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This makes a lot more sense than the delusions of a wind-powered world churned out by climate obsessives.
By Katie Tubb and Nicolas Loris ~
Over the past few months, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been delivering an important message to our country’s allies: America’s energy renaissance is your gift, too. As Perry said at the beginning of the year, “The United States is not just exporting energy, we’re exporting freedom.”
Now, he’s delivering that message in person.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry meets with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis in Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 14, 2018. (Photo: Michal Kamaryt/Zuma Press/Newscom)
Perry has proactively exercised his role to encourage new foreign markets for American companies. Whether it’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) or commercial nuclear power, American energy companies have a lot to offer.
That’s good for both economic and geopolitical reasons. When domestic producers have new customers abroad, America’s allies will have more energy choice as well as freedom from hostile actors that manipulate energy markets.
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The billions spent on UK wind power were producing a puny 3.3% of national grid output just now
Well Perry is half-right:
“In a region of the world where bad actors like Russia use energy as a weapon, the benefits of American-produced energy extend far beyond the economic gains. Many European countries are the victim of manipulated energy markets. As Perry highlighted, the U.S. offers more choice through transparent, competitive, and reliable energy resources, and supports the peaceful use of nuclear energy. American producers offer European nations options to diversify their energy supply “free from the threat of coercion.”
Perhaps he should contemplate the plight of our neighbors to the South. The freedom to choose in the market doesn’t preclude having strings attached to them. One of the founding ideologies of the US Federal Constitution is the regulation of trade, and it does this with complete disregard for domestic or foreign product. It uses every method in the book to obtain and maintain a market monopoly. Perry in his sales pitch is no different than the common buffed-shoe salesman.
Well, JB, you’re half wrong. The US hasn’t become an international economic power by hamstringing its international companies. Bad trade deals have done that. Trump, and Perry, are simply trying to get the rest of the world to join the fun instead of fighting endless local wars to keep bloody tyrants in power, tyrants who well know what happens when the people get their hands on them. The remedy is Democracy and National Sovereignty. It’s a tough sell in some parts of the world.
Mercantalist energy trading is not the answer .
So much energy is lost in transmission ,especially so with LNG giving it’s cooling and bulk shipment requirements .
Better to burn gas and bunker fuel in local economies rather then wasting it on the high seas.
Before the (pointless) expansion of world trade after the 70s inflation especially bunker fuel was used to fuel national economies.
94 you are right This comment in the Australian Newspaper makes a lot of sense
“You are wrong with regard to democracy. What is need is more democracy such as the Swiss have with their system of Direct Democracy. They also have a recall system through Direct Democracy referenda. Every elected official and all senior public servants including the Governor General and all judges should be subject to recall. There should be no limit on the reason for recall criminal behaviour, political stance different to when elected (eg Windsor & Oakshott) or appointed, plain lying (eg Julia Gillard) are obvious reasons but plain incompetence and unethical behaviour should be other reasons. The electors can decide.
In referendum questions there is a need to penalise those who lie, exaggerate or leave out important information in the for and against case (eg in the 1967 Aborigine referendum the question was should they be counted ie have equality with other electors – but there was no question about granting this small group land rights, privileges above others, have billions of wasted $s thrown at them etc)
Electors need to have a say in budgets as in Switzerland, they need a say in immigration numbers and who comes here etc.
The Swiss have something like 3 sets of 4 questions per year. They seem to be well organised and low cost. The public servants here lie about the costs and are incompetent at running such a system. The easiest is have a refenedum to incorporate the Swiss system into our constitution with an additional proviso of penalties for wrongful or incomplete for and against cases. Then recall any judge that interprets the referendum result wrongly -yes only to the question asked and no means no”
Can we swap Perrys. Ours is worse than useless.