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Coal, oil and gas, are truly modernising forces, lifting billions out of agrarian poverty – powering machines and driving industrialization. People called on fossil fuels, when they should be called hydrocarbon heroes.

Access to reliable electricity provide an escape route for the impoverished, and hope for a less miserable future.

Watch villagers in the Third World scrounging for twigs and dung to cook their meals over in an unlit hut, and you’ll soon understand why the world’s poorest are screaming for coal generated power and gas for heating and cooking.

Far from coal, oil and gas killing (as the eco-lunatics claim), that trio is all that stands between us and a grim and grinding form of poverty.

Alex Epstein lays out the truth about how coal, oil and gas continue to deliver warmth, light and power, all day, every day, for billions of people.

Fossils Fuels: The Big Picture
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America’s energy policy has been captured by the same class of ideologues and rent seekers, that have destroyed reliable and affordable power supplies in Europe, Australia and elsewhere.

So, it’s probably not entirely fair to attribute the blame to the bumbling Joe Biden. Struggling with signs of senile dementia, on occasions, Biden gives the appearance of not knowing what day it is. Which suggests that what comes out of his mouth has been put there by those keen to exploit his senility.

America’s energy policy seems to be a case in point.

Steve Hilton picks up the thread below.

The left’s energy policy is incoherent and destructive
Fox News
Steve Hilton
23 April 2023

Transcript

Steve Hilton: Welcome back. So, guess which states are doing best at delivering on environmental goals and reducing emissions? Is it the blue states who never stop lecturing everyone about climate and seem to keep…

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~

That rapidly growing wind power development kills birds in ever increasing numbers is clear. That it also kills whales and other marine mammals is becoming clear. So the policy question is how much killing is enough, before we stop killing more? This question seems not to be asked.

The stampede to build huge amounts of wind power, on land and at sea, is potentially devastating to a great many species. Our focus has been on the growing threat to whales and other marine mammals from offshore industrial wind.

But this is just part of a much deeper pattern of runaway wind killing. For now let’s consider the indifference of the Biden Administration to land based killing of birds.

To begin with there is the golden eagle. This majestic species is the largest bird of prey in western North America, where wind development is growing rapidly…

By Tim Graham ~

How insanely radical and unjust can blue states get? California’s nine-member Reparations Task Force voted May 6 to recommend that state lawmakers provide billions of dollars in compensation payments to black residents along with a formal apology for slavery.

Why should an 18-year-old white person — or a freshly minted migrant — pay taxes through the nose to atone for the sins of slavery, when the sins are not theirs? These are the recommended payouts:

1. Compensation for health disparities: $13,619 for each year of residency.

2. Compensation for mass incarceration and over-policing of African Americans: $2,352 for each year of residency in California during the war on drugs from 1971 to 2020.

3. Compensation for housing discrimination: $3,366 for each year between 1933 and 1977 spent as a resident of the state of California.

So if you’re a black person who’s lived in California for…