by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As Appearing in the Daily Caller
t should be plain to everyone by now that there is no “green energy” Nirvana on the horizon. Trillions of dollars have been thrown at “green energy” since the 1990s, and yet we burn more fossil fuels than ever before.
As disappointing as that reality may be for some, our society must move on, grow and thrive until possibly one day, some as yet unimagined technology displaces fossil fuels. For now, we will need more and more fossil fuels to feed a growing population with growing energy needs. So how do we make this happen?
We were on the right track during the Trump years. By clamping down on the overregulation-happy Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and prioritizing energy development at the Department of Interior, President Donald Trump was able to change America from an energy importer to an energy exporter. U.S. oil production increased 40% to 12.3 billion barrels of oil from 2016 to 2019. This was called “energy dominance.” Trump recognized that the only solution to meeting energy demand is “all of the above” – i.e., oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydropower, wind, solar – whatever made the most real-world economic sense.
