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 Blaze: We were promised a “green” utopia, free of fossil fuels, powered by sunshine and breezes. However, the net-zero hobbits living in this imaginary Shire were blissfully ignorant of hard realities dictated by physics, engineering, and economics. Once trumpeted by corporate giants and governments alike, the vision of a world without greenhouse gas emissions is crumbling. It’s pseudoscience coupled with false assurances incapable of sustaining the weight of one reality after another. Major airlines, energy companies, and financial institutions are abandoning net-zero commitments that were always destined to clash with the demands of business imperatives and people’s needs. Anti-fossil fuel crusaders assured the public that jet travel could be reshaped through “green” fuel and futuristic aircraft. But in 2024, Air New Zealand shattered that illusion by declaring its 2030 emissions target impossible to achieve. Another blow to the green version of a Middle-earth fantasy came from...

  Victor Davis Hanson: ... ... There’s alternative governments from the mainstream socialist European model in most of Eastern Europe and Italy and the Netherlands. There’s political unrest in Ireland and Britain. What’s going on? The same thing is happening here. I would call it the “Four Horsemen of the Western Civilizational Apocalypse.” In other words, Europe and the United States, and kindred Western countries, are facing four self-inflicted wounds. The first is what I would call green madness. That is, an elite in all of these Western countries felt that they were at the end of history, they were gonna create heaven on Earth, and they started to dismantle nuclear power, oil-generated power, coal power, and in substitution, subsidized very inefficient and unreliable solar and wind. They stopped producing oil and natural gas . And the result of this is that their electricity and fuel costs skyrocketed, making them uncompetitive and destroying the viability of the middle classes...

 Hot Air: ... So why shut up about it now? One potential reason: voters began to figure out that it was to industry what ObamaCare was to health care, and wanted no part of it.  The second potential reason may be more applicable. Joe Biden actually managed to get a big chunk of the Green New Deal through Congress by calling it the Inflation Reduction Act. His administration then took that cash and just handed it out to progressive orgs run by cronies like Stacey Abrams.  As we found out a few weeks ago , the Biden Regency gave out $90 billion in "loans" from the IRA after losing the election, with $42 billion going out the door in the last  two days  of Biden's wretched term. The EPA is trying to claw back that money now, and the massive spending binge is raising a lot of questions that Democrats don't want to answer.  To paraphrase a wise axiom:  It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a crook than to open it and remove all doubt for prosec...

PJ Media: The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GRF), passed as part of the "Inflation Reduction Act" in 2022, has proved to be a cornucopia of graft for Biden's Democratic Party favorites and green non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The GRF rushed $20 billion in grants out the door in the waning days of the Biden administration to just six organizations. As The Free Press reports, the EPA employees charged with vetting the NGOs who were to receive that $20 billion raised numerous objections to the grants. Despite their concerns, the money was doled out. We're just now finding out how corrupt the process of throwing $20 billion to the Democratic Party's friends actually was. I've written extensively about former Georgia candidate for governor Stacey Abrams' ties to one NGO that received $2 billion from the GRF despite having only $100 in the bank when they applied for the grant. The $20 billion fund became a one-stop shop for climate graft as hundreds ...

 The Federalist Wire: ... In a major push to revitalize America’s coal sector, the Departments of Energy, Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are gearing up to unveil a series of ambitious initiatives. These actions, detailed exclusively by Fox News Digital, align with an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at breathing new life into what he calls “America’s beautiful clean coal industry.” As of writing, the president is expected to sign the order on Tuesday afternoon, setting the stage for a dramatic shift in energy policy. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright heralded the move in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, “The American people need more energy, and the Department of Energy is helping to meet this demand by unleashing supply of affordable, reliable, secure energy sources — including coal.” Wright emphasized coal’s role as a cornerstone of round-the-clock electricity generation, powering homes and businesses alike. “Coal is ess...

 Federalist Wire: ... A bombshell report has uncovered that the Biden administration deliberately suppressed a key study challenging its decision to halt approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects in 2024. According to a recent investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation, the administration finalized a draft in September 2023 that highlighted a surprising environmental benefit: increasing U.S. LNG exports could actually lower global emissions. Yet, this finding clashed with the narrative pushed by environmental activists—and the administration’s own agenda—so it was shelved. Insiders from President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy (DOE) shared with the Caller that the Biden DOE buried this inconvenient data to appease green advocates opposed to LNG. “The Energy Department has learned that former Secretary [Jennifer] Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG,” on...

 National Review: Solar Project Backed by Biden ‘Gold Bars’ Vows to Save Millions, Protect the Earth. Critics Doubt It A politically connected left-wing nonprofit aims to draw on tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to finance a new solar energy project which they claim will save Arkansas’s university system tens of millions of dollars while drastically reducing carbon emissions — but the project’s backers can’t, or won’t, show the math behind their rosy projections. Proponents of the project — 18 separate solar projects, mostly in rural areas — claim it could save the University of Arkansas System over $120 million in energy costs over 25 years and generate over four billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity over 40 years; the equivalent of removing over 7 billion passenger car miles from the roads or planting 46 million trees. To get the project off the ground, the left-wing nonprofit Climate United announced in October that it would provide $31.8 million in federal dollars for...

 Breitbart: President Donald Trump Orders End to ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden’s Green Energy Regulations on Household Appliances ...   The president   wrote   in his post: I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe. I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!! Biden imposed climate standards for some appliances, including gas stoves, washing machines, and dishwashers during his only term as president, per the Fox report. The outlet noted that experts and manufacturers said those standards could result in higher-priced alternatives that do not work as well. ... Biden's Big Green agenda was a disaster waiting to happen....

  Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes Subscribe Amazon electric vehicles seen charging in the snow All these vehicles are being charged by a huge diesel generator. The generator is on, you can hear it running providing the power “Doesn’t that defeat the purpose when you literally have a diesel powered generator electrifying all of the electric vehicles?” This is Democrat’s “Green Energy.”

The Biden-Harris attempt to throttle US energy production and push for the disastrous Big Green agenda has fortunately failed. US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA “We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over rely on foreign oil.” Yeah. And you had nothing to do with. At all. In just four years, you and POTUS created the single worst regulatory and legislative environment in our industry's 160 year history. You've put into place 250 separate actions designed to put us out of business. You wanted to put our CEOs in jail, confiscate our capital and prevent our investors from getting any return. And while we were digging ourselves of the hole you put the economy in, through the summer of 2022, you and your boss went and shook the tin cup at OPEC "please give us more..." To you - Saudi and Venezuelan crude is great - and US or Canadian crude is bad. And in spite of all that ...