The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022, was sold as a $783 billion game-changer to fight climate change, bolster healthcare, and trim the federal deficit. Packed with tax credits, green energy grants, and IRS muscle, it promised a cleaner, fairer America.
Tag: green energy
POLLUTED MOTIVES: THE LATEST IN GREEN ENERGY ‘SYNTHETIC SELLS’ AND ABSURDITIES
Planting trees to support environmental sustainability and sequester carbon naturally, like so much else, has been completely subverted by what we have long termed “the synthetic sell.”
INVEST HEAVILY OR LIVING STANDARD WILL CRUMBLE, EUROPE TOLD
To maintain the living standards its residents desire and compete with China and the U.S., the European Union must invest €750 billion to €800bn billion a year.
GREEN TRANSITION F U TOO?
It’s not just EVs. The “green energy transition”—if by that, anyone means technology sans environmental impacts that can actually supply energy similar in levels and prices to the existing system—is a failing fantasy.
CARBON WAR REBELLION: THE LATEST
The war on hydrocarbon energy is meeting with greater resistance, despite attempts by authorities to cast a supposed “green energy transition” as inevitable.
GHOST GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION: THE CAPACITY ISN’T THERE
The move from fossil fuel technologies to supposedly more earth friendly electric energy alternatives is again showing signs of being more promises than delivery.
TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN, LIKE IT OR NOT: U.S. AIR FORCE IS BUSY TESTING ALTERNATIVES TO FOSSIL FUELS
The U.S. military recognizes that dependence on fossil fuels can be a vulnerability, so it’s at work testing aircraft powered by hydrogen and even an electrofuel made by combining waste carbon with hydrogen extracted from water.
TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN, LIKE IT OR NOT: RISING COSTS SQUEEZE CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS
Higher interest rates and inflated prices for hardware are pinching financing for clean energy projects, The Wall Street Journal reported.
EV FABULISM WON’T HEAL THE EARTH, BUT WILL ENRICH ELITES
The Biden administration allocated hundreds of billions in a misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” in 2022 to create subsidies and incentives for a supposed “green energy” transition.
THE STUPIDITY OF ETHANOL AS GREEN ENERGY
Carbon neutrality refers to a product that has net zero carbon emissions. The manufacture and use of corn-based ethanol has expanded based on the assumption that it’s carbon neutral and therefore far better for the environment than gasoline. However, several studies have shown that such assumptions are categorically false