#joe biden is from Pennsylvania but took fracking away in Pennsylvania

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

Listen up you ignorant sheep.

He lies about everything is the point of me posting this.

He didn't have the power himself to ban fracking cause the state and federal government have control of the land involved and the laws and the regulations they passed due to democrat climate change agenda which Joe Biden is a democrat and said he agrees with climate change many numerous times himself. Look that up. Strange how only democrat areas banned fracking, eh?

He didn't stop them, he didn't try to find any way to reach any compromises, he left them go ahead and push their agenda forward. Why? That's what democrats do.

Look online, I posted a few things to prove you jerks wrong and nobody said a word cause there's the proof. There's tons of stuff online about it across the country, but I'm from Pennsylvania so I found a few examples close to home. Believe me there's a shitload online. I only picked a few cause I shouldn't have to waste time looking shit up cause nobody else is willing to cause they're too busy posting TikTok videos of silly animals and crying on Facebook they had a bad hair day.

We were energy independent, we weren't relying on other countries for oil or fossil fuels of any kind until Joe Biden came in passing executive orders that reversed every single fucking thing Trump put into effect to better our country. And that's why Trump jokingly said he'd be a dictator on day one cause sleepy Joe did that exact same fucking thing to him & our entire fucking country.

You assholes must like paying more for gas and helping terrorist countries earn money to buy weapons to murder people. Where are we getting our oil from you idiots? Joe depleted our oil reserves and prevented the pipelines on American soil from being completed while letting Russia finish theirs. Then rejoined that Paris Agreement that Trump took us out of to be more energy independent and free from environmental climate regulation nonsense.

You like funding China so they gain power? They can frack & mine for minerals to build your fucking electric car batteries and cell phone batteries which we could be doing ourselves if not for the democrats.

You might wanna look online to learn gas and fossil fuels are used in a lot of everyday products not just to make your cars drivable and heat your homes.

Perhaps if you'd look things up and do some fucking research instead of playing candy crush and gambling online you'd realize how wrong the democrats really are.

[jangillman]

Yeah, thanks Joe.....for NOTHING. All you devout Democrats should look back at how strong your economy was under President Trump and have a good hard think about it before November.

[mariacallous]

Presidential debates have impact when they address questions and concerns about the candidates that are top of mind for voters. As the crucial presidential debate began, in a race that was statistically dead even, both candidates had work to do.

Kamala Harris faced three key challenges. First, 37% to 42% of voters in some swing states knew virtually nothing about her except that she serves as Joe Biden’s vice president. Filling in this gap, or at least beginning to, was job one. From the very first minutes of the debate, it was clear that she knew she had to define herself and that she did—as a child of the middle class who, in contrast to Trump, was not given $400 million to start a business. In addition, she repeatedly came back to her experience as a prosecutor.

Second, Harris has shifted her position on many important issues—health care (Medicare for All), climate change (fracking), and immigration (decriminalizing border crossings), among others—since she ran for the nomination in 2020. This left people wondering, what kind of Democrat is she—a classic California progressive or the next generation of the Clinton, Obama, and Biden-style center-left? She had to persuade voters that the new version of Kamala Harris is the one they will get if she is elected.

Here her performance was more mixed. She explained her shift on fracking but didn’t give as clean and crisp an answer as she could have on other issues where Trump has accused her of flip-flopping. However, she defended the Biden administration and her participation in the bipartisan immigration legislation that Trump killed, she let the audience know that both she and Tim Walz are gun owners who have no intention of taking away people’s guns, and she pushed back against the charge that she was weak on crime by emphasizing her experience and record as a prosecutor who put criminals behind bars.    

Third, as is the case with every candidate who hasn’t previously occupied the presidency, Harris had to convince swing voters that she has what it takes to serve effectively as the nation’s chief executive and commander-in-chief. Simply put, they needed to be able to see her as big enough to be president, a barrier that some previous candidates, such as Michael Dukakis in 1988, failed to cross.

Harris passed this test easily. She never got flustered, she made her points concisely and quickly, and she spoke with confidence about traditionally “male” issues like war, defense, crime, and foreign policy.

What did Trump have to do in this debate? Two things.

