The ARC of a New Energy Covenant
5 hours ago Guest Blogger
By David DesRosiers
For American energy, the Overton Window has gone from almost shut under President Biden to fully open under Trump. Energy scarcity and its policy of Net Zero by 2050 has been replaced by energy abundance and a “Drill, Baby, Drill” mindset.
That said, the American mind is very divided and needs to unite around an energy standard that can connect its right and left lobes. We need a real energy standard by which to judge the energy stack. ARC — affordable, reliable, and clean — is it.
The policy commitments of the Net Zero camp are a product of strong emotion and weak science and economics: mankind’s use of fossil fuels and the attendant CO2 emissions are killing the planet and our future on it. However, the net effect of Net Zero — globally and domestically — is a politically induced green inflation and a Hunger Games logic that hurts the world’s poor and middle classes for no net environmental gain.
The ARC standard brings needed economic, scientific and policy clarity and literacy to a divided American and global mind. The value of any given energy input is best understood as a blended average of affordability, reliability, and cleanliness.
Here’s the ARC ranking of our energy stack, according to a new study by The Heartland Institute:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/23/the-arc-of-a-new-energy-covenant/
