California Refineries Shutting Down, CA Gas Prices Could Rise by 75% by the End of 2026

May 8, 2025 — bunkerville

California after all wants to ban all gas powered cars as well as refineries.  “The state of California is currently suing major oil companies over alleged deception regarding the risks of climate change and fossil fuel combustion.”  Be careful what you wish for.

So the answer of course is to close up shop. Now Newsom has had second thoughts. No doubt he figures it won’t help his presidential race. Here is a classic example of foreseen consequences.

Zero Hedge:

California gas prices could skyrocket by as much as 75 percent by the end of 2026 with the expected shutdown of oil refineries in the state, according to an analysis released May 5 by a researcher at the University of Southern California (USC).

Two Phillips 66 refineries in Los Angeles—about 8 percent of the state’s oil refining capacity—are slated to close by the end of this year. Valero Energy Corp. also announced last month it will shut down or restructure its Benicia refinery in the San Francisco Bay area—which accounts for about 9 percent of refining capacity—by April 2026, increasing concerns over gas prices and supply.

The USC analysis states that based on current demand, consumption, state regulations, and other factors, the refinery closures could result in a potential 21 percent drop in refining capacity from 2023 to April 2026.

The state of California is currently suing major oil companies over alleged deception regarding the risks of climate change and fossil fuel combustion.

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(Newsom has had second thoughts about this. One of the answers? State takeover.)

Governor Urges Energy Commission to Take Action

In an April 21 letter, Gov. Gavin Newsom directed California Energy Commission (CEC) vice chair Siva Gunda to “redouble” the state’s efforts to work closely with oil companies to ensure a “safe, affordable, and reliable supply of transportation fuels, and that that refiners continue to see the value in serving the California market, even as demand for fossil fuels continues its gradual decline over the coming decades.”

The governor also referred to the CEC’s Transportation Fuels Assessment report, which lists a state takeover of oil refineries in California as one of several options, and directed Gunda to recommend “any changes in the state’s approach that are needed” by July 1.

Republican state Sen. Brian Jones from San Diego, the Senate minority leader, issued a May 6 statement citing the USC study and calling the refinery closures “a looming energy and economic crisis.”

“If the Governor doesn’t act now, Californians will be blindsided by sticker shock at the pump and skyrocketing prices on everyday goods,” Jones said.

In a May 6 letter to Newsom, Jones called for urgent measures to prevent further refinery closures and support long-term energy stability, such as investment tax credits or other relief from taxes and regulations.

So says the video:

California may lose two of the state’s major gasoline producers in the next 12 months. The departures could hasten the state’s push away from fossil fuels but make another problem worse: California’s high gasoline prices.

Meanwhile, Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove from Bakersfield urged the governor to increase new drilling permits to support in-state oil production instead of relying on “expensive foreign imports, often from hostile nations,” she told The Epoch Times.

New permits have plummeted 97 percent over the last five years, according to data from the California Department of Conservation. New drilling permits in the state dropped from 2,676 in 2019 to 86 in 2024.

“This is catastrophic for every Californian at the gas pump,” Grove said in an April 16 social media post.

“Refineries are shutting down or barely hanging on because they can’t get the oil they need to produce the gas used every day by California families.”

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While we keep hearing “Drill Baby Drill” the loss of the ability to refine all this liquid gold puts a big dent in lowering the price.

Back in 2014 Bunk gave a warning. I doubt this has gotten any better, and I have not read of any new refineries.

Why the United States is giving away ownership of our Energy and Refineries

August 7, 2014 — bunkerville

While we have been puffed up feeling good about our new energy finds, the continued eroding of its control and ownership has been slipping away. I first started reporting on the story when the major refineries closed in Philadelphia, once known as a major hub. What I found several years ago was chilling. We may have lots of oil, but  between the EPA bearing down, and the sale to foreign entities, mainly China, we have much to be concerned about, particularly our refineries….

I ended the post with “So who has the interests of the United States? Do not count on our government.”

