The U.S. is on track to become a net petroleum exporter by 2021 and will soon surpass Russia and rival Saudi Arabia, currently the world’s largest oil exporter, the International Energy Agency said Monday. –Christopher Alessi, The Wall Street Journal, 11 April 2019
Move over, Saudi Arabia. America is about to steal the kingdom’s energy exporting crown. The United States will surpass Saudi Arabia later this year in exports of oil, natural gas liquids, and petroleum products, like gasoline, according to energy research firm Rystad Energy. —CNN, 8 March 2019
Though green activists are taking their proposals for new taxes and regulations to the state level, they have been unable to get a carbon tax enacted, even in state legislatures where progressives hold the most sway. Maine becomes the most recent blue state to reject a carbon tax. Legislation to impose a carbon tax has also been introduced in Vermont, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Oregon, and other states, but all have declined to implement one. —Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 10 March 2019
To tackle global climate change it is far more important that fast-growing developing countries do more than any well-intentioned steps in the Netherlands. “In fact, European emissions don’t matter,” says British climate scientist Nic Lewis. —Edwin Timmer, De Telegraaf, 8 March 2019
The entirety of Venezuela’s ruling class is standing around with “Who, me?” looks on their faces as the country is plunged into darkness, the power system and the grid entirely fail to deliver electricity at all. The point is that yes, it’s you. The Bolivarian socialists have caused this. This is not the result of some attack by foreign capitalist pig dogs, is not some random occurrence that can strike anyone. It’s a direct result of their own previous economic policies. —Tim Worstall, Continental Telegraph, 9 March 2019
Socialism isn’t a dirty word, as far as young Americans are concerned, according to a new survey. Half (49.6 percent) of Millennials and Generation Z said they would prefer living in a socialist country, compared to 37.2 percent of all U.S. adults who feel the same way. —Daily Mail, 11 March 2019
Re: Blue states reject carbon tax.
There’s nothing stopping Greens from giving their money to the government. If they believe that paying a carbon sin tax will save the Earth, they can sooth their conscience by sending a check to Washington . Why not send some money to the UN, too?