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Calling all consumers: It’s time to recall our failing energy policies
By David Holt |April 8th, 2023|12 Comments

Last year was the latest in a string of bad years for energy proposals. Before we continue down this path, it’s time to add a healthy dose of reality to the national conversation about energy and environmental policy.

Make no mistake, we are in an exciting, evolutionary moment for energy and the environment. Wind and solar power are coming onto the grid at a breakneck pace, carbon capture and storage is taking off, emissions are continuing their rapid decline. America is helping lead the world in carbon reduction, and innovations in energy technologies are improving performance and efficiency.

Our national issue with all this is how to properly capture these advances in a smart, consistent and reality-based way, so we can meet our economy’s growing energy demands without hurting families by making energy less affordable and reliable. This is a scientific and engineering challenge at a grand scale, something America has traditionally excelled at solving.

The great disconnect is how our energy discussion is framed.

https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/08/calling-all-consumers-its-time-to-recall-our-failing-energy-policies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=calling-all-consumers-its-time-to-recall-our-failing-energy-policies&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=calling-all-consumers-its-time-to-recall-our-failing-energy-policies
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address