Joe Biden dropped the ball on U.S. energy security from Day One of his presidency, when he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline permit that would have brought as much as 900,000 barrels of crude oil into the U.S. system.
He could not have anticipated the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but in banning U.S. imports of petroleum, coal, and natural gas from Russia in response to it, he had to have at least had an inkling of its effect on gas prices here. [bold, links added]
What was Biden’s backup plan as prices soared at the pump? Blame the oil companies, blame Putin, blame everyone but his own administration’s anti-fossil fuel agenda.
Now he is “considering” a federal gas tax holiday, which would knock 18 cents a gallon off the pump price. That would save the average driver about $3 per fill-up.
With a full tank costing about $70, that is so inadequate an assist to American consumers as to border on insult.
How do you shore up our energy independence so that the country can readily cope with events such as the war in Ukraine without drilling for oil here or approving pipelines to carry crude from Canada?
You can’t.
However, while the ship of self-sufficiency may have been scuttled by Biden, the president has an opportunity to help consumers going forward. He just has to defy the Green New Deal agenda to do it.
U.S. natural gas prices are on the upswing, according to industry experts, while our supplies don’t appear ready to keep pace with demand.
As Bloomberg reported, stockpiles of the heating and power-plant fuel are below normal for this time of year as exports are booming, and output from shale basins is muted.
Traders anticipate higher-than-usual gas needs this summer to fuel US power plants as consumers and businesses crank up air conditioners to combat the hot weather.
Meanwhile, hydropower generation and coal supplies are severely constrained, leaving limited alternatives to gas.
Europe is in a full-blown energy crisis without oil imports from Russia, and several nations are taking the bull by the horns — they’re reverting to coal power.
As Fox Business reported: “The cabinet has decided to immediately withdraw the restriction on production for coal-fired power stations from 2002 to 2024,” Dutch climate and energy minister Rob Jetten told reporters, adding that the decision had been made in preparation with other European countries.
The government had been phasing out the use of coal to generate power by allowing coal-fired power stations to operate only to a maximum of 35% of their capacity in recent years as it aims to transition to sustainable energy to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
“The risk of doing nothing is too great,” Jetten said
Austria, Germany, and Italy have all signaled that coal-fired power plants could provide a short-term solution given Europe’s heavy reliance on Russian energy.
The U.S. policy toward coal plants is that they can’t shut down fast enough. They are cardinal sinners in environmentalists’ books.
But right now, given the demand for power that’s coming down the pike with hot weather, a way to save natural gas supplies by a return to coal makes sense.
This has the makings of a long, hot, expensive summer. Biden has the chance to do something practical to alleviate some of our energy problems.
As Jetten said, the risk of doing nothing is too great.
Read more at Boston Herald
“He could not have anticipated the Russian invasion of Ukraine…”
I disagree. The Bidens have been as heavily involved in Ukraine as they have been in the climate con and, as President of the US, he would have been briefed on such a possibility. Thus, he had two very good reasons to understand the likely situation. I strongly believe that his response was not accidental.
Maybe if we didn’t waste so much gas things would be better.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062022/methane-petal-gas-mississippi/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=bfd4c85ad1-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-bfd4c85ad1-329752098
Now is NOT the time to use more carbon fuels, now is the time to transition to clean renewable energy.
We are currently experiencing 4 concurrent heatwaves in Europe, America, China and India.
Ist time in recorded history.
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Not to mention droughts and flooding. But then this channel is not exactly known for its probity or its scientific acumen.
If countries has started a meaningful move to clean energy 40 years ago rather than preferring to be in the thrall of the Exxon/Peabody/Koch axis things would be far, far better today.
IU found it amazing that the biggest data manipulator and liar around, Steven Goddard / Heller, was once actually considered a climate expert by the US government.
So what is new? This channel is nothing but disinformation and political rhetoric.
What wavelengths were used to obtain the image?
The orange glow at the top of the cooling towers in the graphic is “disinformation”. The emissions from those towers are water vapor, at temperatures far too low to produce such a glow.
“The Sun is the main driver of climate change. Not you. Not carbon dioxide” And you believe that? That is the definition of science illiteracy. But then FoS is just a political front, funded by FF and believed the laughing stock Tim Ball.
