Billionaire financier Tom Steyer is spending $50+ million of his money this election season to oppose the use of fossil fuels, which he equates to an heroin addiction. Refreshingly, Steyer has called for open debate on fossil fuels and their impact on climate–which is one of the most important issues this country, and the world, faces. And he has offered to participate …
Power Hour: Alex Epstein on Productivity
On this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein discusses what he learned about productivity while completing his forthcoming book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. [audio: http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Power-Hour-941.mp3] Download Episode 94 – Alex Epstein on Productivity Subscribe to Power Hour on iTunes
Power Hour Update
Dear Power Hour fans, there will once again be no Power Hour this week, as I am finishing my manuscript of The Moral Case for For Fossil Fuels. We’ll be back next week! –Alex
CPAC 2014
Alex Epstein alex@industrialprogress.net (949) 421-8867 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CPAC to Obama: Declare Love, Not War, on Fossil Fuels WASHINGTON, D.C. – MARCH 5TH, 2014 – If you’re wondering who the hundreds of young people wearing bright green at the upcoming CPAC are, look carefully at the front of their shirts–they don’t say Greenpeace, they say “I Love Fossil Fuels.” “I …
Fight Back Against Obama’s War on Fossil Fuels
Last August I had the opportunity to speak to an audience of 500 coal miners at the Kentucky Mining Institute’s annual Mine Rescue Competition—a celebration of the competence and courage of coal miners. The celebration was muted, though, by the fact that in 2013, thousands of their fellow coal miners lost their jobs—not because of incompetence, not because their product …
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Power Hour: Steffen Henne on Climate Change
// In this third installment of a series of Power Hours devoted to chapters in his upcoming book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Penguin/Portfolio, 2014), Alex Epstein talks with CIP researcher and frequent contributor Steffen Henne about climate change. [audio: http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Power-Hour-86.mp3] Download Episode 86 – Steffen Henne on http:/// Climate Change Subscribe to Power Hour on iTunes
The State of Obama’s Energy Thinking
“And when our children’s children look us in the eye,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address, “and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.” I do, too. But the way to do this …
Mastering Messaging
MASTERING MESSAGING BY ALEX EPSTEIN Author of Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet and “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: The Key to Winning Hearts and Minds.” OVER THE LAST DECADE, energy executives, particularly in the fossil fuel industry, have come to recognize improving their company’s (and industry’s) messaging is not a side job but a financial imperative. I …
CIP Digest: Hydraulic Fracturing
If you listen to Power Hour regularly, you’ve heard a lot about hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” (or “frac’ing”), in the last few years—on its existing and potential impact on the world’s energy supply, and the widespread positive impact on human life it can continue to have, if the oil and gas industry succeeds in taking the high ground in the …