It takes a few nights freezing or boiling in the dark for Westerners to recognise how critical energy is to their lives, health and safety. Helpfully, the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ is providing just that kind of opportunity for reflection. Whether it’s mass State-wide blackouts - as wind and solar ‘powered’ South Australians experienced … Continue reading Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Expensive Energy Guarantees Miserable Poverty
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The Hidden Victims of ‘Green’ Virtue Signalling: Renewable Energy Costs Crushing Working Poor
Subsidised wind and solar is a playground for the vain, rich and cynical, and its victims are always on the wrong side of the tracks; unseen and unheard. Energy poverty is now an entrenched feature of first-world economies wherever wind and solar play any prominence in power systems. And it’s not simply the fact that … Continue reading The Hidden Victims of ‘Green’ Virtue Signalling: Renewable Energy Costs Crushing Working Poor
Unaffordable At Any Price: Why Biden’s ‘Green’ New Deal Will Bankrupt America
Joe Biden and his Squad are trying to convince the American people that their ‘Green’ New Deal will deliver an economic Nirvana, for all and sundry. Which begs the question: if every place in the world that’s adopted subsidised wind and solar ends up suffering rocketing power prices and an unreliable supply, why would the … Continue reading Unaffordable At Any Price: Why Biden’s ‘Green’ New Deal Will Bankrupt America