- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 30, 2023
Troubled Fishermen’s Climate Lawsuit Remains in Federal Court, Judge Rules
A federal judge in California ruled this month that a lawsuit brought by a west coast fishing trade group—with deep ties to the law firm backing numerous climate cases against the oil and gas industry—belongs in federal court.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 15, 2023
The House of Representatives and State Attorneys General Take Aim at California’s EV Mandate
On Thursday evening, the House of Representatives voted in favor of legislation to effectively overturn California’s all-electric vehicle mandate, as Politico Pro reports: “The House approved Republican-backed legislation Thursday taking aim at efforts in California and other states to increase electric vehicle sales.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 17, 2023
To Meet Demand, California Delays Closure of Natural Gas Plants (Again)
Over the last three years, California lawmakers and regulators have struggled to balance energy security with the state’s aggressive decarbonization agenda.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 17, 2023
Federal Court Overturns Berkeley Natural Gas Ban
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just overturned California’s first natural gas ban – an ordinance passed by the City of Berkeley in 2019 – ruling that it is preempted by federal law.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 21, 2023
Gov. Newsom’s Plan to Address High Gas Prices: More Bureaucracy, No Solutions
Six months after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California needed to address high gas prices and , details of the Governor’s plan are finally coming to light.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 24, 2023
While CA Legislators Push Back on Gasoline Price Gouging Claims, Gov. Newsom Demands Probe into High Energy Prices
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) continues to blame the oil and natural gas industry for high energy prices. California consumers’ energy costs have increased over the past due to a combination of statewide policies, regional weather fluctuations, pipeline availability and increased wholesale prices.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 4, 2023
Green Energy Infatuation Puts Millions at Risk of Death
Green Energy Infatuation Puts Millions at Risk of Death Vijay Jayaraj Research Associate: CO2 Coalition.. .… … … [Editor’s Note: Green energy scams are about money and power for elites as those infatuated with the idea and acting out as corporatist shills put millions at risk of death.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Fracking, Natural Gas Prices
- December 26, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 26, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 26, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Fracking, Natural Gas Prices
- December 17, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 17, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 17, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 7, 2022
Electric Car Pipe Dreams No Substitute for Reality
Electric Car Pipe Dreams No Substitute for Reality Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: The idea electric cars can completely replace vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is – at its most innocent – a pipe dream.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 5, 2022
California Energy Commission Hearing Offers No Aid to Newsom Before State Legislature Investigates Alleged Price Gouging
California lawmakers kicked off a special legislative session today at the behest of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to evaluate “a price-gouging penalty on oil companies that choose to rake in excessive profits at the expense of Californians,” despite allegations of price gouging being thoroughly debunked during a California Energy Commission (CEC) just last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 10, 2022
Newsom Energy Policies Moving Californians Anywhere Else!
Newsom Energy Policies Moving Californians Anywhere Else! Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Gavin Newsom and his politically correct energy policies are exploding prices and leading to an exodus from the Golden State to anywhere else but California.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 5, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – November 5, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – November 5, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 21, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 21, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 21, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 19, 2022
Electric Vehicles Are the Future of California? Well, No…
Electric Vehicles Are the Future of California? Well, No… Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Everyone in electric vehicles is the dream of California’s pretty-boy, rich-kid governor.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 6, 2022
Experts Push Back on Politically Motivated Price Gouging Allegations, Again
The mixed messages on domestic energy production from the Biden administration continue, this time, echoed by California Governor Gavin Newsom as gas prices inch higher across the country and surge in California.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 6, 2022
Newsom Imposes Huge New Energy Costs on Californians
Newsom Imposes Huge New Energy Costs on Californians ... … … [Editor’s Note: Gavin Newsom has been competing to be America’s worst governor ever since Andrew Cuomo fell from grace and he’s succeeding by raising California energy prices!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 4, 2022
California Governor Proposes Windfall Profit Tax After Working to Shut Down State’s Oil Production
The irony is lost on Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is now calling for a windfall profits tax in the wake of high gasoline prices after spending much of the past two years seeking to shut down oil production in the state.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 29, 2022
Solar Power Is No Solution at All, But China Benefits, So…
Solar Power Is No Solution at All, But China Benefits, So… ... … … [Editor’s Note: Solar power is a joke when it comes to reliability, cost and environmental impact but China is the big winner so, therefore, China indebted Joe Biden loves it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 27, 2022
California Is No Model, So Why Does New York Still Mimic It?
