David Blackmon's Energy Absurdity
@EnergyAbsurdity
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Writer, consultant, podcaster, miner of absurdities. 8th gen Texan. Border hawk. Post suggested absurdities on my timeline.
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"We have to outcompete fossil fuels. But to do that, we need to tilt the playing field so severely that we don't really have to compete at all." - Bill Gates
Bill Gates: We have to outcompete fossil fuels. Now, to do that properly, they shouldn't get subsidies and in fact carbon tax over time should be put on, so the new, say the electric car, or the plane use hydrogen, the fact that it doesn't emit carbon you're helping it get
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The chances this will actually raise the cost of heating water and the appliances themselves is literally 100%.
US plans water heater standards, says will save consumers $11 bln yearly
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@JeffBezos
Perhaps it's time for you to take a serious look at what YOUR EMPLOYEES at the
@WashingtonPost
have been saying about
#Trump
for the last 9 years and put an end to it. Be responsible for once in your life.
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If you want to understand why
@ERCOT_ISO
felt the need to issue the conservation request to users on the
#Texas
#grid
, just take a look at the screen shot of its generation mix as of 5:49 a.m. pasted below.
#Solar
: 0%
#Wind
: 6.5%, and just about 11% of its nameplate capacity
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@joshgerstein
@kyledcheney
Hey, look! Biden's out of the race now, so it's safe for his
#DOJ
to start coughing up stuff congress has been demaning for months! So funny how that works, huh?
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@AndrewCMcCarthy
Yes, we should definitely trust Merrick Garland's DOJ and Christopher Wray's FBI to prosecute such a program competently and fairly.
Do you even think about what you've written before hitting the "post" button?
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1st half stats from college football today:
Quinn Ewers: 354 yards, 4 TDs.
Michigan/Iowa/Louisville/FSU Combined: 322 yards, 1 TD.
Hook 'em!!!
@KyleUmlang
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@MartinHeinrich
With all due respect, Ukraine is not now and never has been anything approaching a real democracy. I suspect you know that, though.
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@wideawake_media
"This is a time to build trust,"
#Vonderleyen
says, "and also a time to censor the shit out of anyone who dares speak the truth about anything we're doing."
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Unintentionally hilarious headline of the day:
South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions via
@YahooCASports
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Yesterday at this time, Wind was generating around 13,000MW, today it's 5,670. If you wonder why
@ERCOT
is having to ask customers to conserve to avoid blackouts, that's all you need to know.
Also, thank God for natural gas, which is providing 55.9% of power on the grid at 3:30
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@kylenabecker
The thought police will never relent until they are forced to relent. Because this is a Marxist movement at its heart.
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@ElizHagedorn
What, does he seriously think he's running a college campus filled with woke snowflakes???
Ok, don't answer that...
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@DeSantisWarRoom
Who are her comms advisors? Is there no one in this campaign incapable of telling this awful woman that the word "BUT" cannot appear anywhere in this statement? There are no "buts" to be had here. This is not complicated.
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Ooof. A week after Biden's Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind auction failed miserably, the UK
#offshorewind
auction attracts ZERO BIDS.
UK offshore wind auction fails to secure future energy supply
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Mean tweets are still a thing, and they are awesome.
@redsteeze
So Kamala stated that her pronouns are she/her because blind people cannot see pronouns? Wow makes so much sense 🫠
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@KanekoaTheGreat
Joe Biden has been wrong about every military and foreign policy issue for half a century. Why would anyone have expected anything to change once he became president?
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This is the perfect
#Energy
meme if you are an
@ERCOT_ISO
customer on the
#TexasGrid
. If you are warm in your home or business today, thank a
#coal
#miner
or a
#NaturalGas
#driller
.
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@stats_feed
Invest $30,000 in IBM, $10,000 in a new house, $3,000 in a new car, $2,000 in Vegas, and live off the $5,000 leftover until I find a job. By 1970, I'd have been a multi-millionaire.
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This loop should simply be incorporated as her official portrait at the U.S. DoE. It perfectly depicts her performance in office.
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Sunday's Energy Absurdity of the Day: Yellen Gives India 'Permission' to Buy Russian Oil, by
@EnergyAbsurdity
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“We are hurtling towards disaster, eyes wide open, with far too many willing to bet it all on wishful thinking, unproven technologies and silver bullet solutions.” - Antonio Guterres
This is our UN Secretary General, unwittingly describing exactly what the alternatives to oil,
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First they came for your gas stoves.
Then they came for your dishwashers.
Next they came for your water heaters and air conditioners.
Now the Biden apparatchiks are coming for your portable gas generators.
