Energy policy, including climate policy, will be one of the main issues of 2021. I believe that the best policy for America’s future and the world’s future is a policy of energy freedom, in which all sources of energy--including fossil fuels--can compete to produce the most reliable, lowest-cost energy for billions of people. I am extremely worried that much of our government is advocating…

Testimony for the Congressional Off-Site Hearing: “Addressing Bidenflation and Biden’s Energy Crisis”

Now is the perfect time to educate the world about the need for pro-fossil-fuel, pro-freedom energy policies.

Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people--and are needed by billions more. We need a Fossil Future.

Politicians around the world, including US Democrats, have opposed and threatened the oil and gas industry's existence. Now they are denying responsibility for the consequences: higher prices.

Europe’s energy insecurity, which has rendered it impotent to act against Putin, has been caused by its foolish abandonment of domestic fossil fuel production.

Geothermal cannot replace a significant percentage of fossil fuel use because it requires the rare geology of places like Iceland. "Deep geothermal" has promise, but is decades away from scalability.

Why Europe is so vulnerable to Russia, why it was preventable, and what the US must do to avoid the same fate

Last month, President Biden issued a "net zero" Executive Order that threatens the very existence of our nation. And yet he has received very little pushback.

Senator Joe Manchin heroically opposed the "Build Back Better" plan of his fellow Democrats. Now the media is trying to make him fold by pretending that coal-destroying BBB is good for WV coal miners

A previously-unreleased pro-oil/gas letter sent by BlackRock to Texas lawmakers and oil/gas executives reveals a major contradiction

ESG poses as a moral and financially savvy movement. In reality it is an immoral and financially ruinous movement that is destroying the free world's ability to produce low-cost, reliable energy.

The big-budget Netflix movie's support for eliminating fossil fuels, not fossil fuels, is the threat to life on Earth

Contrary to the propaganda that the White House and mainstream media are spreading, fossil fuels have made us far safer from climate-related disasters such as tornadoes.

An open letter to Senator Joe Manchin

Senator Warren blamed natural gas CEOs for rising prices. Here’s how I would respond if I were them.

"Climate change is a public health issue" is a dangerous new refrain that is being used to justify some truly evil policies--including a government mandate to restrict hospitals' electricity use if the CO2 emissions are deemed to be too high!

The editors of 220 medical journals called for the rapid elimination of fossil fuels because of their climate impacts. But even if they were right on their predictions of health impacts from climate change, they are failing to see that their niche expertise is only a small part of the story about climate and human flourishing.

Skyrocketing oil and gasoline prices are a failure of anti-oil politicians, who artificially restricted the supply of oil

As the infrastructure deal moves forward, it is important to keep pointing out that we still need NEPA reform--and that without it, infrastructure can't improve very much. Here are my talking points on NEPA.

Need talking points for this year's Thanksgiving energy/climate conversations?

Here are my top 6.

Summary: Fossil fuels are making the world a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people--and are needed by billions more.

This is part 3 of my series “How passing the reconciliation bill will destroy American energy.” This horrific bill has at least 6 energy-destroying policies that alone should disqualify it from passage—including the increase in electric vehicle subsidies.

Before and during COP 26, I have claimed that it is not a scientific conference but a pseudoscientific, anti-human conference that is pursuing mass-genocide.

The COP 26 Agreement has proven me right. Here are the top 5 reasons the Agreement is pseudoscientific and anti-human.

This is part 2 of my series “How passing the reconciliation bill will destroy American energy.” This horrific bill has at least 6 energy-destroying policies that alone should disqualify it from passage—including the extension and increase of solar and wind subsidies.

The reconciliation bill’s goal of 80% "clean electricity" by 2030, which has still not been abandoned, would mean going from 10% unreliable solar+wind to a catastrophic 50% solar+wind in 8 years.

While COP 26 is drawing criticism for “failing” to “achieve” its goals, this conference is still pushing the world in the deadly direction of eliminating fossil fuel use.

Here are some key talking points centered around the pseudoscientific 1.5°C threshold of warming that is used to justify so much destruction.

The House is holding a hearing to threaten “Big Oil” for spreading “climate disinformation”—i.e., for expressing the opinion that CO2 emissions would not be catastrophic, an opinion that turned out to be right. This hearing is therefore an attack on free speech and on reality.