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New York Hochul Signs Bill Fining Oil and Gas Companies $75 Billion to Pay for Climate Damage

December 27, 2024 — bunkerville

If anyone had started thinking maybe New York State and City were getting some sense, fear not. The latest holiday signing of bills passed by Governor Hochul will not bring much merriment to the oil and gas industries. Vermont signed a similar bill last summer. A So called “Super Fund.”

“With nearly every record rainfall, heatwave, and coastal storm, New Yorkers are increasingly burdened with billions of dollars in health, safety, and environmental consequences due to polluters that have historically harmed our environment,” Governor Hochul said. “Establishing the Climate Superfund is the latest example of my administration taking action to hold polluters responsible for the damage done to our environment and requiring major investments in infrastructure and other projects critical to protecting our communities and economy.”

The Marxist bill was carried by Democrat Senator Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz.

“The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable,” said Senator Krueger.

Reuters reported

New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law on Thursday.

The law is intended to shift some of the recovery and adaptation costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to oil, gas and coal companies that the law says are liable. The money raised will be spent on mitigating the impacts of climate change, including adapting roads, transit, water and sewage systems, buildings and other infrastructure.

Fossil fuel companies will be fined based on the amount of greenhouse gases they released into the atmosphere between 2000 and 2018, to be paid into a Climate Superfund beginning in 2028. It will apply to any company that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation determines is responsible for more than 1 billion tons of global greenhouse gas emissions.

New York becomes the second state to pass such a law after Vermont passed its own version this summer. The laws are modeled after existing state and federal superfund laws that require polluters to pay to clean up toxic waste.

More can be found at Gateway Pundit

And she is not done either. If every state believed as New York, we would still be driving the horse and buggy.

Hochul signs bill banning CO2 fracking also.

 
 

This reminded me of an earlier boondoggle reported by Bunk. Here is part of it:

New York City cuts 1,000 trees to raise park 8-10 feet to address panic over 3mm sea level rise.

December 29, 2021

All for the mere sum of $1.45 Billion to start. De Blasio claims it’s the first project such as this done in the world. “Coastal Resiliency” is the new term for boondoggles that plunder the treasury in the name of climate change. East River Park is the lucky recipient of this destruction. No millionaires living here in the East River Park area. It is no Central park. But for these folks, it was their little piece of heaven. No second homes for them to escape the city.

East River Park Org:

New York City is demolishing our big, beloved park on the unwealthy side of the Lower East Side and East Village. Everything must go–shady lawns, picnic areas, ballfields, running track, amphitheater, the compost yard, historic buildings, and 1,000 trees, most 82 years old and healthy.

The city is going ahead with the massively destructive ESCR–East Side Coastal Resiliency project–even though there are alternatives that could preserve much of our park and provide flood control.

Under the current plan, the city will build a 1.2 mile wall along the water and cover the razed park with eight feet of fill. Eventually a new park will be built on top of this levee.

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Electric Vehicles – Costly to Run and Deadly at any Speed

October 30, 2023 — bunkerville

The numbers are in …

‘Overcharged’: Major Study Reveals Alarming True Cost of Owning an EV, ‘Fueling’ Equal to $17.33 Per Gallon

Largest EV Tesla Supercharger station in the world. 98 charging stations. Powered by…wait for it, you know it’s coming…Diesel generators. Hidden behind the Shell station to conceal their Green shame.
 
 
 
 
Largest EV Charging Station In World Powered By Diesel-Powered Generators
 

but that is not the half of it. Mustang picks up the real cost – deadly at any speed.

(… and it isn’t looking good).

by Mustang

My wife and I walk in the morning.  Our trek takes us through our housing development, along a state highway to a turnaround point, and then back to the neighborhood.  Three of our neighbors own electric-powered vehicles (EVs).  This morning, one of these vehicles collided with one of the neighborhood kids, who was riding his bicycle.  Even though the EV traveled within the 25 mph speed limit, the eight-year-old bike rider didn’t stand much chance.  EVs are heavy — a factor of mass, weight, and velocity.  And they are deadly silent.