#Marxists
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You just cannot make this stuff up. You simply can't.
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Man, France's strict gun control laws sure are working!
Well, if the goal is to prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves against terrorists, that is...
JUST IN - In the last few hours, rioters in France have been seen firing automatic rifles, shotguns, guns and using explosives.
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@TheGameDayMLB
@MLB
Trade him to Tampa. He'd be right at home.
(And yes, obviously he was joking with this take.)
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@IAPolls2022
*sigh* Trump simply cannot be +14 among independents and just +2 overall. It is not statistically possible unless the sample is something like D +10 or more. Some of these polls are too ludicrous for words.
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@garrickteck
@HawkeyeElvis
Never in my life have I seen so much whining about what was clearly a good call.
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The
#Climatescam
's evolving narrative:
1970: This is it.
1980: This is really it.
1990: No, seriously, I'm not kidding this time.
2000: Are you listening here? This is really, really it this time.
2010: What about 'this is it' do you not understand???
2023:
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@KatKanada_TM
I'm normally not quite this petty, but I do make an exception where smug vegans are concerned.
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The utter futility of the "energy transition" summed up in a single chart:
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Scherzer is a mad genius.
Max Scherzer, Pitch Clock Gamesmanship.
Long hold. Adams takes his only time out.
Then Max stays set so he can pitch as soon as Adams is ready.
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@ChristinaPushaw
@TrumpWarRoom
Trump folks are really going to need to up their games if they want to take on
@ChristinaPushaw
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Hey, what could possibly go wrong with having a radical
#climatescam
group based in London controlling major decisions by U.S. military contractors?
Biden Proposal Would Give Foreign Climate Group Veto Power Over U.S. Military Contracts
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17. These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.
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Politics is a disease that ultimately infects everything. The EIA is no exception.
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@wideawake_media
Watch his body language. When he denies being involved in population control, he almost curls up into a ball. What does that indicate?
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@MarioNawfal
Offer your kingdom as a place of refuge for the evacuating Gazans, and we might take you seriously, Prince.
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You should save this photo to present to anyone who bitches to you about a 6-acre drill pad being an eyesore:
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Check out this
#Climatescam
#propaganda
from the
@NYTimes
. Surreal stuff.
But think about this: If "heat is the new
#Covid
," then is this tranche of propaganda setting up justification for the climate
#lockdowns
we all know are coming?
Now, the NYTimes would no doubt label
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@elonmusk
@disclosetv
And you're about to hire a disciple of this group to be your new
@Twitter
CEO. Explain the reasoning, please.
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@EndWokeness
There is a very simple solution: Stop electing Democrats to any office whatsoever. This is not complicated.
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Dear Texans: Just a reminder that over 92% of the electricity that kept you warm through the night was generated using natural gas, coal and nuclear:
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This movie is an absolutely must-watch, folks. One of the most reality-filled movies you will see about the
#climatescam
.
Powerful introduction from
@Martin_Durkin
's absolutely brilliant new "Climate: The Movie":
#ClimateTheMovie
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Got a call today from our electric provider. Here's how it went:
Electric Provider: Hi, I'm from [electric company with well-known name] and I want to offer you a special deal!
Me: Cool, what is it?
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Yep! Do what we did to the Nord Stream lines and blow up the other side of the damn freeway. Time to start livin' the climate alarm dream!
If we rebuild the I-95, we’ll emit way more carbon than if we don’t. It’s time we walked the walk on climate change.
cc
@SierraClub
@greenpeace
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This Chart shows the utter futility of the
#EnergyTransition
. The world is trying to use the tiny sliver at the bottom to displace every energy source above it.
#Futility
, defined.
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Communists always work to revise history:
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Reality just keeps intruding on our
#greenenergy
fantasies - behold the $29,000 replacement battery for a Chevy Volt:
#energytransition
#EVs
#electricvehicles
#chevyvolt
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@CortesSteve
Yes, she and Old Joe have certainly proven their policies don't work. I'm assuming she's endorsing Donald Trump here?
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@RandoLand_us
@Oilfield_Rando
Calm down. This happened to me week before last, for no reason whatsoever that I could discern. So I filed an appeal and requested an explanation. Within 12 hours I had been reinstated with an apology from Twitter staff.
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You can read this entire story about
@Toyota
's experimental ammonia-powered car and never see a word explaining to you how
#ammonia
is made in the world today.
Why? Because almost all ammonia is produced from...
#methane
, i.e.,
#NaturalGas
.
Now, here's the thing about that:
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Here is what this means: As always happens, the
#Texas
#wind
industry is miserably failing during harsh weather conditions, whether they be cold or hot.
