Tom and Mike are joined by Anthony Huston, CEO + Director of Graphite One, for the first episode of 2026. Now streaming on our website, and all your favorite pod-catchers.
"Offshore wind projects may promise clean energy, but they create potential vulnerabilities that adversaries could exploit."
If "experts" like John Kerry are upset, then you can rest assured President Trump is going in the right direction.
Associated Press (1/8/26) reports: "President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the entire United Nations climate-fighting apparatus takes America’s environmental isolation to another level and is likely to damage both the United States and the world as the planet flirts with ecological tipping points, experts say...Wednesday’s action starts the process to pull the U.S. out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It’s the main way nations negotiate, monitor and enforce agreements to curb worsening climate change, and is a bigger step than Trump’s 2017 and 2025 withdrawals from the bedrock 2015 Paris Agreement aimed at limiting warming...In past international climate negotiations, especially when Democrat John Kerry was secretary of state or America’s top climate envoy, the United States kept oil countries, such as Saudi Arabia, from watering down deals too much, experts said. But that was missing last November in Brazil’s negotiations, which the U.S. skipped under Trump. Kerry called Trump’s action 'a gift to China and a get-out-of-jail free card to countries and polluters who want to avoid responsibility.' Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, which represents industries that emit much of the heat-trapping gases, said 'removing the U.S. from the U.N. climate framework will accelerate a positive shift towards abandoning the destructive global climate framework.'"
Why do blue states suffer under higher electric rates? Tom Pyle weighs in, today, with David Blackmon.
Goodbye yellow BRICS road...
Reuters (1/6/25) reports: "There were likely many motives behind America's capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, but one little-discussed factor could be the White House's concerns about the waning global prominence of the 'petrodollar.' Venezuela's oil output is currently modest at barely 1 million barrels per day, but its reported reserves of around 300 billion barrels - 17% of the global stock – are the world's largest...Keeping all this future production within the U.S. orbit could impact more than just energy markets, however, as it would create a lot more petrodollars – a tool that has long helped the U.S. maintain its dominance in the global financial system...The Trump administration is pushing back, however. While the White House may want the dollar's exchange rate to be lower, it is keen to maintain its dominance in global markets – and the recent events in Venezuela could be part of this wider effort. Until Trump returned to office almost a year ago, there appeared to be little appetite in Washington to push back against the global tide of geopolitically driven diversification away from the dollar.
But the Trump administration has taken a stronger stance. It is promoting dollar-pegged 'stablecoins' to strengthen the dollar's role in digital payments and global finance more broadly. It has also threatened to impose tariffs on countries seeking to develop alternatives to the dollar, most notably the BRICS group of developing nations."