Yet, according to the White House, President Biden’s “Investing in America Agenda” intends to unleash a massive increase in the production of what the administration calls Affordable Electric Vehicles (AEVs).  It is a commitment by the federal government and its partners to increase by 50% the number of new EVs operating on America’s roadways by the year 2030.  Mr. Biden calls it “investing in America,” even though most EV parts are manufactured in China.  

To spur on this lunacy, Mr. Biden intends to offer federal subsidies to increase the number of EVs, currently around 3 million vehicles.  The term federal subsidy means that taxpayers will pay for it.  Whoop!

There is a problem, though.  According to statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), pedestrian and bicycle injuries and fatalities have substantially increased since the federal government began forcing people into electric-powered vehicles.  In 2009, NHTSA reported 24,297 pedestrian accidents involving EVs.  In a second, more extensive study — involving 18 U.S. states, researchers reported a 40% increase in injuries and fatalities to pedestrians and bicyclists.

An independent study by the University of California (Riverside) reported that electric cars were three times more likely to be involved in pedestrian accidents than those powered by an internal combustion engine.  A separate study by AXA Switzerland reported a 50% increase in accidents involving EVs with other vehicles.  There is also the additional tendency for electric cars to catch fire while in operation.

According to NHTSA, in 2018, the number of pedestrians and bicyclists killed and injured was 6,283 and 75,000.  Nationally, pedestrians account for 17% of all traffic fatalities.  Among the more interesting statistics from the 2018 revelation, 81% of all accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists occurred in urban settings, with 74% occurring at non-intersection locations.  Seventy-six percent of deaths occurred after dusk, and of those killed, most were over the age of 50.  Of those injured, the highest percentage involved children between the ages of 14 and 19 years.

Gosh … maybe EVs aren’t such a good idea after all — but have Democrats ever demonstrated compassion for the health and well-being of the American people?

Mustang also has blogs called  Fix Bayonets and Thoughts From Afar

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Russia Continues To Pay Ukraine Billions To Transport Its Gas

February 17, 2023 — bunkerville

Why is Russia paying billions to a country it’s invading that can be used to finance its defense?

Why would Russia put its economic lifeline and massive amounts of gas at risk by using a country that it’s currently bombing with all the adroit aim of a drunk in a toilet as a transit point if it could be easily replaced? Neither Europe nor Ukraine are prepared to kick their addiction to Russian gas. Putin knows it, which is why behind the scenes business is going on as usual.

Europe and Ukraine are asking Americans to make sacrifices while they keep on doing business with Putin.

Why is Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state owned gas company, continuing to transport millions of cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe each month.

Russian oil and gas still travels through Ukraine on its way out to Europe and beyond. Russia pays Ukraine “transit fees” this going down in “this makes no sense at all.” category.

Last year when I posted this, Ukraine earned about $2 billion in transit fees from the Russian use of its pipelines to move gas to Europe. Russia, and Putin’s cronies in particular, (Biden family), obviously make even more than that.

Russia cashes in an estimated $400 million a day from its gas exports to Europe.

This story a year ago.

A portion from Bunks post. Daniel Greenfield tells us the details at Front Page Mag:

Ukraine Demands Everyone Else Boycott Russia While Still Raking In Billions From Russian Gas

April 5, 2022 — bunkerville

I have wondered what the deal is on the energy flow out of Russia. Now we know. Still flowing and Russia is continuing making transit payments to Ukraine. Yes, while the war rages. We of course buy Russian energy as well. Then we impose sanctions on Russia. I think I have it.

“If Europe continues importing gas from Russia, why shouldn’t Ukraine benefit from it?” so goes the statement. Yet Zelensky demands constantly from all governments to stop the purchase Russian energy.

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One answer is that Russia continues paying billions to Ukraine to transport its gas.

