| Energy Realism this past week focused on green contradictions and our growing requirement to work with allies on energy and climate. Duggan Flanakin gets us started: greens demand huge amounts of wind, solar, and electric cars but continually block the mining of the critical materials that they are made from. It is a persistent contradiction, and this green non-thinking has penetrated the highest officials in the Biden administration, “the most climate-conscious in American history.” Greens should realize that such opposition of domestic mining just puts our climate goals at the whim of China, who dominates the supply chains of rare earths and the other critical materials in “The Energy Transition.” True to form, greens also oppose U.S. natural gas exports (via LNG), which are essential to lowering the world’s overreliance on high-emitting coal to fight climate change. Benjamin Zycher discusses the recent letter from 10 clearly uninformed U.S. Senators to DOE Secretary Granholm to block our LNG exports. Predictably hailing from the importing and high-cost New England states, the senators do not grasp how counterproductive such a policy would be. Rick Whitbeck gives us a view from Alaska, where oil and gas are central to job creation and economic development. Cargoes from Alaska can more easily reach fast-growing, heavy coal-dependent Asia because they do not have to pass through the Panama Canal like our mushrooming LNG projects along the Gulf Coast do – thereby making shipments faster and cheaper. Energy exports give us a great opportunity to work with our partners around the world. We have been seeing this with U.S. LNG flowing to Europe to counteract the heavy hand of Vladimir Putin. Aviv Ayash and Sam Buchan want such a partnership with Israel, where huge natural gas resources have been discovered in recent years. Gas development can spur regional cooperation. Theodore J. Garrish extends the partnership imperative to nuclear. Even greens must realize the conclusion as obvious: wind and solar are naturally intermittent (i.e., “more unavailable than available”), and we have no chance of reaching climate goals without a massive uptick in far more reliable nuclear power. In the News Chris McGreal, The Guardian Loukia Gyftopoulou, Bloomberg Andrew Puzder, Stephen Soukup, The Heritage Foundation NPR Emma Newburger, CNBC Georgina McKay, Fortune Alistair Macdonald, Jim Carlton, The Wall Street Journal Financial Times Kurt Cobb, Resilence Kate Briquelet, Yahoo News The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Price S&P Global Platts Tilak Doshi, Forbes Alex Kimani, Oil Price Common Sense Society This panel explored woke capital’s dangers to liberty and prosperity—including the threat posed by stakeholder capitalism and critical race theory—and addressed how we can work toget... Texas Public Policy Foundation Americans all across the country are feeling immense pain at the pump with skyrocketing oil and energy prices. The Biden administration's response? A nominee that will starve the ind... Fox Business Green Beret Michael Waltz discusses the recently released documents revealing the U.S. military’s frustration with the Biden admin over Afghanistan evacuation and ‘woke corporations’... Outkick This is woke hypocritical capitalism. It needs to be attacked at its root. If I have to choose between endorsing the idea that China deserves to host the Winter Olympics or watching/... PragerU What’s more important for a company: to make a profit, or to do “social good?” More and more companies seem to be focusing on the latter. But is that a good business strategy? And, w... Jordan Peterson Notes Jordan goes on the Joe Rogan show. | 