David Blackmon

David Blackmon had a 40 year career in the US energy industry, the last 23 years of which were spent in the public policy arena, managing regulatory and legislative issues for various companies. He continues to write and podcast on energy matters

The triumphant USA is now producing more oil and gas than any nation ever has

We and our friends have no need to truckle to the Kremlin or Saudi Arabia

David Blackmon 26 Mar 2024, 12:27pm

It’s time to learn from Texas, and end the madness of ESG pseudo-capitalism for good

The Lone Star State’s schools fund has made the right decision on foolish woke investing

David Blackmon 22 Mar 2024, 4:17pm
What Trump actually means by a ‘bloodbath’ if he’s not elected

Deeply dishonest reporting from the mainstream media, as ever

David Blackmon 18 Mar 2024, 2:34pm
Disaster is looming for the electric grid

‘I do not use the term ‘crisis’ for melodrama, but because it is an accurate description’

David Blackmon 11 Mar 2024, 4:33pm

Electric 18-wheelers are even stupider than electric cars

Yet another sequence of ruinously expensive technical miracles required

David Blackmon 5 Mar 2024, 4:04pm
The American revolt against green energy has begun

There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’, just an ugly industrial site

David Blackmon 1 Mar 2024, 4:24pm
Biden’s green energy plans will funnel taxpayer billions to Chinese firms

Plans designed to protect US industry will bankroll China’s expansion

David Blackmon 26 Feb 2024, 12:58pm
Biden is realising just how unpopular green EVs are – with help from the unions

‘With each passing day, it becomes clearer the electric vehicle mandate is unrealistic’

David Blackmon 20 Feb 2024, 12:03pm
It makes perfect sense that Putin wants Biden to win the election. It’s all about the gas market

Demand is going nowhere but up. If the US doesn't meet it, Russia will

David Blackmon 17 Feb 2024, 10:28am
Biden’s green fantasy of two-thirds electric cars sales in 2032 is just not happening

Heavy, short-ranged, slow to charge, hard to maintain. But at least they're expensive

David Blackmon 6 Feb 2024, 4:26pm

Biden’s political gas cutoff shows he cares more about green lobbyists than US allies

In placing personal political benefit over the national interest, Biden has showed just how unfit he is to hold high office

David Blackmon 29 Jan 2024, 4:01pm
Getting permits for big new projects is hard. Green energy should not be an exception

The net-zero journey seems to involve increasingly authoritarian government

David Blackmon 23 Jan 2024, 1:26pm
The Texas power grid is on the verge of another fatal collapse. Green energy is absent

Hopefully this time we can avoid turning off vital fossil fuel installations

David Blackmon 16 Jan 2024, 3:38pm
Kerry’s COP28 coal pledge means nothing. It’s the war on gas that’s scary

Have China and India signed up? What do you think?

David Blackmon 5 Dec 2023, 6:06pm
President Trump would work hard to roll back the economic disaster of green energy

But he might well find himself paralysed by DC infighting, based on recent events

David Blackmon 30 Nov 2023, 1:47pm
The US should take warning from the huge costs of British floating wind power

Paying more for electricity is going to mean cheaper bills? Really?

David Blackmon 20 Nov 2023, 6:15pm
Green energy surge has forced Texas to subsidise fossil gas

Texas, desperately in need of backup for intermittent renewables, forced to incentivise fossil fuel

David Blackmon 14 Nov 2023, 12:28pm
US offshore wind is holed and sinking

A costly solution to a non-existent problem

David Blackmon 6 Nov 2023, 4:55pm
Biden would sooner kneel before dictators for oil than let America produce its own

Deals with Maduro and the Mullahs show how going green weakens America

David Blackmon 24 Oct 2023, 1:23pm
Much of the world’s gas comes from Hamas headquarters. This war could affect us all

Winter is coming, and Iran sits next to the Strait of Hormuz

David Blackmon 18 Oct 2023, 3:47pm
The fast-growing energy source which will power the future: Yes, it's coal

India has almost doubled coal output in a year. China is building two power stations a week

David Blackmon 6 Oct 2023, 1:16pm
If Trump wins, Net Zero is dead

Rishi Sunak's turn away from green energy targets could spark a transatlantic energy alliance

David Blackmon 26 Sep 2023, 4:06pm