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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • April 9, 2021

Big Green Swamps the System with Special Interest Money

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is out with more data exposing the Big Green special interest political influence machine.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • April 5, 2021

Offshore Wind Is Off the Charts Political Nonsense

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Offshore wind makes no economic or environmental sense whatsoever. It is pure politics intended merely to reward special interests.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • April 2, 2021

Infrastructure Bill Amounts to A Cruel Green Slime Joke on Americans

Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” infrastructure bill is a corporatist giveaway and a Nickelodeon style green slime job on all Americans] Yesterday, President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal during a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 31, 2021

Biden Carbon Free Plan Expensive, Infeasible and Just Plain Stupid

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: The Biden Administration is moving really fast to destroy America’s energy independence and bankrupt the country at the same time.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 18, 2021

Blackout Redux: We Now Know What Not to Do About Energy Policy

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Looking back at the Texas blackout one thing we have learned is not to rely on government energy policy for our energy security.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 12, 2021

New Gasoline Stations Banned in Petaluma, California

WeSo, global G ... … …Petaluma has banned construction of any new gasoline stations to encourage electric vehicle use, but will it backfire?
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 11, 2021

NOAA Cattle, All Hat: A Very Political Agency Goes Cold on Science

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: This is one of Robert Bradley’s very best articles as he dismantles the politics that serves as pseudo-science from NOAA.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 7, 2021

Global Warming Scare Tactics Are No Substitute for Facts

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley points out, with examples, that global warming is not an existential threat but something to be studied before acting rashly.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • March 2, 2021

Energy Crisis Problem Solvers in Government Are the Real Problem!

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: We never seem to learn; every time government creates an energy crisis we look to government to solve it, letting our rulers fail upward.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • February 26, 2021

Renewable Energy Is No Friend of Trade Union Jobs

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Renewable energy fantasies are destroying good-paying union jobs without accomplishing much of anything for the environment.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • February 19, 2021

Texas Is Where the Biden Administration Wants Us All to Be: In the Dark

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Texas has powered down in the worst way possible, by increasing dependency on unreliable wind energy as Biden pushes more of the same.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • February 17, 2021

Texas Goes Cold and Dark While Surrounded by Forests of Wind Towers

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Things are bad in Texas, otherwise a great state, due to foolish reliance on wind energy for more and more of its electricity.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • February 11, 2021

Subsidies Are Going to Renewables Not Fossil Fuels!

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: This is a long overdue analysis of who is getting the big energy subsidies from taxpayers and it isn’t fossil fuels.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • February 10, 2021

Tom Wolf’s Severance Tax Obsession Threatens PA Economy

Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf is a spoiled trust-funder obsessed with the fact he can’t just dictate a severance tax be imposed on Pennsylvanians at his will.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • February 5, 2021

Bulk Power System Threatened by China Tampering Under Biden

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden appears to be laying the groundwork for a sellout of our bulk power system (electrical grid) security to Communist China.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • February 3, 2021

Paris Climate Agreement Being Rejoined to Detriment of United States

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: The Paris Climate Agreement is a virtue signaling exercise wrapped in anti-Americanism and global corporatism, so we rejoined, of course.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 27, 2021

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fell 7% Globally in 2020

So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Global carbon dioxide emissions declined 7% globally last year and it wasn’t just COVID.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 25, 2021

Biden Administration Sets Out Plan for Eve of Energy Destruction

Kenny SteinDirector, Policy – Institute for Energy Research.… … [Editor’s Note: Kenny Stein outlines the extraordinary damage the Biden administration executive orders will produce to our energy system and security.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 21, 2021

Tax Credits for Losers Just Continue Forever and Ever

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley succinctly calls out the foolishness of government tax credits for uneconomical wind energy projects and the like.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 18, 2021

China Is the Threat But Our Media and Politicians Have Been Bought

 ... … …[Editor’s Note: China threatens our security and environment but has bought off big business, big tech, media and our political establishment.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 15, 2021

Battery Costs in the Billions About to Be Tacked Onto NY Electric Bills

 ... … …[Editor’s Note: New Yorkers are about to see already high electricity bills go even higher thanks to Governor Cuomo’s battery storage plans.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • January 7, 2021

Climate Policy or Climate Injustice (Or Just Climate TomFoolery?)

