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MORNING ENERGY NEWS | 08/21/2020
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** Politically mandated renewables are to blame for California's blackouts. Period. Full stop.
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Red State ([link removed]) (8/18/20) column: "This time, 'rolling blackouts' are due to green energy issues, not Enron market manipulation. Remember when California imposed rolling blackouts in 2000 and 2001? This occurred when California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by electricity market manipulations. A demand-supply gap was created, mainly by Enron, to create an artificial shortage so speculators could benefit from an 800 percent increase in wholesale electricity prices. As a result, California suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts. Now an electricity shortage coupled with rolling blackouts is happening again, but for a different reason. This time it is due to 'unreliables' aka green energy. Note that in 2000 and 2001, the forced rolling blackouts happened during peak load times (and peak pricing), which typical was in mid-afternoons.
Now, the rolling blackouts hitting the state are happening in the evening...Now, California is paying the price for abandoning reliable energy sources in favor of green energy sources such as wind and solar power, which don’t work when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. During heat waves like California is experiencing now, there’s typically plenty of sunshine, but winds are often stagnant."


** "The American Green New Deal (GND) has far more to do with government control than it does climate control, and the same reasoning can and should be applied to the European GND."
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– Nicolas Loris, The Heritage Foundation ([link removed])

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They paved paradise and put up a solar panel.

** E&E News ([link removed])
(8/1/20) reports: "The top U.S. solar trade group and renewable advocates are urging California regulators to reject a petition that would list Joshua trees as endangered, saying the plan would jeopardize the state's renewable energy goals and impede solar and wind projects. In response to a petition submitted last fall by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the California Fish and Game Commission is considering listing a subspecies of Joshua tree as endangered due to the plant's vulnerability to climate change. The five-person commission will vote today on whether to accept the request for further consideration under California's Endangered Species Act (CESA). None of the plant or animal species currently listed under CESA was added primarily because of climate change threats, said Brendan Cummings, CBD's conservation director. But recent studies have indicated that Joshua trees, particularly the western subspecies dominant in California, could face population declines as average
global temperatures increase, Cummings said."
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Joe ain't no miner, jack.

** Team Trump ([link removed])
(7/28/20) blog: "16 years ago today, Joe Biden claimed he probably would have been elected president in 1988 if he hadn’t lied that he came from a family of coal miners, in a speech plagiarized almost word-for-word from British politician Neil Kinnock. In 2004, Biden admitted that he made it all up. 'Turns out I didn’t have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean?' he laughed. 'I tried that crap – it didn’t work.' But in 2008, Biden shamelessly tried it again anyway, claiming that he himself had been a coal miner: 'I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania.' By 2012, he had revised his life story yet again: 'My mom and dad weren’t poor. Barack [Obama] makes me sound like I climbed out of a coal mine in Scranton with a lunch bucket…. No one in my family worked in a factory.'...We know where Biden stands on coal today. After appropriating the life experiences of coal miners for political gain, Biden embraced the far-left
and pledged to eliminate hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs and make sure that 'not another new coal plant will be built.' He said there would be no place for coal and fracking in a Biden Administration, and dismissively told coal miners to 'learn how to program.'"

A chicken in every pot, a Solyndra on every corner.

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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
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
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America

Energy Markets


WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $42.00
Natural Gas: ↓ $2.29
Gasoline: ~ $2.18

Diesel: ~ $2.42
Heating Oil: ↓ $121.93
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $4.13
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↓ 284



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