By Robert Romano President Donald Trump is wasting no time in putting pressure on Venezuela’s trade partners to stop doing business with the Nicolas Maduro regime, on March 24 placing an additional 25 percent tariff on all goods from countries that import oil from Venezuela , including China, which constitutes 68 percent of Venezuela’s oil exports, according to data compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) . Other importers of Venezuelan oil include Cuba, which constitutes […]

By Rick Manning Former President Joe Biden and his Democrat cronies piled a series of green incentive tax cuts into the faux Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Now that those government subsidies masquerading as tax cuts have had time to ripen, it is clear that they are […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump on Jan. 23 appeared via video from Washington, D.C. to the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland , announcing the U.S. departure once again from the Paris Climate Accords and that the U.S. would be doubling its electricity output to accommodate the growing population and the expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. In his remarks, Trump outlined some of […]

By Robert Romano House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the America First Policy Institute on Sept. 17 unveiled part of the House Republican legislative agenda should former President Donald Trump prevail in the 2024 election versus Vice President Kamala Harris and Congressional Republicans retain the House and win the Senate (for example by picking up seats […]

By Robert Romano “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them… Under my plan… electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” That was former President Barack Obama in a 2008 interview when he was running for president for the first time, outlining […]

By Rick Manning Environmentalists are busily celebrating the destruction of the Klamath River dam system under the auspices that fish will thrive as a result.  Here is the problem. 40,000 people depend upon the Klamath River dams for their electric power. Now, 40,000 people added to the […]

By Rick Manning Imagine that a federal agency threatened to fine a local government for excessive pollution without revealing to that or any other state or local government what standard they needed to meet to avoid running afoul of the law? It would be like having a […]

By Rick Manning The Biden administration’s continued war on oil and American energy independence continues unabated, and just as the coal industry has been harmed more by the expectation by investors that new coal electricity generation could be shut down, our nation’s oil refining capacity is stalled […]

By Robert Romano From 2012 to 2022, the U.S. is not producing a single megawatt-hour (MWh) more of traditional, non-renewable thermal-based electricity—coal, natural gas, nuclear, oil and wood—in an entire decade since the Clean Power Plan, now overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia v. […]

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