David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … …  [Editor’s Note: Climate policy, as envisioned by global tax and spenders, essentially transfers wealth from the poor to already wealthy elites.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • January 5, 2021

Natural Gas Bans Meeting Resistance from Reality

 ... … …[Editor’s Note: Natural gas bans have been enacted by several California communities but are now colliding with the realities of energy affordability.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 30, 2020

Helium Resources Needed for MRI Imaging Extracted with Natural Gas

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: Helium resources essential to MRI imaging are invaluable and obtained via natural gas extraction. It’s why fractivism is a dangerous thing.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 23, 2020

Vaccines to Fight COVID-19 Impossible Without Oil and Gas

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: The vaccines going out across the world to fight COVID-19 would not be possible without oil and gas, as the folks at IER thoroughly explain.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 22, 2020

Transportation and Climate Initiative Is A Fool’s Errand for New England

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: New England, once the land of common sense is now pursuing a Transportation and Climate Initiative that is a fool’s errand by any standard.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 21, 2020

WSJ “News” on Green Energy Is Pure Puffery Compared to Editorial

Roger DonwayContributor, MasterResource … …  [Editor’s Note: Roger Downey focuses on a problem long known to careful readers of the Wall Street Journal or WSJ; its news pages are shallow claptrap when it comes to “green energy.”]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 17, 2020

CO2 Levels Aren’t Necessarily Bad News, But Saying So Is

David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … …  [Editor’s Note: CO2 levels are panned and hyped as dangerous air pollution, but there’s another side to that argument; there is good news being ignored.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 12, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 12, 2020

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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 2, 2020

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Related to Energy Fall in US But Rise in China

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: The U.S. is actually reducing CO2 emissions related to energy as China goes precisely in the opposite direction with increases.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 1, 2020

Electric Vehicle Mandate in UK Really About Controlling All of Us

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson has banned fracking and aims to force Brits into the electric vehicle they can’t afford, which means pushing them into cities.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 27, 2020

China Does Renewables Head Fake: Builds Energy Reserves with WuFlu

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 24, 2020

Yergin and ‘The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations’

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Daniel Yergin has written another energy tome and Bob Bradley reviews it with a critical eye, finding it quite good as a whole.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 19, 2020

Renewable Energy Is A Losing Proposition: End the Subsidies

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Renewable energy subsidies have supported an industry that is completely uneconomic and unsustainable and the time is past to end them.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 12, 2020

Lithium Batteries Ain’t No Solution If You’re Worried About Pollution

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: Lithium batteries are at the heart of renewable energy storage plans but they are dirty, dangerous and pollute far more than fracking.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • November 8, 2020

Tom Wolf Wants Pennsylvania in RGGI and Higher Electric Bills

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf arrogantly demands Pennsylvania join RGGI to pay 50% higher electric bills like the rest of the Northeast states in the suicide pact.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 6, 2020

Wind Power Trap Threatens to Make the UK the New California

 ... … … Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson, who rejected fracking, now wants to take the United Kingdom right into the wind power trap just like the idiots in California.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 30, 2020

Biden’s Plans Regarding Energy Are Simply Not Doable

 ... … … Editor’s Note: Biden’s plans to recreate the entire U.S. energy system beginning with electricity over the next 14 years will result in enormous costs.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 29, 2020

California and New Jersey Buy EV Poison Pills from Biden

 ... … … Editor’s Note: EVs are PC in places such as California and New Jersey where Democrat governors are eager to buy into Joe Biden’s electric vehicle scheme.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • October 27, 2020

Joe Biden, If Elected, Would Ruin America’s Energy System

 ... … … Editor’s Note: It’s unclear if Joe Biden has a clear idea about anything, but he certainly doesn’t understand energy or anything about how it’s produced.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 21, 2020

Green New Deal Unexpectedly Turns Into Kryptonite!

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Politicians are now rapidly running away from radical green agendas and fracking bans, as Bob Bradley explains in this insightful post.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 20, 2020

Carbon Free Energy Doesn’t Exist, Joe. Come on Man!