“Friends of Science also retweeted a message on Jan. 6, 2021 claiming that a “climate alarmist” had stormed the Capitol. The man depicted, Jacob Chansley (a/k/a Jake Angeli) is in fact also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” and, according to an article published in Nature on social media disinformation, “a known superspreader of conspiracy theories.”
“”adjusted” near-surface temperature measurements,” Tell us what you know about satellite decay and Spencer?
““adjusted” sea surface temperature measurements,” Pray tell, how many methods are and have been used to obtain sea water temperature over the last 100 years? Do you know? If so, please advise and also explain why the temperatures obtained by the different methods for the same locations at the same time are not the same?
That is science, the very thing you deny.
“The Right Insight is an educational website that posts non-partisan, fact-based, in-depth analyses” Falls off chair in hysterics. The Gatestone Institute? PragerU? FoS?
Just remember that “laughing stock Tim Ball” defeated climate genius Michael Mann in a Canadian court when Mann disobeyed a court order to produce his (phony) hockey stick data. Dr. Ball was awarded a lot of money from Mann as a result of that. Mann’s failed climate predictions are too numerous for me to list here. He’s never been right in any of his major predictions.
You’ll believe anything your mastere tell you, Terry, won’t you.
“to produce his (phony) hockey stick data.” The dat you refer to has been available all along online.Ball was fully aware of this, as was his legal team which is why the data was never in question. So why do you believe such a blatant lie?
Here is all the data. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/research/MANNETAL98/
The court cases had nothiong to do with science. In the original case the judge decided that the derogatory statements aimed more clearly at Weaver failed to meet the legal standard for defamation. His reason? No one could take them seriously. Citing a list of careless inaccuracies in Ball’s article, the judge said it lacked “a sufficient air of credibility to make them believable and therefore potentially defamatory.”
“In June 2019 the Frontier Centre apologized for publishing, on its website and in letters, “untrue and disparaging accusations which impugned the character of Dr. Mann”. It said that Mann had “graciously accepted our apology and retraction”.”
“A counterclaim Steyn filed through his attorneys on March 17, 2014, was dismissed with prejudice by the D.C. court on August 29, 2019, leaving Steyn to pay litigation costs”.
What’s the difference between Mann and Ball? Ball is a pathetic, international laughing stock whereas Mann is an internationally respected scientist.
Tell it to the judge who found that Mann had NOT complied with an order to produce in his suit against Dr. Ball. There is a certain type of mathematical foundation called R2 regression numbers used in his hockey stick analysis the courts in this country ruled were his and not subject to FOIA. Researchers have been trying to get their hands on those for years and Mann then made the mistake of suing Dr. Ball in Canada. Ball’s legal team requested production of this data for Dr. Ball’s defense and the court agreed. Mann dragged his feet so long that the judge in the case dismissed it and awarded legal fees to Dr. Ball. So please don’t say that Michael Man produced everything. A court in Canada determined he did not.
The problems with your idol Ball.
Claimed he was the first person to receive a PhD in climatology in Canada, and that he had been a professor for 28 years/ Both lies.
Ball has admitted his work did not show any evidence of research regarding climate and atmosphere.
All his court cases have been about libel and he lost all of them.
A judge dismissed a case against Tim Ball that had been brought on by Michael Mann, after Ball’s lawyers cited their client’s poor health and the low ranking of his website.
But Ball is still extremely active on the Denier Sphere, so that that is another lie.
In June 2019, FCPP issued an apology to Mann for what it described as “certain untrue and disparaging accusations which impugned the character of Dr. Michael Mann.” The letter continued :
“Although The Frontier Center for Public Policy still does not see eye to eye with Dr. Mann on the subject of global warming and climate change, we now accept that it was wrong to publish allegations by others that Dr. Mann did not comply with ethical standards and wrong to suggest that Dr. Mann was guilty of any dishonesty concerning his 1998 and 1999 research which produced the so-called ‘hockey-stick’ temperature graph.”
One of Ball’s big lies is “Man does not and cannot control the climate.” no-one is saying we do, affecting something is not controlling it. But then Ball is your typical alarmist lying denier.
Terry, why do you insist on promulgating conspiracy theories and lies?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/28/1881956/-Tim-Ball-Pleads-For-Mercy-As-An-Irrelevant-Sick-Old-Man-Gets-It-Declares-Victory
Deniers are also claiming that the hockey stick graph, which Mann supposedly refused to release the data for, has now been broken and ruled a fraud.
