“The U.S. wind industry has … demonstrated reliability and performance levels that make them very competitive.”
– American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), 1986
“If anything, [the Texas power crisis] shows why we need to be investing in building out more renewable energy sources with better transmission and storage to replace outdated systems.”
– American Clean Power Association [AWEA], 2021
The wind lobby in a desperate hour wants to claim the mantle of patriotism and the imprimatur of the future. An industry created from unique government favors calls its critics unfair and backward looking. Never mind that wind is not a modern grid energy because of its ancient problem of intermittency.
Here is the retort from Heather Zichal, CEO, American Clean Power Association (which absorbed the American Wind Energy Association last year):
…It is disgraceful to see the longtime antagonists of clean power – who attack it whether it is raining, snowing, or the sun is shining – engaging in a politically opportunistic charade misleading Americans to promote an agenda that has nothing to do with restoring power to Texas communities.
For the future Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, growing up in Penge, South London, the atrocious weather meant that his bricklayer father was laid off work and no money came in. “There wasn’t enough food to go round, so he’d hit a couple of us, send us to bed without any dinner,” one of Bill’s brothers recalled. ‘Get to bed, don’t argue!’”
The rationing coupons that still had to be presented for everything from eggs to pieces of scraggy Argentine meat, from petrol to bed linen and “economy” suits, seemed far more squalid and unjust than during the war.
It’s a winter snow/ice emergency across Texas, where the state’s electricity planners have failed millions of consumers, particularly in energy-capital Houston.
Amid the frozen wind turbines and disincentives to reliable, baseload generation (coal in particular), our prosperity will pull us through.…
“There are far too few heroes and far too many failures in the history of presidential energy politics.”
Who can claim to be a true energy President from a pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, pro-free-market perspective?
Which U.S. heads qualify for an anti-energy label for violating economics 101–and endangering the health and welfare of all of us who rely on the MasterResource?
Of the 30 or so candidates in the Lincoln-to-Biden era (the first commercial oil well dates from 1859), just a few names compete for the best, while many more vie for the worst.
Two Best: Trump and Reagan
The best two from a classical liberal perspective are Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. A third candidate just does not come to mind, certainly in the modern energy era.…