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SIMS: New England Women Pay the Price for State Politicians’ Green Energy Disaster

February 23, 2026February 23, 2026 Bronwyn Sims

As a blizzard bears down from D.C. to Cape Cod, our fragile grid—crippled by state-level climate mandates—faces a test it may fail. New England Women are already rationing heat amid the nation’s highest bills. A dangerous Nor’easter is about to slam our region from Washington, D.C. to Cape Cod, and New England women will once … Read more

Two New Studies Show Renewable Energy Policy Is All Cost/No Benefit for Ratepayers

November 20, 2023 Rob Roper

Two new reports on Vermont’s Renewable Energy Standard, one by the Department of Public Service and Sustainable Energy Advantage and the other by an organization called Brattle, confirm what we’ve been pointing out for a long time – Vermont’s so-called green energy mandates are all cost and no benefit for the Vermonters who get stuck paying the bills.

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What the ‘Greenies’ Refuse to Grasp is a Gas! Gas! Gas!

July 17, 2023 Skip

For years we’ve been told that Renewables are THE answer to all the Greenie prayers (who or what they’re praying to or for remains a mystery). All we have to do is spend TRILLIONS of dollars to buy all this stuff from the Chinese, and then we’ll be all set…oh wait.

Get Ready for Blackouts and Brownouts All Across America.

May 24, 2023 Op-Ed

This summer, we are expecting electrical issues, so get your generator tuned up and your fuel tank filled. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the group which monitors our electricity grid, says get ready for blackouts and brownouts all across America.

Energy Propaganda v. Energy Reality and the EPAs War on Mobility

April 25, 2023 Skip

What the Greenies and their supporters in the mainstream media want you to see – and believe:

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It Isn’t the Wind (Power) They Want, It’s The Money (Subsidies) In Their Pockets

June 6, 2021 Skip

The Left and Eco-Socialist crowds are always yammering about the “subsidies” that the fossil fuel industry gets and telling that it isn’t fair. Well, nothing in life is fair like how they blame the industry and not the CongressTwits that put those laws into effect.

Everything is Big in Texas, Even the Grid Failures

February 20, 2021 Steve MacDonald

If you’d like a decent look at the real problems with the electric grid in Texas, this is a good investment of your time. It provides some common-sense explanation of the math problem tied to the policy failures and how a Republican Governor who is a big advocate of fossil fuels is responsible.

Notable Quote or DISQUS Doodling – Vindaloo Bugaboo

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Skip

Commenter Vindaloo Bugaboo (VB) nails the imperative question at TreeHugger leaving little wiggle room, which makes the Renewable Energy types howl, scream, and break Godwin’s Law. VB took all of the posts at Tree Hugger and wrapped it up into a single question that ANY Conservative should be asking:

Hold on To Your Wallets – New England’s Governors Promising Regional Energy Improvements

November 26, 2021October 17, 2020 Steve MacDonald

New England has energy infrastructure issues. But none of them will be resolved by this. “Vermont Governor Phil Scott and governors from four Northeast states today issued a statement calling for reforms needed to achieve their states’ respective goals for clean, affordable, and reliable electricity.”

Wait! Wait! What’s the deal – they’re renewable, right?

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Skip

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular. It’s getting harder to get permission to erect the turbine towers. Local regulations are getting stricter. Bavaria decided back in 2014 that the distance between a wind turbine and the nearest housing must be 10 times the height of the mast, which, given the density of dwellings, makes it … Read more

Solar road has no solar gain – so much for the “yellow brick road”!

August 17, 2019 Skip

Yeah, why am I not surprised – not the brightest idea when it first came out. Doing roads is hard. Roads HAVE to be hard. Solar cells are not hard. Doubt me? Reformatted, emphasis mine: Three Years Later, the French Solar Road Is a Total Flop Three years later, even the most optimistic supporters have … Read more