Ever since signing the Paris climate agreement, Vietnam has shown interest in reducing its dependency on fossil fuels, introducing in recent years a slew of measures to cut consumption.  However, in what is considered to be a major U-turn, Vietnam’s government announced last month that it will increase coal imports for the next 13 years.  Critics of fossil fuels, including most mainstream media, are out of sync with the world’s energy realities. They are consistently … [Read more...]

Notwithstanding vociferous criticism of the politicized use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by the Biden administration, such drawdowns have been employed for decades by Democratic and Republican administrations alike as an ad hoc and futile response to short-run increases in fuel prices. Unlike the case for all previous administrations, which viewed the domestic production of fossil fuels as a positive or at least … [Read more...]

The following is a guest article by Brenda Shaffer.Facing the worst energy crisis since World War II as the cold-weather heating season starts, Europe continues to dither. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has presented a series of new European Union energy policies, including planned price caps, additional taxes on energy producers, the establishment of a new European hydrogen bank, and new support for electric vehicles. European Union member states, meanwhile, … [Read more...]

This is a guest article by Matt Vespa.As if this is shocking news, the global warming Armageddon peddlers were wrong again. How many times have we heard that we’re all going to die if we don’t sacrifice economic growth to reduce global temperatures by an indiscernible amount? Democrats had a full-blown meltdown over the haggling about the latest spending bill when it seemed as if it were on life support. If we don’t pass the inflation reduction act, which quickly became a climate change … [Read more...]

This is a guest article by Indur M. GoklanyContrary to the claims of proponents of the Green New Deal and Net Zero, fossil fuels are the greenest fuels.First, uniquely among energy sources, fossil fuel use emits CO2, which is the ultimate source of the elemental building block, carbon, found in all carbon-based life, i.e., virtually all life on Earth.The increased amplitude of the seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO2 and satellite-borne instrumentation to measure solar-induced chlorophyll … [Read more...]

In this post, I will break down what is happening to Germany today, what I think will happen over the next year or so, and what we should do to prevent economic collapse of the EU.­­­­­­­Germany: 80 Million people, 350.000km2, (former) export champion of the world, the global heaven for car enthusiasts, an industrial power house with a stellar reputation abroad for “clean”, “efficient”, “straight”, “knowing how to do it.” Today, Germany is struggling. Just this year, Germany became a … [Read more...]

It’s that time of year again.  The heat of the summer has practically ended and now all the summer melt statistics can be released.  This is a perfect time to scare the populace once again that Greenland will melt at an alarming pace and that coastal states will be inundated.  In states like Iowa and Missouri, few take notice.  But in the state with the lowest mean elevation—Delaware—such proclamations are not taken lightly. That is why my fellow citizens of the “First … [Read more...]