Yesterday I caught this over at Pravda.  2/15/2023

Russian oil and gas industry sponsors Armed Forces of Ukraine

RU Pravda:

It was reported on February 15 that Gazprom increased gas supplies via Ukraine from 30.8 million cubic meters to 35.3 million cubic meters per day (+15 percent). This is the maximum value since January 15th.

Gazprom’s gas transit payments to Kyiv have been growing, and it is no secret how the Ukrainian administration is spending that money. They spend on military needs in the first place.

Today, Russian natural gas travels to Europe either through the territory of Ukraine or via the Turkish Stream pipeline. However, Russian MPs do not say anything on the topic. Instead, they prefer to attack a weaker rival.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin instructed the Security Committee to send a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office regarding a Lukoil plant that allegedly supplies fuel to Ukraine. Prior to that, German publication Die Welt wrote that Lukoil’s refinery in Burgas “saved” the Armed Forces of Ukraine with its supplies at a very difficult moment, having ensured up to 40 percent of Ukraine’s needs.

Lukoil representatives replied that they did not know where the fuel was redirected from its Bulgaria buyers afterwards. However, the Russian state should force Lukoil to sell its business in Bulgaria, as it did in Italy in order to save the lives of Russian military personnel.

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Why allow transit to EU through Baltic ports?

It was also revealed that Kazakhstan actively supplies fuel and other products to Russia-unfriendly Latvia by transiting its exports to the EU through Russia. It goes about such products as:

  • petroleum products,
  • coal,
  • food.

..  Interestingly, President Putin interprets the problem from a completely different perspective. This is how he spoke about Gazprom’s transit payments to Ukraine — billions of dollars a year that are used to kill Russian military personnel.

“They call Russia an aggressor, but they keep getting the money for transit services. We pay them even if they call us an aggressor, although they are aggressors in relation to the Donbass. We counteract aggression, and not vice versa, but they take our money, and that is just fine for them. Money does not stink,” Putin said.

As a matter of fact, money does stink, and in this particular case, the stench is strong.

We are being played. Big time. Ukraine’s stench is everywhere. In case you missed yesterday’s post by Mustang.


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Joker in the White House Sells More of U.S. Oil Reserve

February 14, 2023 — bunkerville

 

Whiplash.... Biden talks to oil companies about buying oil for $70 buckeroos a barrel to refill reserve, at same time selling the oil reserves for around $80. After saying he had stopped selling oil.  At a time when the winds of war rattle around the world.

Just where is all this profit from the oil sales going?  The Joker versus Biden…. the jokes on us. Total madness.

 

 

 

Five weeks after the US stopped draining oil from the Strategic Midterm Petroleum Reserve, which helped push gasoline prices sharply higher in January.. Biden sells again.

According to Bloomberg sources, the congressionally mandated sale will amount to 26 million barrels of crude, and is “in accordance with a budget mandate enacted in 2015 for the current fiscal year”, said a spokesperson for the Department of Energy.

The Energy Department has laughably sought to stop some of the sales required by 2015 legislation so that it can refill the emergency reserve, which currently has about 371 million barrels. After this latest release, the reserve will dip to about 345 million barrels, the lowest since 1983 following a drain of over 200 million barrels since the start of 2022.

……Biden officials decided last year to tap 180 million barrels from the strategic oil reserve in an effort to ease supply issues after Russia invaded Ukraine, upending global oil flows and sending crude above $100 a barrel. Some Republicans criticized the Biden administration for that drawdown, which was the biggest release ever and helped drain the SPR to its lowest level since 1983. Critics admonished the move as a political stunt intended to combat rising gasoline prices ahead of midterm elections.

