"My effort to combat climate change is not raising the price of gas" -- Joe Biden
Translation: "My efforts to *limit the supply of oil*--by restricting oil production and transport in the US and pressuring other countries to do the same--has nothing to do with rising prices.
Another issue with Biden's:
"My effort to combat climate change is not raising the price of gas or increasing its availability. What it's doing is increasing the availability of jobs."
It's scary that he can say "increasing" instead of "decreasing" without self-awareness.
Another issue with Biden's:
"My effort to combat climate change is not raising the price of gas or increasing its availability. What it's doing is increasing the availability of jobs."
When you increase the number of jobs necessary to produce energy the cost goes up...
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"despite the enormous growth in world population, deaths due to natural disasters plummeted over the 20th century....As author @AlexEpstein notes, fossil fuels didn’t take a safe climate and make it dangerous, they took a dangerous climate and made it safer." @RossMcKitrick
"Do city councils that issue climate emergency declarations begin ramping up disaster preparedness? Do they upgrade their drainage systems....No, more likely they just book tickets for an ever-larger delegation to whichever climate conference is coming up next..." -@RossMcKitrick
"When I think climate change, I think [Chinese] jobs."
--President Joe Biden
Here's why the reconciliation bill, aka "Build Back Better," will create mass "green joblessness." One of many reasons it should be called "Make Everything Worse." alexepstein.substack.com/p/talking-poin…
"Climate envoy" John Kerry is also clueless about energy jobs.
For my actual relationship to industry, which I am proud of, see this video.
I admire the Kochs and would be proud of being funded by them, provided they respected my independence--as I require of everyone I deal with.
But Koch hasn't funded me.
The only "evidence" I've seen offered for the "Koch-funded" lie is: 1. Koch supposedly gave my former employer a small contribution a long time ago. 2. Of the hundreds of speeches I have given, 4 have been to Koch-connected groups. 2 for free because I admire them.
If you want to see how my humanistic approach to energy/climate compares to the approach of prestigious climate catastrophists, watch the just-released "Opposing Views" by @MikhailaAleksis, which features me vs. Dr. Andrew Dessler.
It's changing minds!👇
"I was expecting Alex Epstein to be an idiot, but to me he clearly comes out as the winner. I guess I'm moving away from the 'save the planet people'"
"Dr. Dessler has many political comments, but little scientific comments. Some of his scientific comments are debatable. I believe Mr. Epstein had a more cogent set of arguments."
Need talking points for this year's Thanksgiving energy/climate conversations?
Here's a 🧵 with 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.
1: Contrary to rhetoric that we've "destroyed the planet," the world has never been a better place for human beings to live. Life expectancy and income have been skyrocketing, with extreme poverty (<$2/day) plummeting from 42% in 1980 to <10% today.
2: A root cause of today's amazingly livable world is fossil fuel. Low-cost, reliable energy enables us to use machines to be productive and prosperous. And only fossil fuels (80% of energy) provide low-cost, reliable energy for all energy needs on a scale of billions of people.
A reader pointed me to this fascinating 2017 article by anthropologist John Tooby (credited with founding evolutionary psychology) on the nature of coalitions--including how they destroy science. Almost every paragraph applies to climate catastrophism.
👇 edge.org/response-detai…
"Since coalitional programs evolved to promote the self-interest of the coalition’s membership...even coalitions whose organizing ideology originates (ostensibly) to promote human welfare often slide into the most extreme forms of oppression..."
"to earn membership in a group you must send signals that clearly indicate that you differentially support it, compared to rival groups....to think and express content conforming to and flattering to one’s group’s shared beliefs and to attack and misrepresent rival groups."