A Humpty-Dumpty View of the World

Victor Davis Hanson "A president comes into office after record high energy prices have nearly crippled the American economy, and he ignores new drilling and brushes off nuclear power — only to wax about wind and solar that provide less than 5% of our energy needs, and crushing cap-and-trade taxation to come."...."In such mythologizing, and without any knowledge of the grubby world of oil rigs and dirty pipeline laying, we could have all the clean power we wished if only an Exxon just weren’t so greedy. So the narrative emerged that we need not drill for more oil here in the U.S. New natural gas fields still meant bad carbon fuels. Coal, burned daily, was still politically taboo. Nuclear plants were always referenced in terms of Chernobyl and Three-Mile-Island."