| Energy Realism hit on bad and unrealistic climate policy. Oh boy, there are too many to count. Emily Arthun got us started last week. The green obsession is dangerously taking baseload power offline. For example, if you live or work in the Lone Star State, you may be aware that ERCOT has revealed that power reserves were critically low in early May. More recently came the news that demand broke the state record a second time in a week, as prices soared on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. That wasn’t good news in a state that has struggled with supply issues during the past two years and has lately suffered through some well-documented weather events. Greens demand that coal baseload, for instance, be either pulled offline or deploy carbon capture technologies. Bonner Cohen though gives us the truth: the world of climate policy abounds with bad ideas – from force-feeding an increasingly reluctant driving public a steady diet of EVs, to regulating popular household appliances out of existence. But one of the worst is megaprojects aimed at sucking CO2 out of the air and burying it deep underground. Indeed, Robert Hargroves follows by examining whether or not we should bury CO2 or revive it. Ultimately, our focus must be on more nuclear if we are concerned about CO2 and climate change. In the News Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Heather Reams, RealClearEnergy Greg Walden, RealClearEnergy Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Matt Levine, RealClearEnergy Hare & Saeed, Climate News Dillon Thomas, CBS Blanca Begert, Politico Out of Spec Podcast William Gavin, Quartz Bridge Michigan Kevin Killough, Just the News Michael Kern, Oil Price Robert Rapier, Oil Price Rystad Energy, Oil Price Jennifer Carpenter, RealClearEnergy CNBC Amena Bakr, Senior Research Analyst at Energy Intelligence, and Helima Croft, Head of Global Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, discuss oil prices following the latest OPEC+ ... Schwab Network OPEC is a supply story and the weakness we are seeing is due to concerns over future demand, notes Carley Garner. She discusses crude oil market in focus. TED-Ed What could our future world look like if we continue to do nothing about climate change? Take a look at the possibilities. | 