Energy Realism looked at our recent Energy Future Forum and why many climate solutions pushed by Greens are already imploding. From our recent Energy Future Forum in June, Terrence Keeley got us started last week: climate science has become too political. Climate policies have become insufficiently scientific. And financial products ostensibly designed to reverse climate change now broadly exacerbate it. Jeffrey Kupfer agrees, and we simply must kick politics out of energy decision making. A couple weeks ago, at the end of another momentous term, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out what was known as Chevron deference, a 40-year-old doctrine that directed courts to defer to a federal agency’s expertise when interpreting ambiguous statutes. Nationally, the goal here is a variety of options on energy. Indeed, Duggan Flanakin credits Toyota, as the company personally described at our recent Energy Future Forum. The reality is that the world’s largest automaker is incorporating EVs more but it is also incorporating other options for consumers, such as more efficient gasoline-based cars. Give consumers a choice when it comes to “climate solutions.” Forcing things down their throats is a surefire recipe for disaster. In the News Kendra Pierre-Louis, Japan Times CSIS David Henderson, Econlib Zachary Shahan, CleanTechnica Ella Nilsen, CNN Tina Teng, Euronews Zachary Shahan, Clean Technica James T. Callahan, Rich Nolan, RealClearEnergy Henry Pickavet, Tech Crunch Craig B. Smith, William D. Fletcher, RealClearEnergy Kate Abnett, Reuters RealClearEnergy Lisa Pelling, Social Europe Norman Rogers, RealClearEnergy David Holt, RealClearEnergy RealClearEnergy The Energy Future Forum is a one-day event featuring one-on-one conversations with the foremost experts across energy and environmental policy, capital markets, alternative energy, a... Planet Critical You can’t go green without going small. Our fossil-fuelled economy is destabilising the planet. But a renewable economy might not be much better. Simon Michaux and his team at the Ge... |