DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Could Put An End To Biden’s Offshore Wind Vanity Projects

One of the early decision points facing President-elect Donald Trump will be what to do about the Biden administration’s expensive and destructive offshore wind farm projects in the Northeast Atlantic. President Biden decided early in his administration to make federal funding and expedited permitting for a growing number of these large industrial facilities a top […]

DAVID BLACKMON: 10 Things Trump Can Do In The First 100 Days For Energy Independence

President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20th, will have a huge task ahead of him: restoring common sense and soundness to federal energy policy. The past four years in this area could more accurately be characterized as a series of policy imprudence. An irrational scam is more important than a consistent and productive […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Granholm’s LNG Farce Puts A Proper Coda On Biden’s Energy Policy

As Congress was struggling in chaotic negotiations over another disastrous continuing resolution, I thought: What if we shut down the government and let the Biden administration and its incredibly brain-dead and destructive energy take over? All I could think about was how great it would be for everyone to end it. -The policy farce is […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Norway Provides An Object Lesson On How Not To Make Energy Policy

“It’s an absolutely terrible situation.” evaluation Norway’s energy minister, Terje Aslund, spoke about the country’s electricity costs rising to record levels due to exports to the UK, Germany, Denmark and other European countries. This is the outcome that many had warned the Norwegian government would realize when it decided to build an interconnector to export […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Joe Biden’s Crony Capitalism Is About To Meet Its Demise

Few days of energy-related news clearly show the sharp contrast between the crony capitalism-based energy policy of the Biden administration and the US energy domination policy introduced during the second Trump administration as past news. do not have. week. On November 26, the Biden Department of Energy, led by Secretary Jennifer Granholm, announced the award […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Zeldin And Burgum Take On Daunting Roles In Second Trump Term

President-elect Donald Trump has set Washington, D.C., on fire over the past week with a series of controversial picks for cabinet-level positions and other senior advisory positions. Senate confirmation hearings for nominees like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have become must-see television, with Congress broadcasting them on pay-per-view to […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Voters Concerned About Energy Security Have A Choice To Make

Voters who are concerned about national security issues should also be concerned about America’s energy security. Modern society cannot function without abundant, affordable, and uninterrupted energy sources to power the technologies that make modern life possible. Like it or not, this is an inescapable fact. No development in this century has contributed more to increasing […]