Want to Tame Inflation? Make Fossil Energy Easier to Produce
There is no mystery about why we are experiencing the highest inflation rates since 1981 (see historical inflation data below). One of the highest costs associated with any good or service is the cost of energy. Joe Biden and his gang of lefties have driven the cost of energy into the stratosphere since taking office, using a regulatory bludgeon to block the expansion of fossil energy. The Bidenistas use the false premise of man-made catastrophic global warming as their raison d’être — their justification — for blocking fossil energy. And yet China and India together produce 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions, while the U.S. produces just 12.6% of the world’s CO2 emissions. So please, don’t lecture us that removing a few more molecules of CO2 here in the U.S. makes one bit of difference when other countries like China and India constantly expand their output of CO2. The only result of the Bidenista’s quest to regulate fossil energy into oblivion is to skyrocket the cost of energy.
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Yes! It’s about time!! Pennsylvania State Senator Gene Yaw (Republican from Lycoming County) is about to introduce a new bill that will cut off millions of dollars in tax revenues that flow from shale drilling to any municipality (county, town, village, city) that launches a lawsuit against “Big Oil,” as recently happened with Bucks County, a Philadelphia suburb (see 
The very short answer to the question posed in the title is, Very good things! Current polls have Trump winning over Biden. But it’s still way too early to believe the polls. Still, it gets one wondering what will happen in the energy sector if DJT wins reelection in November. The staff of Rigzone posed that question to the top brass at the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute (two reliable, rational organizations) to get their take on the situation and the potential effects on the industry.
According to a new article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, abandoned oil and gas wells can be found “everywhere” in Pennsylvania. An influx of new federal funding gives the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) new urgency in finding and plugging them. However, it is the thorny issue of who pays or should pay when the owner is known that caught our attention. In some cases, producers (and speculators) buy leases and land, knowing that new drilling (in particular shale drilling) may one day happen on the property, but the new owners didn’t sign up for the financial responsibility to plug old/existing wells on the property. Should they (instead of taxpayers) be on the hook to pay?
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has the long knives out for Ohio State Senator Brian Chavez (Republican) and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (also a Republican). The Plain Dealer is accusing DeWine’s Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) of corruption in not charging an injection well company owned by Chavez called DeepRock Disposal $1.3 million for cleaning up wastewater that migrated from a DeepRock injection well to a nearby conventional production well in Noble County. Instead, says the Plain Dealer, the ODNR sent the bill to the conventional well operator!
We’re sad but not surprised. The last time we reported on Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Project slated for New York was last June when Williams asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a time extension to build it (see 
EPA Administrator Michael Regan used a considerable amount of fossil energy and emitted tons of carbon dioxide to jet over to Dubai last December to participate in the COP28 confab, where he released a final rule that was “two years in the making” to force the U.S. oil and gas industry to cut methane emissions by using budget-busting new technologies and onerous (frequent) inspections (see 
In September 2022, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced that it had selected West Virginia for a 1,800-megawatt (later upgraded to 2,060 MW), combined-cycle natural gas power station that also uses carbon capture and storage (see 
The great state of Pennsylvania has an Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), created by Act 120 of 2010 and Act 100 of 2016. The IFO analyzes fiscal proposals made by state agencies and is nonpartisan in its analyses. PA State Senator Gene Yaw, from Lycoming County (and Chairman of the Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee), introduced a bill last June to create an Independent Energy Office (IEO) modeled along the same lines as the IFO (see 
Greg Wrightstone, a Pennsylvania native, is a geologist, the executive director of the CO2 Coalition, and an author. Wrightstone recently published an article detailing how Pennsylvania’s environment is not in the state of crisis that alarmists say it is. He implores Gov. Josh Shapiro to get his head out of his…mental morass…and stop worrying about mythical catastrophic global warming. Overall, the weather has been getting better and agricultural production is up in Pennsylvania. Shapiro needs to drop the doom and gloom routine.
First, the radicals of the Biden administration came for your natural gas stoves (see 
A week (nay, a day!) doesn’t go by that the Biden administration and one of the many executive agencies it oversees (EPA, DOE, PHMSA, DOT, FERC, etc.) issues a new “environmental” regulation. As we write about in a companion story today, just yesterday, the Bidenistas of the Dept. of Energy released a new final regulation yesterday controlling your what type of water heater you can buy, hoping to force you to buy a heat pump water heater (see Bidenistas Regulate Gas Stoves Furnaces, and Now, Water Heaters). Why the sudden flurry of new regulations coming from the alphabet soup of federal agencies? Because, says a card-carrying leftist, to “safeguard” environmental policies against an eventual Trump takeover next year.
Permitting in Pennsylvania, especially permits overseen by the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), has been a hot mess for years. A Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation permit sometimes takes two, three, or even six to eight months for approval — instead of the law-mandated 14 days. It got so bad that in the fall of 2019, PA State Sen. Gene Yaw introduced a bill to allow third-party reviews of these permits in an attempt to speed it up (see 