“World Should be Optimistic About Our Fossil Fuel Future” (Bradley op-ed in Houston Chronicle)
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From MasterResource
By Roger Donway
Ed. Note: Robert L. Bradley Jr’s opinion-page editorial, reprinted below, appeared in the Houston Chronicle last Sunday, April 12, 2026. Tomorrow’s post will explain the significance of Bradley’s op-ed given the Chronicle’s long-standing bias against fossil fuels.
CERAWeek was in town last month, joined by climate activists who showed up to protest. The reality, however, is that climate activism is in retreat.
The so-called “energy transition” is potholed by an unprecedented number of solar bankruptcies, electric-vehicle retreats, and corporate pullbacks from wind, hydrogen, and carboncapture projects.
A roadmap to phase out fossil fuels was defeated at the last United Nations conference on climate change, in line with a recent prediction by the International Energy Agency that oil demand will increase for decades. Texas, for its part, produced a record two billion barrels last year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency even recently reversed its earlier decision that carbon dioxide and other manmade greenhouse gases are a danger to health and human welfare.
