Jason Hayes

Christian/Husband/Dad/libertarian. Energy & environment @Heritage. Former park ranger & forester. Relentless advocate for affordable, reliable energy 🇺🇸/🇨🇦

[Shawn Regan @Shawn_Regan]

The federal government is the largest owner of U.S. real estate. It's bloated property portfolio has a $370 billion total backlog of maintenance and repairs.

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[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

Americans now pay more in taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Think about that.

Government has become so big and bloated that taxes cost more than life's basic necessities. Every American taxpayer should be outraged.

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

Not going to happen. China operates almost 10x the amount of coal generation that the U.S does, and has approved the construction of more new coal plants than are currently operating in the U.S.

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[The Honest Broker @RogerPielkeJr]

For China to reduce its emissions by 50% by 2050 it needs to retire about 87 coal plants per year and deploy the equivalent of ~8300 new nuclear power plants equivalent of carbon-free energy

[Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Texas’ data centers can strengthen the state’s economy without forcing households to pay higher electricity rates.

States would do well in the short-term to focus on expanding electricity supplies with grid-enhancing technologies that could help to provide data centers with the power they need. @jasonthayes

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[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

European Net Zero achieved two things:

1. Deindustrialization in Europe due to high energy costs, many well-paid jobs lost.

2. The same products come now from Asia, but with higher emissions to build and ship. Cars, for example, cause 70% more emissions.

Isn’t that genius?

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

South Australia hired ZEN Energy to supply government operations with 100% renewable electricity through 2035.

ZEN was supposed to prove that wind, solar and batteries could deliver dependable power at a competitive price.

Instead, its business model blew apart.

When sunshine flooded the grid and daytime electricity prices collapsed, ZEN was forced to sell power at a loss. Then after sunset, ZEN had to buy electricity back from the wholesale market at far higher prices.

The company reportedly lost $322 million before tax in a single year. It entered administration. Its customers were transferred to AGL, to be powered mostly by coal, while taxpayers searched for a replacement.

The promise was firm, affordable 100% renewable power. The reality? Sell solar cheaply when the sun shines, buy electricity dearly when evening rolls in, lose hundreds of millions, then collapse.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Express Concern Over Increase In Gun Violence Against Active Shooters https://t.co/wCZ3xUHpFz

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

So, if I understand the arguments correctly, requiring ID to vote is exclusionary for marginalized communities, but requiring ID to get taxpayer subsidized groceries is fine?

And, how will married women be able to get groceries in New York City?

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

Mamdani wants to protect tax payer funded grocery store from non-NYC residents… they’ll need an ID card to enter.

You can make this up.

[Donald Bryson @donaldbryson]

They’re mocking the brands. They’re missing the miracle.

Clean, safe, portable water is so absurdly abundant under capitalism that ordinary people get to choose among Fiji, Evian, and smartwater as if it’s nothing.

That’s Schumpeter’s silk stockings for the factory girl, which does not mean luxury for the few, but abundance so deep that variety itself becomes the complaint. #socialism #capitalism #abundance

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

Something to make your day sooo much better!

[salty🧂 @saltinesnack]

@kendallbaker And now for a masterclass in how to ACTUALLY sing the National Anthem of our great Country, The United States of America.

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

Climate models are often described as the "gold standard" for informing trillion-dollar policy decisions.

Yet the scientific literature increasingly contains statements like this:

"Here, we argue that those projections are overestimated by as much as an order-of-magnitude."

Read that again.

An order of magnitude!

If a weather forecast were off by 10X, no one would trust it. If an engineering model were off by 10X, the bridge would never be built.

So why are climate models and impact projections routinely treated as unquestionable evidence rather than hypotheses that must be rigorously tested against observations?

Science advances by confronting models with reality, not by assuming the models are reality. When the literature itself acknowledges that some projections can be overestimated by an order of magnitude, perhaps it's time to stop pretending every alarming model output deserves unquestioning acceptance.

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

@Shawn_Regan Same here. I used to regularly carry the chainsaw pack in Valhalla Provincial Park and it was considered a backcountry wilderness area.

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

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[FOX & Friends @foxandfriends]

"I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world."

Fauci's private diary reveals he called his own fame "explosive and really unimaginable" — writing in May 2020 that he was the most talked-about person in the country.

"Big front-page article about me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable.

It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world."
— MAY 21, 2020

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

The “97 (or 99%) consensus” on climate change is a farce statistic that has been debunked many times.

But let’s assume for a moment that 97% of them agree.

What is it that they agree on, exactly?

That mankind has contributed to global warming in at least some capacity?

Well, then I’d be in that 97%.

That climate change is an urgent problem that requires rapid economic decarbonization? Well, I highly doubt that 97% of scientists in this field agree on that. In fact, I know they don’t.

Just because global warming is real does not mean that it is a problem.

There is not a single shred of compelling evidence that it is a problem either.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Do you think James Talarico still plays with his Fauci action figure?

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

Why cherry pick single countries? This is Europe as a whole. Cheers.

Source: https://t.co/98cf9Avte5

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The Dutch government is running TV ads asking citizens to limit their electricity usage between 4pm and 9pm because the grid might collapse.

This is what happens when ideology replaces engineering. The Netherlands tore down its stable, gas-based system and replaced it with intermittent wind and solar that surge and fade with the weather.

They provide no inertia, no stored energy and no steady baseline. And modern grids can't cope. Lines are overloaded. Companies can't connect. Homes and EV charges are being turned away. And operators are even shutting down wind farms to avoid surging blackouts.

The cost to the Dutch economy is estimated to be 35 billion euros a year. And growing.

The promise was clean, abundant power. The reality? One of Europe's richest nations is now effectively rationing electricity.

[Xiao Wang @xiaowang1984]

Oh you sweet summer child. Capacity only works this way in the mind of a policy person. Not in the real physical world

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

@MichaelGiberso3 @xiaowang1984 I think Bastiat may have touched on something similar in his work somewhere.

[Jason Hayes @jasonthayes]

Brings to mind a show I watched as a kid.

How many of you out there were terrified to hear Mr. Spock warn you that, "according to some climatologists, within a lifetime, we might be living in the next ice age"?

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Summer has failed to arrive in the High Arctic.

Danish Meteorological Institute data show June 2026 averaged -2.2C (28F), by far the coldest June in record books extending back to 1958.

And the cold continued through July.

By July 27, the monthly mean stood at just 0.01C, effectively freezing. Temperatures repeatedly fell below 0C during what should be the warmest part of the Arctic year, when readings normally climb to 2C or higher.

A review of the DMI archive reveals no colder summer run, with 2026 tracking at the bottom of the entire 69-year series.

While headlines warn of an overheating Arctic, the region north of 80N has been the coldest we've ever known it in archives dating back to 1958.