- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 14, 2021
China Making Itself An Energy Superpower As Biden Cowers
China … …[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden’s is indebted to cowers before China, putting China First, just as China is, while Biden sets America up as the stooge to fund green eggs and scam.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 8, 2021
Exploding California Energy Prices Driving Out Californians
California Alexander StevensPolicy Analyst, Institute of Energy Research …. …. [Editor’s Note: California has the 48th worst energy prices of all the states.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 3, 2021
AR6 Is More of the Same: No Trends But Lots of Hype
David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: The IPCC’s latest climate assessment, affectionately known as AR6, continues to document few trends of concern but still hypes a non-existent future threat.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 1, 2021
Mining Is THE Critical Occupation; So Stop Trashing It!
mining … …[Editor’s Note: Mining is necessary for producing every form of energy from coal to gas to solar to wind and it’s time we stop trashing it and honored this critical occupation!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 25, 2021
Afghanistan Lithium Lost to China. Is Biden Selling Us Out?
Afghanistan … …[Editor’s Note: Natural gas bans aren’t happening organically; they’re being financed by a ruling class looking to move trillions from ratepayers and taxpayers their own way!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2021
Gas Bans Will Transfer Trillions from Americans to Elites
bans … …[Editor’s Note: Natural gas bans aren’t happening organically; they’re being financed by a ruling class looking to move trillions from ratepayers and taxpayers their own way!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 9, 2021
Infrastructure Bill An Ugly Creature of the Washington Swamp
Infrastructure Bill … …[Editor’s Note: The Washington DC Swamp is a supremely ugly place and the Infrastructure Bill, cravenly supported by numerous Republicans, is the proof of how bad things are.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 2, 2021
Why Does Joe Biden Want to Kill Our Oil and Gas?
oil and gas … …[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden is on the war path against oil and gas, a foundation of America’s success.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 28, 2021
Green Technologies Represent the New Black Eye in Pollution and Waste
Green Technologies … …[Editor’s Note: Green technologies are not only highly inefficient in producing energy but also involve huge amounts of pollution and difficult to dispose of solid wastes.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 19, 2021
Transportation and Climate Initiative Support Drops Like Rock
Transportation and Climate Initiative … …[Editor’s Note: Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) support by member states is shallow. High prices changed everything it seems.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 14, 2021
The Xiden Era: China Grows Its Refining Capacity As We Choke Off Ours
electricity electric vehicles … …[Editor’s Note: China is expected to have more refining capacity than the United States this year, while Biden pushes a zero-carbon future.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 9, 2021
So, You’re Saying No Electricity for My Electric Vehicle?
electricity electric vehicles … …[Editor’s Note: There may not be enough electricity for my electric vehicle? Who knew? Well, everyone with an ounce of common sense saw this coming and that’s the point.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 8, 2021
Energy Is the Coal Mine Canary for Economic Freedom
Energy Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Economic freedom is the only thing that advances society and creates real wealth for all citizens.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 18, 2021
Russia and OPEC Mopping the Floor with Clueless Joe Biden
Garrett KehrInstitute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: Russia and OPEC are gaining more favor with Joe Biden than U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 16, 2021
Keystone XL Pipeline Debacle Shows Just How Bad Biden Is
germany … …[Editor’s Note: The Keystone XL Pipeline cancellation by Joe Biden shows a complete sellout of the Democrat party to gentry class interests and throwing overboard of labor.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 4, 2021
Biden Plans to Buy Foreign Minerals to Force Green Energy on All of Us
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Biden wants us to depend on foreign sources (e.g., China) for rare earth minerals necessary to his green eggs and scam scheme.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 1, 2021
Biden Caves to Germany (Desperate Due to Energiewende) and Putin
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Biden caves to Putin and a Germany now desperate for natural gas due to the huge failure of its Energiewende version of the green new deal.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- May 25, 2021
Natural Gas Replacing Nuclear, Despite What Cuomo and Others Say
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Cynical politicians are fond of saying “Watch what we do, not what we say.” Is that what’s happening with natural gas?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- May 21, 2021
Solyndra Springs Anew with Incompetent Biden Copycatting of Obama
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Solyndra sort scams and schemes are springing to life again under Joe Biden who only knows how to copycat Obama’s green failures.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- May 19, 2021
Cable It In Is No Strategy for Fixing the Problems with Offshore Wind
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Offshore wind is an idiotic idea that just keeps getting worse as cable problems mount for already wildly expensive energy projects.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- May 14, 2021
Newsom Fracking and Oil Ban Will Make California Ever Less Self-Reliant
germany … …[Editor’s Note: There are so, so many awful governors with no moral compass other than political correctness and control.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 12, 2021
Colonial Pipeline Incident Suddenly Illustrates Importance of Pipelines!
germany … …[Editor’s Note: The Colonial Pipeline shutdown illustrates just how critical pipelines really are to everyday life as we know it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 6, 2021
Jobs? You Want Jobs? Turn to Natural Gas for Crying Out Loud!
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan misses the big point; that the best and most jobs are to be found in the natural gas industry.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- May 4, 2021
Biden Plan for Offshore Wind Is Wildly Expensive and Wholly Stupid
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden, a puppet being manipulated by the worst sort special interests, is pushing an offshore wind fiasco that will accomplish nothing.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 22, 2021
Earth Day Is A Reason to Celebrate Today, Not Whine!
Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Earth Day should be a celebration of progress, innovation, markets and growth, not a whiny attack on all of it, as too many would have it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 20, 2021
Wood Pellets Power Europe As Continent Takes A Giant Step Backward
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Europe’s focus on biomass in the form of wood pellets to produce electricity is a step backward on CO2 and shows green energy is anything but.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 15, 2021
Germany Energy Taxes to Go Green with Energiewende Lead It to Go Bust
germany … …[Editor’s Note: Germany energy solutions now being pursued by Biden, California, New York, New Jersey, et al have proven to be disasters on every level.]- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- 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.- 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.]- 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.]- 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?- 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.]- 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.]- 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.]- 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.]- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- 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.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.]- 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.]- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- 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.]- 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.]- 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.]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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- 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.”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- November 27, 2020