The Texas Offshore Wind Fable

Guest “Not even wrong!” by David Middleton Offshore wind farm proposed for Gulf of Mexico near Galveston could power 2.3 million homesTwo proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana…

U.S. Oil Companies Double Capital Expenditures Year-Over-Year

Guest “Slapping down another Biden lie” by David Middleton OIL Published June 11Biden points blame for record oil prices: ‘Exxon made more money than God this year’President Biden blamed oil…

E&E News Defames Pat Michaels

Guest “They also contradicted their own defamatory headline” by David Middleton Patrick Michaels, influential climate denier, dies at 72By Scott Waldman | 07/19/2022 One of the most influential climate deniers…

Biden to declare climate emergency? Ban offshore drilling?

Guest “Just when you thought he couldn’t get any dumber” by David Middleton Note: I wrote most of this post this morning before Biden delivered his climate emergency remarks in…

US Electric Vehicle Sales Finally Catch Ford F-Series Pickup Trucks

Electric vehicle sales hit new record in Q2Despite supply shortages and high prices, many consumers are flocking to EVs. Published July 14, 2022 The number of battery-electric vehicles sold in…

Hey Joe! How’s That “Incredible Transition” Going For Ya?

Guest “Incredible Transition” my @$$!” by David Middleton Does he even know what the initials EIA stand for? He wouldn’t sound nearly so moronic if he occasionally checked with the…

SPR Oil Shipped to China, India & Europe

Guest “No Schist Sherlock” by David Middleton Why Biden Sent American Oil To ChinaReuters reports that the U.S. sent 5 million barrels of oil to China, India, and Europe last…

Biden Maladministration Lies Again: Draft Offshore Leasing Plan Not Delivered as Promised

Guest “Biden is the Quicker-Fracker-Upper” by David Middleton June 30, 2022 Biden administration offshore drilling plan delayedBy Jarrett Renshaw and Nichola Groom June 30 (Reuters) – The Biden administration on…

The Best-Mislaid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry: Biden Oil Edition

But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’…

How Long Has He Been Standing There?

Guest “Scale and context” by David Middleton I just noticed this 2019 Time magazine cover in a LinkedIn post this morning. CTM covered it back in 2019 when he reposted…

Biden Ahead of Schedule in Destroying US Offshore Oil Production

Guest “First, the good news” by David Middleton JUNE 21, 2022EIA expects nine new Gulf of Mexico natural gas and crude oil fields to start in 2022 In our June…

Just When You Thought Biden Couldn’t Get Any Dumber… Demands Oil Companies Increase Production

Guest “Bring it on Brandon!” by David Middleton Published June 15Biden threatens oil companies with ’emergency powers’ if they don’t boost supply amid inflation spikeBiden says oil companies are earning…

Shell Goes Full BP – Part Trois

Guest “Why would we want to be ‘competitive’ with Europe” by David Middleton Shell Is Looking To Shake Up The Energy Game In TexasBy Haley Zaremba – Jun 12, 2022,…

PETM: Good Science Meets Science Journalism in the Gulf of Mexico

Guest “Oy vey!” by David Middleton 4 June 2022 Qamariya Nasrullah How ancient ocean life in the Gulf of Mexico escaped mass extinctionThe geology of the sheltered basin helped protect…

Biden Considering Retroactive Cancellation of Federal Oil & Gas Leases… As Gas Prices Approach $10/gal in California

Guest “You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton The same corrupt Obama judge who lawlessly nullified the November 2021 Gulf of Mexico lease sale, blocked lease sales in Wyoming, may…

Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!

Guest “They got it bass-ackwards, once again” by David Middleton Electricity operators must wake up to climate change — or brace for summer outagesBY ROMANY M. WEBB, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR –…

Air Conditioning a Human Right… Because Climate Change?

Guest “Goods and services aren’t rights” by David Middleton HEALTH & FITNESS | MAY 16, 2022 2:29 PMWhy Air Conditioning Should Be a Universal Human RightThis century is only going…

LinkedIn’s Climate “Script”

Guest “Level playing field, my @$$” by David Middleton Over the past year or so, a number of scientists, skeptical of the alarmist climate change narrative, have been banned from…

“Germany Poised to Become LNG Powerhouse”???

Guest “I do not think that word, powerhouse, means what you think it means” by David Middleton Germany Poised to Become LNG Powerhouse With Law to Cut Red TapeLegislation set…

Biden Maladministration Cancels Oil & Gas Lease Sales, While Demanding More Oil Production

Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up if I was trying” by David Middleton Interior Department cancels offshore oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of…

Global Warming Leads to More Carbon Sinks

Guest “For peat’s sake!” by David Middleton Are new carbon sinks appearing in the Arctic? 5.5.2022 Helsingin yliopisto Global warming can result in the spread of peatland vegetation in the…

“Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming” except when they do…

Guest “double take” by David Middleton September 2017 21 September 2017 Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming ZEKE HAUSFATHER A new study published in the Nature Geosciences journal this week…

Asset Managers Are Ignoring Climate “Science” and Continuing to Fund Fossil Fuels!

Guest “You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton ESG AND GREEN BUSINESSGiant global asset managers have $82 billion in coal projects, $468 billion in oil and gasPUBLISHED WED, APR 20…

2021: The Year Renewables “Lost Last Place”

Guest “Let’s go Mets!” by David Middleton There are three things that I am somewhat embarrassed of: I am not a native Texan… I was born in Connecticut, but I…