SPR Quick Facts 

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a U.S. Government complex of four sites with deep underground storage caverns created in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts.  As of February 10, 2023, 371.6 million bbs. in reserve,

 

 

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Just as laughably, Biden officials have since spoken with energy companies about purchasing oil to refill the SPR when oil prices approach $70 a barrel. What the officials forgot to say is that they will also sell even more SPR oil when oil prices approach $80 a barrel, like they did today…

Finally, and completing the joke, the US House last month passed legislation meant to curb the Energy secretary’s ability to use the reserve unless the government increases the amount of federal lands available for gas and oil drilling. Apparently that particular legislation was just as toothless as everything else the Republicans are trying to pass.

Source: Zero Hedge

Republicans Laugh As Biden Claims Oil Might Be Over in 10 Years at the State of the Union

 

 

I am turning over the Monday Memes today to The Daley Gator

Great stuff to make you smile.  Check them out. We sure need it.

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Ukraine announces it will seek $1.5 billion in US financial aid for gas purchases.

September 12, 2022 — bunkerville

The State of the Union: — Mississippi has no clean water — California has no electricity — Arizona has no border Chicago is a war zone, DC children are functionally illiterate, San Francisco is covered in human feces, Memphis is under siege And Ukraine is $2,000,000,000 richer. Quote made by Kari Lake, Governor candidate, AZUkraine,flag,graphics,national colors,the mast - free image from needpix.com

Let’s see how things are going in Ukraine.
Hint: We give money to Ukraine for gas, Ukraine supplies electricity to Germany. Good deal for Ukraine I would say.
What do we get? We pay for Ukraine’s payments for pensions, social welfare and healthcare costs” and whatever deals Hunter and the Big Guy has made.

Ukrainian PM Says Kyiv Ready To Supply Germany With Electricity To Reduce Reliance On Russia

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, who is visiting Berlin this weekend to meet with officials, said his country is prepared to supply Germany with electricity to help Europe’s largest economy reduce reliance on Russian energy imports.

“Currently, Ukraine exports its electricity to Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, and Poland. But we are quite ready to expand our exports to Germany,” Shmyhal told the German news agency dpa.

“We have a sufficient amount of electricity in Ukraine thanks to our nuclear power plants,” Shmyhal said.

Shmyhal was scheduled to arrive in Berlin on September 3 and is slated to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz on September 4. Source

Does anyone think we will see Ukraine repay any loan?
Kyiv, September 10 (QNA) – Ukraine is negotiating for a $1.5 billion loan to purchase gas, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced Saturday.
Shmyhal noted that he discussed during a phone call with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen the possibility to get a loan tranche from the US Export-Import Bank to purchase natural gas.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister had previously announced his country’s readiness to create more than usual coal and gas reserves during the coming winter.
Earlier Saturday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock underlined that Berlin’s support for Ukraine would not falter in the face of reduced Russian energy supplies, as she arrived for her second visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Germany, along with other European Union countries, is scrambling to support homes and industries burdened by a further surge in energy prices after Russia halted supplies through the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline. (QNA)

August 8, 2022 – Right, we now pay for their government.

(Reuters) -The United States will send an additional $5.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, made up of $4.5 billion in budgetary support and $1 billion in military assistance, to help it come to grips with the turmoil of this year’s Russian invasion.

The $4.5 billion budgetary grant will fund urgent government needs including payments for pensions, social welfare and healthcare costs, bringing total U.S. fiscal aid for Ukraine to $8.5 billion since Russia’s February invasion, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.

The fiscal and military aid packages – both first reported by Reuters  – are drawn from a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine approved by Congress in May.

Recall?

April 5 2022.

Daniel Greenfield tells us the details at Front Page Mag:

Why is Russia paying billions to a country it’s invading that can be used to finance its defense?

Why would Russia put its economic lifeline and massive amounts of gas at risk by using a country that it’s currently bombing with all the adroit aim of a drunk in a toilet as a transit point if it could be easily replaced? Neither Europe nor Ukraine are prepared to kick their addiction to Russian gas. Putin knows it, which is why behind the scenes business is going on as usual.

Europe and Ukraine are asking Americans to make sacrifices while they keep on doing business with Putin.

