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MORNING ENERGY NEWS | 8.23.2019
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** I just don't get it...
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Detroit News ([link removed]) (8/22/19) reports: "Frustrating boisterous climate activists, Democratic Party leaders declined on Thursday to call for a presidential primary debate focused on the climate crisis, but tinkered ever-so-slightly with restrictions on what kind of single-issue events their White House hopefuls can attend. The moves played out in an unruly gathering of the Democratic National Committee’s Resolution Committee at the party’s summer meeting in California, with scores of activists singing, chanting and yelling during a discussion that revealed internal DNC frustrations over debates so far and uncertainty over just how Democrats should tackle a challenge as grave as the climate crisis. 'This is a terribly frightening, existential crisis that demands a different course of action,' said Muriel MacDonald, an organizer for the Sunrise Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. 'If
we play by the old rules, we are going to suffer terribly.'"


** Why wouldn't you want to highlight this for voters?
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N ([link removed]) ew York Times ([link removed]) (8/22/19) reports: "Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday released a $16.3 trillion blueprint to fight climate change, the latest and most expensive proposal from the field of Democratic presidential candidates aimed at reining in planet-warming greenhouse gases. Mr. Sanders unveiled his proposal one day after Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, who made climate change the central focus of his campaign, announced he was dropping out of the 2020 race. Mr. Inslee’s absence could create an opening for another presidential aspirant to seize the mantle of 'climate candidate.' Mr. Sanders was an early supporter of the Green New Deal, an ambitious but nonbinding congressional plan for tackling global warming and economic inequality. He is bestowing that same name upon his new plan,
which calls for the United States to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050."
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** "What matters is that we act like we’re in an emergency. Because it is only during true emergencies that we discover what we are capable of. During emergencies, we stop all procrastination and delay. We no longer do things just because that’s the way they have always been done — instead, we suspend business as usual and do whatever it takes to get the job done."
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– ([link removed]) N ([link removed]) aomi Klein, The Intercept ([link removed])

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The ethanol mafia is asking for a sit-down.

** E&E News ([link removed])
(8/22/19) reports: "Biodiesel groups want a meeting with President Trump in the wake of EPA moves they say undermine their industry. The National Biodiesel Board and the American Soybean Association wrote to Trump yesterday saying EPA's granting of biofuel blending exemptions to many small petroleum refineries is taking business away from biodiesel producers. 'The administration's recent action on RFS waivers is having an immediate and devastating impact on biodiesel producers, the same biodiesel producers that farmers rely on to purchase surplus soybean oil, the majority feedstock used in biodiesel production,' the groups wrote. At issue is the lost biofuel production from exemptions, which EPA grants to small refineries that demonstrate economic hardship from meeting the renewable fuel standard's biofuel blending requirements. EPA earlier this month said it's granting an additional 31 exemptions, sparking a backlash from ethanol advocates."

When all else fails, buy some carbon offsets. Or just ignore them...

** Breitbart ([link removed])
(8/20/19) reports: "Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who gained international attention for organizing school strikes to protest climate change, is sailing across the Atlantic to attend a United Nations (U.N.) summit next month, but her refusal to fly on a plane to save the planet may backfire. Climate change zealots praise her and she has even been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but details of her trip reveal that fossil fuels not only are part of the plan, but the trip would be impossible without them...A manager for Team Malizia — the name of the racing yacht — said that all of the flights will be 'offset'...Cova admitted: 'The world has not yet found a way to make it possible to cross an ocean without a carbon footprint'...'I don’t know yet how I will get home,' Thunberg, who is traveling with her father and a filmmaker, said before she sailed away from the English port of Plymouth for New York. She dismissed her critics in one media report. 'I will just ignore them because I’m
only acting and communicating the science, and if they don’t like that, what have I got to do with that?' Thunberg said.'"

B-B-B Bennie and the Jets

** Daily Mail ([link removed])
(8/20/19) reports: "Greenpeace's chief scientist has said it is 'not okay' to claim, as Elton John did on Harry and Meghan's behalf today, that private jet travel is 'carbon neutral' as a result of a donation to a carbon offset scheme. Doug Parr told MailOnline: 'There's no way any current tech deals with the load of CO2 you've released on a personal level'. In an Instagram message today Sir Elton John responded to criticism of Harry and Meghan's recent private jet vacations by insisting he had made a donation to offset the carbon cost of the trips...Carbon offset schemes have criticized, including by noted environmental journalist George Monbiot who has compared them to the medieval Catholic church's sale of 'indulgences' whereby wealthy parishioners could have their sins absolved for a price - and thus be free to sin again.'"

International energy policy decided in local courtrooms?

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(8/21/19) column: "If air conditioning utility bills are causing consumers a touch of heartburn this summer, they will certainly find no relief in a disturbing new development regarding unfounded litigation against the energy industry and a terrible ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island...In handing down this decision — which will most assuredly be overturned — Judge Smith has ruled that immensely complicated, multinational issues surrounding Earth’s climate change may now be decided in state courthouses, using local 'nuisance ordinances' to potentially impose massive fines on just a handful of American energy companies. This is an obvious shakedown effort by the Greens and their political and financial benefactors who brought these frivolous suits in the first place."

If you oppose a carbon tax, please ** contact us and take a stand (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Carbon%20Tax%20list)
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Tom Pyle, American Energy Alliance
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Phil Kerpen, American Commitment
Andrew Quinlan, Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom
Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste
Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government
Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
Craig Richardson, E&E Legal
Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Amy Oliver Cooke, Independence Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Nathan Nascimento, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce
Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment
David T. Stevenson & Clint Laird, Caesar Rodney Institute
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Jim Karahalios, Axe the Carbon Tax
Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Mandy Gunasekara, Energy 45
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America

Energy Markets


WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $55.35
Natural Gas: ↓ $2.15
Gasoline: ↓ $2.60

Diesel: ~ $2.94
Heating Oil: ↓ $183.36
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $59.84
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↓ 964



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