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ERCOT, Public Utility Commission say Texas will generate adequate power amid projected heatwave ERCOT takes action to ensure stability during summer heat With severe heat expected in the coming days across the state, regulators announced additional power resources are in place to rely on the Texas power grid in the summer heat. HOUSTON - With scorching August temperatures fully projected on the near-term Texas horizon, the two leaders entrusted to keep the lights on and the A/C flowing predicte...

E-Fuel, The Latest Distraction and Threat to Ethanol Acceptance We dont need another stinking diversion from the real thing! By Marc J. Rauch Marc Rauch In December 2009, my business partner, Bob Gordon, wrote an editorial for TheAutoChannel.com titled "Electric Vehicles, Solution or Diversion." The premise of this insightful piece, which both Bob and I have referred to many times since, is that personal electric vehicles are not, and will not, be ready for mass private ownership for a long ...

Ditching electric competition would cost Texas A capacity market won’t assure reliability, but it would cause Texans’ electricity bills to rise. Temperatures reach 97 degrees with a sensation of 105 degrees in Dallas on Monday afternoon, June 14, 2021, as ERCOT send a conservation alert asking Texans to reduce electric use through Friday.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) By Bill Peacock 1:30 AM on Jul 18, 2021 CDT This op-ed is part of a series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion s...

Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality Some people, not all of them liberals, think that electric vehicles are the wave of the future, part of an inevitable “green” revolution. But the facts suggest otherwise. My friend Robert Bryce testified before a House committee yesterday on the subject of electric vehicles. Robert is one of the country’s most knowledgeable experts on energy, and I encourage you to read his entire testimony. Here are some highlights as summarized by him: ...

Wind energy constitutes a farcical scheme that produces electricity in the least efficient way possible--well, to be fair, in many areas solar power is even worse--and impoverishes almost all of us while a tiny minority reap enormous profits. Wind energy is nevertheless beloved by politicians, because politicians prize industries that cant survive without subsidies and mandates. Why? Because those industries kick back a portion of their profits to the politicians

Texas Governor Greg Abbott claimed on Tuesday that "Everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas." The facts show otherwise. And Texas ratepayers are on the hook for about $38 billion in excess energy costs from the deadly February storm.

Greg Groogan talks with energy industry author and analyst Robert Bryce about the Texas power grid and the 87th Legislature, and then thr What's Your Point panel chimes in with their thoughts.

The statistics are overwhelming. China not only possesses massive resources of many critical minerals, it also dominates the processing of virtually all of them.

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, May 26, 2021. On this date in 1864, in the brief and fraught respite between the gruesome battles at Spotsylvania Courthouse and Cold Harbor, Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation making Montana a U.S. territory. Statehood would come 25 years earlier. In the ensuing decades, Montana has stamped itself as a special place in our national consciousness, celebrated in songs, novels, and movies as “the last best place,” a Lincoln-esque description coined in 1983 b...

This Friday at 5 pm Pacific time (8 pm Eastern), well be doing a live taping of the Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast for our VIP members via Zoom, with me and Lucretia talking about whats up with equality under the law. In addition to some planned topics, well be taking live audience questions. (Where we take them is another question. . .) Specifically, I sent to Lucretia the New