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Germany’s First Major City Turns Off Hot Water in Response to Russian Gas Crisis

July 29, 2022 — bunkerville

The preliminary phase of the 2022 Collective Liberal World Order is being run by indoctrinated fools, political sell outs, insidious profiteers, Marxist dreamers, doomsday fanatics and other assorted characters.

It’s a toss up whether they will remain in power long enough to transform the West into an entrenched bug eating dystopia or whether upcoming elections (or other Sri Lankas) will flush out the fanatics before their destruction reaches a catastrophic level that will take decades to reverse.

Ruining societies that took centuries to construct is far worse than the many individual multi $ Billion Climate boondoggles they failed at in the past with impunity. (Comment)

Does it make any sense? Russia wants the turbine. Sanctions indicate Russia cannot have it. Russia cuts gas for needed repairs. What is wrong with this picture?

Europe has the audacity to continue harming Russia through sanctions and at the same time ask Russia not to discontinue supplying gas

Live by the sanction, die by the sanction.

I bet there are Russians with memory banks large enough to recall that Germany has not been kind last century. Germany had a penchant for Russian oil and Ukraine’s wheat.

I bet the European Commission is not one wit upset about this. The President former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. More about her later and the old “Smart Thermostat.”

Germany on the brink: EU’s economic powerhouse is heading for recession and energy rationing – with bills tripling – after Merkel ignored warnings Putin could cripple Europe by choking gas supplies

Germany turns off the hot water: Hanover becomes first big city to ban hot water in public buildings in response to Russian gas crisis

  • Hanover first big city to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings
  • Lights to be switched off at night on major buildings like museums and town hall 
  • Germans told to expect higher electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing
  • Move is a response to Vladimir Putin’s gas squeeze which has Europe panicking
  • Russian state energy giant Gazprom cut gas supplies to Germany to 20 per cent 

The drastic step comes as Germans have been told to expect sky high electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing measures that will affect their day-to-day lives.

The European Commission says retail electricity prices for households in EU capitals were up by 44% in May 2022, compared to May 2021. The highest rises were in the Netherlands (up 167%), Austria (up 122%) and Italy (up 118%).

In a sign of things to come, Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in the north west of the country, will cut off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms.

Other desperate gas-saving measures include switching off public fountains and blacking out night-time lights on major buildings such as the town hall and museums.

The city’s mayor, Belit Onay, spoke of an ‘imminent gas shortage’ that meant they had to reduce the city’s energy consumption by 15 per cent.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, caught completely off-guard by the war in Ukraine, has set a target for German energy companies to fill gas tanks to 90 per cent – a task made harder by the fact that storage facilities, many owned by Russian firms, were running critically low just as Putin ordered his invasion.

Firms are on course to miss that target, the country’s regulator said on Monday, which IMF modeling suggests could mean the country running critically low on supplies all the way into the winter of 2026/27.

Despite importing so much gas, it makes up a smaller portion of energy used in Germany than other European countries (pictured) - but runs critical manufacturing industries, and is also used to heat care homes and hospitals

Read more Daily Mail

One has to question how upset in truth the European Commission is… especially this gal.

Ursula von der Leyen

Joint Statement by President Biden and President von der Leyen on European Energy Security

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/27/joint-statement-by-president-biden-and-president-von-der-leyen-on-european-energy-security/
Included:
The United States and the European Commission are also taking decisive action to reduce overall demand for fossil fuels in line with the Paris Agreement and our shared goal of net zero emissions no later than 2050.
The Task Force has met regularly to discuss options to reduce Europe’s demand for natural gas and has also met with key stakeholders to promote the deployment of heat pumps, smart thermostats, and energy demand response solutions.
We will encourage Member States and European and U.S. companies to reach an initial goal of deploying at least 1.5 million energy saving smart thermostats in European households this year.  In the coming days we will reconvene with Member States and stakeholders to discuss actionable policy recommendations to accelerate smart thermostat and heat pump deployment and production in an effort to ensure supply for key energy efficiency solutions are ramping to meet the growing demand. 
Mindful of the environmental impact of LNG production and consumption, the United States and the European Commission will step up their cooperation to reduce methane emissions, to ensure that EU-U.S. LNG trade is aligned with the scope of an internationally accepted measurement, reporting and verification standard for methane emissions while working to reduce venting and flaring in natural gas production, and methane leakage in the transmission and LNG supply chain.
We will also continue our cooperation on reduction of methane emissions globally. Most recently, the joint launch with 11 other countries of the Global Methane Pledge Energy Pathway will advance both climate progress and energy security internationally.
Former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen

