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As millions of Texans went without power for days during February's devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted...
Texas officials circulated climate skeptic's talking points on power failures during storm Josh Lederman © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON — As millions of Texans went without power for days during February's devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted climate skeptic blaming system failures on the state's embrace of wind and solar energy, emails obtained by NBC News show. The talking points from Alex Epstein, author of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels," made their way to the Texas governor's office and to the state's oil an...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Joe Biden provided his economic vision for the country in a speech in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. It is reminiscent of his former boss’s talking point about “shovel-ready jobs” over a decade ago. Now President Biden is framing his plan as the most significant public investment since World War II. Unfortunately, America’s infrastructure degraded largely because of the post-World War II consensus. That is, the consensus in which the U.S. provides billions for other nations’ defense, doles out foreign aid that is distributed to unaccountable and ineffective...
The Result Of The Pies And Divine Light Share Share Trending and the Divine Light It Brings), I discuss how the United States, with its unique structure and practices, builds unprecedented prosperity and liberty. How has this shining Light from America manifested into the world? Due to the spreading of free-market capitalism, with its emanating roots in America, “the share of the world population living in extreme poverty,” writes Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin in the Wall Street Journal, “[has] fallen to 15% in 2011 from 36% in 1990.”[1] That means nearly 1.5 billi...
As Jenkins explained on Twitter, even though wind turbines were operating at about two-thirds of their capacity, wind was expected to provide less than 10 percent of the energy needed to power the state’s grid during the peak of a winter storm, while natural gas plants were supposed to provide 66 percent of the power. “Those of you who have heard that frozen wind turbines are to blame for this, think again,” the engineer added. “Texans were counting on natural gas and coal plants to be there when they needed them,” Jenkins observed. “Only 50-60% of that capacity has been able to p...