THEY claim they are going to make Britain an energy superpower and bring down energy bills for good. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero Ed Miliband are talking wind, mainly offshore wind.
“Today’s double-whammy attack on Alaska’s resource development opportunities makes 65 times the Biden administration has targeted our state’s energy and economic future. This administration has completely kowtowed to radical environmentalists in an effort to gain favor at the ballot box”!
In 2022, according to the study, British businesses were paying more than double what U.S. businesses pay for electricity. Legislators rushing to pass virtuous energy laws often overlook the very quantifiable negative economic impact such policies may have on citizens’ lives.
“clean electricity plus direct electrification and efficiency … are not sufficient by themselves to achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions.” Translation: it can’t be done. No amount of wind turbines, solar panels, battery power, fossil fuel, or other available technologies will achieve net zero by 2050.
California appears to be presenting the green movement with yet another reality check.
The grid monitors say two-thirds of the U.S. risks electricity outages.
How many warnings does it take before the Biden Administration wakes up to the risks from its climate policies to the U.S. electric grid?
The U.S. government’s attempt to refill the skyscraper-sized caverns that hold the country’s emergency oil reserves is coming with a crash course in energy markets: How to think more like a trader.
Requirements for renewable energy mean that Americans’ oil and gas jobs are being sacrificed to Chinese workers who make wind turbines and solar panels, even though wind and solar power produce less than 6% of U.S. primary domestic energy consumption.
The problem is, that is nearly twice the collective electricity output of the 1,250 GW now being produced by all the nation’s power plants, most of which were built to generate power using fossil fuels.
Despite the recent price drop, the cost of gas at the pump, is still 19 cents a gallon higher than last month and remains 34% higher than the $2.38 a gal average when President Donald Trump left office.
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