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Dennis Lundy's avatar

Josh provides a good self-reflection on policies that are ideologically driven without consideration of the basic reality of the impacts in a large energy driven economy. The elite progressive position on rapid decarbonization at all cost without sufficient consideration of energy economics or energy security leads to declining standard of living for the poor and middle class. It is not surprising that the non-elite class is pushing back.

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R.A. Watman (Anne)'s avatar

It’s hard for me to understand how it was that there was no push back (at least that I’m aware of) within the Biden administration. How could anyone not understand that trying to reduce fuel consumption so quickly was going to backfire? It impacts just about everything in our economy, and now that truckers are paying at least twice as much for diesel, that is showing up in our supply chains and what we pay for groceries, and pretty much everything else these days.

Great article.

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