Democratic governor warns against 'echoing Socialist Party lines' and forcing Big Oil to drill

Democratic governor warns against 'echoing Socialist Party lines' and forcing Big Oil to drill

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  Gas prices in the U.S. keep going up and up, and Washington's Democrats have found a convenient scapegoat for the pain inflicted on American drivers — Big Oil.

"...But halfway around the U.S., the Democratic governor of an important oil-producing state has a different message: Oil companies might have good reason to be wary of amping up production...

• First, oil companies need long-term price stability. If a company moves now, it could lose out if prices drop before new oil actually starts flowing. It “could be in six months, it could be in a year,” Polis says of the lag each company has to factor in...
  
• A company like Exxon (XOM) surely remembers investing over the last decade and then posting a net annual loss of $22.4 billion for 2020, the largest in its history.
• The oil giant survived but many smaller companies failed. In a recent oil bankruptcy report, the Texas law firm Haynes and Boone documented more than 600 industry bankruptcies from 2015 through 2021...Read all.

#1 This day 1960-----Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place 1960

Homelessness: The Reality and the Solution | PragerU

Homelessness: The Reality and the Solution | PragerU

• Why are so many Americans homeless and what can we do to help them? 

"America has a homelessness crisis—and it’s getting worse by the day. 

Politicians promise to stop it. 

Cities like San Francisco spend millions trying to end it. 

Nothing seems to help. 

PragerU’s new short documentary reveals the root causes of homelessness and offers compassionate, effective solutions that we can all get behind."

What the hell???

 

Audit finds Andrew Cuomo's Department of Health undercounted 4,100 covid nursing home deaths in New York - TheBlaze

Audit finds Andrew Cuomo's Department of Health undercounted 4,100 covid nursing home deaths in New York - TheBlaze: 

"Our audit findings are extremely troubling," DiNapoli said. "The public was misled by those at the highest level of state government through distortion and suppression of the facts when New Yorkers deserved the truth."

The report found that the New York Department of Health failed to meet federal directives to inspect for infection control problems, reporting on only 20% of facilities between March and May 2020 – compared to over 90% for other states.

Energy reliability is everything - CFACT

Energy reliability is everything - CFACT

• A recent Wall Street Journal article, The Power Struggle, raised the importance of grid reliability, but claimed that electric grid failures were caused by climate change.

The claim that climate risk is undermining grid reliability is an illusion. The WSJ article correctly diagnosed the danger of  blackouts, but incorrectly determined that the cause was climate change.

It is their proposed cure, i.e.,more wind, solar and batteries for storage, that is causing the problem.

As usual, some of their assumptions are wrong.

For example, the WSJ article said:

• 1. “Wind and solar technologies have become increasingly cost-competitive and now rival coal, nuclear and, in some places, gas-fired plants.”...

Here are some facts:

1. Wind and solar are not less costly than existing natural gas combined cycle (NGCC), coal-fired or nuclear power plants. They are also not less costly than new NGCC power plants. And they are, without question, far more costly when the cost of batteries, needed to backup up wind and solar, are included in the cost of generating and distributing electricity...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 19

History for March 19 - On-This-Day.com

Wyatt Earp 1848 - American gambler, sheriff and Deputy Town Marshal of Tombstone, AZ, he took part in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

• 1628 - The Massachusetts colony was founded by Englishmen.
• 1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 1748 - The English Naturalization Act passed granting Jews right to colonize in the U.S.
• 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
• 1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.
• 1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.
• 1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned from the PTL due to a scandal involving Jessica Hahn.

Kamala Harris blunders about NATO again, this time in a deleted tweet - TheBlaze

Kamala Harris blunders about NATO again, this time in a deleted tweet - TheBlaze: 

Vice President Kamala Harris was caught in a precarious blunder again when she implied in a tweet that Ukraine was a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has cited the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO as part of his justification for invading the former Soviet republic as a matter of national defense.

The way we were-----The "Long Winter" of 1880/81

'Fox & Friends' on 'huge' Hunter Biden developments

You knew they'd never relinquish that unlimited power.-----Global rise in COVID-19 cases is 'tip of the iceberg,' WHO warns | CBC News

Global rise in COVID-19 cases is 'tip of the iceberg,' WHO warns | CBC News

• Omicron variant, lifting of public health measures driving COVID-19 uptick worldwide

"Figures showing a global rise in COVID-19 cases could herald a much bigger problem as some countries also report a drop in testing rates, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, warning nations to remain vigilant against the virus.
...A combination of factors was causing the increases, including the highly transmissible Omicron variant and its BA.2 subvariant, as well as the lifting of public health and social measures, according to WHO.
..."We just have to avoid thinking that COVID is no longer there. And therefore maintain the strictly necessary measures, which are essentially the continuous monitoring and tracking of cases, and the maintenance of the obligation to wear a mask in closed or very crowded places."...Read all.

