Labor Saving Day: Thank Free Market Energy

Energy is the resource of resources, the master resource. This Labor Day weekend, give thanks to the dense, plentiful, affordable, reliable energies that have done much to improve living standards worldwide, while mastering the vagaries of extreme weather and climate. Think of it as Labor Saving Day. After all, eight billion consumers cannot be wrong!

The Old Days

Creative Destruction: Fossil Fuels Triumphant

“Creative destruction results from verdicts at the intersection of supply and demand. Outside of the free market, energy elitism has created a political market, a sub-industry whose activity results from special tax favors, government grants, and/or mandates.”

Creative destruction, a term popularized by Joseph Schumpeter, is the market process whereby bad is eliminated, the better replaces the good, and past performance gives way to new strategies and victors. No firm is forever, and financial loss is a characteristic of capitalism, as is the more used term profit.

Energy is the story of creative destruction. Coal gas and later coal oil replaced a variety of animal and vegetable oils, including whale oil, camphene oil, and stearin oil. Crude (mineral) oil then displaced manufactured (coal) oil, just as later natural gas would displace manufactured (coal) gas.…

Jane Goodall on the Futile Climate Crusade

“It takes bits and pieces from leading establishment environmentalists to make the ecological case against climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. But taken together, the problems of wind, solar, and batteries are substantial and call for a mid-course correction from look-the-other-way, mention-and-run, wish-and-hope Big Green.”

Yes, she is a climate alarmist and supports forced (governmental) energy transformation to inferior, anti-ecological energies. But she has presented some common-sense observations about the climate crusade and agenda that offer hope about a mid-course correction toward human and ecological betterment.

Consider this recent article at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which was brought to my attention on LinkedIn (via Ian McCoy), “Climate warrior Jane Goodall isn’t sold on carbon taxes and electric vehicles.” (April 13, 2024). Quotations from the CBC article follow in two areas: a carbon dioxide (CO2) tax and electric vehicles (EVs).…

Gasoline Prices: California Investigates Itself

Clarkson’s Attempt to Join South Carolina’s Public Service Commission

Giberson/Bradley Exchange on Retail Power Prices

TAPS Attack: Biden Administration vs. Alaska

Houston: Oil and Gas Capital (‘energy transition’ hyperbole falls flat)

“Psychedelics for Climate Action” (Tripping in Church of Climate)

DeSmog “Climate Disinformation” Database: Nominate Yourself!