Beck: Energy crisis will be FATAL



Most of us were aware that when the Inflation Reduction Act was signed by President Biden, it had nothing to do with decreasing inflation. Besides spending billions of taxpayers dollars, what the act is actually accomplishing is further destruction — specifically regarding energy.

Beck charges that “the Inflation Reduction Act is nothing but a Trojan horse. And that is closing down our power plants. These companies are given billions of dollars of your money, billions of dollars to shut down the operating coal-fired plants and then build something else.”

He continues, “What makes this really, really insidious is to get all of the money, you have to destroy or dismantle your power plants. So, power plants are going up for sale, and some of them are selling dirt cheap. These things take years to build, if not a decade, and cost billions of dollars.”

According to Beck, what they’re doing is “literally lights out.”

He asserts that “people will die because of this,” and it’s “your own government doing it to you.”

He goes on to explain that the reason these disastrous policies were hidden in the Inflation Reduction Act is because officials KNEW that they couldn’t pass them otherwise.

No one in their right mind would be willing to give up their ability to survive to appease new government regulation.

Ron DeSantis agrees, saying on Beck’s new podcast episode, “How stupid can you be to try to neuter our own ability to produce our own reliable energy? How does that make our country stronger to be relying on, and here’s the thing — Biden will not want it done here. He’ll go beg Maduro for oil, he’ll go beg other people for oil.”

DeSantis continues, “It’s all for them to exert more control over us. That’s what this is about.”

He then calls the people behind this “sick” and “ideologically captured,” saying that “these are not people that should be anywhere near the levers of power.”

Power truly is all they can see.


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Horowitz: It’s worth a government shutdown to fight the climate energy shutdown



Americans are watching the energy blackouts and rationing across the great Atlantic pond with apprehension but also with relief that we are supposedly on the freedom side of that divide. But that is no longer true. Thanks to Brandon’s America, the diesel crisis alone could plunge the United States, particularly the Northeast, into a European-style dystopia of rolling blackouts and rationing. Welcome to phase two of the Great Reset: energy lockdowns.

While many are focused on prices for regular gasoline for cars, which the Biden administration has arbitrarily kept “relatively” less high than before, the diesel shortage will destroy our economy immediately after the election if nothing is done to immediately reverse this administration’s policies.

Of all the economic charts of the Brandon economy, this one of national diesel stockpiles, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, is perhaps the most dire of all.

Diesel stockpiles have been down over 30% since Biden took office, even as the country’s population grows. Not only is diesel needed for some home fuel, but it also powers all of the trucks that bring every vital good, including food, imaginable to your door or to your local store. Given that trucks are force multipliers for the supply chain, a diesel crisis is much more impactful than even a spike in gasoline prices. As a result of this crisis, the U.S. is down to just 25 days of diesel supply, the lowest level since 2008, headed into the winter.

While the price of gasoline has been temporarily kept off the appalling peak of the spring, the price of diesel is still coasting near all-time highs, literally double the price since Biden took office!

The situation is even more dire in the Northeast, where people rely more on oil for heating, thanks to their governors declaring war on coal, fracking, and gas pipelines over the past decade. However, Biden understood that people focus on gasoline prices much more than diesel, even though the latter probably affects their bottom line more severely. In New England, where inventory is down to just one-third of normal levels, they are being forced to ration fuel and even fill home tanks to just partial levels before the winter.

Meanwhile, our reserves are all tapped out, as Biden has released or plans to release a total of 260 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, leaving the reserve down to just 401 million barrels of oil, the lowest level since June 1984. Thus, there is nowhere to run or hide from the shortage. Thanks to years of regulations on oil refiners, as well as ethanol mandates, we only have 129 refineries left in the country, just a handful in the Northeast, and most are operating near full capacity after having permanently shut down some operations during the lockdowns. The entire oil refinery output capacity surge of the Trump administration was wiped out, as we have lost over 1 million barrels per day of output since 2020.

Therefore, the day the elections are over, there is no deterrent against the Biden administration even pretending to do something about the energy crisis. The government will barrel head-first into European-style lockdowns and rationing, which have always been the goal. So, what should a victorious Republican Party do?

This is yet another reason, along with the fight for medical freedom and combatting FBI tyranny, why it is suicidal for Republicans to sign an omnibus bill this December rather than holding the budget as leverage over the White House into early next year so they can force the administration’s hand on energy regulations. Republicans must ensure the budget CR is extended into early next year so that a GOP Congress can write the new budget and reverse all the regulations on gas pipelines, oil refineries, terminals and storage, and coal production and reverse ethanol mandates. They must also fight for provisions to give the states more leeway in using their lands to promote energy growth.

Republicans must also prevent the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from blocking the construction of new pipelines. There is record volume of natural gas flowing out of Texas’ black gold from the Permian Basin, but it is now bottlenecked because of a lack of pipelines. All regulations factoring in global warming need to be eliminated, because they are shutting down pipeline projects both at the production sources, such as Texas, and at the endpoints in the Northeast.

