Energy Realism this past week focused on the need for affordable and reliable energy and potential market reforms in Texas especially. Energy poverty might just be the most ignored calamity of them all. Jude Clemente believes that the U.S. has a moral obligation to supply an overwhelmingly poor world with natural gas, a cleaner energy source that has become our own go-to fuel. The reality is that an insistence on “only renewables” will only serve to “keep poor people poor.” Even here in the U.S., wind power, for instance, is overly expensive and unreliable. Daniel Turner wants big ideas to help his hometown of New York City but claims that wind power is no solution for the problems faced. Simply put, wind is never as cost effective and the job producer that advocates claim. Frank Lasee demands a fact-based discussion of what is best for our country, the environment, and our wallets. We seem obsessed with a green virtue signaling that is incredibly expensive and a complete waste of taxpayers’ dollars. We have seen such grift in Texas with huge subsidies to force unreliable wind power onto the grid. Brent Bennett says that the Texas legislature should create clear guidelines for statewide electric reliability and ensure that blackouts do not become the norm. Targeted and efficient market reforms can begin to solve this problem if legislators and the Public Utility Commission are willing to ask the hard questions about Winter Storm Uri – and learn the proper lessons from it. In the News Tim Quinson, Bloomberg Salena Zito, NY Post Hester M. Peirce, SEC Holden Walter-Warner, Daily Mail Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge Bloomberg Tax Ellen R. Wald, The Hill Morgan O'Hanlon, Dallas News Peter Z. Grossman, The Hill The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal Reuters Fiona Reynolds, The Hill Chuck DeVore, The Federalist Shoko Oda, Bloomberg Phred Dvorak, Matthew Dalton, The Wall Street Journal Fox News Biden wants companies to report on how much they pollute; 'The Five' react. Practical Engineering When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of ... Tellurian Inc. Supported by fundamentals, our commercial efforts are going extremely well. The demand situation continues to increase, so the outlook for natural gas on a global basis, and for Amer... Heritage Wealth Planning Let's look at ESG investing. Not all that glitters is gold. Financial Times Is ESG - environmental, social, governance - the future of ethical investing? ESG-focused indices advanced 40 per cent in 2019-20. But what counts as ESG is far from straightforward,... |