In this week’s edition of the Energy Realities Podcast, the Energy Gang of 4 - Tammy Nemeth, Irina Slav, Stu Turley and David Blackmon - discuss the wonders of natural gas and the bright future ahead for this powerful, clean energy source.
Defunding the IEA is a wonderful idea. They're raking in dough from anti-industrial NGOs at this point anyway, so they can easily do without US taxpayers' money.
The only complaint I have ever had about the US EIA is that they used to produce a very comprehensive comparison of subsidies by energy sector with the sources of each subsidy broken out. During the Obama administration, they stopped producing this table, presumably because it showed that wind and solar subsidies were at least 40 times and in some cases 200 times the subsidies to fossil fuels on a per energy provided basis.
Oh, and I guess a minor quibble is that some of the money they (US EIA) attributed as commercial nuclear subsidies were actually DOE funds spent on weapons programs, not commercial electricity production.
I'm not sure if they restarted the subsidy tables again later. The last table I saw was either in 2007 or 2010; I can't remember any more. I haven't really seen any need to go looking again. The fundamentals haven't really changed and Robert Bryce's reported numbers in the last year or two were still pretty close to what I saw back when.
Defunding the IEA is a wonderful idea. They're raking in dough from anti-industrial NGOs at this point anyway, so they can easily do without US taxpayers' money.
The only complaint I have ever had about the US EIA is that they used to produce a very comprehensive comparison of subsidies by energy sector with the sources of each subsidy broken out. During the Obama administration, they stopped producing this table, presumably because it showed that wind and solar subsidies were at least 40 times and in some cases 200 times the subsidies to fossil fuels on a per energy provided basis.
Oh, and I guess a minor quibble is that some of the money they (US EIA) attributed as commercial nuclear subsidies were actually DOE funds spent on weapons programs, not commercial electricity production.
I'm not sure if they restarted the subsidy tables again later. The last table I saw was either in 2007 or 2010; I can't remember any more. I haven't really seen any need to go looking again. The fundamentals haven't really changed and Robert Bryce's reported numbers in the last year or two were still pretty close to what I saw back when.