Two Years In, Inflation Reduction Act Is The Climate Boondoggle Critics Predicted
by David Blackmon Aug 21, 2024 in Green Energy, News and Opinion Reading Time: 5 mins read
In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main impediments to the energy transition today is a lack of what she calls “systems thinking.” [emphasis, links added]
“Energy transitions are a change in the organization of society,” she pointed out. “They’re not a simple case of swapping out one technology for another and everything else stays the same. Yet, we have this very simplistic narrative that we can take the oil system, we can put renewables in, it’s going to happen immediately, and nothing else will change. It’s like saying we’re going to take your thighbone out, but we’d like you to run a marathon.”
But that simplistic narrative is essentially what President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used to sell the public and reluctant Democrat senators — like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia — on the glories of the Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) during 2021 and the first eight months of 2022.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/two-years-in-inflation-reduction-act-is-the-climate-boondoggle-critics-predicted/
