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** The greens love writing pro Trump puff pieces.
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Inside Climate News ([link removed]) (12/19/19) recounts: "Trump's first term has been a relentless drive for unfettered fossil energy development. ICN's 2020 candidate analysis looks at the president's climate record....When Trump delivered his first major energy speech in the fracking fields of North Dakota as a candidate in May 2016, he called for American domination of global energy supplies. To make that happen, he wanted an end to all of President Barack Obama's executive actions involving greenhouse gas emissions. 'We are going to turn everything around,' Trump declared. 'And quickly, very quickly.' As president, he has rolled back regulations on energy suppliers at a rapid clip slowed only at times by the courts, while auctioning off millions of acres of new drilling leases on public land. Last year, domestic oil production hit a record high...His administration has undone or
delayed—or tried to—most regulatory and executive actions related to climate change, while proposing new ones to accelerate fossil fuel development. Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law counts 131 actions toward federal climate deregulation since Trump took office. In the absence of any comprehensive national climate law, those moves have led to an erosion of the federal government's main regulatory levers for cutting global warming emissions."


** "Given the scope and scale of the climate crisis, it is shocking that we are being presented with so few serious, comprehensive alternatives for how to live. We need another kind of escape route—away from our ideologies of ownership and property, and toward more collective, healthy, and just cities."
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–Kian Goh, The Nation ([link removed])

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Even if we rolled over and played along with green communism, it wouldn't make an iota of difference to the climate.

** Market Watch ([link removed])
(12/26/19) column: "Switch to energy-efficient light bulbs, wash your clothes in cold water, eat less meat, recycle more, and buy an electric car: We are being bombarded with instructions from climate campaigners, environmentalists and the media about the everyday steps we all must take to tackle climate change. Unfortunately, these appeals trivialize the challenge of global warming, and divert our attention from the huge technological and policy changes that are needed to combat it. For example, the British nature-documentary presenter and environmental campaigner David Attenborough was once asked what he as an individual would do to fight climate change. He promised to unplug his phone charger when it wasn’t in use. Attenborough’s heart is no doubt in the right place. But even if he consistently unplugs his charger for a year, the resulting reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions will be equivalent to less than one-half of one-thousandth of the average person’s annual CO2 emissions in the
United Kingdom. Moreover, charging accounts for less than 1% of a phone’s energy needs; the other 99% is required to manufacture the handset and operate data centers and cell towers. Almost everywhere, these processes are heavily reliant on fossil fuels."

It's all politics.

** Heartland Institute ([link removed])
(12/20/19) blog: "Democratic Presidential candidates are in a bidding war over how many trillions they would spend to 'fight climate change.' Would it be enough, soon enough, to save the planet? Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg, lamented at the COP25 climate summit in Madrid that despite all her climate strikes and traveling by sailboat, world emissions of carbon dioxide continue to climb. Her widely quoted statement that if world leaders did not take needed action, 'We will put them up against the wall,' is, she said, a mistranslation from the Swedish. She meant to say, 'hold them accountable,' and would never, ever favor violence...Entities that would be endangered by drastic curbs in the use of hydrocarbon fuels include the once mighty German auto industry, modern living standards, private property—and, according to Greta, 'everything.' She writes: 'The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will.
Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.' People affected by unaffordable energy, job loss, and traffic disruptions might decide to hold some people accountable also."

If you oppose a carbon tax, please ** contact us and take a stand (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Carbon%20Tax%20list)
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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
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: ↑ $61.85
Natural Gas: ↓ $2.21
Gasoline: ↑ $2.55

Diesel: ↓ $2.99
Heating Oil: ↑ $206.08
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $68.07
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↓ 835



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