Beyond Industries: Why Half a Billion Other Indians Need Fossil Fuels

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India’s population is nearing 1.4 billion and plays an important role in the global economy. Industry, employing about three-fifths of the Indian workforce, and agriculture, employing the other two-fifths, are the twin engines of India’s soaring economy. Both sectors depend on fossil fuels, and the demand for fossil fuels in India is unlikely to diminish […]

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Green Energy Policies Are Built On Slavery, Child Labor

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Democrats were the party of slavery before they were against it. Now they are the party of slavery again. They also support child labor and green colonialism. Check the record. Asians and Africans, many of them children, are being enslaved and are dying in mines, refineries, and factories to obtain the minerals and metals required

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Wary of the new green wave, India continues to increase its coal capacity

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A steady stream of anti-fossil policies has been introduced across the world since the inception of Paris agreement in 2016. Be it the reduction in consumption of fossil fuels in some countries or the rapid increase in renewable installations across Europe and Asia, the changes forced by those policies have been quite tangible. There were

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China Funds Africa’s Fossil Fuel Renaissance—To Africa’s and the World’s Peril

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China is pushing major advances in Africa’s energy sector. It will inevitably use the African fossil fuel sector as security for its own future energy needs. The geopolitical consequences could be serious. Countries in Africa are in dire need of economic uplift for which a fossil-fuel supported energy sector is indispensable. In a world of

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Liquified petroleum gas: Essential to alleviating energy poverty in Africa

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Gas is a fossil fuel, so it endangers our planet, right? At least that’s what radical environmentalists and climate activists want you to believe. The problem? Their perspective is completely detached from energy reality and obstructs alleviation of energy poverty. Gas is a fossil fuel wonder. It has been a game changer in meeting human

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Why “Green Energy” Isn’t “Clean Energy”—or a Good Substitute for Fossil Fuels

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Remember President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan”? It aimed to reduce global warming (aka climate change) by cutting American emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation. It never got very far, and the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) killed it. But now President Biden has his own version. He announced his “Energy Efficiency and Clean

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The Ignorant World and What to Do About It

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Guest column by Joakim Book A spectre is haunting the Western world – the spectre of a grossly mistaken understanding of the world. British kids have nightmares about the climate. Half of French respondents think it likely that climate change will cause “the extinction of the human race.” American teachers coddle students who have panic attacks when wildfires rage

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California Governor and Mayor of Los Angeles make a great homeless team

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Governor Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies help the state achieve some of the highest costs for electricity and fuel, perpetuating energy poverty, and Mayor Garcetti spends billions solving the homeless problem. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies have led to the more expensive electricity and fuels in the state and laid bare the realities of

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