, clean energy, and dirty energy. These terms are nonsense. Let’s just be honest.” (- Chris Wright, quoted below)

DeSmog’s “Climate Disinformation Database” is so filled with quality and quantity that non-members are itching to join. The thousand or so should be doubled, tripled. Maybe a phone book will be necessary as the political winds shift from stale alarmism to CO2/fossil fuel optimism.

The latest profile belongs to the new head of the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, who blew through his confirmation hearings and was confirmed in a bipartisan vote, 59 to 39.

Democrats, not only Republicans and independents, are excited.…

Heartland Institute in the UK/EU: Guilty as Charged! (DeSmog backfire)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 31, 2025

Energy Exceptionalism: Promises Made, Promises Kept (so far, so good)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 28, 2025

Great News from ‘Bloomberg Green’!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 25, 2025

AMOC Alarmism Doesn’t Stick (Wunsch caution)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 23, 2025

U.S. Climate Policy: Turnaround Time for Trump

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 22, 2025

Election Realities, Progress Ahead

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 20, 2025

ESG Whistleblower Challenges Climate Narrative (Desiree Fixler in the mix)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 17, 2025