European Union elects to move toward a Communist Utopia

This sums it up I think:

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage may be her biggest critic. Addressing the European Parliament, he said:

“What you’ve seen from Ursula von der Leyen today is an attempt by the EU to take control of every single aspect of our lives. She wants to build a centralized, undemocratic, updated form of Communism that will render [obsolete] nation state parliaments, where the state controls everything, where nation state parliaments will cease to have any relevance at all.

“I have to say from our perspective, in some ways, I’m really rather pleased, because you’ve just made Brexit a lot more popular in the United Kingdom. Thank God we’re leaving!

“But it is in the aspect of defense that I think people’s minds should be focused. She’s a fanatic for building a European Army, but she’s not alone. When it’s completed, NATO will cease to exist or will not have any relevance in Europe at all.”

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Fifth Leader Resigns as Governments Collapse over the ‘Great Reset’

July 22, 2022 — bunkerville

Be careful what you wish for as the saying goes. As the world’s tumult continues, the latest victim is Italy. It is tempting to celebrate as we would like to assume someone “better” is in the wings, ready to right the ships back on course and on an even keel. But if it turns out if anything like Sri Lanka we will be gravely disappointed. The new President of Sri Lanka is a member of the WEF.

The Green Revolution of Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist who did more to feed the world than any man before or since, set Sri Lanka on the path to agricultural abundance in 1970. It was built around chemical fertilizers and crops bred to be disease-resistant. Fifty-two years later, Sri Lanka has pulled off a revolution that is “antigreen” in the modern sense, toppling its president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In an uprising that has its roots in Mr. Rajapaksa’s imperious decision to impose organic farming on the entire country—which led to widespread hunger after the agricultural economy collapsed—Sri Lanka’s people have wrought the first contra-organic national uprising in history.

WSJ

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who was named the “most powerful man in Europe” just months ago, was officially relieved of his post on Thursday after failing to garner enough support from his ruling party ahead of yesterday’s no-confidence vote in Parliament.

“After yesterday’s debate I have drawn my conclusions,” Draghi explained briefly before his meeting with the President.

Draghi joins Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, UK PM Boris Johnson, Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, and Estonian PM Kaja Kallas among those who have recently abandoned ship in the face of their failed leadership. French President Emmanuel Macron, who was Draghi’s runner-up as the 2nd most powerful man in Europe, is also teetering on the brink of being ousted from his position, having recently declined an offer to resign from the French PM.

In response to Draghi’s resignation, Dr. Robert Malone, one of the most outspoken critics of the worldwide public health response to Covid-19, warned that the situation in Europe is careening toward disaster. There’s nobody trustworthy in charge.

Dr. Malone shared his concerns on Telegram:

Update from Rome- ‘Presumably elections this fall. Problem is we have no credible leaders or parties here. We have until then to try and create and promote some credible politicians’

This sounds like a very dangerous power vacuum has formed now. I am concerned. The mismanagement of the CORONA crisis is having cascading effects already”

According to Dr. Malone, the situation in Sri Lanka will mirror what happens in Italy and the rest of the EU.

Sri Lanka’s declaration of bankruptcy was a direct result of the former president’s systematic adoption of radical and destructive green energy policies that decimated the country’s economy and monetary system ( even the Wall Street Journal called the country’s failed ‘Green New Deal’ a “human disaster“).