First of all, he had to come across as someone who is not mean and angry, obsessed with the past and prone to conspiracy theorizing. His campaign aides have urged him to fight Kamala on the issues. Yet, on the stump, Trump can’t seem to stick to the script. He reads the policy portions of his speeches with an obvious lack of enthusiasm and returns often to complaining about alleged ballot fraud in 2020, insulting Harris, and unearthing conspiracy theories that make little sense.

Trump began the debate with the advice from his advisors ringing in his head. His first answer on the economy took aim at the Biden record, one of the issues on which he has held a consistent lead throughout the campaign. But as time went on, his debate performance took the same course as the Trump rallies. He turned nearly every question into an answer about the threats from illegal immigration. Like the economy, this has been a good issue for him, but he did begin to sound like a Johnny One Note on the topic, and it is not clear that this issue is as powerful in swing states like Pennsylvania as it is in border or more Republican states.

Also, as the debate wore on, Trump simply could not stay away from weird stuff. He insisted that Democrats favored killing babies after they were born and allowing abortion in the ninth month. And he repeated a story about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio killing and eating people’s cats and dogs. One of the moderators, David Muir, had to step in to point out that reporters had called Springfield city officials who had investigated the story and found it simply wasn’t true.

The second thing Trump needed to do was differentiate himself from the most extreme stances of his party—many of which are described by his former aides in Project 2025. As he has done in the past, he distanced himself from this document during the debate, claiming “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I haven’t even read it.” 

Although there are many questionable policies being considered by Trump and the right wing of the Republican Party, such as slapping huge tariffs on U.S. imports and deporting millions of immigrants—by far the most dangerous one for him politically is abortion. On that issue, his answer was, as it has always been, that everything is okay because now the states are deciding it. Not surprisingly, Harris’ attack on abortion was exceptionally strong. She pointed out the many states that have passed highly restrictive abortion policies and, in some cases, have criminalized the behavior of doctors who are providing reproductive services. Abortion rights is the single most helpful issue for the Democrats in 2024.

Republican strategists keep hoping the abortion issue can be buried, but recent steps by Trump allies in Florida and Texas have kept it alive. In the debate, Trump tried to distance himself from the extremes, arguing that he would approve of abortions for rape and incest and even going so far as to say the Florida six-week ban is too short. Nonetheless, the coalition he leads isn’t happy with his nods to moderation, and it is likely many Americans will continue to believe that he would sign a national abortion ban if a Republican Congress sent it to his desk.

In conclusion, there are three kinds of presidential debates. The first is when one candidate lands a knockout blow against the other, as Ronald Reagan did with Jimmy Carter in 1980. The second is when the debate does little if anything to change the flow of the race; the Clinton/Dole debates in 1996 are a good example. The third, intermediate outcome occurs when a debate yields an advantage to one candidate without ending the other’s chance to win, as happened when Mitt Romney bested President Obama in their first debate in 2012.

The first (and perhaps only) debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris falls into this last category. After a month-long Harris surge that erased the advantage Trump had developed over President Biden, the race had stabilized during the past two weeks. This debate seems likely to put new wind in Harris’ sails. Whether it will be enough to propel her to victory in the Electoral College remains to be seen. But her campaign and supporters leave the debate with renewed energy and hope. By contrast, the Trump campaign must reckon with the likelihood that their candidate’s performance pleased his base without rallying many new supporters to his side.

Throughout the race, Trump has enjoyed a solid lead on the question of strong leadership. While he may still hold an advantage, most Americans who watched the debate probably saw in Kamala Harris an adversary who held her ground, went on the attack whenever possible, and refused to be intimidated. This matters.

On the face of it, the Trump campaign has an incentive to seek a rematch. If it does, the Harris campaign will probably insist on rules more to its liking. If not, this debate will stand as the last high-profile event before the November 5 election and as the race devolves into trench warfare—a battle of communications and organization in the states that will decide the outcome.

Finally—in the minutes after the debate closed—the galactically famous singer Taylor Swift announced she would be voting for Kamala Harris. In today’s world, this may be worth as much or even more than Harris’ solid debate performance.

