“We are the voice of energy workers pushing back on radical green groups and the ideologues who fund them.”
In February 2018, the 501c4 advocacy group Power the Future joined the energy-policy fray on the side of consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral energies. Think oil and gas in particular. Coal too.
By way of introduction, I have copied material from their website for interested readers.
“What We Believe“
Four pillars:
The Means
… Continue ReadingWe carry out these beliefs by disseminating research, sharing facts and truths, engaging at the local level and interacting with the media.
Shell also supports the UK Government’s ambition to increase the uptake of electric vehicles and believes the phase out date for sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles could be brought forward to 2030…. However, this could only be delivered through a robust government plan to make the transition fair and deliverable. (Shell, “Electric Mobility“)
In “Why We need a Plan to Achieve the Ban,” UK Country Chair Sinead Lynch of Shell stated:
… Continue ReadingI recently participated in a discussion hosted by Climate Action on ‘Rising to the Net-Zero Challenge’. My fellow panellists were John Sauven, Executive Director Greenpeace UK and Shaun Spiers, Executive Director Green Alliance.
Greening the recovery was, of course, a key topic of conversation and led us to discuss the government’s plans to bring the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars forward to 2035.
“Is Trump right about the more-working-class-view that water efficient plumbing fixtures and appliances are unnecessary and costly?”
“If a household were to conserve 25 percent of its indoor water it would amount to 7/100ths (0.07) of one-acre-foot of total system water in a year; a mere drop in the bucket.”
At a December 6, 2019 White House meeting with the Small Business Roundtable, Donald Trump made the following remarks about “opening up” national standards for water efficient bathroom fixtures and appliances:
… Continue ReadingWe’re using common sense. We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on — in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it — and you don’t get any water.