| Energy Realism this past week hit the two energy train wrecks of Europe and California. For the still developing world, our Western energy hypocrisy will, thankfully, simply not stand. David Holt starts us off this week: to hear the Biden administration tell it, the energy crisis is over because gasoline prices have come off near-record highs. No, not really, Mr. President. We need national leadership from Congress and the administration to deal realistically with our energy and environmental issues. The climate religion is exactly what Europe got, and the entire world has now seen the energy abyss that it brings about. Rick Whitbeck says that being green is not just difficult but utterly illogical. The disaster unfolding with California’s unreliable and expensive green power grid is showing us that. We must also stop being so partisan: the one-party state of California proves that as well. Todd Snitchler realizes that Democrats and Republicans must work together to reduce emissions and meet rising energy needs affordably. Reality check: putting the thumb on the energy scale in the favor of wind and solar with subsidies dangerously distorts markets. Again, just ask Europe and California. This is clearly most true for the world’s poor countries, where full access to reliable and affordable energy is a matter of life and, more often, death. Horrifically, it seems Democrats are forcing their green obsession on the most energy-deprived nations on Earth. Vijay Jayaraj wonders if blocking energy access from poor nations, again the exact same energy sources that made us Westerners rich and long-living, has become the new normal. In short, that type of hypocrisy from us will just “keep poor people poor.” Indeed, the Essential Reading this week then can only come from the legendary energy realist Vaclav Smil who documents, fully, how rich countries utilized fossil fuels to make more money, be more educated, and live longer – to evolve to the most developed populations in the whole history of the world. In the News Robert L. Hirsch, Ph.D., Roger H. Bezdek, Ph.D., RealClearEnergy Furqan Sayeed, San Francisco Chronicle Bloomberg Duggan Flanakin, RealClearEnergy Li Zhou, Vox Will Horner, WSJ Rupert Darwall, Spectator World Thomas J. Duesterberg, Abby Fu, RealClearEnergy Laura He, CNN EIA Ian Madsen, MJD Dan Morenoff, WSJ E&E News Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Price Peak Oil Barrel ReasonTV Texas A&M University's Andrew Dessler vs. Steven Koonin, former undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy, at the Soho Forum. Financial Times Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted the biggest shake-up of European energy markets this century. This film explains how Europe became so dependent on cheap Russian gas, and e... Fox News We’re vulnerable because democrats sabotaged our homegrown energy and The green warriors in the Biden Administration are about to run into the buzz saw of the American electorate in ... TEDx Talks This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. You don't care about climate change right? Because it's a bunch words of things that don't ... | 