[orbemnews]

Here comes $3 gas, just as Americans start traveling again The national average price of gasoline has climbed 47 straight days to nearly $2.89 per gallon, according to AAA. US drivers haven’t experienced a $3 average price per gallon since 2014, though it came close in 2018 and 2019. “$3 gas will be the norm by Memorial Day,” said Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities. “We’ve been trapped inside for a year. People want to get out of the house.” Some states are already dealing with $3 gas, including Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California. The pain at the pump could cause political problems for the White House. President Joe Biden took swift action this winter to respond to the climate crisis by cracking down on the fossil fuels industry. That has led some critics to try to pin the “blame” for higher gas prices on Biden — even though energy industry insiders say the increase really is not about federal policy. “Make no mistake, prices would have gone up no matter who was in the White House,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “This is more about economic recovery.” Goldman Sachs: $80 crude is coming this summer After getting crushed by Covid in 2020, the oil market has been one of the biggest winners of the reopening surge on Wall Street. US crude hit a pandemic high of $66.09 a barrel on March 5, an incredible rebound from the April 2020 low of negative $37 a barrel. OPEC and Russia gave the oil rally a turbo boost earlier this month, shocking the market with a decision to extend their dramatic production cuts for at least another month. The V-shaped recovery in the oil sector did run into trouble last week. US crude tumbled 6% to $61.42 a barrel on worries over the rocky rollout of vaccines in Europe. But Goldman Sachs is predicting the oil rally will return as demand accelerates. The investment bank expects Brent crude, the world benchmark, to rise from just $65 today to $80 by the summer. “We view the recent sell-off as a transient pullback in an otherwise large oil price rally and a buying opportunity,” Damien Courvalin, Goldman’s head of energy research, wrote in a report to clients last week. Rising demand, subdued supply De Haan is taken aback by how quickly gasoline demand is returning to levels last seen just before the pandemic erupted. Based on GasBuddy data on gasoline purchases, weekly US demand during the week ending March 20 stood roughly 1% above the week ending March 14, 2020. Searches for driving directions in the United States have also recovered above January 2020 levels, according to mobility trends published by Apple. By contrast, similar searches in Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy remain well below January 2020 levels. “There is a little more cabin fever this spring,” De Haan said. “The overwhelming odds are that we will at some point see the national average touch the $3 mark.” Beyond the desire to take road trips, the energy market is being helped by subdued US supply. The pandemic dealt a crushing blow to the US oil boom, with frackers drastically cutting production to stay alive. Even with US crude above $60 a barrel, the nation is only producing about 10.9 million barrels of oil per day, according to estimates from the federal government. That’s down by a staggering 2.2 million daily barrels from the same period in 2020. Of course, that also means US producers have the ability to pump a lot more if prices get too high. The Keystone Pipeline debate Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service, doesn’t think the national average will hit $3 a gallon this year because of high unemployment, remote work and reduced travel to major sporting and entertainment events. Regardless, higher gas prices will feed the narrative that Biden’s energy policies will hit US consumers in the wallet. On the campaign trail, Biden had to repeatedly deny claims from his opponent that he would ban fracking. But Biden did move quickly to address the climate crisis. On his first day in office, he rescinded the Keystone XL Pipeline, placed a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic and moved to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change. In late January, Biden also imposed a 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on federal lands unless the Interior Department’s leaders approve them. Critically, that policy only applied to new leases and permits, not existing ones. Much to the dismay of climate activists, the Interior Department said earlier this month that the 60-day suspension will not be renewed. Still, energy analysts rejected the notion that Biden’s tough stance on fossil fuels is lifting gasoline prices, at least so far. “Some blame is being laid on Biden and the Keystone Pipeline but that has absolutely nothing to do with the price of crude or gasoline this year,” Kloza said. $4 gas could speed up the EV boom Of course, if Biden does take action to severely constrain US production, that could eventually lead to higher oil prices down the line. Prices are probably not at the level yet where they would eat into demand by causing drivers to cancel road trips. And it’s not clear what that tipping point would be given the excitement about reopening after the pandemic. “$3 gas isn’t going to scare anyone away,” said De Haan. “People are not going to hold back this summer. They are finally starting to feel better.” Bigger picture, the oil industry doesn’t want to see prices spike too high because that would only accelerate the shift to electric vehicles. “You don’t want to go there,” said Mizuho’s Yawger. “You will kill the golden goose.” Source link Orbem News #Americans #Business #Gas #Herecomes$3gas #justasAmericansstarttravelingagain-CNN #Start #Traveling

[dipulb3]

Here comes $3 gas, just as Americans start traveling again

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Here comes $3 gas, just as Americans start traveling again

The national average price of gasoline has climbed 47 straight days to nearly $2.89 per gallon, according to AAA. US drivers haven’t experienced a $3 average price per gallon since 2014, though it came close in 2018 and 2019.

