Democrats Tie Themselves In Knots on Energy Policy – The Wall Street Journal

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In New York Leads America off an Energy Cliff (op-ed, May 12), Claudia Tenney shows the folly of the Democrats plans to move to wind and solar as soon as possible, no matter the risks. Supposedly, we all must use electric cars, even though our electric grid relies mostly on coal and other nonrenewable sources. We also must halt natural-gas pipelines, like President Biden did with Keystone XL, yet now the president also wants Middle Eastern countries to increase the supply of their fuels, even though those countries dont have the environmental protections that our oil and gas producers must maintain.

The mostly likely climate-change scenario for 2100, per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is for temperatures to change by a few degreesvery manageable with human intervention and technology, as Bjorn Lomborg and others have written in this paper. But can we even predict what will happen in 80 years? Not reliably. Will we increase our energy dependence on the Middle East, China and Russia? Somehow, I think that might not end well.

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May 23rd, 2022
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