Energy

The International Energy Agency has been consistent — and consistently wrong — about global coal demand.

In 2015, the Paris-based agency declared, "The golden age of coal in China seems to be over." That year, it predicted global coal demand would fall to 5.5 billion tons by 2020.  read more »

California Governor Gavin Newsom refuses to address the hydrocarbon elephant in the room, namely that The End of Oil Would be the End of Civilization as the products manufactured from crude oil played a major role in building the world from one billion to eight billion people in the past 200 years.  read more »

It is the global climate-change conference that no one cares about. The latest United Nations (UN) ‘conference of the parties’, otherwise known as COP29, is currently being hosted in oil-rich, authoritarian Azerbaijan.  read more »

Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental  read more »

North America, with its vast resources, may be in a position to save the economies of the west. But governments on both sides of the border seem more concerned with green virtue signaling than actually finding a workable approach to carbon emissions  read more »

The reports about the damage caused by Hurricane Helene and the amount of water dumped on the region by the storm are gobsmacking.  read more »

California’s emission mandates do an excellent job of increasing the cost of electricity, products, and fuels to its citizens.  read more »

You won’t read much about this in major media outlets, but nearly every week, local communities across the US are rejecting or restricting solar and wind projects.  read more »

Last week, I took my 2012 Acura to my longtime auto repair shop, Rising Sun Automotive, for an oil change.  read more »

Hyping solar energy is one of America’s most renewable resources. For instance, in 1978, Ralph Nader declared that “everything will be solar in 30 years.”  read more »