“$3 gas will be the norm by Memorial Day,” said Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities. “We’ve been trapped inside for a year. People want to get out of the house.”

Some states are already dealing with $3 gas, including Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California.

The pain at the pump could cause political problems for the White House. President Joe Biden took swift action this winter to respond to the climate crisis by cracking down on the fossil fuels industry.

That has led some critics to try to pin the “blame” for higher gas prices on Biden — even though energy industry insiders say the increase really is not about federal policy.

“Make no mistake, prices would have gone up no matter who was in the White House,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “This is more about economic recovery.”

Goldman Sachs: $80 crude is coming this summer

After getting crushed by Covid in 2020, the oil market has been one of the biggest winners of the reopening surge on Wall Street. US crude hit a pandemic high of $66.09 a barrel on March 5, an incredible rebound from the April 2020 low of negative $37 a barrel.

OPEC and Russia gave the oil rally a turbo boost earlier this month, shocking the market with a decision to extend their dramatic production cuts for at least another month.

The V-shaped recovery in the oil sector did run into trouble last week. US crude tumbled 6% to $61.42 a barrel on worries over the rocky rollout of vaccines in Europe.

But Goldman Sachs is predicting the oil rally will return as demand accelerates. The investment bank expects Brent crude, the world benchmark, to rise from just $65 today to $80 by the summer.

“We view the recent sell-off as a transient pullback in an otherwise large oil price rally and a buying opportunity,” Damien Courvalin, Goldman’s head of energy research, wrote in a report to clients last week.

Rising demand, subdued supply

De Haan is taken aback by how quickly gasoline demand is returning to levels last seen just before the pandemic erupted. Based on GasBuddy data on gasoline purchases, weekly US demand during the week ending March 20 stood roughly 1% above the week ending March 14, 2020.

Searches for driving directions in the United States have also recovered above January 2020 levels, according to mobility trends published by Apple. By contrast, similar searches in Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy remain well below January 2020 levels.

“There is a little more cabin fever this spring,” De Haan said. “The overwhelming odds are that we will at some point see the national average touch the $3 mark.”

Beyond the desire to take road trips, the energy market is being helped by subdued US supply. The pandemic dealt a crushing blow to the US oil boom, with frackers drastically cutting production to stay alive.

Even with US crude above $60 a barrel, the nation is only producing about 10.9 million barrels of oil per day, according to estimates from the federal government. That’s down by a staggering 2.2 million daily barrels from the same period in 2020.

Of course, that also means US producers have the ability to pump a lot more if prices get too high.

The Keystone Pipeline debate

Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service, doesn’t think the national average will hit $3 a gallon this year because of high unemployment, remote work and reduced travel to major sporting and entertainment events.

Regardless, higher gas prices will feed the narrative that Biden’s energy policies will hit US consumers in the wallet. On the campaign trail, Biden had to repeatedly deny claims from his opponent that he would ban fracking.

But Biden did move quickly to address the climate crisis. On his first day in office, he rescinded the Keystone XL Pipeline, placed a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic and moved to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change.

In late January, Biden also imposed a 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on federal lands unless the Interior Department’s leaders approve them. Critically, that policy only applied to new leases and permits, not existing ones. Much to the dismay of climate activists, the Interior Department said earlier this month that the 60-day suspension will not be renewed.

Still, energy analysts rejected the notion that Biden’s tough stance on fossil fuels is lifting gasoline prices, at least so far.

“Some blame is being laid on Biden and the Keystone Pipeline but that has absolutely nothing to do with the price of crude or gasoline this year,” Kloza said.

$4 gas could speed up the EV boom

Of course, if Biden does take action to severely constrain US production, that could eventually lead to higher oil prices down the line.

Prices are probably not at the level yet where they would eat into demand by causing drivers to cancel road trips. And it’s not clear what that tipping point would be given the excitement about reopening after the pandemic.

“$3 gas isn’t going to scare anyone away,” said De Haan. “People are not going to hold back this summer. They are finally starting to feel better.”

Bigger picture, the oil industry doesn’t want to see prices spike too high because that would only accelerate the shift to electric vehicles.