“And for whether or not the hockey stick, showing a rapid increase in temperatures in the modern era, has broken, Mann points out that multiple other teams have come to the same general conclusion.
Far from being a clear win for the deniers, the ruling appears to be more a judgement of the state of Tim Ball: a broken down old man, who’s lucky that no one takes his conspiratorial and accusatory ramblings seriously.?
““The Sun is the main driver of climate change.” No. That is disingenuity at its worst. The Earth’s movement relative to our sun is one of the main drivers of climate change, as first demonstrated by James Croll and later developed by Milutin Milankovitch. Amazing how little of science and history deniers know.
Sun spots are also known to affect climate but they in no way explain the present situation. Only one thing does, CO2, as any competent scientist knows.
“Virtually all solar generation in the US and globally is redundant capacity, in that it cannot replace dispatchable conventional generation in a reliable grid, ” Don’t be daft. Stick to drilling rigs and leave science to honest people.
Mark Mills : :The short answer is the wind farms lost output,” No, that’s not right. That’s just anti-Green spin, as any honest person knows. It is what lying Abbott claimed, and yet your go to scientist Mills believed Abbot and did no checking himself. i.e. he isn’t a real scientist.
The (stand alone) power grid in Texas relies heavily on natural gas, responsible for nearly half the electricity generated, wind generates 20%, and the gas failed because of the cold, as did the wind turbines. So if anything was to blame it was gas more than wind. but the real culprit was the incompetence of ERCOT/
Why is it that all deniers are blatrant liars?
Those are air traffic obstruction lights. We have a coal-fired plant about three miles from my house and you can see the lights on the top of the two cooling towers and smoke stack from my house. I have been watching those lights for over thirty years. You are right, that is water vapor coming out of the top of the cooling towers.
Regarding Ball. You categorically stated “Mann disobeyed a court order to produce his (phony) hockey stick data” Which is a lie as the court cases had nothing whatsoever to do with the data. did they, it was all about livel, so why are you lying? As I proved, the data is there for all to access,
“Dr. Ball in Canada. Ball’s legal team requested production of this data for Dr. Ball’s defense” No they didn’t. What they wanted was proof of financial or other loss, so stop lying.
“the judge in the case dismissed it and awarded legal fees to Dr. Ball.” Which again is not as you claimed[previously “Ball was awarded a lot of money” He was reimbursed some of his costs for a single hearing. Ball lost in all others and that was a lot of money he lost.
I repeat, none of the court cases were about science or data but about libel and the publications that published the libelous claims against Mann apologised and retracted them. But petty little Ball keeps throwing his toys out of the pram, just like you. Where is Ball today? Doing the Lying Denier Circuit, funded by FF.
What’s the difference between Mann and Ball? Ball is a pathetic, international laughing stock whereas Mann is an internationally respected scientist.
“So please don’t say that Michael Man produced everything.” I didn’t say he did, did I, I clearly stated, and proved, the claim you made about data was a lie, so why are you lying again? But then all you deniers haved is lies and lying, isn’t it.
I note you must accept all the other facts I posted, which means you know you are promulgating misinformation and not facts or science, doesn’t it
While Ball’s supporters celebrated the judgment as, “A great victory for free speech,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ronald Skolrood criticized Ball (a long-retired geography professor from the University of Winnipeg) at length. Justice Skolrood wrote:
“… despite Dr. Ball’s history as an academic and a scientist, the Article is rife with errors and inaccuracies, which suggests a lack of attention to detail on Dr. Ball’s part, if not an indifference to the truth.”
Later in the judgment, Justice Skolrood wrote,
“the Article is poorly written and does not advance credible arguments in favour of Dr. Ball’s theory about the corruption of climate science. Simply put, a reasonably thoughtful and informed person who reads the Article is unlikely to place any stock in Dr. Ball’s views, including his views of Dr. Weaver as a supporter of conventional climate science.”
That is what it was all about, Terry, Ball slagging off anyone who disagreed with him and then you lot telling lies about the cases being about data and science.
It’s like this channel claiming to be about science when all it is is misinformed political rhetoric. I have gone through most of its now closed “facts” in “REAL SCIENCE VS JUNK SCIENCE” and all of the articles are totally debunked junk science, conspiracy theories or political rhetoric.