Hide the children!!-----Yes, The Senate Should Investigate Jackson's Leniency To Sex Predators

Yes, The Senate Should Investigate Jackson's Leniency To Sex Predators
"...But research released this week by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, calls into question Judge Jackson’s judicial philosophy concerning sex predators, particularly sentencing for child sex predators.
...her record also demonstrates an attempt to normalize a radical sexual ideology of adults being attracted to minors – categorizing it not as flatly criminal, but simply as misunderstood.
Judge Jackson’s Disturbing Pattern...at the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Judge Jackson advocated for eliminating the existing mandatory minimum sentences for child porn, suggesting that at least some people who possess child porn aren’t sexually motivated, but simply “in this for either the collection, or the people who are loners and find status in their participation in the community.”
While on the federal bench, Judge Jackson demonstrated a continuous string of departures from sentencing guidelines for sex predators...Read all!!

NY Governor Kathy Hochul Gets Booed at NY Rangers Game - Louder With Crowder

NY Governor Kathy Hochul Gets Booed at NY Rangers Game - Louder With Crowder: 

Kathy Hochul is a trailblazer. She became the first female lieutenant governor to be appointed governor after the real governor got yeeted for sexually harassing a bunch of other women. On Monday, Hochul shattered another glass ceiling, becoming the first female governor to get booed out of Madison Square Garden during a cheap publicity stunt before a NY Rangers Game. To "celebrate" Women's History Month, someone thought it would be a good idea for Hochul to drop the puck. I guess they thought the heart of New York City would be a safe space for her. Nope.

Yes, it was Russia!!-----MH17: Shot Down over Ukraine

We're gonna see more of these. Better ones. Much better!-----Deep fake footage purports to show Ukrainian president capitulating | Prothom Alo

Deep fake footage purports to show Ukrainian president capitulating | Prothom

"A poorly edited video purporting to show Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky publicly capitulating to Russian demands...
The video appeared to show an ashen-faced Zelensky speaking from the presidential lectern and urging his countrymen to down their weapons in the face of Russian invaders.
,,,Ukrainian officials have been warning of the danger of deep fakes, especially after Moscow's forces were denied a quick victory on the battlefield following their Feb. 24 invasion...Read all.

Lunch video-----MYTHS About the 1960s Promoted by the Left

Noon-toon

 

GOP Sen. Mitt Romney votes with Democrats to keep mask mandate for toddlers - TheBlaze

GOP Sen. Mitt Romney votes with Democrats to keep mask mandate for toddlers - TheBlaze: 

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) recently joined Democratic colleagues on the Health, Labor, Education, and Pensions Committee to approve a rule that keeps in place a mask mandate for toddlers involved in a federal early learning program.

Progressive's math is hard.

 

U wonner wy Jonnee kant reed?-----Teachers union president misspells Ukraine on Twitter after posing with upside-down Ukrainian flag | Fox News

Teachers union president misspells Ukraine on Twitter after posing with upside-down Ukrainian flag | Fox News

• The group also posted upside-down Ukrainian flags

"The nation’s largest union was involved in its third factually incorrect tweet of the week on Wednesday when the president of the American Federation of teachers incorrectly spelled "Ukraine."
"We #StandWithUkriane," American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted on Wednesday morning before deleting the tweet shortly after.
The American Federation of Teachers is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO.

• The spelling mistake came as the AFT was slammed on social media for promoting a tweet where the Ukrainian flag was depicted upside down in a post that was also deleted...Read all!!

Print, print, print...

 

Looming food shortages is world's next 'slow-moving disaster'

Looming food shortages is world's next 'slow-moving disaster'  

Glenn H. Reynolds

• Record inflation is leading to food shortages on shelves across the US.
  

"...But a new problem is rearing its head, and government officials seem as likely to make it worse as to make it better.
That problem is shortages of food and fertilizer brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions enacted by the West in response.

• Ukraine is a major wheat producer, but war is likely to ensure a poor spring planting and harvest. Russia is also a major grower, but sanctions and war will prevent it from exporting to most of the world.
• Russia is also a major manufacturer of fertilizer; in fact, it is the world’s largest. Second on the list is . . . China, a nation aligned with Russia and notably unfriendly to the United States and the West. (Canada is a distant third.) 

That has people worried.

... Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s response to concerns about fertilizer and food shortages: “Maybe sacrifices are necessary.” 

You can rest assured Vilsack won’t be the one making them...Read all!!

#1 This day 1956-----1956 HITS ARCHIVE: The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter (a #1 record)