How it started // how it’s going 
If you’ll permit me the soapbox for a second: this is why energy independence - something we recently had! - is so important. It means we aren’t beholden to other countries to keep the lights on here.
A lot of countries who have oil, in case you hadn’t noticed, aren’t exactly stable members of the global community. Russia & Iran are autocracies. Saudi Arabia has a legal system ripped from the Dark Ages.
We don’t have to rely on them doing the right thing if we’re independent.
We don’t have to rely on them doing the right thing if we’re independent.
And as we’re seeing now, a national energy strategy isn’t something you can simply flip back on when you turn it off.
There is, at best, a huge lag time, and inescapable consequences in the interim, for American consumers and international geopolitics.
There is, at best, a huge lag time, and inescapable consequences in the interim, for American consumers and international geopolitics.
As @GrayConnolly points out, this is one of the big reasons Russia has invested heavily in Green groups in Europe: to disrupt energy security.
I promise you, the country with a negative birth rate is not altruistically interested in saving our species, or whatever.
I promise you, the country with a negative birth rate is not altruistically interested in saving our species, or whatever.
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1499468638411456512
and this isn’t something new. Russia wasn’t the global line leader last week. The human rights records of places like Iran and Saudi Arabia have been bad since, well, forever.
You don’t need a crystal ball to be confident that disruptions would happen.
You don’t need a crystal ball to be confident that disruptions would happen.
But instead of trying to plan for that eventuality, we invested in magical thinking about the scalability of renewables and allowed our national decision making on rnergy to be bullied by angry and ill-informed kids.
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