Thanks to the hidden and crippling cost of subsidised wind and solar, households and businesses are being hit with staggering bills, with prices at levels unimaginable, until recently.

Double digit annual percentage increases are now the norm.

As we reported yesterday, Brits are already suffering power prices more than double what they were 12 months ago, with prices set to double again before their next winter is over. Germans are watching their power prices spiral out of control; with state-controlled rationing sets of institutionalised across the country.

Hopelessly intermittent wind and solar sit at the heart of this economy wrecking chaos. Notwithstanding the efforts of renewable energy rent-seekers to pretend otherwise.

Politicos and the MSM continue to blame everything else under the sun, Vlad Putin, included.

Energy users can only despair, with logic and reason banished from energy policy, long ago. Engineers don’t get a look in. Instead, the realm…

By Fred Lucas ~

The Internal Revenue Service will establish a centralized office to implement elements of the tax and spending bill that President Joe Biden signed last week, including almost 87,000 new IRS agents, the agency’s chief says.

Democrats’ bill, which passed the Senate and House without a single Republican vote, provides $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service, largely to pay for the 87,000 new agents through 2031.

“We have a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the IRS,” says Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig, pictured testifying April 7 before the Senate Finance Committee. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

In an email message Friday to all IRS employees, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Signal, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig wrote: “This is a historic time for the IRS, and we are working to move quickly to begin work on the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law earlier…

By Robert Lyman and Dr. Jay Lehr~

Consider other consequences of decarbonization.

All current production of fossil fuels would have to be phased out. The fuel-producing jurisdictions and countries, faced with economic disaster, might “push back” a bit. Further, as the imposition of regulatory restraints on fossil fuel consumption would undoubtedly cause the price of existing production to decline sharply, governments would have to centrally plan (i.e. totally control) virtually all parts of the energy economies in all the countries of the world.

It would be necessary to replace most of the world’s existing industrial and transportation infrastructure that now depends on fossil fuels; the costs of this would be in the many trillions of dollars.

Without crude oil, the world’s 50,000 merchant ships and 50,000 jets that are needed to keep the eight billion in this world healthy, would be grounded.

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By Robert Lyman and Dr. Jay Lehr~

As those who write frequently on climate policy issues, we are often asked, “What will decarbonization cost?”. Decarbonization is the term used to refer to effectively eliminating emissions of greenhouse gases, usually measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent, allegedly to stop human-caused global warming. In practical terms, that means ending use of hydrocarbons (oil, natural gas, and coal), and the energy services provided by them. According to the agreement reached at the United Nations COP25 conference in Paris in 2015, the goal is to achieve decarbonization by 2050.

Looking back less than 200 years, we had a decarbonized society with no coal fired power plants, no natural gas power plants, and the Beverly Hillbillies had not yet discovered oil. It’s easy to see how civilization has benefited from more than 250 leading-edge, hydrocarbon processing licensed refining…