The most persuasive argument being used for the horrifically destructive policy of 80% “clean electricity” by 2030—the goal of the Clean Electricity Performance Program of the reconciliation bill—is that other countries have already achieved this. These talking points completely refute this argument and call out some of the “experts” who are shamefully making it.

As Europe and the world continue to experience a natural gas crisis, those most responsible for the crisis—those who oppose the production and transport of natural gas—are scrambling to blame everyone and everything but themselves.

I thought it would be valuable to get the perspective of someone who is directly involved with the production and transport of natural gas, and therefore can speak very credibly about what’s inhibiting it.

So I asked Toby Rice, the CEO of the US’s largest natural gas producer—EQT—to join me on this week’s Power Hour. Here’s the interview, followed by my key takeaways and quotes from the interview. I suggest using these when the subject of Europe’s natural gas crisis comes up.

The oil spill in Southern California, very near where I live, is being used (abused) to call for anti-oil policies, including a ban on California offshore drilling. Here are my talking points on what actually happened and what the proper response is.

The reconciliation bill is being pitched as a big job-creator. In fact it will destroy far more well-paying US jobs than it creates...

As natural gas shortages and skyrocketing prices harm Europe, those most responsible for the crisis—those who oppose the production and transport of natural gas—are shifting the blame from themselves by claiming that the situation is “complex.” But it’s not. It’s simple: if it hadn’t been for major global restrictions on the production and transport of natural gas, natural gas supply could meet demand. The talking points below provide clear documentation of how Europe has destroyed much of its ability to supply itself with natural gas. They should help those of us in the US to use Europe as a cautionary tale against the current anti-fossil fuel agenda.

Skyrocketing natural gas and coal prices are not a failure of the fossil fuel industry, but the total failure of anti-fossil fuel policies, which falsely promised that if we dramatically restricted fossil fuel energy production, green energy could easily replace it.

Today the news is panicking over a UN report that says nations are not meeting the greenhouse gas reduction targets (“NDCs”) they said they would to avoid 1.5 or 2° total warming since the 1800s. But these targets were deadly and impossible, so it’s good and unsurprising news.

The leadership of the UN claims that the recent UN climate report is a scientifically proven "code red for humanity" that requires rapidly eliminating fossil fuels. In fact the report is extreme speculation that even if true would justify using more fossil fuels, not less.

The IPCC is not primarily a scientific organization, it is primarily a religious and political organization that manipulates science--including the work of many good scientists--to achieve the anti-human goal of eliminating human impact on nature.

Introducing LVC -- Long-term Value Creation.

Anti-development policies on America's federal lands have created crisis after crisis: from forests with deadly "fuel loads" to dependence on China for vital materials. The Biden Administration's anti-development "30 by 30" plan would make our public lands crisis far worse.

We need an electric grid that provides power when we need it, even under adverse conditions.

One of the most obvious opportunities the US is currently squandering is the export of LNG--liquefied natural gas. LNG can provide low-cost, reliable, clean natural gas around the world. But LNG's enormous potential is being strangled by irrational permitting policies.

The top priority of a proper infrastructure plan would be liberating the construction of American highways--which are unnecessarily congested, slow, and expensive due to anti-development policies. Biden's "infrastructure plan" would slow highway construction even more.

In my career studying energy, I have never been more scared of a government policy than I am of the Federal Government's push for a "CES"--"Clean Energy Standard" that would dictatorially mandate 80% "clean," including 50+% unreliable solar and wind, electricity, by 2030.

The proper policy toward EVs, which are promising but not cost-effective for the vast majority of Americans, is 1) let them compete on a free market and 2) make sure we have plenty of low-cost, reliable electricity. Our President's new Executive Order does the exact opposite.

This is Alex Epstein's testimony for a hearing by the House Natural Resources Committee on June 30, 2021.

The ESG divestment movement poses as a long-range, financially savvy, and moral movement. In reality it is a short-range, financially ruinous, and deeply immoral movement that perpetuates poverty in the poorest places and threatens the security of the free world.

This is Alex Epstein's testimony for a hearing by the House Natural Resources Committee on May 19, 2021.

There is a lot of conflicting "information" about the TX blackouts. Here's the bottom line: the root cause of the TX blackouts is a national and state policy that has prioritized the adoption of unreliable wind/solar energy over reliable energy.

Q: Aren't we in a rapid free-market energy transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind?

A: No. The 3.8% of American energy that comes from solar and wind is due mostly to anti-market policies that force utilities and consumers to buy unreliable, cost-increasing energy.

