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MORNING ENERGY NEWS | 02/12/2021
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** Forced labor solar power to replace good-paying American jobs under Biden.
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Bloomberg ([link removed]) (2/10/21) reports: "Chinese solar companies are among 175 around the world that signed a non-binding pledge by a U.S. trade group to avoid forced labor. It will be much harder for them to actually cut ties with Xinjiang, the western China region facing increasing scrutiny for human-rights abuses. The pledge from the Solar Energy Industries Association, a U.S. trade group, doesn’t specifically mention Xinjiang. That region in Western China plays a dominant role in global solar supply chain, and it's also become the center of widespread accusations that President Xi Jinping’s government is systematically oppressing Muslim Uighurs. An accompanying press release, however, calls on the pledge’s signatories to quit the territory over evidence of forced labor. The move sheds light on a dirty secret of the solar industry: it relies on Xinjiang and its cheap coal power to produce
half of its key raw material. And with demand for panels set to explode as the U.S. and China commit to more clean power, it will be even harder for the industry to quit the troubled region...As Xinjiang was growing in importance to the solar industry, it became the center of international controversy. Human rights activists have accused the Chinese government of using internment camps and forced labor on ethnic Uighur Muslims, along with other minorities there. The U.S. government stepped up pressure last month, barring entry of all cotton products and tomatoes from the region on grounds of 'modern slavery.' China said the U.S. decision violated trade rules."


** "On the campaign trail, Biden mocked former President Trump’s relentless opposition to the Chinese threat. 'China’s gonna eat our lunch? Come on, man,' he said. It’s actually worse than that. If our lunch is imported from China, it’s theirs to begin with, man, and we’re just making it worse by rejoining Paris."
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– Daniel Turner, Power The Future ([link removed])

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War on the working class. On the bright side, every pink slip comes with a fingernail brush, made in China.

** New Geography ([link removed])
(2/10/2021) blog: "John Kerry, President Joe Biden's new climate czar, took a private jet to accept an environmental award in Iceland in 2019. 'It's the only choice for somebody like me, who is traveling the world to win this battle,' he unironically told a reporter when asked about it. If this sounds like a clueless joke, it's not. President Biden's chief environmental officer took the least carbon-efficient means of travel known to man because it was 'the only choice' he could think of for a member in good standing of the indulged upper classes. But this is no anomaly when it comes to liberal climate activism; it is a perfect encapsulation of what it has become: a vanity project of the jet set that directly harms working-class interests. And it's this green agenda that directly threatens the working class that Biden has prioritized as he has taken command of the federal government. The first victims of this agenda include the upwards of 10,000 people, many of them union members, who
expected to work on the now cancelled Keystone XL Pipeline. But this draconian climate agenda that cost so many jobs should not have come as a surprise. As a Rasmussen Reports poll found, most Americans—52 percent—predicted that Biden's decision to re-join the Paris Climate Agreement 'will cost American jobs and force households and small business to pay higher utility bills.'."

Okay, Boomers.

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Subways are bad for your health (Covid infection aside).

** Junk Science ([link removed])
(2/12/21) blog: "A new study reports on PM2.5 (soot/dust) levels in subway stations. The New York City and New Jersey PATH system had a mean level of 779 micrograms per cubic meter — 65 times higher than the EPA’s outdoor air standard of 12 micrograms per cubic meter. The highest level measured (1,499 micrograms per cubic meter) is almost 50% higher than the worst air in any Chinese city that we know about. Onboard air quality PM2.5 measurements were lower but still on average 30 times higher than EPA standards. In 2018, PATH carried 81.7 million passengers, about 280,000 per week day. Keeping in mind that the EPA says that any exposure to PM2.5 can kill you within hours, where are the bodies? Why aren’t governments calling for an immediate shutdown of subway service? Recall that Harvard researchers just claimed this week that PM2.5 kills more than 8 million people per year and much lower outdoor air exposures. PM2.5 is the biggest demonstrable science fraud of our time."
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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: ↑ $58.37
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Heating Oil: ↑ $174.82
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $61.42
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↑ 437



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