Energy

By Ronald Stein

California households are already paying about 40 percent more than the national average for electricity and $1.00 more per gallon of gas.

California’s mistaken new energy law spells trouble for everyone. As business flees, the politicians in Sacramento are going to want to inflict the same burdens on the rest of us to “make things fair.” This energy-wound is self inflicted. California should adopt a wiser course and others should avoid repeating their mistake.

Businesses get saddled with burdensome mandates, consumers pay higher prices, and economies flounder. Even worse, such measures often take their toll on those who can afford it least – namely the poor.

Permanently bury these job-killing proposals, after pounding wooden stakes through their hearts.

By Ronald Stein

California’s government flunks basic math.

California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday that mandates the state obtain 100 percent of its electricity from zero-carbon sources by 2045, marking a major win for the environmental movement.

Years behind schedule and $60 billion over budget, estimated construction costs have now risen to over $1.2 million per mile of track.

“The New England electricity market will rapidly worsen, requiring further out-of-market actions to adequately compensate generators in order to preserve grid reliability… State subsidies will beget reliability subsidies, driving consumer costs ever higher and doing away with future market-based investments for new or existing power generation.”

Xcel energy claims that wasting billions will save Coloradans money. CFACT student pollsters found that students see through this nonsense.

Almost half of Germany’s electric power comes from coal fired generation. That is a lot of juice and a lot of jobs.

By Ronald Stein

California’s new zero-emissions energy bill flunks basic math.

Why is the US EPA still determined to control plant food and drive up electricity prices? By Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris

Angela Merkel has shocked the climate alarmist world by declining to support tighter Paris Agreement emission targets for the European Union.

Legislators in the California Assembly passed a zero-carbon bill on Tuesday, putting the state one step closer toward an unprecedented new mandate for emissions-free electricity.

Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was a wrong-headed mistake, guaranteed to make American power more expensive while not meaningfully cleaning anything. EPA is now working to rectify Obama’s CPP and has unveiled a replacement called the “Affordable Clean Energy” rule.

While the Greens have been effective at convincing certain local and provincial leaders to oppose pipelines, they have only had mixed results with indigenous peoples. The reason: Because many of these tribes are poor and in desperate need of economic development.

CFACT was proud to contribute to this New Orleans event which revealed much of what has been hidden from the energy debate.

CFACT’s Bonner Cohen explains Russian covert support for and influence over the environmental movement at Heartland’s America First energy conference in New Orleans. WATCH NOW.

There are many factors people employ when choosing a vehicle. Fuel efficiency is important. So are safety, range, passenger capacity, cargo capacity, weather handling, towing, style, comfort and the rest.

Former President Barack Obama’s DOE expanded the class of bulbs covered by a 2007 lightbulb ban to include bug lights, three-way bulbs, “rough service lamps,” and some decorative bulbs, such as globe-shaped bulbs. Obama’s decision came in January 2017 and roped in bulbs that had previously been exempt from the ban.