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Laura Ingraham discusses how despite praise for so long from Democrats by the way it was run, Europe is collapsing on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

It is almost like this was planned out. What fool would think that poking the Russian Bear would not bring about a response? Let’s see, you want to cut off Russia economically but your economy is dependent of theirs? I am not Mensa candidate but I sure see a flaw in this. 

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Joe Biden and his National Emergency Nonsense

July 21, 2022 — bunkerville

Biden who can’t even fix the baby formula issue with his Executive Order as a National Emergency is going to usher in the Green New Deal for all of us. One of the most offensive players in his bevy of Marxist’s collaborators is this piece of work Gina McCarthy.

President Joe Biden climate advisor Gina McCarthy said President Joe Biden will use “every power available” to get rid of fossil fuels, during a segment on CNN’s “New Day” with Kaitlan Collins, John Berman, and Brianna Keilar on 7/20/2022

And with that this doddering old fool:

Politico reports:

Invoking a national emergency over climate change would enable President Joe Biden to unleash sweeping actions to restrain greenhouse gas production — such as banning U.S. crude oil exports, ending offshore drilling or speeding the manufacturing of electric vehicles.

But some of those steps would be politically explosive, and could even prove ruinous to his party’s fortunes by sending gasoline prices soaring. Others would threaten to alienate European allies looking to U.S. fuel supplies to ease their dependence on Russia. And any executive actions Biden takes would run the risk of falling to the same conservative Supreme Court that has already hobbled his regulators’ ability to rein in carbon pollution.

Thank goodness for the Donald that at least got us a Supreme court that gave the U.S.A. a bit of time remaining.

Gina McCarthy Reacts to Supreme Court EPA Ruling: ‘We Have To Find Creative Ways Around It’

White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy joins Andrea Mitchell to respond to the Supreme Court’s decision to restrict the EPA’s authority to limit climate pollution by power plants, sharing what can be still done at the federal and state level to combat the climate crisis.

Politico reports:

 

Fallout from the Supreme Court’s attack on federal climate regulations is spreading throughout the executive branch, creating legal uncertainty for rules on topics as far afield as abortion, immigration and even amateur auto racing.

Opponents of federal actions on pipelines, asbestos, nuclear waste, corporate disclosures and highway planning are also seizing on the logic of the court’s June 30 decision, which imposed sharp limits on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

Imagine if climate change used to be called seasons and it’s totally normal, safe, and changes four times a year.

Here is this absurd man telling us total nonsense.

 

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Pete Buttigieg: ‘ More Pain at the Pump the Better’

July 20, 2022 — bunkerville

 

Biden’s little elves have been out in full force the last couple of days promoting the concept that it will be better riding a mule than a car. A hearing yesterday with our boy Pete was the highlight. So many fine moments, so little time here. Sometimes a few clips say more than my scribbles could possibly convey. Sit back and let her ride for a few minutes. Behind the curtain Joe and his Marxist buddies are working on how to use his new found energy/Climate crisis to go full bore on Executive Orders and declare a National Emergency.

 

President Joe Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, “the more pain from the high price of gas” the more benefit to electric vehicles, during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on 7/19/2022.

 

 

President Joe Biden White House energy advisor Amos Hochstein said there is a need to stop projects and limit oil usage to “accelerate the transition,” during a segment on CNN’s “New Day” with John Berman and Brianna Keilar on 7/19/2022.

 

 

UPDATE JUST OUT!

 

Which Uses More Electricity…A Refrigerator When It’s Running Or Electric Car When It’s Charging?’

At yesterday’s House Transportation Committee hearing, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questioned Sec. Pete Buttigieg. Here is the high point of the post. Enjoy.

Joe Biden’s Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said “the solution is to move as fast as possible away from fossil fuels,” during an interview on Yahoo! Finance with Julie Hyman

Uh, uh, uh… You Caught Me in a Lie

Finally, our VP Harris sums up the whole nasty business with her solution.

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