CS Lewis: “One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.” Wind/solar = zero carbon. Net zero plans don’t hurt anyone. Climate policies don’t stoke inflation. Renewables make grid more resilient. Have enviro zealots blinded us to energy facts?

Fast-food restaurant, blocks from NY City Hall, has drug dealers & vagrants on sidewalk. Angry resident suing the chain for $15 million for turning “Fulton Street into open air drug bazaar.” Isn’t that #NYC leadership's fault? Don’t sue a fellow victim. Hold leaders accountable.

This morning $CNX released Q1 2024 financial & operational results, highlighting:

🔵 $25M FCF (17th consecutive qtr.; $1.9B since 2020)
🔵 Repurchased 2.6M shares (reduced outstanding shares ~34% since 2020)
🔵 $16M New Tech FCF

More at 10 EST: investors.cnx.com/news-releases/…

Headline: ‘top economists’ ‘debating’ the effect of climate change on the US economy. The top economists are academics & gov bureaucrats: never ran a business. Aren’t scientists. And it wasn’t a debate, more of an ideological echo chamber. This is paid propaganda, not news.

Another innovation by the @CNXtweets team to help lower emissions, reduce costs, and increase safety. Accomplished without any government mandate or regulation. How about that.

Al Gore: “Of course Mother Nature is the most powerful advocate. I often say that every night on the TV news is like a nature ride through the Book of Revelation…” More proof of how climate alarmism is a virulent religion, accompanied by sermons from high priests.

In new #FarMiddle , follow last week’s focus on “little lies” and examine “big truths.” Connections span economics of sports, #investing trends, mounting federal debt, and #Biden approval ratings vs. payroll growth. Shout out to The Police and Depeche Mode. nickdeiuliis.com/big-truths/

Pennsylvania is nation’s top #electricity exporter and #naturalgas is 59% of the mix.

PA Independent Fiscal Office: nat gas drove state CO2 emissions 10% lower, “the largest year-over-year decline for Pennsylvania on record.” The scoreboard shows nat gas is the present and

Private sector innovation: once again fueling economic & environmental progress. Enormous opportunity for @CNXtweets & NuBlu’s decentralized #CNG and micro-scale #LNG solutions. In fact, these technologies could displace all the petroleum products imported from the Middle East.

US wastes $18+ billion/yr on the #UN complex.

Idea: cut funding to UN and redirect savings to (a) federal debt reduction, (b) affordable housing for homeless, (c) opioid addiction recovery, (d) rural broadband, or (e) tax relief for middle class.

Instant addition for

Bloomberg: US use of #natgas in 2022 grew 2x faster than use of wind + solar (combined). Despite whole of government looking to eradicate supply and demand for nat gas. To borrow phraseology from Drucker, scientific reality eats climate ideology for breakfast.

EPA release: “…emissions 📉 17% overall since 2005, reflects…energy market trends, technological changes including energy efficiency improvements, and carbon intensity of energy fuel choices.”

Translation: private sector #shale revolution drove improvement.

#EarthDay2024

Princeton researchers: net zero goals with 100% wind & solar by 2050 requires $3.5 trillion for new transmission lines. That’s over $10k per American. For what? To replace a reliable grid with an unreliable grid dependent on foreign products and weather? Illogical and wasteful.

Financial Times reported US officials upset #Ukraine is attacking Russian oil refining infrastructure. That about sums up current US policy: attack your domestic oil industry, which creates leverage for #Russia , then work to protect Russian oil industry from Ukrainian attack.

Headlines: ‘US sends warships to Mideast’; ‘China exports raise tensions’; ‘Russia ratches up pressure on Ukraine’.

Weren’t climate policies going to lessen geopolitical tension and address the only existential threat that matters?

Our adversaries continue to capitalize on

Saw this gem: #EV owners should only be allowed to charge using wind and solar. Otherwise, it’s cheating.

Awesome.

#NYC mom fined $50 for letting her four-year-old take emergency pee in park. Park restroom was closed. Meanwhile, anything goes (from bodily functions to assaulting cops) just around the corner. NYC is broken. Let’s not impose its failed & inconsistent policies on the rest of 🇺🇸.

📊 Bureau of Labor Statistics: overall cost of #energy in March up 37% from Jan 2021. All components of energy mix are up; electricity up 28%, gasoline up 50+%, diesel up 50%. And strategic petroleum reserve is 40+% lower. This is what climate policies sow. Only the start.

Justice Dept goes after Apple. Perhaps #tech industry is starting to learn hard way that appeasement of administrative state and the Left only protects for a while. And eventually turns on you. Tech industry raised and enabled the Frankenstein that is now unleashed upon it.

Scores of economists/academics promote charts showing how 🇺🇸 went from net energy importer to exporter. But such data only account for oil, nat gas, and coal. If they include wind/solar/EVs that depend on China/foreign providers, US is rapidly reversing back to energy dependency.