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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
On today's @BenShapiro Show I'll be talking about the disastrous overreaction to the California oil spill, how Europe's anti-fossil fuel policies are causing mass misery, and how fossil fuels actually make us far safer from climate.
Here's why it's crazy for California elected officials to react to the temporary damage of an oil spill by calling for even more anti-oil policies. Such policies already cost us $20 billion a year in excess fuel costs (this oil spill may cost $20 million).
Here's how Europe's anti-fossil fuel policies, especially its fracking bans, are causing unnecessary mass misery as well as dangerous dependence on Russia.
Here's how fossil fuels actually make us far safer from climate.
energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/

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7 Oct
One of many great things about going on the @benshapiro Show is that they're very generous about--and fast at--sharing video clips. Here's my conversation with Ben today about the California oil spill, Europe's failed energy policies, and climate change.
Here's why it's crazy for California elected officials to react to the temporary damage of an oil spill by calling for even more anti-oil policies. Such policies already cost us $20 billion a year in excess fuel costs (this oil spill may cost $20 million).
Here's how Europe's anti-fossil fuel policies, especially its fracking bans, are causing unnecessary mass misery as well as dangerous dependence on Russia.
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7 Oct
Last night on @SkyNewsAust I was interviewed by the always-incisive @RitaPanahi on why Europe’s natural gas problems are self-inflicted and why it would be heroic for Australian PM Scott Morrison to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords altogether.
Here’s the thread @RitaPanahi mentioned about why Europe’s natural gas problems are self-inflicted.
Here’s the interview I mentioned on @RitaPanahi’s show with the CEO of the US’s number one natural gas producer. Maybe we should start listening people who actually know how to produce and move gas.
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7 Oct
According to @PeterDiamandis, @elonmusk says: "My friends tell me how great all my products are, but my BEST friends are the ones who give me the most brutal criticism."

In that case, I am one of Elon's best friends. He blocks my criticisms, but I hope others find them useful.👇
I got blocked by Elon Musk and attacked by many Tesla fans after I wrote this @Forbes article that has definitely stood the test of time: "With the Tesla Model S, Elon Musk Has Created a Nice Fossil Fuel Car."
forbes.com/sites/alexepst…
Here's an early (2015) explanation of why Musk's idea of Powerwalls making unreliable solar reliable would not work at all.
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6 Oct
As a SoCal resident and beach-goer, I wanted to see my govt respond to the oil spill by assessing the damage, investigating the cause, and proposing real solutions. Instead it is wildly distorting the facts and pursuing anti-oil "solutions" that will make life in CA far worse.🧵
Last weekend, a pipeline 5 miles from the Southern CA coastline leaked over 100,000 gallons of oil, some of which reached Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, and Laguna Beach (where I live). As bad as this incident has been, our elected officials' response has been far worse.
The main damage of the spill has been 1) making some waters temporarily unswimmable/unfishable and 2) harming some wildlife, especially birds. It's not a catastrophe: Newport Beach is already back open for swimming, and bird deaths are tiny compared to those via wind turbine.
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6 Oct
I just interviewed Toby Rice, the CEO of America's largest natural gas producer, about the causes of and solutions to the world's natural gas crisis.

The takeaway: The US could alleviate most of this crisis--if not for anti-gas-infrastructure policies.🧵
"At the end of the day, you look at this and all of this could have been prevented." Rice says that with sufficient natural gas transportation infrastructure, the US could easily produce 20 BCF more a day and "alleviate these extreme situations that the world is dealing with."
Rice points out that the 20 BCF a day of natural gas production that would significantly alleviate global problems is "relatively simple" given that "we've grown gas supply in shale by over 65 BCF a day in the last 15 years."
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5 Oct
As you see stories of skyrocketing natural gas prices in Europe, and increasing dependence on Russia, know that all of this was totally preventable had so many European countries not foolishly banned the greatest natural gas producing technology ever invented: fracking.

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Foolish fracking ban 1: France

Gas-dependent France has banned fracking for natural gas since 2011.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Foolish fracking ban 2: Bulgaria

Gas-dependent Bulgaria has banned fracking for natural gas since 2012.
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
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