It is absurd for Republicans to fear that such brinkmanship would lead to a government shutdown after the American people have languished through a real shutdown of the private sector, and if they fail to confront Biden in this budget, we will suffer an energy shutdown.

Every American will remember the lockdowns of March-May 2020 for the rest of their lives. How many Americans remember the longest federal government shutdown, which occurred from December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days)? “What shutdown?” would likely be the response of anyone who didn’t work for the government. And even those workers all got paid promptly and enjoyed a month of paid vacation. Boo-hoo. Some things are worth fighting for.

Wind farm in Germany being demolished to make room for coal mine



A wind farm in Germany is being demolished to make room for a coal mine expansion.

German energy giant RWE is tearing down wind turbines to expand a neighboring coal mine in an effort to deal with the country's energy crisis. The area of the wind farm near the small town of Lützerath will be used to expand the Garzweiler open pit mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The wind farm features eight wind turbines. One wind turbine was dismantled last week, two more are scheduled to be deconstructed some time next year, and the final five will be taken down by the end of 2023.

RWE officials admit that the move appears to be "paradoxical."

"We realize this comes across as paradoxical, but that is as matters stand," RWE spokesperson Guido Steffen said in a statement.

The Ministry of Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia added, “If Lützerath were to be preserved, the production volume required to maintain the security of supply over the next eight years could not be achieved, the stability of the opencast mine could not be guaranteed and the necessary recultivation could not be carried out."

In addition, RWE will reactivate three lignite-fired coal units that were previously on standby.

"The three lignite units each have a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW). With their deployment, they contribute to strengthening the security of supply in Germany during the energy crisis and to saving natural gas in electricity generation," RWE said in September. "Originally, it was planned that the three reserve power plant units affected would be permanently shut down on September 30, 2022, and September 30, 2023, respectively."

Germany’s cabinet approved the decision to revive the unused coal units after energy prices skyrocketed because of the sanctions issued due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

North Rhine-Westphalia and RWE had previously declared they would stop using fossil fuels by 2030.

Climate change activists are furious about the transition from wind power to fossil fuels.

Last week, there were thousands of demonstrators who participated in protests against high energy prices in six German cities: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hanover, and Dresden.

As of September 2021, 60% of Germany's gas came from Russia, but last month it was down to zero.

Reuters reported, "Germany imported 37.6% of gas from Norway in September compared with 19.2% in the same month last year, while Dutch deliveries climbed to 29.6% of imports from 13.7%, data from utility industry group BDEW showed."

Last week, BASF – the world’s largest chemicals group by revenue – announced that the company will "permanently" downsize in Europe because high energy costs have made the region increasingly uncompetitive.

"The European chemical market has been growing only weakly for about a decade [and] the significant increase in natural gas and power prices over the course of this year is putting pressure on chemical value chains,” BASF chief executive Martin Brudermüller said on Wednesday.

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Bill Gates says Russian invasion of Ukraine will be 'good for the long run' because it will force countries to transition to green energy, praises ESG investments



Software developer Bill Gates declared that the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be "good for the long run" because it will force European nations to embrace renewable green energy.

Gates appeared on CNBC's talk show "The Exchange" this week, where he pushed green energy alternatives over fossil fuels and touted efforts to promote the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative.

"The 'E' part — lot of controversy, but there is a way to measure it, and it should be one of the factors people look at when they invest in companies," Gates said of the environmental aspect of ESG.

Gates commended BlackRock CEO Larry Fink as a "great example of private-sector leadership" in regard to climate change policy.

“Anyone who says that climate shouldn’t be a factor in how you evaluate the future of a company – that’s not capitalism," Gates claimed. "Because companies that have emissions, they are going to be subject to border adjustment tariffs or taxes. If you’re dealing with severe weather events, that’s got to be factored in."

Gates argued, "Climate does affect the economy, which does affect investments."

BlackRock is an investor in Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which aims to invest in green solutions that usher in a zero-carbon world. Earlier this year, the tech billionaire told Forbes that his Breakthrough Energy organization is "only focused on investments that will have a substantial effect on climate change."

Gates conceded that society can't stop using fossil fuels cold turkey because it's "how people get to work today" and " how people avoid freezing to death in the winter."

However, Gates said the transition to green energy still must happen. He said the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a "setback" in the transition to green energy as European countries attempt to replace sanctioned fossil fuels from Russia.

"You know, it's a setback, you know, we need to find non-Russian hydrocarbon sources to substitute for those. So there's coal plants running and variety of things because you know, keeping people warm, keeping those economy's in decent shape is a priority," the Microsoft co-founder said on Tuesday.

"Now, on the other hand, it's good for the long run because people won't want to be dependent on Russian natural gas," Gates told CNBC’s Diana Olick. "So they'll move to these new approaches more rapidly."