“You don’t want to go there,” said Mizuho’s Yawger. “You will kill the golden goose.”

[keywestlou]

TODAY HISTORIC

This day will go down in history as the day the U.S. found its way once again. Corrected a mistake which almost destroyed it. The day Americans recognized their mistake of 2016 when Donald Trump was elected President.

Trump’s time will end January 20, 2021. Thank God!

Trump’s four years have been horrible. The fourth especially so. American Psychological Association CEO Arthur Evans said, “This has been a year unlike any other in living memory.”

America will be reborn today with the election of Joe Biden as President. Birth carries with it pain and suffering. America has suffered for four years. A choice of its own making. Can also be described as a mistake.

Whatever. Four years ago Americans were unhappy with Washington government and decided to take a different route in the form of Donald Trump. It did not work out. He proved not to be a savior. Instead seemed bedded with the Devil.

Dethroning Trump will be a return to normalcy and democratic government.

This past year has represented one best described as election stress disorder. Millions of Americans are so afflicted. Add to it coronavirus and racial reckoning, America has been overloaded.

A sense of dread and isolation prevails as a result.

The Washington Post columnist Peter Baker on 6/5/20 wrote, “The White House looks like a fortress under siege.” He was writing about the fence Trump had placed around the White House. High. Supposedly non scalable. Such took place when furor in the streets of Washington was at its highest.

The fence is back. Why the fence again? For the same reason as the former. Trump is in terror. Afraid. The bulliest of bullies worries about Americans storming the White House and doing him harm. Similar to what occurs in banana republics. Which Trump has made the U.S. in many respects.

America in most instances is a land of joy. A condition non existent under Trump. In fact, made consistently less each day of his Presidency.

The U.S. is a nation of music. Songs describing particular eras. Some joyous, some sad.

There is a particular song that fits what the American people have been experiencing. The artist was signed by the Beatles, the song produced by Paul McCartney. How can a Beatles’ favored song be bad in any respect?

“Those Were The Days” is a 1968 remake of an old Russian song sung by Mary Hopkins. Its words can be said to fit what America has experienced the past four years and what future days may be.

“Once upon a time there was a tavern / Where we used to raise a glass or two / Remember how we laughed away the hours / And dreamed of all the great things we would do.”

“Those were the days my friend / We thought they’d never end / We’d sing and laugh forever and a day / We’d live the life we choose / We’d fight and never lose / For we were young and sure to have our way…..”

A womanizer should not fool with a woman. Such woman speaking in the vernacular would remove the person’s balls.

Trump took on Lady Gaga. Gaga immediately retaliated and unloaded on the sexual predator Trump.

Gaga has been openly supporting Biden. Monday Trump took after Gaga.

Fracking is big business in Pennsylvania. It has provided jobs to hundreds of thousand Pennsylvanians. In a factually unsubstantiated tweet, Trump attacked Gaga about her purported comments claimed to have been made 8 years ago. He described her as an “anti-fracking activist.” He added she was “a sharp stick in the eye for 600,000 Pennsylvanians who work in the fracking industry.”

He added at the end he “could tell us stories about Lady Gaga.”

Gaga responded at a Pennsylvania rally monday night where she was introducing Biden: “Now is your choice to vote against Donald Trump, a man who believes his fame gives him the right to grab one of your daughters or sisters or mothers or wives by any part of their bodies. Vote for Joe, he’s a good person.”

I will be watching the early returns beginning at 7. Unfortunately, my blog talk radio show conflicts with the returns for a time in the evening. At 9 is Tuesday Talk with Key West Lou. My quick half hour show where I have the opportunity to rant and rave, especially re politicians.

I expect none of my followers to listen tonight. I do remind you however, that my show is archived at 9:30 sharp. Available from that point forward to be heard at your convenience. www.blogtalkradio.com/key-west-lou.

Don’t forget to vote!

Enjoy your day! Enjoy your evening!