Naturally,
@Ercot_ISO
tries to cover for the wind industry by alluding to "unseasonably low wind conditions," which is, well,
TXANS Update—Jan. 14, 2024: ERCOT has issued a Conservation Appeal for Monday, Jan. 15, from 6 – 10 a.m. CT. Operating reserves are expected to be low tomorrow morning due to continued freezing temperatures, record-breaking demand, and unseasonably low wind. We request Texas
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@RobertKennedyJr
Maybe you should wake up finally, and stop associating yourself with the party - the
#Democrats
- who are exactly the same people as those you criticize in this post. Stop your Quixotic campaign of ideas, endorse
#Trump
, and make a real difference.
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The woman's glass frames and lenses are made of
#plastic
.
So is her digital phone.
So is much of the car that brought her to the hearing.
So is much of the jetliner that flew her to DC.
So are hundreds of products she uses every day in her office and home.
It is
"If you want to end it, then quit using it."
Senator Markwayne Mullin utterly demolishes smug eco-zealot's ill-informed crusade against plastics, in one of the most epic, one-sided verbal beatdowns yet witnessed.
"You can choose to not use plastic... If you believe it, then
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@MarinaMedvin
Actually, the "theory" about CIA's involvement in the JFK assassination originates in the CIA's own documents. But you just keep on going.
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@MarioNawfal
In case anyone is still in the dark on this, the UK has gone full-on Soviet Union. Never go full-on Soviet Union, folks.
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As you watch the UN Sec. General blather on about turning your lights off for an hour to fight a mythical climate "emergency," remember that 2 billion humans on Earth have no lights to turn off, and he wants to keep it that way.
#EarthHour
is a call to massively increase
#ClimateAction
& a reminder that all of us can play our part.
I invite you to switch off your lights for an hour on 25 March at 8.30pm local time - wherever you are.
Every minute and every hour counts.
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Jen Rubin is actually the perfect poster child for everyone at the WaPo. She and Taylor Lorenz personify literally everything that is wrong with the dying profession of journalism in America today.
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With
@ERCOT_ISO
now in Stage 2 Emergency Alert conditions on the
#TexasGrid
,
#NaturalGas
providing fully 2/3rds of all generation available.
#Gas
and
#Coal
combined at an amazing 82%.
Save your crap about solar and storage "saving" the grid, please.
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@dorfman_p
You all keep claiming that but electricity rates just keep on skyrocketing as the grid becomes overloaded with intermittent energy.
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Added Context:
#CATL
is a
#Chinese
company, which Ford chose to partner with instead of one of a number of American companies. This means that
#IRA
subsidies will be going in part to
#CHINA
, despite
#Biden
promises to liberate U.S. supply chains from Chinese dominance.
Ford today announced a new battery plant in Michigan they will build in partnership with CATL. The $3.5 billion plant is expected to open in 2026.
Ford mentioned IRA subsidies as a major reason for picking Michigan. The subsidiary will be wholly owned by Ford.
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Dear New Yorkers: On Friday, during the depths of this winter storm, well over half of your electricity was generated by natural gas. Less than 8% came from wind, solar doesn't even show up on the chart.
That's your truth. The oil & gas industry says, "you're welcome."
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This is fantastic. Perfect.
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Man, nobody could have seen that one coming!
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This dude has big brass ones.
Today in Davos, Javier Milei told a bunch of WEF elites that socialist schemes aren't the solution to society's problems—but instead their root cause. He's exactly right.
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My latest at
@DailyCaller
:
DAVID BLACKMON: Returning Trump To The White House Would Reverse Biden’s ‘Energy Ideocracy’ via
@dailycaller
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@VivekGRamaswamy
You're almost right. In reality, it is about making the U.S. entirely reliant on China for its energy security. And it's working very rapidly.
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@adamelmahrek
New LA Times motto: "Hey, it was only one guy raping women - the others were all just murdering and butchering attendees."
It beats the hell out of "democracy dies in darkness."
Keep up the great work,
@adamelmahrek
!
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GTF out of my state, you traitor.
As a new Texan, I will do my best to work against these enablers of corruption.
Paxton is GUILTY
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@LHSummers
The only wonder is that you or anyone else expected anything else from this anti-American, anti-Semitic school.
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This is such a feel-good moment. God Bless these folks doing the good work.
@ChuckCallesto
Climate activists tried to block a highway in Portugal. Drivers quickly ended it.
This is how it’s done
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@Doc_Texas
He would do well to hire an offensive coordinator, so he can focus on being an effective head coach and game manager. Calling plays has been a distraction from both duties.
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