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Steve Milloy
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Note from the publisher: Big Tent Ideas always aims to compensate for perspectives for the hottest issues of the day. In the following you will find a column of Steve Milloy, in which he argues that wind is hopelessly useless as an energy source and the wind industry does not believe in “all above” energy. You can find a counterpoint here where Hillary Bright and Heather Reams argue that the support for wind energy actually corresponds to President Trump's energy strategy and that progressive only used the industry for their own purposes.
The coalition of the restoration of the energy hominance (Red) recently made an advertisement that campaigned for “all forms of energy”. “You voted for it, you have it,” the ad begins. It contains a clip of President Trump, in which it says: “All forms of energy, yes …”. What exactly does “all forms of energy” or its short form of the 21st century mean, “all the above” really? Is it a good policy ”and is President Trump for it?
The concept of “all of the above” comes from a convergence of energy-related events in the mid-2000s, including: (1) the then appearing but imaginary “climate crisis” and (2) an actual energy crisis, which through a combination of factors, including the Iraq war, the US dependence on Opec, the increase in the energy hungry china and India, the concept of Pail Oil and more is caused. The solution to the congress for this was the energy policy law of 2005 signed by President Bush. “All of the above” was not in common at that time, but the law essentially embodied it. (Relatives: Hillary Bright and Heather Reams: Trump should hug offshore -wind)
“All above” came more frequently, even more, albeit with different variations during the “war war against coal” by President Obama and his embrace of executive measures to reduce emissions due to “climate change”. For President Obama, “all above” meant all forms of energy with the exception of coal that he tried to extend. In order to counteract Obama, the coal industry and its republican followers used “all above” as a desperate means to include coal in the USENERGIENECHEMENT.
But the tables have now turned. President Trump supports the booming oil and gas industry, the now planned coal industry; The idiotic nuclear industry and solar energy. He fought and repeatedly spoke against the wind industry on land and offshore. He has also issued an executive order to check offshore wind projects and has so far been a specific project. It is now the turn of the wind industry to scream “all above” in order to remain part of the US energy balance.
President Trump also started and has taken executive measures against what he often refers to as “Green New Scam”, which means that climate expenditure and energy grants in the law of President Biden 2022 are included in inflation. The opponents of the green new fraud hope to lift the subsidies in the upcoming Big Beautiful Bill by President Trump.
The Red Coalition advertisement would attribute us to the days of the Energy Policy Act and concentrate on creating domestic energy from all sources. That sounds reasonable, ignoring the realities we have experienced and the lessons we have learned in the past 20 years.
First, supporters of the Energy Policy Act have not foreseen Advent of the late 2000s and the effects of fracking on oil and gas. While we rely on the imports of natural gas in 2005 and pour out the options for cheap oil production, fracking changed the global energy situation almost overnight. Fracking essentially gave the United States unlimited oil and gas supply. This has essentially crushed the ability of Opec to check the global oil price. Thanks to fracking, we probably have enough oil and gas to lead the entire US economy without any other energy.
Second, we have been informed for decades that wind and solar are cheaper than fossil fuels and a solution for the alleged “climate crisis”. Both claims have proven to be wrong. Wind and solar have reduced the electricity price for no one. At best, you have only assigned the energy costs for taxpayers. Wind and solar have only increased the electricity price for consumers, even if it is subsidized by taxpayers.
Worse, solar and wind have endangered the reliability of our network. Network operators now routinely warn against a possible network failure during the peak requirement. A winter storm in February in Texas froze the wind turbines, which led to hundreds of deaths and caused almost a catastrophic network failure. Too much solar and wind only caused a similar network crisis in Spain and Portugal last month.
Wind and solar have never been economically viable without subsidies. Therefore, wind and solar trailers reject the end of the green new fraud. Wind and solar not only require taxpayer subsidies, but are also intrinsically subsidized by state mandates and the procurement of materials and workers from communist china. This also has the national security of security to make our power grid dependent on our geopolitical rival.
After all, wind and solar were also an environmental disaster in terms of large birds, bats, whales and much other killed sea life. Their oversized footprints are essentially made to a constant part of the environment, since the amount of concrete and iron abstars used in their foundations are used. There are also national security concerns in offshore wind.
We need energy that works. After 20 years of experience, “all of this above” is only a positive action for wind and solar energy. If energy decisions were made based on standard economic volume such as costs and functionality, oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy would undoubtedly gain approval. President Trump occasionally says friendly things about solar, but not about wind. He saves his wasteful praise and attention for most: oil, gas and coal.
Steve Milloy is a biostatistic and lawyer, publishes Junkscience.com and is on X @Junkscience.
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