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Climate accord withdrawal divides White House

Earlier this month, a Politico headline reported a "White House showdown on Paris deal set for next week," to resolve "simmering tensions" regarding "a major point of dispute between the moderate and nationalist wings of the White House." That planned April 18 meeting was subsequently postponed indefinitely due to top official "scheduling conflicts." Reuters reported a White House official saying that Trump aides will later "discuss the options, with the goal of providing a recommendation to the President about the path forward." Contentions surrounding various options revolve around three primary issues: Whether the U.S. should opt out of the Obama administration’s [...]

By Larry Bell |2017-04-25T22:33:50-04:00April 24th, 2017|CFACT Insights|1 Comment

Executive Order promoting energy independence and economic growth — Full Text

President Trump's executive order on energy independence. Full text.

By CFACT Ed |2017-03-28T17:49:49-04:00March 28th, 2017|Energy|5 Comments

President Trump signs energy independence E.O. — Full Remarks

President Trump signed an executive order rolling back various Obama climate and energy policies at EPA headquarter today. Here are his full remarks.

By CFACT Ed |2017-03-28T17:48:17-04:00March 28th, 2017|Energy|2 Comments

Diogenes searching for honest policies

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Drieseen outlines the various justifications for wind turbines and biofuels and shows the fallacies behind arguments in their favor. The simple truth is that renewable energy costs more, and that hurts the poor, who are doubly stung as their tax dollars are given as subsidies to wealthy speculators (like Warren Buffett, who chortled that the subsidies are the reason he makes money from wind).

By Paul Driessen |2017-03-10T09:21:34-05:00March 6th, 2017|CFACT Insights|34 Comments

GIGO-based energy and climate policies

Yety another new "study" promises global disasters of biblical proportions if the U.S. does not unilaterally stop using fossil fuels (and indeed, must subsidize fossil fuels in India and China). But CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen exposes the buffoonery of the so-called Expert Market report - the latest in a long series of computer-driven fake reports that are crafted solely with the intent to frighten people into submission and never matching predictions with actual recorded data.

By Paul Driessen |2017-03-07T03:11:20-05:00February 27th, 2017|CFACT Insights|Comments Off

The hidden agendas of sustainability illusions

Like “dangerous manmade climate change,” sustainability reflects poor understanding of basic energy, economic, resource extraction, and manufacturing principles – and a tendency to emphasize tautologies and theoretical models as an alternative to readily observable evidence in the Real World. It also involves well-intended but ill-informed people being led by ill-intended but well-informed activists who use the concept to gain greater government control over people’s lives, livelihoods, and living standards.

By Paul Driessen |2017-02-10T05:56:21-05:00February 9th, 2017|CFACT Insights|47 Comments

Regional power grids face three dangerous threats

The U.S. power grid is very susceptible to cyber attacks and physical attacks (as happened in Metcalf, California) but mostly to the ongoing fanatical green assault that has led to wind and solar -- both intermittent and widely fluctuating -- interrupting the normal flow of energy through the grid and causing awkward moments for backup natural gas and other generators.

By Larry Bell |2017-01-17T21:48:08-05:00January 17th, 2017|CFACT Insights|Comments Off

American energy finally wins its independence

The 2016 election marks a turning around of U.S. energy policy back toward true "all of the above," with a focus first on using domestic oil, natural gas, and coal resources -- and other energy sources -- to keep the price of energy low, helping consumers and attracting business development. Exploiting domestic resources also creates jobs -- which the American people have demanded.

By Larry Bell |2016-11-14T17:05:19-05:00November 14th, 2016|CFACT Insights|Comments Off

What does Trump’s victory mean for energy policy?

Trump has promised to cut the EPA, scrap the Paris climate treaty and rollback rules holding back U.S. energy production.

By CFACT Ed |2016-11-10T04:24:42-05:00November 10th, 2016|Energy|5 Comments

Clean Power Plan puts states’ rights on trial

CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell chronicles the war between the EPA and the states over usurpation of states' rights inherent in the Clean Power Plan.

By Larry Bell |2016-10-10T13:17:35-04:00October 10th, 2016|CFACT Insights|1 Comment

Confusion, muddle, obfuscation and racism

Winston Churchill called Russia a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. We could say Obama’s energy and climate policy is confusion wrapped in muddled thinking inside obfuscation – and driven by autocratic diktats that bring job-killing, economy-strangling, racist, and deadly outcomes. President Obama was recently in China, where his vainglorious arrival turned into an inglorious snub, when he had to use Air Force 1’s rear exit. He was there mostly to join Chinese President Xi Jinping and UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon to formally sign the Paris climate treaty that Mr. Obama insists is not a treaty (and thus does not [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-09-13T08:01:03-04:00September 12th, 2016|CFACT Insights|Comments Off

GE seeks “greener” pastures in coal

General Electric, one of the world’s largest suppliers of electrical power plant equipment, is all fired up about large markets for new coal-fired generation in India and China as America’s shut down. This may seem quite a turnaround for a company which has been characterized by the National Center for Public Policy Research as “the poster boy for crony capitalism and corporate America’s green energy cheerleader." After all, GE had previously assured investors that coal was on its way out. Its “ecomagination” campaign launched in 2005 focused the company’s future on an “Age of Gas” powered by their heavy-duty turbines along [...]

By Larry Bell |2016-09-06T12:42:18-04:00September 6th, 2016|CFACT Insights|5 Comments

Here’s why China can’t be trusted to cut coal use, fight global warming

China’s coal capacity increased nearly 8 percent in 2015 — the year after they pledged to cut emissions.

By CFACT Ed |2016-09-01T20:05:51-04:00September 1st, 2016|Energy|4 Comments

A new international example for bad energy policy

If a country’s goal is to decrease carbon emissions by increasing reliance on renewable energy, it only makes sense to install the new equipment in the location with the best potential—both in geography and government. For Australia, which has a national Renewable Energy Target (RET) of 33,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity generated by defined renewable sources by 2020, South Australia (SA) is that place. According to SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis, who is also the Energy Minister, the federal government had determined that SA is where “the best conditions for wind farms” could be found. The state government was amenable, [...]

By Marita Noon |2016-08-29T14:57:03-04:00August 29th, 2016|CFACT Insights|1 Comment

John Kerry targets your air conditioner

CFACT Advisor Larry Bell reports that Secretary of State John Kerry is continuing his assault on sanity through his ridiculous diatribes on climate change. Now he wants to ban air conditioning (most likely only for the poor and middle class, though). Meanwhile, Kerry and his pals are still celebrating killing half a million jobs formerly generated by the U.S. coal industry.

By Larry Bell |2016-08-22T13:34:32-04:00August 22nd, 2016|CFACT Insights|32 Comments