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28 Dec, 6 tweets, 5 min read
This Holiday season I have contributed $500 each to 5 crucial pro-energy organizations: @ceidotorg, @IERenergy, @envprogress, @spikedonline, and @AynRandInst.

Here’s why I’ve contributed to each one.
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Why I I contributed to @ceidotorg: This organization has for years been taking courageous, principled stands for energy freedom and against climate catastrophism.

One realm they excel in is the catastrophist dominated legal realm. Courageous @Chris_C_Horner does great work here.
Why I contributed to @IERenergy: This organization has a track record of principled, pro-liberty positions and disseminating extremely useful, precise information.

IER's founder, Robert Bradley Jr., “discovered” me in 2009 and told me I could be an energy thought leader.
Why I’m contributing to @envprogress: @ShellenbergerMD is one of the world’s absolute leading voices for energy humanism, and has courageously undergone public mind-changes away from renewables/unreliables and away from climate catastrophism. I want his voice to be even louder.
Why I contributed to @spikedonline: this is an amazing and crucial British publication that takes humanistic stands on every issue, including climate. Hard to think of any publication with more consistently interesting takes. I’m happy to do anything I can to keep it going.
Why I contributed to @AynRandInst. I worked at ARI for 7 years, and before that wrote for them freelance and learned from their great educational programs. Their intellectual leader, Onkar Ghate, has shaped my energy and environmental thinking more than anyone else.

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28 Dec
The movie is the comet.

#DontLookUp uses talented actors and the world's biggest distribution channel (@netflix) to promote a deadly analogy between fossil fuels and an Earth-destroying comet.

In fact, the movie's goal of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels is "the comet."

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Don't Look Up is an allegory about fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are represented by a "planet-killing" comet.

Politicians, media, and corporations refuse to "look up," see the comet, and take simple steps to stop it.

The lesson: "look up" and stop using fossil fuels, already.
Equating fossil fuels and "the comet" is backward for 3 reasons:
1. Fossil fuels' CO2 emissions are not a "planet-killing" threat.
2. Fossil fuels actually make the planet, including climate, livable.
3. Stopping fossil fuels would make the Earth unlivable for billions.
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23 Dec
"The Sum of All Energy Fears," @FreemanWSJ's excellent new column, explains:
1) How opposition to fossil fuels and nuclear in Europe is leading to disastrous price increases and security problems. 2) Our leaders' now-wavering commitment to emulate Europe.
wsj.com/articles/the-s…
"The people who work for U.S. voters haven’t stopped trying to enact another half a trillion dollars of spending to discourage the use of fossil fuels, but they are now signaling they understand how much we still need such fuels."
@FreemanWSJ
"Oil company executives have become openly frustrated with a Biden administration that spent months shunning the industry, only to start urging in recent weeks that it produce more oil to alleviate rising gasoline prices."
@FreemanWSJ
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20 Dec
Build Back Better supporters are claiming that @Sen_JoeManchin has destroyed our country's future by opposing BBB.

In fact, he has *protected* our country's future by preventing an unprecedented destruction of our energy industry--the industry that powers every other industry.🧵
Here's why Build Back Better's goal of 80% "clean electricity" by 2030 would mean going from 12% unreliable solar+wind to a catastrophic 50% solar+wind in 8 years.
alexepstein.substack.com/p/talking-poin…
Here's why Build Back Better's 10-year extension and increase of solar and wind subsidies would drive more and more reliable power plants off the grid, lead to skyrocketing prices and frequent blackouts.
alexepstein.substack.com/p/talking-poin…
Read 6 tweets
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14 Dec
The media and government are portraying a tragic tornado as a symptom of unprecedented climate disaster that eliminating fossil fuels will save us from—even though there is no tornado trend, and we have achieved unprecedented safety from climate thanks to fossil fuels.

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Is the recent, deadly tornado in Kentucky a symptom of unprecedented climate disaster? The only scientific way to answer this question is to look for long-term trends in dangers from storms and other climate disasters. And if we do, we find that storm deaths are declining.
Has global warming been causing a disastrous increase in tornado frequency or intensity? Here's the data for the continental US, the most tornado-prone area on the planet, since the advent of comprehensive doppler-radar. There is no trend in tornado frequency or intensity.
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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.
Read 27 tweets
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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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