“Organic farming produces between 29% to 44% less food than conventional methods,” says environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg. “It therefore requires as much as 78% more land than conventional agriculture and the food produced costs 50% more—all while generating no measurable increase in human health or animal welfare.” Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Lomborg says: “The…
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Ben Zycher on the Failings of Biden’s ‘New’ Oil and Gas Policy
Economist Ben Zycher reveals the “perversities, problematic assumptions, and wasteful outcomes made inevitable by the contradictions and incoherence of the Biden leasing policy.” Biden just announced a policy of allowing new leases but charging higher royalty rates. Here’s a summary of Zycher’s observations about this policy: The Biden administration will start leasing on 80 percent…
The Truth about Wind Turbines
Robert L. Bradley on bird deaths from windmills: “For decades, the American Wind Energy Association (now part of the American Clean Power Association) has dismissed the “avian mortality problem” as little different than everyday deaths of birds from cats and windows. The Sierra Club echoes this argument in ground-zero wind growth states such as Michigan. “There are two problems…
Now, What About Those 9,000 Unused Drilling Permits?
Yes, there are more than 9,000 federal permits for oil and gas that aren’t being used, as Joe Biden and his press secretary, Jen Psaki, have pointed out. Does that mean that high prices are the fault of oil companies unwilling to produce more? No. Here is recent commentary about those permits. The Wall Street…
Unpleasant Truths about Minerals for Electric Vehicles
Will the minerals needed for electric car production come from the U. S . or (more likely) overseas? Maxine Joselow writes in the Washington Post: “Prices of key minerals are skyrocketing amid the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, potentially increasing the cost of electric vehicles and other technologies crucial to the clean energy transition….
Did Russians Support Anti-Fracking Environmental Groups?
Does the claim that Russia supported anti-fracking groups deserve four Pinnochios, as the the Washington Post contends? Or did the Russian government invest $95 million to organizations campaigning against fracking, as Matt Ridley reported in 2019? On March 17, the Post responded to a letter issued earlier this month by House Republicans alleging that a…