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MORNING ENERGY NEWS  |  8.30.2019
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King Cuomo and Crony the Clown.


Vanity Fair (8/25/19) reports: "It was a Saturday night last March in Buffalo, and Dennis Scott was sitting at home. Scott had been laid off from Tesla’s factory in Buffalo two months earlier...Ten days after Scott was let go, Musk had tweeted a goofy picture of himself posing with what looked like a machine gun. Scott retweeted the image and called Musk a clown. 'If I were CEO and someone told me my company wasn’t working right,' he explains, 'I wouldn’t be clowning around. I’ve got people counting on me for their livelihood.'  Now, around 10 p.m., his phone rang. The call was from an unmarked number. Scott answered. 'It’s the clown,' the person at the other end informed him...Everyone in Albany, says the longtime lobbyist, has accepted that the Buffalo plant is a 'disaster'—a poster child for why government giveaways to big companies don’t work. But the official who took credit for the deal with Tesla—the man who championed the company as a Rust Belt savior—stands by his decision to place his trust in Elon Musk. Governor Cuomo, who paid his own visit to Buffalo last spring, declared that he’s perfectly pleased with the progress at SolarCity. 'They’re ahead of schedule,' he said."

"Perhaps there's another answer to Democrats' incessant crying about climate change.  It all comes down to the green — green cash money that is."

 

– Taylor Day, American Thinker

Paging Daniel Simmons... 

A tour de force.


Wall Street Journal (8/27/19) column: "A rational person’s reaction might be, so what? The auto industry claims that, unless California and the Trump administration resolve their differences on fuel-economy standards, carmakers will be forced to build two sets of cars for the U.S. market. Don’t believe it. Carmakers would mostly just raise the price of their pickups to make sure they sold fewer in California and covered their fuel-economy fines. They would also cut the price of their electric and other low-emission cars to make sure they sold more of them. And on the upside, voters in California and 13 other states that have adopted California’s rules would have to confront the cost of political decisions made in their name. The real fight here is about something else. For California, it’s about holding onto a 50-year-old federal waiver to set its own clean-air standards. No political bureaucracy willingly surrenders such a power once it has it. For the car industry, the fight is for financial survival amid a global regulatory push for electric vehicles, which the Trump administration obstreperously has declined to play along with."

No please, stop fighting...


The Baltimore Sun (8/29/19) reports: "Maryland environmental officials have denied a permit application for a solar project proposed on hundreds of acres of forest in Charles County, blocking construction of a controversial Georgetown University-sponsored solar farm...Miami-based Origis said it planned the 100,000-panel solar farm in an area of Charles County known as the Nanjemoy peninsula to avoid controversies that have developed in other parts of the state when solar farms have been proposed on top of active farmland. It said much of the forest was immature and of poor quality, something opponents to the project contested...Community groups that had rallied against the project, joined by interests from across the state and students at Georgetown, expressed relief. But Loretta d’Eustachio, a Nanjemoy resident active with a group called Nanjemoy Vision, said vigilance is needed to continue to preserve the area’s character. For example, a more-than-400-acre farm is for sale near Nanjemoy Creek, she said. Residents hope 'some conservation-minded person' can buy it, d’Eustachio said." 

The problem casting a shadow over solar power.


Center of the American Experiment (8/15/19) reports: "Solar energy is terrible for the environment in a number of ways, including the fact that large land areas must be devoted to it...Disposal of decommissioned solar panels in regular landfills is 'not recommended in case modules break and toxic materials leach into the soil.' But where do most decommissioned panels go? Landfills. Recycling is often recommended, but is not practical because 'recycling costs more than the economic value of the materials recovered, which is why most solar panels end up in landfills.' Worse, many decommissioned solar panels which were supposed to be properly disposed of are instead labeled 'used' and sold to Middle Eastern countries that have no ability to deal with hazardous materials like cadmium. Some might ask, don’t all sources of energy involve hazardous wastes? Perhaps, but the volume of waste produced by solar panels and wind turbines vastly exceeds that associated with reliable power sources,"

If you oppose a carbon tax, please contact us and take a stand.

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: ↓ $55.85
Natural Gas: ↓ $2.28
Gasoline: ↑ $2.58
Diesel: ↓ $2.93
Heating Oil: ↓ $185.62
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $60.77
US Rig Count: ↓ 951

 
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