[Editor Note: This is Part III of our series on Kathleen Harnett White, distinguished senior fellow and director, Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment (Texas Public Policy Foundation). White’s nomination to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) was recently withdrawn due to extreme opposition from climate activists and allied politicians (see Part I of this series). There is growing concern over climate policy and human energy needs, such as this article in the current edition of Foreign Affairs (summarized here).
“The chief victims of the war against fossil fuels are the poorest citizens of the poorest nations. Developing countries need cheap energy.”
– Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White. Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy (Regnery: 2016), p. 237.
The morality of fossil fuels is a major theme of Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White’s Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy.…
[Editor Note: This continues our series on Kathleen Harnett White, distinguished senior fellow and director, Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment (Texas Public Policy Foundation). White’s nomination to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) was recently withdrawn due to extreme opposition from climate activists and allied politicians (see Part I of this series). Part III tomorrow will review White’s views on energy consumerism, a major part of the ‘social justice’ movement.]
“A grasp of a few hard facts, a little arithmetic, and some basic physics are necessary to avoid calamitous blunders in energy policy.”
“Public discourse about global warming and climate policies ignores fundamental physical realities about energy and overlooks the profound benefits of carbon-rich energy.”
– Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White, Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016).…
“If the private sector won’t build wind turbines without the credit, it’s time for America to rethink its approach to wind power and renewable energy in general…. Congress should abandon the idea of reviving the federal Wind Production Tax Credit, because it actually undermines efforts to make wind competitive.”
– George David Banks, R Street Institute (2014)
Back in October 2014, R Street Institute senior fellow George David Banks wrote a piece, ‘How the Wind Production Tax Credit Undermines Wind Power.” Banks, who is no longer with R Street, also wrote free-market blogs/op-ed’s against EPA’s ethanol mandate and Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
Given R Street’s recent seminar/lovefest with wind power (see MR’s post from last week, Energy Statism: R Street Hits New Low), Banks’s op-ed has new relevance.…