California Is No Model, So Why Does New York Still Mimic It? Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: California is the last place any state should look for ideas unless programmed failure is the objective, but that’s exactly what New York looks to as a model.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 23, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 23, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 23, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 22, 2022
ESG, Extreme Shortages Guaranteed, Is Pure Insanity!
ESG, Extreme Shortages Guaranteed, Is Pure Insanity! Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: ESG is a formula for total energy disaster; politically correct but absolutely insane in terms of meeting the everyday energy needs of our civilization.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 20, 2022
California EV Dream A Nightmare for Freedom to Travel
California EV Dream A Nightmare for Freedom to Travel Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: California is always at the head of the pack in pursuing the worst ideas and its EV mandate will destroy freedom to travel.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 19, 2022
Patagonia Goes Full Phony Primping Preppies for Profits
Patagonia Goes Full Phony Primping Preppies for Profits Jason Spiess IHost of The Crude Life, “Everyday Energy For Everyday People” Multi-Media Journalist … [Editor’s Note: Our friend Jason Spiess, host of The Crude Life, has now created ESG University, where the dangers of ESG and those who are relentlessly pushing it are regularly exposed.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 17, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 17, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 17, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 15, 2022
Renewable Energy Obsession Leading to Energy Rationing!
Renewable Energy Obsession Leading to Energy Rationing Vijay Jayaraj Research Associate: CO2 Coalition.. .… … … [Editor’s Note: Renewable energy being compulsively imposed on us by corporatists, ideologues and special interests without concern for impacts is yielding energy rationing.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 14, 2022
Crude Oil, Not Breezes and Sunshine, Sustains Society
Crude Oil, Not Breezes and Sunshine, Sustains Society Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crude oil and natural gas are what sustain our civil society as we know it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 8, 2022
Flatten the Curve? Again? Yes, Control Is What They Want!
Flatten the Curve? Again? Yes, Control Is What They Want! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. “Flatten the curve” is a bad reminder of the disaster that was the government COVID response.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 7, 2022
California Steams Toward Statism and Energy Doomsday!
California Steams Toward Statism and Energy Doomsday Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog….- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 7, 2022
California Calls for Energy Conservation After Announcing Plan to Ban Gasoline Car Sales
California issued a flex alert to conserve energy, less than a week after state officials announced a plan to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035 and accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 3, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 3, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 3, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Natural Gas Prices
- August 26, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 26, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 26, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 25, 2022
EV Madness Ignores Truth of Impacts on the Lives of Others
EV Madness Ignores Truth of Impacts on the Lives of Others Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California ..- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 24, 2022
West Coast AGs Oppose Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion Despite Building Pressure on the Power Grid
In a move that is somehow both predictable and baffling, attorneys general from California, Oregon, and Washington filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urging the agency to reject a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion project on the grounds that “the project does not serve the public necessity or interest,” even though the states, especially California, continue to struggle through a sustained energy crisis that has put massive pressure on their power grids.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Natural Gas Prices
- August 10, 2022
Renewable Energy Is the Corporatist Rat Hole Where Your Taxes Go!
Renewable Energy: A Corporatist Rat Hole Where Your Taxes Go ... … … [Editor’s Note: Renewable energy corporatists are grabbing billions of our dollars under the Biden-Manchin-Schumer inflation act, which also raises natural gas prices.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 4, 2022
Natural Gas Is a Major Part Of the Solution To California’s Energy Crisis
California is once again struggling with an energy supply crisis, causing the state to look to natural gas power generation facilities to try to prevent blackouts and brownouts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 30, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 30, 2022 Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 27, 2022
Heat Waves Show Electric Grids Cannot Rely on Solar and Wind
Heat Waves Show Electric Grids Cannot Rely on Solar and Wind ... … … [Editor’s Note: Heat waves in Texas and Europe are exposing the foolhardiness of electric grid reliance on subsidized solar and wind, as it wrecks havoc with energy economics.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2022
CNX Shows How It’s Done via Old Fashioned Capitalism
CNX Shows How It’s Done via Old Fashioned Capitalism Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: CNX is using carbon capture technology to make money generating biodegradable plastics through its investment in NewLight Technologies that produces “AirCarbon.”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2022
Carter Malaise Suddenly Looking Better Under Joe Biden!