 ... … … Editor’s Note: There is no such thing as carbon free energy but politicians such as Joe Biden can’t grasp it and “green energy” advocates won’t even try.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 16, 2020

Climate Justice They Say, But It’s All Just More Special Interest Politics

David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … …  [Editor’s Note: Climate justice is no real thing; it’s but yet still another con designed to feed the needs of ravenous special interests from the swamp.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 12, 2020

Congestion on the Grid Forcing Cancellation of Solar and Wind Projects

 ... … … Editor’s Note: Congestion isn’t just about traffic routes; it also affects the electrical grid and solar and wind projects are creating it and dying by it.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 11, 2020

Energy Policy Advocates Fight Back Against Anti-Industrial Forces

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Bob Bradley talks about a new group, Energy Policy Advocates, that is “working to unmask the dark forces of authoritarianism.”]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • October 9, 2020

Banning Fracking Such A Bad Idea Biden/Harris Now Denying They Said It

 ... … … Editor’s Note: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are both on video saying they were for banning fracking but now they’re denying what we all saw with our own eyes and claiming they were never in favor of banning fracking!
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 8, 2020

California Green Slime: Biden’s Big Plan to Spread It Around!

 ... … … Editor’s Note: California green slime energy politics have put the Golden state on a slippery slope Joe Biden wants to steepen as he spreads the stuff!
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 1, 2020

Ontario: Where the Green New Deal Was Tried, Failed and Repealed

 ... … … Ontario gave a Canadian version of the Green New Deal a decade to prove itself and it failed — spectacularly so — for the province citizenry.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 24, 2020

China Lies and Pursues Coal Strategy As Naive Enviros Buy the Hype

 ... … … [Editor Comment: China is lying yet again as it pretends to be a climate warrior while pursing a coal and green deception strategy to gain ascendancy.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • September 15, 2020

Tom Wolf Plans to Impose New Taxes on Pennsylvanians

 ... … … [Editor Comment: Tom Wolf is trying to simply put Pennsylvania into RGGI over the bi-partisan objections of his legislature and it isn’t working.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 11, 2020

New York State Practices to Deceive on Green Energy

 ... … … [Editor Comment: New York State has rendered local opinion irrelevant and dispensable when it comes to favored “green energy” schemes and scams.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 9, 2020

Lithium May Well Be the Next Chinese Virus to Threaten the U.S.

 ... … … [Editor Comment: China is looking to dominate production of rare earth minerals such as Lithium and we are making ourselves vulnerable to this new virus.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 5, 2020

Green Jobs? What Green Jobs? Come on Man! Let’s Be Real!

David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … …  [Editor’s Note: Green energy jobs are always on the horizon, according to true believers, but somehow never appear; they’re a mirage, a bad dream and, sadly, a scam.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 4, 2020

Ocean City Left Blowin’ in the Wind, Just Like Fracking

 ... … … [Editor Comment: Ocean City, Maryland, and its economic interests have been ignored, just like fracking, in the mad pursuit of green government rent and virtue.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 2, 2020

Chevron Speaks Truth to Greenout Power: Oil and Gas IS the Future

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: As Bob Bradley explains, Chevron is speaking truth to the politically correct powers who want to milk “green energy” for all it’s worth.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 29, 2020

Renewable Energy Model Isn’t Working, But Biden Wants to Double Down

 ... … … [Editor Comment: California demonstrates the foolishness of the all renewable energy model and New York is going down the same road and Biden wants more.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 27, 2020

California Power Crisis Generates Excuses and More Excuses

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Bob Bradley nails the very real problem inherent in the California power crisis; the failure of its architects to acknowledge the reality.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 20, 2020

President Trump Most Free Market Oriented Leader in Energy History

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: I agree with Bob Bradley’s analysis here and the AEA endorsement of Trump.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 18, 2020

California Forced Reliance on Solar and Wind Power Disastrous

 ... … … [Editor Comment: So, California, crazier than imagined, is now feeling the pain of forced renewable mandates and green virtue signaling.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 14, 2020

Germany and It’s Green Utopian Plans Turn Into Dystopian Debacle

Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: The IER’s Alexander Stevens explains the implosion of the green utopia planned by Germany, a program requiring ever more corrections.]
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