The "new approaches" are likely green energy alternatives that the Breakthrough Energy organization plans to invest in.

Gates – who has a net worth of $101 billion – said efforts to combat climate change need to expand to things like green steel, green cement, and green hydrogen.

During the Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle this week, Gates said, "The ultimate measure of success is global greenhouse gas emissions: We need to go from 51 billion tons a year to zero in the next three decades."

\u201cBreakthrough Energy founder Bill Gates says Europe's self-imposed energy crisis is "a good thing for the long run" because "they'll move to these new approaches more rapidly" \u2013 like the untested energy sources into which he's invested his fortune.\u201d
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Horowitz: The new colonialism: Africa rebuffs US overtures to commit energy suicide



Not content with the controlled demolition of our own natural resources, the U.S. government and Western oligarchs are seeking to keep Africa in the dark and are using climate imperialism to do so. After Africa largely rejected the mRNA vaccination agenda the past two years, the Biden administration is trying to impose the next “emergency” fiat on African countries by preventing them from developing their lands and using their energy resources to power their people. Thankfully, one African government sees the farce for what it is, and it appears that others will follow suit.

In July, the Democratic Republic of Congo put 30 blocks of oil and gas lands up for auction to potentially be used for drilling and other development. Earlier this month, U.S. “climate envoy” John Kerry implored Congo’s prime minister to back down on the auction of some of those lands for fear that Africa would actually get out of the dark and enjoy the lifestyle we experienced in the West until fairly recently. Last week, Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba flatly declined the request. "Nobody can put pressure on us ... no convention in the world, not even the Paris Agreement, forbids a country from emitting CO2 for development reasons," she said in an interview with Reuters.

Commenting on the U.S.-Congo working group on protection of Congolese forests, Bazaiba chided the Western penchant for meddling. “This is not a working group in which a colonialist controls a colony,” she said. In other words, the Congo is not putting up with a new era of colonialism – except this time, rather than the West exploiting Africa for its gain, the West is seeking to force Africa to join it in committing civilizational suicide. Too bad American governors can’t say this to the Biden administration as the government seeks to federalize and lock up the lands in their respective states.

Ironically, the West is devolving into an uncharted post-development nation status and is regressing with acts of self-immolation by destroying its energy resources. Africa understands the power of industrialization — what African countries were lacking for a century — and wants to have what we all enjoyed until our governments were seized by energy masochists.

The Congo land-use rift occurred as Jeff Bezos' environmental fund, Bezos Earth Fund, is seeking to “conserve” 100 million hectares of land in Africa by the magical year of 2030 under the so-called AFR100 initiative. Bezos’ chief executive, Andrew Steer, had the nerve to frame this plan as the rich helping the poor rather than what it really is – the rich who can afford a greater degree of self-immolation exploiting the poor by locking up their resources in favor of useless wind and solar technology. "Rich countries are going to have to play a bigger role on creating resilience on helping poor countries and poor citizens to adapt,” said Steer at a recent Reuters conference.

But as credulous as the Western parasites think the Africans are, they are not stupid. They have not bought into the "climate emergency" narrative, don't believe the policies will affect the weather, and understand that their alternatives to oil, gas, and coal, which are natural energy produced by God on this earth, don’t work and will perpetuate and exacerbate poverty in Africa. They are watching the rationing of gas in France and the coming heating crisis in all of Europe, built on a self-imposed destruction of Western energy resources.

Incongruously, as Germany and France wallow in their misery, they are offering $600 million to South Africa to push the same climate idiocy that caused this crisis. Africans have no plan to walk down the same path to geo-political masochism, especially as South Africa is beating inflation with its own coal-producing prowess.

At the upcoming climate conference (“COP27”) in Sharm El-Sheikh, African countries plan to push an energy development agenda that directly contradicts the Western countries. "Africa has woken up and we are going to exploit our natural resources," said Uganda Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu, according to Reuters. "There is no way you can develop any economy, any society without energy," said Omar Farouk Ibrahim, secretary general of the African Petroleum Producers' Organization.

The Africans understand that there is no way to give power to 600 million sub-Saharan citizens without electricity and to almost 1 billion without access to clean energy for cooking by relying on wind farms and solar panels, which are very expensive and require so much infrastructure, ironically powered by traditional fuel sources, to operate.

In the ultimate display of irony, some of the same German leaders sponsoring green energy boondoggles and trying to rope Africa into their inane climate projects are now counting on Africa’s vast natural gas reserves to cushion the blow of their energy crisis. So why are they trying to sabotage the hand that might feed them? Old colonialist hubris?

Meanwhile, as the Biden administration implores Africa not to develop its oil and gas resources, it is begging the Saudis not to cut oil production until after the election. African leaders are starting to see through the politics of Western meddling. They don’t like the meddling, and they don’t like the example Westerners have set in their own countries. For once, Africa might be more enlightened than the West.

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