As a matter of full disclosure, I spent 25 years of my working life as an engineering manager and executive in the fossil fuel industry--the exploration and production of petroleum and natural gas. That said, I have no significant vested interest in that industry. After my belief in Christ, actual science takes precedence.
Engineers are practical people. They have to be. Their livelihoods often depend on the application of scientific principles, basically the theories of Thermodynamics. Now that may sound complicated. It isn’t. It just means you don’t get something for nothing.
The economy of the United States and most of the Western world depends on low cost, available energy. That energy has been provided by fossil fuels for over 200 years. The benefits of fossil fuels have outweighed the negatives by several orders of magnitude. That hasn’t changed. It is just common sense to use the most efficient, affordable energy available. It allows humans to flourish.
But common sense is antithetical to the energy policies of the Biden administration, and, for that matter, the real goal of the United Nations—to lower the standing of the United States in world affairs. That is also the goal of the Chinese Communist Party.
There is something quite wrong about the political push for a scientifically impossible energy paradigm, a shift from fossil fuels to solar and wind for base load electrical energy. That includes the move to battery powered vehicles for personal and commercial use. EVs require charging stations. That will increase the need for more base load electricity. The more appropriate paradigm shift would be to nuclear power and even that would require massive infrastructure investment to support the heat demands of the manufacturing industry. And that would also require a different regulatory environment in Washington DC.
The Biden administration is hell bound on forcing the American people away from fossil fuels. If the people paid attention, they would object to the implementation of The Green New Deal. That AOC monstrosity is being implemented by a sleight of hand called the Infrastructure Bill. What a con job. It’s not about energy, it’s all about control and the theft of Individual Freedom. Are we ready to give up gas cooking, home heating and water heating, pay more for the same functions, all to prevent a non-existent climate calamity? But we haven’t paid attention, and that’s our own fault. Time to wake up and throw the fake experts and crooks out of office, beginning with the Big Guy.