  TODAY HISTORIC was originally published on Key West Lou

[deborahringgold]

This is your SolarWakeup for October 16th, 2020

The $ARRY IPO. It was a big day for solar, New Mexico and the venture founded by Ron Corio in 1989. Array Technologies went public yesterday at $22 per share, pricing $1 above the $19-$21 range. Underwriters also upsized to the maximum levels. At the close of the after-hours market, $ARRY was trading just north of $38, an amazing 73% IPO day pop. Some of you got in at the first print of around $30, still a nice return. This also means that Ron is the first known solar billionaire, he sold 23 million shares at the IPO and still holds ~21.7 million shares. #solarwealth is the word of the decade because not only are we leading the energy transition, this is the single largest wealth creation opportunity of our collective lifetimes. Congrats to Array, the team and Ron for sticking to the vision. What It Means For Sector. Array is a pure play solar company that makes the underlying structure needed to get the most out of solar modules. It manufacturers principally in the US and the majority of its revenue comes from the US market. There are dozens of solar trackers in the market but what sets Array apart along with Nextracker is the team and execution. I spent two years in racking on the resi side and this is exactly the type of exit that could have been possible if the focus weren’t on near term, consultant driven margin. Here’s what happens next, two predictions. I think Nextracker is going to have to look at spinning out from Flex and being a standalone. As the market share leader, Nextracker drives a global business into the public markets. Oaktree, the majority shareholder of Array, also owns Shoals Technologies. I wouldn’t doubt that Shoals is far behind on their S-1 filing and don’t be shocked when you see the margins of the widget manufacturer. Every asset manager and investment bank is meeting this week looking to get smart and get into solar, and that’s great for all of us. Solar Vs Climate Policy. Biden talks a lot about climate change and even renewable energy. He has a multi-trillion dollar plan to combat climate change (the issue) and knows how he wants to solve it (the plan) but what does that mean for the actual execution. How does solar and storage fit into climate policy from a legislative perspective? Last night, Biden took a question about fracking and he did something that should be positive news for all in clean tech. He pivoted from fracking to solar panels on rooftops and batteries in the basement (his words) while highlighting the entire program as a jobs plan. We’ve come a long way. That being said, I still don’t have a clear vision for how his administration plans on getting us there though I hope that folks I know and perhaps read this newsletter will be doing so from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Here’s the clip on the issue from last night’s town hall.  Storage and Grid Wars. Fluence (a Siemens and AES venture) has acquired AMS. This follows Generac’s acquisition of Enbala, LS Power’s acquisition of CPower and evGo, Engie’s acquisition of Green Charge, Enel’s acquisition of Demand Energy and Enernoc, Wartsila’s acquisition of Greensmith and I’m sure some that I’m missing. That leaves Stem as one of the remaining grid/storage companies, but having raised $371million, the price of entry will be hefty. Your thoughts and missing acquisitions are welcome. State Capital Battles. The BP CEO talked a bit about climate advocacy in State capitols, which is my signal to remind you of the biggest head to head contests about to meet state legislators. With oil in transportation at record low levels and the electrification of buildings and transportation, oil companies and utilities are meeting head to head for the first time. They’ve mostly managed to ignore each other’s issues for a century but that’s changing. Look out for major battles and unlike utilities, I see some alignment of interests between our industry and oil that could benefit us. Philly Gets Permits. Faster and cheaper permits in Philadelphia? They get it, let’s help them get to instant permits. Thank You! Yesterday, CALSSA members stood up and raised $195 thousand dollars to keep the policy wheels moving. After a motivational, NBA Championship caliber speech from Hall of Famer Bill Walton, members dug into their pockets. We are $5k away from our goal of $200k and I’m hoping that you can help make up the gap. You can make a donation today! Get The Power. Later this year, the residential solar market is going to get some major savings with most of their balance of systems when the shift to higher power solar modules really gets going. With power density going up more than 10%, those savings will trickle down to mounts, rails, inverters, labor and wire and hopefully into installers’ wallets. Make sure you are getting the best modules and pricing possible by joining the SolarWakeup Buyer’s Group. You can see the pricing on our price discovery page. 

Reuters: Array Technologies shares close 66% higher after Nasdaq debut

Greentech Media: Fluence Acquires Grid Software Startup AMS

Vox: We asked Joe Biden’s campaign 6 key questions about his climate change plans

Axios: Inside BP’s nascent lobbying efforts on state climate policies

Utility Dive: To batteries and beyond – Lithium-ion dominates utility storage; could competing chemistries change that?

