As I reported earlier this week, the EU has now formally abandoned its 2035 ban on the sale of new petrol/diesel cars.
Category: Climate Economics
Climate Fundraising Update: Hope amid Doom
“Climate activists are in denial. A great reset is underway…. But are they willing to emotionally reject their prior thinking for cause?”
Our Final Objection To Our Local Utility’s Rate Increase
The problem for the supporters of the settlement, principally Con Edison and the Public Service Department Staff, was that they had admitted in the documentation that the JP contained “funding”…
One state’s green mandates can become another state’s nightmare
States that have adopted “clean-energy” mandates are accustomed to having ratepayers in other states help them pick up the tab for their headlong march to a green utopia. This is…
Today’s IQ Test: Which Is Cheaper To Produce Electricity, Wind/Solar Or Fossil Fuels?
So who is right? We’ve had a long wait here in the U.S. as groups of states have incrementally differentiated their energy systems, and then as data have accumulated as…
Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms
The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections…
BHP Exec to Australia: “time to reconsider net zero” if Australia wants Mining Investment
A senior executive of Australia’s largest mining company has delivered an ultimatum to our green leaders.
New York’s climate law will ration fossil fuels and tax the rations
Clearly capping fuel use is infeasible. Energy is fundamental to our way of life.
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
Policymakers would do well to heed energy experts like Schernikau and Stein. Chasing luxury beliefs do not cost well-heeled climate bureaucrats and renewables ideologues much, but the burdens of irrational…
Claim: The USA Securing Critical Mineral Supply Chains Threatens the Global Climate
Apparently the USA has to stay dependent on China for Rare Earths, otherwise the planet will suffer a climate catastrophe.
Claim: “lack of long-term revenue certainty” is Crashing Aussie Renewable Investment.
Are renewables investors worried the subsidies could cease?
Solar Bankruptcy: Pine Gate Renewables (boom to bust continues)
“What about the triple-digit number of creditors who banked on a loser? What about taxpayers who funded around 30 percent of the solar investment? … Ben Catt is just another…
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster
The newest Democrat party line is “affordability,” but renewable energy in California shows how not to be affordable.
Why is My Energy Bill Even Higher?
It is encouraging that opposition parties have started to challenge the Net Zero orthodoxy. The Green Blob should be left in no doubt that the trolley bus has been diverted…
IEA Publishes Climate Era’s Obituary
The end is nigh – not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. It has been a decline brought about mainly by the sheer reality of energy economics…
Rising Electricity Prices? Blame Green Energy Policies, Not President Trump
Democrats should stop blaming Republicans for soaring energy prices in blue states that their own green energy policies cause. If they want prices to reverse course, then they should use…
Climate Change Weekly # 563—COP 30 Week Two: Paris Agreement Failure Redux
The doomism dance of Hansen and his catastrophist fellow travelers continues, but in the wider world, alarmism is out, affordability in. Also, mitigation is out, adaptation in. A lot of…
Labour’s Callous Betrayal of The ‘Environmentally Responsible’ and Their Gravy Train
As far as Mr Moore is concerned, being “environmentally sound” should go hand in hand with a lifetime of being exempt from road tax and fuel excise duty. Anything else…
Green Depression: German Companies Fight For Survival – Insolvencies Reach Peak In October!
Germany serves as an example of how not to manage energy supply and economics in a country.
Labour net zero levies now main driver of rising energy bills
Two years late is better than nothing, I suppose Telegraph:
New York At The Green Energy Wall — What Is The Exit Strategy?
Our legislators, innumerate to a person, had bought into the fantasy — peddled by lightweight academics like Mark Jacobson and Robert Howarth, and by grifting promoters like the American Wind…
Reuters: “They [China] will lose” if the World Retreats from Renewable Energy
“… China is acting as a guarantor … They invested a lot on the green economy. If there’s any kind of involution, they will lose. …”
“Existential Crisis”: German Chancellor Demands Tariff Protection for Industry Hit by High Energy Prices
I’m sure those cheaper renewable energy prices will kick in. Any day now.
Waste of the Day: Michigan’s Chinese Battery Plant Falls Through
Michigan’s plan to rely on a Chinese company to create American jobs is dead in the water. The state pulled out of an agreement to give Gotion, Inc., $715 million…
