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6 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Anti-fossil fuel politicians are in a bind: they want the *prestige* that comes with their decades of opposing the production/transport of fossil fuels, but they do not want the *results*: voters angry about rising rising fuel prices.

Do not forget their track record.

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Joe Biden, who now claims to be concerned about fossil fuel shortages and rising prices, in 2019 said: "I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.“
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who now claims to be concerned about fossil fuel shortages and rising prices, in 2016 said in 2016: We ought to be doing everything we possible can to keep fossil fuel energy in the ground.”
White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, who has participated in meeting on what to do about rising fuel prices, in October 2020 said: “I want fossil fuels gone. I want fossil fuels out of products. I don’t want to help the fossil fuel industry to extend their life."
Elizabeth Warren, who claims to be “concerned” about rising natural gas prices, when running for President said we should “ban fracking—everywhere.” Fracking provides almost 80% of America’s natural gas.
We cannot allow anti-fossil fuel politicians to keep threatening+restricting the production and transport of fossil fuels, then claim to be upset about rising fuel prices. We must recognize that rising fuel prices and declining energy use are their *goal*.
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8 Dec
Dear @Sen_JoeManchin,

The "Build Back Better" legislation you are considering will be an unmitigated disaster for the West Virginia energy industry and economy.

No handful of compromises will change this.

Any vote other than no will do irreparable damage to your state.

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As an energy expert and concerned citizen, I am writing you because I believe you are our greatest hope of stopping the worst energy legislation in US history, which will especially harm your state of West Virginia: the “Build Back Better” reconciliation bill.
According to press reports and insiders, you are in active negotiations to change or remove several provisions of BBB that you are concerned will be particularly harmful to West Virginia. But no compromise is possible, because BBB is through-and-through destructive to your state.
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7 Dec
Dear @SenWarren,

Today, 12/7, is the deadline you gave natural gas CEOs to respond to your letter blaming them for rising natural gas prices—which you are in fact to blame for.

Here’s how proud gas CEOs would answer you if they were not afraid of your political wrath.
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Dear Senator Warren,

In your letter you claim “concern about rising natural gas prices,” which you attribute to my and other “energy companies’ corporate greed.”

But if you want to avoid unnecessarily high gas prices, you must recognize that they are your fault, not ours.
There are three basic facts that explain unnecessarily high natural gas prices:
1. Prices are determined by supply and demand, not “greed.”
2. America has an effectively unlimited supply of gas.
3. You and other anti-gas politicians have artificially restricted the supply of gas.
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6 Dec
I highly recommend the latest article by @DoombergT, which does an excellent job debunking "RethinkX"--one of the leading crackpot "plans" to replace fossil fuels with solar, wind, and batteries.

The analysis refutes many such "plans." Read and share!
doomberg.substack.com/p/herbie-spoil…
One great point in @Doomberg's debunking of "RethinkX" that applies to all solar fantasies is: "it is based on a fatally flawed assumption about why solar capital costs *had* been decreasing over much of the past decade (as we’ll see shortly, solar costs are going up in 2021"
China "leveraged cheap labor, had minimal environmental restrictions ...blatantly stole intellectual property...poured tens of billions of illegal subsides into the industry...used ready access to cheap coal None of this has anything to do with S-curves and innovation" @DoombergT
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3 Dec
Starbucks' Dangerous Deceptions

@Starbucks, an advocate of disastrous “net zero” and "100% renewable" policies, positions itself as proof that these policies can work.

In fact, Starbucks’ stores, supply chain, and rapid expansion in China are mostly powered by fossil fuels.🧵
Starbucks is a major supporter of “net zero” and “100% renewable” policies. They are a founding member of the “Transform to Net Zero Initiative,” which pushes businesses and government to rapidly eliminate the fossil fuels that today provide 80% of the world’s energy.
To help justify its support of “net zero” and “100% renewable,” Starbucks portrays itself as well on its way toward these goals, with stores that are already powered by solar and wind energy.
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I had experience today that I believe showcases how universities can and should foster the open discussion of ideas.

I spoke to Prof @RogerPielkeJr’s “Energy, Policy and Society” class about the future of fossil fuels.

Here are 4 things that impressed me about Roger’s class.
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1. Expressing strong challenges and disagreements with politeness.

I was impressed by the fact that whatever the level of a given student’s (or Roger’s) apparent agreement or disagreement with me, they expressed themselves with politeness and nothing resembling personal attacks.
2. Understanding someone’s views before challenging them.

I was impressed by the several students who challenged me *based on an accurate portrayal of my views*.

This is in wonderful contrast to the “straw-manning” of controversial views that often occurs on campuses.
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We are in the middle of a mass-propaganda campaign to deny the obvious fact that Joe Biden and other anti-oil politicians have unnecessarily driven up oil and gasoline prices by reducing the *supply* of oil through massive restrictions on oil production and transport.

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