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MORNING ENERGY NEWS  |  08/28/2020
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Having your A/C on in the middle of August is not causing the Redwood Forrest to burn down.


Forbes (8/24/20) column: "Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than burned last year, and is an unusually high number for this early in the fire season. California political leaders including Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, blame climate change...But every school child who has visited one of California’s redwood parks knows from reading the signs at the visitor’s center and in front of the trailheads that old-growth redwood forests need fire to survive and thrive. Heat from fire is required for the release and germination of redwood seeds, and to burn up the woody debris on the forest floor. The thick bark on old-growth redwood trees provides evidence of many past fires...Nor is it the case that California’s fires have 'grown more apocalyptic every year,' as The New York Times reported. In fact, 2019 saw a remarkably small amount of acreage burn, just 280,000 acres compared to 1.3 million and 1.6 million in 2017 and 2018, respectively...California’s fires should indeed serve as a warning to the public, but not that climate change is causing the apocalypse. Rather, it should serve as a warning that mainstream news reporters and California’s politicians cannot be trusted to tell the truth about climate change and fires.  "

"If the Biden-Harris ticket wins, and even a fraction of the Green New Deal and other radical, illogical, unscientific environmental proposals are advanced nationally, California’s misery will be expanded on a national scale."

 

– Daniel Turner, Power The Future

Joe's Queen of Green.


E&E News (8/27/20) reports: "If Joe Biden wins the presidential election, allies say he should pick an EPA administrator who can boost morale at the agency and craft aggressive regulations to fight climate change. Few are better prepared for that work than California regulator Mary Nichols, according to former colleagues and officials. Since 2007, Nichols has served as chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the main air pollution regulator in the Golden State. In that role, the so-called queen of green has presided over the development of tough tailpipe pollution rules for passenger cars, as well as a first-in-the-nation electric truck rule. Nichols, 75, has also publicly clashed with the Trump administration over its rollback of clean car standards and revocation of California's Clean Air Act waiver for greenhouse gases. 'In my view, Mary has the unique skills and experience that should put her at the top on the list that Vice President Biden should consider,' said Margo Oge, the former head of EPA's transportation office. 'Given the 3 ½ years of the awful and damaging actions under the Trump administration, I think you're going to need an EPA administrator who understands not just the laws, but also the agency. And I think Mary fits that,' Oge added."

After California, who is next?

Forget about the "Blue-Green Alliance" this looks more like a suicide pact.


National Review (8/1/20) reports: "Amid all the confusion caused by the coronavirus and the usual noise of the campaign season, Joe Biden wants to make one thing clear: He is focused on helping the middle class, particularly union workers. 'Middle Class Joe' wants to 'build back better' from the pandemic by ensuring “the future is made in America,” particularly by “newly empowered labor unions.” His desire to support unions is so transparently sincere that it is curious he has chosen to run on policies that may well bring disaster to them — at least in the private sector. To be sure, some of Biden’s plans should bring more workers into unions — for a time. He pledges to stuff his economic-recovery legislation with rules that will reclassify gig workers as employees, effectively end secret ballots for votes on unionizing job sites, raise minimum wages to make union laborers cost-competitive, and neuter state and local 'right to work' laws. These have been high on many union organizers’ wish lists for years and would make a Biden administration much more union-friendly than was Obama’s. Most or all of these union gains, however, are likely to be effectively canceled out by the effect of other policies on his agenda that would destroy the very jobs he will have spent so much taxpayer money to create." 

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

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: ↑ $43.18
Natural Gas: ↓ $2.68
Gasoline: ↑ $2.23
Diesel: ↑ $2.43
Heating Oil: ↑ $121.34
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $45.11
US Rig Count: ↓ 275

 

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