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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Environmental Activism as Carbon Imperialism: Nightmare for the Poor

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Environmental activism can delay or even stop development projects in developing countries. Not all of it is wrong, but more and more of it is, especially concerning hydrocarbon-based power plants in developing (and developed) countries. I live in India. With a population of 1.3 billion, nearly 300 million live in poverty, excruciating poverty compared to

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Troubled by “Social Justice” and the “Woke” Movement? Here’s Help!

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“Social justice.” Who in America today isn’t aware of how controversial that term is? It’s at the center of a movement that is turning this country upside down. Call it the “Woke” movement, or “Woke Progressivism,” or “Cultural Marxism” with its “Critical Race Theory,” “Critical Gender Theory,” or just plain old “Critical Theory”—by whatever name,

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Indiana Economists Endorse “Carbon Tax”—But Should They?

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Recently fifty Indiana economists issued a public letter to their state’s legislature endorsing a “carbon tax” as an economically wise way to curb global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The fundamental premise of taxing CO2 emissions is that they cause more harm than good (and thus are what economists call a “negative externality”—a cost

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Fossil fuels help India overcome air pollution illnesses, deaths

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This month, the Indian government announced its annual budget, an event that interests 1.3 billion people. The budget once again makes it clear that the government is pro-fossil fuels. India will continue making historic investments in the natural gas sector and prioritizing key measures to strengthen domestic gas supply for households. What many in the

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Toward a Renewable Chaos: Carbon Imperialism and Disadvantaged Smaller Nations

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Net Zero, Climate Action, Build Back Better, and the Great Reset are some of the names for policies aimed at expediting the transition of the global energy sector from fossil fuel to renewable technology. The goal? Saving the planet from climate apocalypse. But there is a huge hurdle to make this transition a reality. Most

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