- Deadly complications of government bureaucracy
- Government monopolies, whether government agencies or de facto government agencies in the form of government-sponsored enterprises, aren’t rewarded by getting product to the people who need it. They’re rewarded by kissing up the bureaucratic chain.
- Let them eat solar
- The reason we don’t have an alternative to fossil fuels is that we’ve put government bureaucrats in charge of finding it.
- Rolling blackouts keep following me around
- Rolling blackouts in San Diego, the Great Southwest Blackout, and now Texas with a week of subfreezing temperatures and dead power.
- Socialized gasoline: The bureaucratic miracle of Vehicle-to-Grid
- Vehicle to grid, when managed by governments, will mean taking your car’s fuel and giving it to somebody else who needs it more.
More Information
- ERCOT’s Phantom Reserve Margins Spell Trouble for Summertime
- July 8 2020: “Wind and solar energy are intermittent, meaning their contributions to the grid plummet dramatically when the wind stops blowing or the sun stops shining. And although ERCOT clearly has no control over the weather, this challenging situation is made worse when forecasts are based on assumptions that create a false sense of security about the reliability of the grid.”