Carter Malaise Suddenly Looking Better Under Joe Biden! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOWContributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Jimmy Carter was more or less destroyed by his “Malaise Speech” but some of his energy ideas were positively brilliant compared to Joe Biden’s dark age idiocy.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2022
Climate “Scientist” Goes Wild and Glues Himself to Bank
Climate “Scientist” Goes Wild and Glues Himself to Bank! Robert BradleyFounder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog….- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 2, 2022
Los Angeles Ignores Cost Concerns, Bans Natural Gas In New Construction
The city of Los Angeles has joined the list of California municipalities banning the installation of most natural gas appliances like stoves and furnaces in the construction of new buildings.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 21, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 21, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 21, 2022 Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2022
Electrical Shortages Are Coming: Thank Joe Biden!
Electrical Shortages Are Coming: Thank Joe Biden! ... … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden’s policies are creating shortages on every level, from baby formula to every other human need.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 17, 2022
Elon, It’s Not Only Freedom of Speech, But Energy Freedom!
Elon, It’s Not Just Freedom of Speech, But Energy Freedom! Vijay JayarajResearch Associate: CO2 Coalition.. .… … … [Editor’s Note: Elon Musk seems intent on standing up for freedom of speech and hooray for that, but there’s also the serious matter of energy freedom and the threats to it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 14, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 14, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 14, 2022 Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 10, 2022
NFG Drops Contemptible California for Alluring Appalachia
NFG Drops Contemptible California for Alluring Appalachia Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: National Fuel Gas Company a/k/a NFG, which owns Seneca Resources, is dropping mad as hatter California for more appealing Appalachian natural gas opportunities, though it still has crazy NY to fight.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 30, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 30, 2022 Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Natural Gas Prices
- April 29, 2022
Britain Goes Bonkers on Climate and Ignores Reality!
Britain Goes Bonkers on Climate and Ignores Reality! ... … … [Editor’s Note: Politicians are the ruination of a nation. Britain is proving it with a ludicrous rule for climate plans that will increase dependency while ignoring reality!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Natural Gas Prices
- March 12, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 12, 1922!
Natural Gas Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- January 25, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, January 25, 1922!
Natural Gas Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news, not now, but a hundred years ago, offers great perspective for discussing current issues with the cleanest of the fossil fuels still serving us.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Natural Gas Prices
- January 18, 2022
Britain Goes Off the Rails on Energy and Biden Is Following!
Britain Paul DriessenCFACT …. …. [Editor’s Note: Great Britain and Europe have made an horrible mess of things when it comes to energy policy, going precisely in the wrong direction and Biden says “follow!”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 11, 2022
EV Charging Means More Than You Ever Imagined!
EV Charging Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: EV charging is where reality meets the road for electic vehicles.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 10, 2022
Diversity Is What It’s All About When It Comes to Energy Supply
diversity ... … … The diversity of our energy supply is critical if we want all-important reliability in such necessities such as heat, lights, hot food and electricity.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 7, 2022
Rooftop Solar, Propped Up by Subsidies, Takes A Big Fall
Rooftop Solar, Propped Up by Subsidies, Has Taken A Big Fall Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog..- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 6, 2022
EVs Are the Worst Thing You Can Drive in An Emergency!
Cakifornia Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: How many of you would be comfortable being stuck in EVs on I-95 for 27 hours as some Virginians were?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 5, 2022
Biden Fast-Tracking A Political Collapse with Climate Plans
Biden Dr. Patrick J. MichaelsSenior Fellow, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Clueless Joe Biden is following a totalitarian script from his advisors.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 4, 2022