Articles: Energy/Environment

536 AD is often pointed to as the worst year in human history. A volcanic eruption in Iceland darkened the skies over Europe, triggered massive food shortages and the Black Death, and brought on the Dark Ages, an agonizing period for humanity.

But today’s hyperactive progressives in American politics will not let that record stand. They’re not going to give ground to some obscure volcano and people in thatched huts. Their policies aim to create an even better “New Dark Ages,” with full accompaniment of darkness, disease, food shortage and disaster.

The Green New Deal will fail. At the same time, Sen Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has advocated a vegan diet for Americans and, though widely lampooned, that represents a far more practical way to address the climate crisis.

I have to warn you, if you repeat any of what I tell you, people will run from you at cocktail parties. About electric cars: When the White House hasn’t been selling Obamacare, it has been touting “alternative energy” and electric cars — and hugely subsidizing them with your tax money. I’m just wondering if they could be as wrong about energy as they are about health care.

Federal energy development is an important answer to the questions on jobs, national security, the environment and federal budget that plague our nation right now. A focus on energy production is crucial to reviving our economy. In particular, we must turn our attention to natural gas because America is awash in it.