Philadelphia Inquirer: In an effort to increase solar use in homes, Philly cuts red-tape and cost for installers

PV-Tech: Nearly 10GW of additional floating solar to be installed globally by 2025 – Fitch

Solar Power World: SunForAll provides $4.1 million in funding to five nonprofit solar projects in San Diego

Opinion

Los Angeles Times: Boiling Point – Climate change is wreaking havoc on the power grid in ways you never knew

Best, Yann

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[fullspectrum-cbd-oil]

At Climate Forum, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Biden Defends Gas-Linked Fundraiser

U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden was called out at a climate change forum on Wednesday for plans to attend a fundraiser hosted by the co-founder of a natural gas export firm, despite a pledge not to take fossil-fuel company money.

The exchange spotlighted the political tension stirred by efforts to lead the country off oil, coal and gas, a key focus of most plans from Democrats aspiring to take on Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.

A voter asked Biden, one of the 10 hopefuls in a seven-hour series of climate town halls on CNN, why he planned to attend this week’s fundraiser by Andrew Goldman, co-founder of Western LNG, which looks to export Canadian liquefied natural gas.

Biden said Goldman, one of his advisers when he was a U.S. senator, was not a fossil-fuel executive.

“What I was told by my staff is that he did not have any responsibility relating to the company,” Biden said. “He was not on the board, he was not involved at all in the operation of the company.”

If Goldman turned out to be involved in the operations, Biden added, “Then I will not, in any way, accept his help.”

The former vice president and all his Democratic rivals have agreed not to accept donations from fossil-fuel companies or their employees.

Goldman, who is listed among Western LNG’s leadership on its website, did not immediately respond to a phone call and email seeking comment.

Politicians of both parties say fossil fuels will be around for decades and exports of LNG, which burns cleaner than coal or oil, can also help nations such as India and China reduce deadly air pollution and offer Europe options to piped gas from Russia.

The forums pitted moderates like Biden against progressives such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and offered Democratic candidates a chance in a crowded presidential field to stand out on an issue increasingly important to voters.

Trump, who rejects climate science and has reversed Obama-era climate initiatives, blasted the proposals of Democratic challengers as they began showcasing them. “The Democrats’ destructive ‘environmental’ proposals will raise your energy bill and prices at the pump,” he said on Twitter.

CLIMATE CHANGE AS OPPORTUNITY

Other Democratic candidates were split on whether or how to ban fracking of natural gas and oil, which, environmentalists say, poses risks to air and water quality.

Some environmentalists say fracking prolongs dependence on gas, slowing a transition to renewable energy like wind and solar power.

Asked whether she would ban fracking, Senator Kamala Harris said yes. The California lawmaker would start with executive action to ban it on federal lands and seek congressional legislation to ban it elsewhere, she added.

Julian Castro, the housing secretary under former President Barack Obama, said he would not immediately ban fracking but supported local governments that did.

Senator Amy Klobuchar called natural gas a “transitional fuel” and said that while she would not ban fracking, she would review in her first 100 days in office every fracking permit issued.

The candidates were also split on whether to allow any new nuclear power, with some saying its waste problem had to be dealt with first.

Concerns about climate have spiked as fires burn in the Arctic and Amazon, ice melts in Greenland and strong storms this year have flooded farms in Midwestern states.

CNN ran updates through the night on Hurricane Dorian, which closed in on the East Coast after killing 20 in the Bahamas.

Biden wants to win back workers in industrial states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, who went for Trump in 2016.

His $1.7-trillion plan supports carbon capture and sequestration, a technique to bury carbon and help utilities move to cleaner energy sources, but it has been criticized by rivals as offering a middle ground.

FOSSIL FUEL TAXES

Warren and Sanders embraced the Green New Deal, a Congressional resolution aimed at moving the country to 100 percent renewable energy in a decade, and took shots at the fossil fuel industry for contributing to climate change.

Warren said fossil fuel companies and Republican lawmakers want to shift voter attention on Big Government policies backed by some progressives, such as plastic straw bans and curbs on light bulb choice, and away from efforts to slow regulation on emissions.

Sanders said fossil fuel companies would shoulder some of the costs of his $16-trillion climate plan. “If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you’re going to be paying more in taxes, that’s for sure,” he said.

The town-hall format on climate emerged after the Democratic National Committee in August rejected debates on single issues. The other Democrats who qualified for the event were South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, former congressman Beto O’Rourke and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Valerie Volcovici and Sharon Bernstein in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter Cooney and Clarence Fernandez)

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