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15 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
There are too many American companies who righteously embrace any fashionable cause of the moment yet sanction China's horrific abuses of human rights. @hiattf has an excellent column about this: "Do companies really want to sponsor the Genocide Olympics?" washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
Examples of documented Chinese abuses "woke" corporations say nothing about:
"Arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government; forced disappearances by the government"
"torture by the government"
"politically motivated reprisal against individuals outside the country"
More examples of documented Chinese abuses "woke" corporations say nothing about:
"political prisoners"
"pervasive and intrusive technical surveillance and monitoring"
"serious restrictions on free expression, the press, and the internet, including physical attacks"
Still more examples of documented Chinese abuses "woke" corporations say nothing about:
"severe restrictions and suppression of religious freedom"
"substantial restrictions on freedom of movement"
"forced labor and trafficking in person"
On top of sanctioning the Chinese government's horrific practices, "woke" corporations are blindly calling for crash emissions-reductions programs that would make China a far greater threat to our security.

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7 Apr
*Resilience* 🧵

The disastrous TX blackouts should teach us that we need power plants that are 1) reliable and 2) resilient. Reliable means: they can produce as much power as we need, when we need it. Resilient means: they can keep producing power even under adverse conditions.
One key to resilience is "on-site fuel storage"--keeping a large amount of fuel at a power plant so that it can produce power even during a supply disruption. The champions at on-site fuel storage are coal and nuclear, which can cheaply keep months of fuel on hand.
Natural gas is not usually as resilient as coal and nuclear, because natural gas is expensive to store in large quantities. Most natural gas power depends on "just in time" delivery from pipelines. If pipeline transport is disrupted, many natural gas plants will go down.
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12 Mar
When you think "Joe Biden's climate policy," think of the 13-year-old Ethiopian girl who will have to keep spending 8 hours a day collecting dirty water for lack of reliable, low-cost fossil fuel electricity.

Learn more in this @Life_Powered_ piece: lifepowered.org/realclearenerg…
"The first thing Aysha picks up when she opens her eyes...is...her collection of large plastic gasoline canisters. The 13-year-old Ethiopian straps them to her camel...and begins the four-plus-hour walk to the nearest river. The water there is dirty and brown and unsanitary..."
"President Biden’s administration...is beginning to enact policies that will deny Aysha and the countless girls like her the opportunity to move from bleak, backbreaking destitution to a self-actualized life of equality and opportunity."
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11 Mar
The House Democrats' "CLEAN Future" Act, by forcing us to depend mostly on unreliable wind and solar, would destroy our standard of living--and global emissions would still rise.

It should be rejected in favor of an *aggressive nuclear decriminalization policy*.

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The only practical way to lower global CO2 emissions is to develop low-carbon sources that are cheaper than fossil fuels. If the US, which causes <1/6 of global emissions, mandates unaffordable low-carbon sources, we'll hurt ourselves--while global CO2 emissions continue rising.
The world, especially the developing world, overwhelmingly uses fossil fuels because that is by far the lowest-cost way for them to get reliable energy. Unreliable solar and wind can’t come close. That’s why China and India have committed to building hundreds of new coal plants.
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8 Mar
Embarrassing: this chart in a supposed "fact-check" of @RepDanCrenshaw by @PolitiFact falsely portrays wind subsidies as unremarkable using the bogus and dishonest metric of total subsidies, not the proper metric of per-unit subsidies.

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The proper way to measure energy subsidies is: How much taxpayer money does the government pay per unit of energy? Every per-unit analysis using data from the US Energy Information Administration is clear: solar and wind get *dozens of times* more subsidies than fossil fuels.
A comprehensive analysis of federal subsidies per unit of electricity generated from 2010-2019 found that solar got 211 times more subsidies than natural gas and wind got 48 times more subsidies than natural gas.

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2 Mar
Joe Biden's energy plan would shift us from energy production that is low-cost, high-reliability, and *America-centered* to energy production that is high-cost, low-reliability, and *China-centered*.

This would destroy, not create, millions of well-paying American jobs.

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Joe Biden says that his policies to eliminate US CO2 emissions through a largely solar- and wind-based energy system will create millions of well-paying "green jobs"--far more than will be destroyed in the fossil fuel industry.

This is impossible.
A largely solar-and wind-based energy system will necessarily destroy far more well-paying US jobs than it creates because the "green jobs" will be 1) far less productive, 2) largely in China, and 3) cause job losses in other industries via skyrocketing energy prices.
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22 Feb
A tale of two places: TX vs. Alberta, Canada.

In TX, a spike in demand during cold temps led to devastating blackouts.

In AB, a spike in demand during *far colder temps* led to... very little disruption.

Why? AB has a reliable, resilient grid with 43% coal and 49% gas.

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The media want you to believe that TX's failure to handle spiking demand during cold temps proves that a fossil fueled grid can't handle such a challenge. They don't want you to know about Alberta, CA--where a fossil fueled grid handled a far bigger challenge with relative ease.
Alberta was far colder than TX last week.

Between Feb 14th and 17th, while Dallas, TX temperatures averaged between 10 and 25 degrees F, Calgary, AB temperatures AVERAGED between -13 and 16 degrees F!

Alberta's 43% coal, 49% gas grid performed spectacularly.
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