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What Environmentalists Don’t Know About Petroleum (that last 30 percent)

By -- October 26, 2022

Environmentalists fighting to ban oil and gas need to learn about the 30 percent of the barrel they ignore when they espouse a world powered exclusively by electricity generated by renewables. Replacing the organic properties of petroleum is a life-threatening void in the hubris of the enemies of mineral energies.

…it is estimated industrialized nations currently consume petrochemical products at a rate of 3.5 gallons of oil per day per person.

A recent opinion column in the Wall Street Journal, “You Can’t Build Roads Without Oil,” pointed out the fallacy of the “keep it in the ground” movement against fossil fuels. Forced energy transformationists want an end to the internal combustion engine and shuttered fossil-fuel-fired power plants. It is a wind-and-solar world with existing nuclear plants maybe to continue.…

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A Typical Exchange with a Climate Alarmist/Forced Energy Transformationist

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 25, 2022

“The superior case for dense mineral energies economically and environmentally should inspire a rethink. And climate policy is in shambles heading into COP 27.”

“What is really fishy is that those that admit to ‘climate anxiety’ do not have any appetite to seriously entertain the case for CO2/climate optimism, aka energy freedom for the masses. And they see no evil in the eco-sins of wind, solar, and batteries….”

I actively engage in (and occasionally share) debates on LinkedIn against climate alarmists/forced energy transformationists. I sometimes feel like a teacher presenting a suite of arguments that have been cursorily dismissed. The good news is that there are a lot of readers in the middle who see what is going on. A number now join me in what is a two-sided debate at LinkedIn.…

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Energy and Environmental Review: October 24, 2022

By -- October 24, 2022

Ed. note: 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Renewables (General):
*** New York’s risky all-or-nothing energy policy
*** The Green Energy Profiteering Scam
*** Renewable energy is a failed path, scientist tells Utah legislators
*** Report: Europe’s Green experiment — A Costly Failure in Unilateral Climate Policy
Can New York Afford the “Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022”?

Solar Energy:
*** Why solar is not the solution to the energy crisis
*** 300MW solar facility on Ohio denied by State
Solar Farms Toxic Waste…
Report: Requirements for 100% U.S.

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Alex Epstein is Winning (humanism, progress = mineral energies)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 21, 2022
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Battery Airplanes? Nope! (MIT Technology Review)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 20, 2022
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Wind Power: What’s New? (summary from 1932/33)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 19, 2022
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BP Biogas: Greenwashing with the Uneconomic

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 18, 2022
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IPCC: We Call Your Bluff (COP 27 alarmism in the air)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 17, 2022
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Gray Greenwashing: Is Regulation Next?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 13, 2022
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‘Deep Optimism Manifesto’ (David Siegel’s cure for ‘climate anxiety’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 12, 2022
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