Joe Biden's energy plan would shift us from energy production that is low-cost, high-reliability, and America-centered to energy production that is high-cost, low-reliability, and China-centered.

This would destroy, not create, millions of well-paying American jobs.

Q: Won't a carbon tax reduce CO2 emissions without hurting our economy?

A: No. A carbon tax would raise energy prices, make every American industry less competitive, and offshore our CO2 emissions to the countries that outcompete us.

Quick and direct answers to common questions you're likely to encounter about energy technologies.

Quick and direct answers to common questions you're likely to encounter about climate change.

In the last 15 years America has become the world’s leading energy producer thanks to energy freedom -- allowing all sources of energy to compete and innovate. To make even more progress we need more energy freedom -- not mandates of renewables or bans of fossil fuels and nuclear.

Joe Biden’s energy plan calls for outlawing reliable fossil fuel electricity and mandating unreliable solar and wind electricity. This will not stop CO2 emissions from rising but it will destroy American industry, impoverish American consumers, and jeopardize American security.

California is experiencing blackouts because of "green" policies that reward or mandate unreliable electricity from solar and wind and punish or outlaw reliable electricity from nuclear, natural gas, coal, or hydro. We need to understand and apply this lesson this election.

The solution to dangerous, out-of-control wildfires in California is addressing the root cause: “excess fuel load” from bad forest management. Focusing on climate change, a minor variable that we have no near-term control over, is a craven political ploy.

Fracking is one of the most important technologies in our economy and can be done very safely. Government should ban only dangerous misuses of fracking, not all fracking. A fracking ban is the fastest way to create a global recession and an American depression.

While climate catastrophists claim that our climate is less livable than ever because of fossil fuels, it is actually more livable than ever thanks to our fossil fuel powered climate protection systems. Rising CO2 levels will cause mild, manageable warming as well as significant global greening--not a crisis.

The only practical way to lower global CO2 emissions is to encourage innovation that could make low-carbon energy cheap for everyone. Policies like the Green New Deal and the Biden Plan that would outlaw American fossil fuel use won’t stop global CO2 emissions from rising--but they will ruin America.

10s of millions of Americans live in energy poverty--a growing problem thanks to wasteful, unreliable solar and wind infrastructure. If we want to stop making our poorest citizens choose between food and heat or medicine and electricity we must end favoritism for “unreliables.”

The Wind Production Tax Credit is a perverse policy that pays utilities to slow down or shut down reliable power plants whenever the wind blows. It is driving reliable power plants out of business, leading to higher costs and lower reliability.

The widely-publicized claim that fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 deaths is the worst kind of pseudoscience. It ignores fossil fuels' life-extending benefits and wildly overstates their negative side-effects. In reality, fossil fuels lengthen 5 out of 5 lives.

Joe Biden's escalating bans on domestic fossil fuel production, combined with mandates of unreliable solar and wind overwhelmingly produced by unreliable China, are an existential threat to our energy security and therefore our national security.

Biden’s ban on oil/gas leasing on federal lands is a dictatorial measure that will 1) increase US energy costs, 2) decrease US energy security, 3) destroy US companies, 4) destroy US jobs, 5) discourage US industry, 6) decrease US tax revenue, and 7) increase global emissions.

The House Democrats' "CLEAN Future" Act, by forcing us to depend mostly on unreliable wind and solar, would destroy our standard of living--and global emissions would still rise. It should be rejected in favor of an aggressive nuclear decriminalization policy.

Q: Is the solution to TX's reliability problems to join the national grid and be regulated by the Federal government?

A: No, because the Federal government is pursuing policies that are *even more anti-reliability than TX's*. The solution is pro-reliability policies.

The widely-condemned "flaring" of natural gas is a vital safety measure that decreases the energy efficiency of US drilling by less than 1%. And that number would be far lower without the infrastructure-blocking of anti-fossil fuel activists who claim to oppose flaring.

Background The Paris Climate Accords are a 2015 international agreement in which countries committed to specific short-term cuts in CO2 emissions along with the general goal of somehow eliminating almost all human-caused CO2 emissions by 2050. These emissions cuts are allegedly necessary to keep the average temperature from increasing by more than 1 degree C or more (2 degrees since preindustrial…

Unreliable energy sources receive dozens of times greater subsidies than fossil fuels, in addition to other unfair advantages. Without these, they would hardly be used at all.