By Gary Abernathy Times of rising energy prices always present opportunities for climate activists to insist that now is the time to abandon reliable resources like oil and gas and embrace “renewables” such as solar…
After solar and wind farms suddenly sprang up, citizens and local governments sprang into action
By Gary Abernathy It is not unreasonable to ask how the alternatives movement, led by solar and wind, went from being the darling of the nation, the face of our energy future and something deemed…
Democrats make it clear that if they retake power, U.S. energy security will once again be at risk
By Gary Abernathy From the time President Trump took office in January 2025, he and various agencies from the EPA to the Department of Energy have been working to reverse the damage done by the…
Good news: Fifth Circuit says government’s tax power is not designed to control behavior
By Gary Abernathy A somewhat under-the-radar decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier this month is, on its surface, focused on the issue of home alcohol distilling. But the appeals…
Want to know climate truth? Believe the opposite when the media says something is false.
By Gary Abernathy According to Gallup, Americans’ trust in media has reached a new all-time low. Polling shows that just 28% of respondents express a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television…
After all these years, alternatives are finding ways to stand on their own
By Gary Abernathy For years, conservatives and other believers in free markets complained about the subsidies, tax breaks and favorable regulations designed to prop up the “alternative energy” movement. If solar, wind and other “renewables”…
Off-grid data centers will help protect ratepayers, but codifying ARC-ES would do even more
By Gary Abernathy Between the war in Iran, the controversies involving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and other developing national and world events, a pledge made in early August by our biggest AI companies…
Despite the liberal media’s insistence, Americans must judge ‘experts’ with caution
By Gary Abernathy Pronouncements from President Trump describing his actions are almost always countered by the far-left media with something along the lines of, “But experts say…,” followed by high-minded, eggheaded lecture from a so-called…
Times of conflict or war remind us of the importance of U.S. natural gas
By Gary Abernathy There is little good to be said about war, even when the fight is one of good vs. evil. Lives lost, property, cities and infrastructures destroyed, and billions of dollars spent are…
Congress passing ARC-ES is the natural follow-up to EPA’s rejection of the endangerment finding
By Gary Abernathy When the Environmental Protection Agency announced last month the rescission of the so- called “endangerment finding” under the Clean Air Act, it was predictably met with doomsday pronouncements from the radical left,…